Linux NewsManjaro 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
The hardware support is still lacking, though.
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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.
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 Released for Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.6
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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Fedora Asahi Remix 43 is now available
We are happy to announce the general availability of Fedora Asahi Remix 43. This release brings Fedora Linux 43 to Apple Silicon Macs. Fedora Asahi Remix is developed in close collaboration with the Fedora Asahi SIG and the Asahi Linux project. This release incorporates all the exciting improvements brought by Fedora Linux 43. Notably, package management is significantly upgraded with RPM 6.0 […]
Java 26 Released With HTTP 3 Support and Performance Gains
Java 26 is now available, featuring HTTP/3 support, enhanced G1 garbage collector performance, faster JVM startup, and new APIs.
Think Arch Linux is too hard? 5 myths that are officially dead in 2026
Arch Linux has a reputation for being hard to use, but this distro has gotten a lot easier to run on your PC over the years.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 9.0, compat-openssl11, container-tools:rhel8, grub2, and libvpx), Debian (ansible, gst-plugins-base1.0, and nodejs), Fedora (chromium, forgejo, and systemd), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8, grub2, kernel, libpng, libvpx, nginx, opencryptoki, python3.12, and vim), Red Hat (firefox, python-wheel, python3.12-wheel, and thunderbird), SUSE (389-ds, chromium, clamav, container-suseconnect, curl, freerdp, gvfs, kea, kubernetes, ruby4.0-rubygem-minitar, ruby4.0-rubygem-multi_xml, ruby4.0-rubygem-nokogiri, ruby4.0-rubygem-puma, ruby4.0-rubygem-rack, ruby4.0-rubygem-rack-session, ruby4.0-rubygem-rails, ruby4.0-rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer, ruby4.0-rubygem-railties, ruby4.0-rubygem-rubyzip, vim, and xen), and Ubuntu (flask, libssh, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-gcp-6.17, linux-realtime, linux-realtime, linux-realtime, linux-realtime
This classic chat app was way ahead of its time, and it's still alive 25 years later
Your phone juggles six chat apps for a problem that was quietly solved over two decades ago. The fix has been hiding in plain sight for years.