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Podcast – mintCast

00:2:07 – News
00:50:03 – Biweekly Wanderings
00:45:31 – Security & Privacy
01:32:00 – Housekeeping & Announcements

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, [e-mail], Buy Joe a coffee

• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [e-mail], other information found at It’s Moss dot com

• Bill – [e-mail], Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast 3ftpodcast.org
• Norbert – [e-mail]

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!