First up in the news Pinephone Pro, KDE’s 5.23 on their 25th, Ubuntu Frame, Windows 11 Ryzen slowdowns, and Nvidia updates

In security Retpolines patches for performance and Azure Linux boot failures

Then in our Wandering, Joe has some Pi, Norbert edits video, Tony Updates a BIOS, and Nishant upgrades Fedora

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

The News

• Introducing the PinePhone Pro
• KDE’s 25th Anniversary
• KDE 5.23 is released
• Ubuntu Frame
• Linux OS Market to Rise at 19.2% CAGR till 2027
• AMD Ryzen CPU’s L3 Latency Performance Fix To Be Resolved By Microsoft
• AMD Ryzen 6000 processors might finally support external GPUs via USB 4
• Nvidia 495 Linux Beta Driver Released

Security Update

• Linux Patches Rewrite The Retpoline Rewrite Code – Possible Performance Benefit
• USN-5091-1 introduced a regression in the Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure cloud systems which can result in boot failure

Bi-Weekly Wanderings

• Joe
• Norbert
• Tony
  • Windows 11 Upgrade Registry workaround
• Nishant

Announcements

• Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on Sunday 31st October
• Get mintCast converted to your time zone
• Next Live Stream –  2 pm US Central time on Saturday 23rd October
• Get the Live Stream converted to your time zone

Wrap-up

• Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
• Bo – undercastnetwork.com , YouTube Undercast Collective
• Tony Hughes – HPR – http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Twitter @TonyH1212, th@mintcast.org, distrohoppersdigest@gmail.com
• Josh Hawk – joshontech@mintcast.org, @joshontech on Twitter and most other social sites, Crowbar Kernel Panic.
• Norbert –
• Josh – @Metal_FOSS on Twitter
• Nishant – indianmintcasthost@gmail.com, 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 …

• Bo for our audio production
• Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
• Hobstar for our logo
• initrd for the animated Discord logg
• 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!>