First up in the news: Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released, Mint Monthly News – August

In security and privacy: Plex is a problem again

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

• 00:00:00 – Intro


• 00:01:44 – News


• 01:16:45 – Security And Privacy


• 01:35:11 – Bodhi Corner


• 01:38:37 – Vibrations From The Ether


• 01:42:31 – Check This Out


• 01:51:48 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts


• 01:53:06 – Wrap Up


• 01:55:11 – Special Thanks


• 01:55:45 – Outro

The News:

Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’ released

From the Mint blog by Clem

What’s new in Mint 22.2 Zara

Release Notes for Mint 22.2 Zara

How to upgrade from Mint 22.1

LMDE 7 beta expected in Sep. 2025; Mint 22.3 in Dec. 2025

KDE launches its own distribution (again)

Firefox To End 32-bit support in 2026

Run Windows apps in Linux using open source WinBoat

Is Roku Driving the Final Nail in the Coffin of Traditional TV?

Not completely linux related but Borderlands 4 released Sept 12

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Linux Performance Improving But Short Of AMD Ryzen & Intel Core Ultra

Security and Privacy

Plex User Data Exposed

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)

Check This Out

NerdyDayTrips

The Bullshit Machine

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• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers





• Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org and AtypicalDoctor on Discord, The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC.





• Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org.





• Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord





• Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube

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• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>