Linux NewsGNOME 50 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New
GNOME 50 Tokyo introduces parental controls with screen time limits, as well as significant performance and usability enhancements.
Functional Languages and the Future of Programming (Part 1)
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 released
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 released, this is what’s new
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 […]
AMD Prototyping AMDGPU SVM Atop DRM_GPUSVM Framework
AMD engineers are experimenting with a proof-of-concept implementation of a Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) implementation atop the DRM_GPUSVM framework...
GNOME 50 “Tokyo” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
GNOME 50 desktop environment is now available as a major release that introduces numerous new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new!
Intel Ends Work On Open-Source kAFL-Fuzzer For Fuzzing VMs
An Intel project developed the past several years was kAFL-Fuzzer as a hardware-assisted feedback fuzzer for x86 virtual machines (VMs) to help with security. While it saw a lot of work in prior years, development activity slowed down last year and now the project has been formally ended...
Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project
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.
Local-privilege escalation in snapd
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.
Linux on Apple Silicon Mac computers gets better with Fedora Asahi Remix 43
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Fedora Asahi Remix 43 released
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 Brings Fedora Linux 43 to Apple Silicon Macs
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 delivers Fedora Linux 43 to Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.6 and GNOME 49 desktops.
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[$] BPF comes to io_uring at last
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.