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the Podcast by the Linux Mint Community for All Users of Linux

This is Episode 464!

Recorded on Sunday, July 20, 2025

Another year older im Joe; not sure what I’m doing here, I’m Moss; Tired, but willing, I’m Bill; I’m Majid and I run Arch btw; back again I’m Charles; fighting with Firefox, I’m Jim

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• First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – July 2025,

• In our Innards section: Let’s talk BASH!
• And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
• Please remember if you want to follow along with our discussions, the full show notes for this episode are linked in the show’s description at mintcast.org/show-notes

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The News

20 minutes

• Mint Monthly News – July 2025
  • Linux Mint 22.2
    The team is working on a BETA release for Linux Mint 22.2. This new version introduces an HWE kernel, fingerprint authentication, theme updates, accent color support and improved libAdwaita compatibility. Work also continues in the Cinnamon edition, to make input methods and keyboard layouts compatible with Wayland.
    Packages and projects are being finalized. Pull requests are being merged. There is no set date for the release but we’re hoping to get the BETA out by the end of July or the beginning of August.
• LMDE 7
  After Linux Mint 22.2 gets its stable release, the focus is likely to switch in September to LMDE 7, codenamed “Gigi”. Gigi will come with all the improvements featured in Linux Mint 22.2 but on top of a Debian 13 package base instead of Ubuntu 24.04.
  Another key improvement in LMDE 7 compared to LMDE 6 will be that it will support OEM installations.
• Moderation
  We unfortunately had to tighten moderation settings on this blog and it’s a real shame.
  When we say everyone is welcome here, it means absolutely EVERYONE, no exceptions. This can only work if divisive topics are left behind and people refrain from labeling or excluding each other. Here, we’re all the same. Everybody’s welcome to participate. There’s no such thing as “freedom of speech”. We’re not here to fight for such or such ideas, we’re here to build something together and to protect our project and our community. We want comments to be on-topic and constructive, always.
  We will not tolerate any kind of ideology.
  We’re already bombarded by commercial spam. This is one of the last places in our community where you can interact without having to authenticate. I’m really hoping it can stay that way.

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Linux Innards

30 minutes (~5-8 minutes each)

• ls
  • ltr give a long listing, oldest first, which is handy for seeing which files in a large directory have recently been changed
  • R
• cd
  • ~
  • full path
• mkdir
• touch
• find
  • This could be its own show so not going into
• cat
• |
• grep
  • ls -R | grep “fileName”
• history
  • history | grep “apt”
• sudo
• !#
  • sudo !!
• apt
  • update
  • upgrade
  • autoremove
  • sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y
  • install
• dpkg -i
• > redirect output
  • overwrites file
• >>
• Appends file

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Wrap-up

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR
• Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers
• Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC.
• Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
• Charles – [email protected], Mr PDX on Discord
• Jim –

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

• Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

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