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Ubuntu 26.04 fixes trash dialog bug that defaulted to cancel

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is getting a fix for Nautilus that restores ‘Delete’ as the focused button in the trash confirmation dialog, undoing an accidental swap that made ‘Cancel’ the focused button instead. That ‘unintentional’ focus flip meant you could no longer hit enter to action file deletion for Trash since it instead cancelled it. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve assumed I emptied the trash since upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, only to find I hadn’t. My muscle memory has struggled to adapt to needing to explicitly click (or tab to) the delete button. Annoying, but thankfully not intentional. […]

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[$] Sched-ext: enqueue() for sub-schedulers and proxy-execution support

The extensible scheduler class (sched_ext) allows the installation of custom CPU schedulers as a set of BPF programs. While sched_ext, in its current form, has already led to a lot of interesting scheduler-development work, the subsystem itself is still undergoing rapid evolution. Among other work, the ability to set up a hierarchy of sub-schedulers is approaching completion, and a longstanding incompatibility with proxy execution is coming to an end.

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DevOps Job Interviews: Why You Can’t Fake Linux

When you start preparing for DevOps interviews, you quickly realize something: you can’t “fake” Linux. Interviewers don’t want textbook answers. They want to know if you can actually unpack an operating or broken system in the terminal and extract the ... Read more The post DevOps Job Interviews: Why You Can’t Fake Linux appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).

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Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups, git-lfs, kernel, libsolv, libxml2, python3.12, and python3.9), Debian (chromium, dhcpcd5, and ntfs-3g), Fedora (firefox, perl-Imager, python-bcrypt, python-tiktoken, roundcubemail, and xrdp), Mageia (openssl, poppler, python-mistune, and tmux), Oracle (389-ds-base, cups, git-lfs, glibc, host-metering, kernel, libsolv, libxml2, nginx:1.24, PackageKit, python-pillow, and qemu-kvm), Red Hat (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, and skopeo), SUSE (buildah, cosign, curl, distribution, dnsmasq, glib-networking, glibc, gnutls, gstreamer-plugins-bad, ImageMagick, kernel, podman, python-cryptography, python313-django-debug-toolbar, rekor, sccache, sssd, and yelp), and Ubuntu (dotnet8, dotnet10, libslirp, luajit, python-idna, sympa, and tomcat8).