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Version 4.24.0 of the Samba SMB filesystem implementation has been released. There are a number of significant changes, including audit support for authentication information, remote password management, a number of Kerberos improvements, asynchronous-I/O rate limiting, and more.
GNOME 50 Tokyo introduces parental controls with screen time limits, as well as significant performance and usability enhancements.
Functional programming is one of the fundamental divisions among programming languages, and can be traced back very early in programming history: notably to LISP and ML. This series interviews leading proponents of some current functional languages to look at their ... Read more The post Functional Languages and the Future of Programming (Part 1) appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
GNOME 50 has been released. Notable changes in this release include enhancements to the Orca screen-reader application, interface and performance improvements for GNOME's file manager (Files), a "massive set of stability and performance updates" for its display-handling technologies, and much more. See also the "What's new for developers" article that covers changes of interest to GNOME and GNOME application developers.
GNOME 50 is out today, bringing a new set of features to the open-source desktop environment that Ubuntu uses. The latest release, codenamed “Tokyo”, turns Variable Refresh Rate , an expanded set of parental controls, and hardware accelerated Remote Desktop sessions. The document viewer also gains ‘digital ink’ and form filling tools. Ubuntu users will get GNOME 50 as part of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, which is out in April 2026. New Features in GNOME 50 VRR and fractional scaling on by default GNOME 50 enables Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support by default (on compatible hardware). This is arguably the headline […]
GNOME 50 desktop environment is now available as a major release that introduces numerous new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new!
A significant portion of the Manjaro team has signed a manifesto demanding the project split from its parent company and restructure as a non-profit.
Qualys has discovered a local-privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 and later: This flaw (CVE-2026-3888) allows an unprivileged local attacker to escalate privileges to full root access through the interaction of two standard system components: snap-confine and systemd-tmpfiles. More details are available in the security advisory. Canonical has published updated packages as well as instructions for verifying if a system is vulnerable and how to upgrade if so.
The hardware support is still lacking, though.
You hear this term a lot, but what does it really mean?
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 is now available: This release incorporates all the exciting improvements brought by Fedora Linux 43. Notably, package management is significantly upgraded with RPM 6.0 and the new DNF5 backend for PackageKit for Plasma Discover and GNOME Software ahead of Fedora Linux 44. It also continues to provide extensive device support. This includes newly added support for the Mac Pro, microphones in M2 Pro/Max MacBooks, and 120Hz refresh rate for the built-in displays for MacBook Pro 14/16 models.
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 delivers Fedora Linux 43 to Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.6 and GNOME 49 desktops.
Can you? Yes. Should you? That's up to you.
The kernel's asynchronous io_uring interface maintains two shared ring buffers: a submission queue for sending requests to the kernel, and a completion queue containing the results of those requests. Even with shared memory removing much of the overhead of communicating with user space, there is still some overhead whenever the kernel must switch to user space to give it the opportunity to process completion requests and queue up any subsequent work items. A patch set from Pavel Begunkov minimizes this overhead by letting programmers extend the io_uring event loop with a BPF program that can enqueue additional work in response to completion events. The patch set has been in development for a long time, but has finally been accepted.
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 distribution is now available for Apple Silicon Macs based on Fedora Linux 43 and the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment. Here’s what else is new!
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