First up in the news: New Mint Stuff, Nitrux gets 6.0, Linux Steams forward, exFAT repair is now possible, LXQt gets Wayland, a pioneer passes, Mastodon blossoms, Nouveau and Nvidia updates, Clonezilla gets a new kernel, and Fedora refreshes Live Creation;

In security and privacy: OpenSSL3 Patch Arrives

Then in our Wanderings: Moss unMints his Studio, Joe sadly loses a Beto, and Bill doesn’t have much.

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

The News

• Linux Mint Blog for October 2022
• Nitrux 2.5 becomes first distro powered by 6.0 kernel
• Steam Linux Use Rises Thanks to Steam Deck
• Linux Gains Ability to Repair exFAT Drives
• LXQt 1.2 Arrives with Wayland Support
• Kathleen Booth, inventor of Assembly Language, passes
• Mastodon exceeds 1 Million Users following Twitter tensions
• Big Nouveau Update for Linux 6.2 Kernel
• Nvidia makes PhysX 5.1 SDK open source
• Clonezilla 3.0.2 released, powered by Kernel 6.0
• FedoraLinux 38 to Modernize Live Media Creation

Check This Out

• First Look at LURE! Bringing AUR to All Linux Distros

Wrap-up

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee

• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, other information found at It’s Moss dot com

• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast 3ftpodcast.org
• Norbert – norbert@mintcast.org

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

• Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, AudioFreak(Riyo) and all others for our audio editing
• Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all his work on the website
• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
• 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!

First up in the news, NTFS is orphaned, a hare-brained C alternative, and some new Pop!

In security and privacy, Microsoft found it, and Musk open sources

Then in our Wanderings, Jorge is steaming right along, Joe is destroying more stuff, Norbert had a little too much linux, Moss is redoing EVERYTHING, and Bill is pulling his hair out.

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

The News

• Microsoft finds Linux desktop Flaw that Gives Root to Untrusted Users
• Elon Musk Wants to ‘Open Source’ Twitter’s Algorithms

Wrap-up

• Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
• Norbert – norbert@mintcast.org
• Josh T – jt@mintcast.org, Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on Twitter
• Nishant – nishant@mintcast.org,riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ Steam
• Moss – bardmoss@pm.me, 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 – bill@mintcast.org, @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 and Tony H for our audio production
• 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!