Ubuntu 25.10 Users Can Now Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Here’s How
A step-by-step and easy-to-follow tutorial (with screenshots) on how to upgrade your Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) installations to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon). The post…
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS upgrade now open for Ubuntu 25.10 users
If you’ve been itching to upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS from Ubuntu 25.10, good news: the upgrade path has finally been enabled, as of 14…
BleachBit’s new TUI lets you clean without a desktop environment
Open-source cleaning tool BleachBit has gained a text-based user interface (TUI) as an optional alternative to its standard graphical frontend. Unlike BleachBit’s existing CLI, which…
FOSS Weekly #26.20: Killswitch in Linux, Fedora's AI Move, Rat in Terminal, KDE Dolphine Tweaks and More
Hot on the heels of Copy Fail comes Dirty Frag, another Linux kernel privilege escalation with a working exploit already public. It chains two flaws,…
This New Terminal is Absurd (But Totally Fun)
There is no dearth of terminal emulators for Linux users. Most people stick with the default terminal, while some have their own preferred ones. I…
KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing
KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment is now available for public beta testing with various new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new! The post…
Fragnesia Is Yet Another Local Privilege Escalation Flaw in Linux Kernel
Fragnesia is a new local privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel that may lead to local privilege escalation. Patch now! The post Fragnesia Is…
PipeWire 1.6.5 Brings Extra Security Checks and Hardening Fixes to Pulse Server
PipeWire 1.6.5 audio/video server for Linux is now available for download with extra security checks and hardening fixes, removal of the pipe filter in filter-graph,…
Fedora Hummingbird Debuts As A Super Hardened Linux Distro
Seeing that we are in a time when new Linux exploits seem to be popping up every few weeks, many projects have had to take…
Your Old Potato PC Might Game Better With This Linux Kernel Patch
As a gamer, if you have gamed on Linux with hardware that’s seen better days, there’s some work happening in the kernel that’s worth keeping…
KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Is Out Now to Improve Performance for NVIDIA GPU Users
KDE Plasma 6.6.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.…
Linux 7.0.6 is Out, and It Fully Patches the Dirty Frag Exploit
Dirty Frag has been the talk of the town (at least in Linux and open source circles) recently. The LPE was inadvertently exposed to the…
Fwupd 2.1.3 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for SHIFT6mq and SHIFTphone 8
Fwupd 2.1.3 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for the SHIFT6mq and SHIFTphone 8 modular smartphones, as well as various other…
GStreamer 1.28.3 Adds NXP i.MX 8M Plus Hardware-Accelerated H.265 Encoding
GStreamer 1.28.3 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with hardware-accelerated H.265 encoder support for NXP i.MX 8M Plus processors and other changes. The…
Fix HEIC images not loading in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
If your HEIC photos show a “Could not load image” error in Ubuntu 26.04’s Image Viewer, you’re not alone – it’s an intentional breakage, albeit…