395 – Buttery Smooth Experience

1:08 The News
26:46 Security and Privacy
33:17 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
55:54 Linux Innards

First up in the news, AWK gets Unicode, GIMP out, Firefox improves its memory, Nitrux released, Unity is a Flavour, Microsoft drops Linux, Makulu adds to the confusion, and Debian wrestles with firmware;

In security and privacy, 8 Year Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Uncovered, and Plex gets exposed;

Then in our Wanderings, Moss reconfigures again, and Norbert contradicts himself.

In our Innards section, Mint and Gnome have lots to show us;

And finally, the feedback and a suggestion or two.

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

The News

• Universal Unix tool AWK gets Unicode support
• GIMP 2.99.12 Released – “A Huge Milestone Towards GIMP 3.0”
• Firefox 105 Beta Brings Memory Fixes, Return of the Two-Finger Swipe Gesture on Linux
• Nitrux 2.4 Released with Linux Kernel 5.19, KDE Gear 22.08, and New Maui Apps
• Ubuntu Unity to become an official Ubuntu flavour for 22.10
• Microsoft Decides to Drop the Linux App for Teams to Replace it as a Progressive Web App Instead
• Makulu Linux adds to the confusion with Makulu Max
• Debian moves to resolve the firmware question
  • Post on Debian’s website
• Malcat – hexadecimal editor and disassembler for malware analysis
• Lutris is now available on Flathub, as is an update of Un-Googled Chromium
• Arti 1.0.0 released

Security and Privacy Update

• “As Nasty as Dirty Pipe” — 8 Year Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Uncovered
• Plex breach exposes usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords

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

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

• Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, and all others for our audio editing
• Leo for timestamps and publishing
• Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
• Hobstar for our logo
• initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time sync
• Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• HPR for our backup Mumble room
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!

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