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

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.

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!