First up in the news: Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” – BETAs released, Mint Monthly News – November 2023, Gnome shell updates on Ubuntu 23.10; Zorin has a new desktop; Calibre offers new formats; KDE fixes bugs ahead of Plasma 6; Intel does some driver code clean up; Canonical ports Multipass to Qt6; Linux 6.8 is Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers.
In security and privacy: Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years
Then in our Wanderings: Bill is mumbling for a week straight; Joe is droning on
00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:37 – News
00:33:05 – Security And Privacy
00:43:53 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
00:58:22 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
00:59:20 – Wrap Up
01:03:09 – Special Thanks
01:03:53 – Outro
Full Show Notes Here!
The News
Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” – BETAs released
Mint Monthly News – November 2023
GNOME Shell 45.2 Update Rolling out to Ubuntu 23.10
Zorin OS 17 Beta Includes New ‘Spatial Desktop’ Features
Calibre eBook App Now Supports Audio ePubs & Custom Notes
KDE Developers Continue On Bug Fixing Spree Ahead Of Plasma 6.0
Intel Striving To Overhaul Their Multiple Ethernet Linux Drivers: “The Great Code De-dup”
Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6
Linux 6.8 Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers
Security and Privacy
Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years
Feds Warn Health Sector to Watch for Open-Source Threats
Wrap Up
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, and my other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify
Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org, Discord (eric_adams), Telegram (https://t.me/ericadams), Matrix (@esa1975:matrix.org), and Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@ericadams). Links in the show notes.
Special Thanks To:
Bill Houser 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!>