398 – I Hear A Leak, Must Be Android
First up in the news: Debian carries buffer patches, IceWM 3, Wireshark 4, free Ubuntu Pro for all, KDE winds down Plasma 5, VirtualBox 7, Proton drives prices, and dreams of Forky;
In security and privacy: New Chinese malware for everything, Intel springs a leak, and Android’s leak exposed;
Then in our Wanderings: Joe futzes with his 3D printer, while Moss continues to fight with Mint 21;
In our Innards section, we begin a historical journey through Linux distros;
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.
The News
- Debian to carry patches for GNOME triple buffering
- IceWM 3.0 Released for speedy and simple X11 Window Manager
- Wireshark 4.0 Network Protocol Analyzer Released
- Canonical Launches Free Ubuntu Pro Subscription for Everyone
- KDE Plasma 5.27 Plans to be the Last Plasma 5 Feature Release
- Virtual Box 7.0 Released with DXVK and Secure Boot Support, Encryption
- Proton Drive Launches, New Subscription Prices
- Debian 14 to be codenamed “Forky”
Security and Privacy Update
- New Chinese Malware attacks Windows, Mac and Linux
- Intel Confirms Leak of Alder Lake BIOS Source Code
- Android leaks some traffic even when Always-On VPN is enabled
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
- 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, Tony H, and all others for our audio production
- Leo for timestamps and publishing
- Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all his work on the website
- Hobstar for our logo
- initrd for the animated Discord logo
- Londoner for our time sync
- Linode for hosting mintcast.org
- Archive.org for hosting our audio files
- The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
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