391- Putting our Money where our mouths are

First up in the news, Mint is coming, Lennart Poettering has left the building, Vim speaks a new language, WebApps come to GNOME 43, Fedora lets Flatpak out of jail and wants to talk, GTK5 is dropping the X, Linux gets Siri, er, Cortana, er, Carola.

In security and privacy, CISA sounds the alarm, and Firefox strips,

Then in our Wanderings, Bill repaves his Omen, Moss goes back to school, Joe is still in 3D and Norbert is typing still

In our Innards section We talk subscription Services

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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

The News

20 minutes

• Linux Mint News

• Lennart Poettering, creator of systemd and pulseaudio, has left Red Hat and joined Microsoft

• VIM 9.0 drops bombshell with new scripting language 

• GNOME 43 adds support for WebApps and Flatpaks 

• GTK5 might drop X11 support, says GNOME dev

• Fedora Proposing To Allow Unrestricted Access To Flathub 

• Fedora announces Carola, a smart assistant for Linux

Security and Privacy

• CISA sound alarm about high-severity bug in all Linux distros 

• New Firefox privacy feature strips URLs of tracking parameters 

Linux Innards

Subscription Services: Anything based on recurring payment: streaming, email, storage, VPNs, etc.

Check This Out

• PhotoGIMP 

Housekeeping & Announcements

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Wrap-up

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee 

• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], other information found at It’s Moss dot com391- Putting our Money where our mouths are

• Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast 3ftpodcast.org

• Norbert – [email protected]

• Nishant – [email protected], riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on Discord, maverick00783 @ Steam

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

• Our team of audio editors, including Norbert, Londoner, Tony Hughes, and others. We continue to need volunteers for our audio editing, please contact us.
• Bill Houser and Josh Lowe for their work on the website, and Bill Houser for hosting the Linode which runs our website
• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time syncs
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

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