395 – Buttery Smooth Experience

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.


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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.

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!