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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/firefox-nightly-is-now-available-for-linux-on-arm64 They are pushing ahead with a native ARM64 version.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/xz_style_attacks_continue/ Sigh!

It's a known bug, click the plus sign at the top and open a new tab next to the window that doesn't copy and then it works. Sounds like a joke but it's not.

It amuses me the amount of people that still get their pants in a twist on how much ram and hdd space is used, you would think they still lived in the 1990's

Exactly why is outdated, looks like a list of strengths of someone trying to live in the past. The world has moved on to Systemd, Wayland and most distros ditched XFS when SSDs arrived as ext4 is more secure and works better with small write blocks.

I've tried PClinuxOS a couple of times a few years ago and couldn't understand what was so special about it, Something about it felt extremely dated.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/xz_backdoor_open_source/ More info, i've not had time to read through it yet.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/29/malicious_backdoor_xz/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/hmrc_linux_paye_tools/ LOL, why are we so bad at everything. :)

Sigh! Snaps didn't used to bother me but i'm now at the point that i wish they would accept that it's flawed and it should be scrapped.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Nova-Rust-Abstractions I'll be pleasantly surprised if it's any better than the crap Nouveau drivers.

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/124.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/ Firefox 124 debs are out.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-COSMIC-Alpha-May This just turned up.

Fedora wants to port the new rust based Cosmic desktop and they have confirmed that they will go wayland only.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Dropping-Old-NTFS NTFS driver is being replaced.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tumbleweed-systemd-boot-Success To think there was a time when people would have had an absolute breakdown at the idea of systemd having full control of boot.

There's talk by the Devs on removing the default games from ubuntu as it no longer fits with the default gnome suite?

Sigh, never ends! Alan Pope was never happy about snaps and took a step back from being a lead developer at the time and has now posted this on the dev forum that he no longer wants to run the UK section either.

The latest release of Hexchat will be the final as nobody has offered to take over the project.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/first-look-at-ubuntus-new-desktop-security-center Your average Ubuntu user doesn't understand the necessary hooks and apt pinning to override the snap/snap core on installs and canonical is pushing snaps as a enhanced security feature rather than its flaws.