First up in the news: mintCast turned 16 while we weren’t watching, Mint 22.1 being tested, Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Environment released, US lawyers pushing Google to divest Chrome, El Capitan takes the lead
In security and privacy: Hackers push fake BitWarden updates, Chinese hackers push Linux-focused WolfsBane, WordPress security flaw gives hackers admin access,
Then in our Wanderings: Bill cools the runnings, Joe cools his printer, Moss cools his ereaders, Majid gives in to temptation, and Eric finds value and delight in his secondhand hardware.


Full Show Notes Here



00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:39 – News
00:47:11 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
01:40:25 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
01:41:12 – Wrap Up
01:42:33 – Special Thanks
01:43:00 – Outro


The News:
mintCast is 16!
Linux Mint 22.1 ISOs are now being tested
US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android
All hail our new leader — AMD-powered El Capitan becomes officially the world’s fastest supercomputer

Security and Privacy:
Hackers pushing fake Bitwarden updates hit thousands of devices with data stealing malware
Chinese hackers target Linux with new WolfsBane malware
Security plugin flaw in millions of WordPress sites gives admin access

Contact Info:

Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].


Special Thanks To:

Bill for our audio editing
Archive.org for hosting our audio files
Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

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