383 – Ubuntu is out-fedoring Fedora

2:05 The News
20:32 Security and Privacy Update
67:15 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
37:40

First up in the news: Ubuntu is out-fedoring Fedora; Linux 5.18 brings new optimizations; the Budgie has landed; Debian 12 has a projected birthday, and Asahi has its first Alpha;

In security and privacy, a new Spectre has arisen;

Then in our Wanderings, Bill gets “Jitsi with it”, Moss goes down the “pi-hole”, and Norbert hops onto the Fedora bandwagon

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The News

Security Update

Branch History Injection – A new Spectre vulnerability affecting Intel & Arm CPUs (Moss)

Announcements

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Wrap-up

Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Norbert – [email protected]
Josh T – [email protected], Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on Twitter
Nishant – [email protected],riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ Steam
Moss – [email protected], you can hear me on Distrohoppers’ Digest and Full Circle Weekly News, and you can find more contact information for me on It’s MOSS.
Bill – [email protected], @wchouser3 on Twitter,and Bill_H on Discord

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The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!

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