Linux NewsStar Labs StarFighter Linux Laptop Finally Goes on Sale
Star Labs' StarFighter Linux laptop is now available with Intel and AMD options, coreboot firmware, LVFS updates, and a 16-inch display.
Ubuntu Snap Prompting Improvements
If you haven’t tried Ubuntu’s ‘Permission Prompting’ feature for a while, there’s more reason to do so in the latest release. Canonical’s Oliver Calder has shared an update on recent improvements to the security feature, which sets out to “empower users” by letting them decide what software can access on the rest of the system at runtime rather than retrospectively. Android or iOS show similar prompts, with screen modals asking if you want to “allow Acme App to access the camera” and similar. Ubuntu’s app prompting effort is still an ‘experimental’ feature in 26.04 LTS, but is now said to […]
Dirty Frag: a zero-day universal Linux LPE
Hyunwoo Kim has announced the Dirty Frag security flaw, a local-privilege-escalation (LPE) vulnerability similar to the recently disclosed Copy Fail flaw: Because the embargo has now been broken, no patches or CVEs exist for these vulnerabilities. After consultation with the linux-distros@vs.openwall.org maintainers, and at the maintainers' request, I am publicly releasing this Dirty Frag document. As with the previous Copy Fail vulnerability, Dirty Frag likewise allows immediate root privilege escalation on all major distributions. Kim, who discovered the flaw and had attempted a coordinated disclosure set for May 12, has released the code for an exploit, as well as a example script to remove the vulnerable modules. A full write-up, with the disclosure timeline, is also available. It's unknown at this time whether this is an example of parallel discovery or how the third party was able to disclose it prior to the end of the embargo. We will be following up as more information comes to
Synex 13 Puts a Minimalist Spin on Debian for Work and Home
Built on Debian Trixie, Synex aims to cut post‑install busywork with sensible defaults, app choices up front, and a clean KDE Plasma experience. The post Synex 13 Puts a Minimalist Spin on Debian for Work and Home appeared first on FOSS Force.
Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions
One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public. This time around there are no patches or CVEs yet for this "Dirty Frag" vulnerability as the embargo was broken early and thus the security researcher went ahead and published earlier than anticipated...
Ubuntu Touch OTA 1.3 Improves Handling of Desktop Apps on Lomiri and Fixes Bugs
Ubuntu Touch OTA 1.3 update is now rolling out with improvements to handling of desktop apps on Lomiri, improved handling of docks with input devices, improved playback of AMR voice message sent via MMS, and other changes.
FOSS Weekly #26.19: Ubuntu Under Attack, Linux Exploitation Ongoing, Upgrading to 26.04, Linux on PS5 and More
Not a good week for Ubuntu fans.
AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support
Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors...
Yazi is the Terminal-based File Manager I Didn't Know I Needed
Yazi makes it easier to build your terminal-first workflow by giving you a pwoerful, featuree-rich file manager.
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Lands as UBports Prepares 24.04-2.0
UBports releases Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 while preparing 24.04-2.0, targeting a newer Morph Browser stack with Qt 6 work.
KDE Gear 26.04.1 Is Out with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps
KDE Gear 26.04.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 26.04 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications.
Traefik Proxy 3.7 Adds Production Ready Ingress NGINX Migration Path
Traefik Proxy 3.7 adds production-ready Ingress NGINX migration support, new TLS certificate visibility, and Gateway API 1.5.1 updates.
[$] A new era for memory-management maintainership
On April 21, Andrew Morton let it be known that he intends to begin stepping away from the maintainership of kernel's memory-management subsystem — a responsibility he has carried since before memory management was even seen as its own subsystem. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, one of the first sessions in the memory-management track was devoted to how the maintainership would be managed going forward. There are a lot of questions still to be answered.
An update on KDE's Union style engine
Arjen Hiemstra has published an article on the status of the Union project: a single system to support all of KDE's technologies used for styling applications. The work on Union's Breeze implementation has progressed to the point where it is very hard to distinguish whether or not you are running the Union version. We have also tested with a bunch of applications and made sure that any differences were fixed. So we are at a stage where we need to get Union into the hands of more people, both to get extra people testing whether there are any major issues, but also to have interested people creating new styles. This means that with the upcoming Plasma 6.7 release, we plan to include Union. Discussion is currently ongoing whether we will enable it by default, but even if not there will be a way to try it out. See Hiemstra's introductory article on Union, published in February 2025, for more about the project and its creation. KDE 6.7 is expected to be released in mid-June.
4 reasons a Fedora Atomic desktop is the first distro every Linux beginner should use
Not every version of Linux requires extensive customization and tinkering.
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