First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – September, Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support, Archive.org is breached, Arch and Valve team up, WWWFoundation packs it in, More WordPress news, even MORE WordPress News, and Google adds Linux apps to future Android versions

Then in our Wanderings: Bill connects with the younger generation, Joe is still fixing things, Moss whines, and Majid folds some more

• 00:00:00 – Intro


• 00:01:47 – News


• 00:53:01 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings


• 01:45:54 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts


• 01:46:45 – Wrap Up


• 01:48:24 – Special Thanks


• 01:49:02 – Outro

The News:

Mint Monthly News – September, 2024

Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support

Archive.org, a repository of the history of the Internet, has a data breach

Arch Linux and Valve team up to make Steam gaming even better

WWW Foundation packs it in

159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates

WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin

Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

KDE neon upgrades to 24.04.1 Ubuntu base

Contact Info:

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee





• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR





• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers





• Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_dr@mastodon.social, AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.





• Eric – You can hear and see me on the Distrohoppers’ Digest and Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org.

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!>