Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack. The last three holdouts, cp, mv and rm, have moved to uutils’ coreutils; the Rust reimplementation Canonical has been feeding into the distro since 2025. They had been held back from 26.04 LTS over flaws in the uutils versions. Everything else,…
Dash to Panel v74 is now available, adding support for GNOME 51. If you haven’t used it before, Dash to Panel is a well-known GNOME Shell extension that puts the dash into the main panel. The extension brings together app launchers, running apps, and system indicators in one place, creating a desktop layout that feels…
Khronos Group, who oversee various open standards like Vulkan and OpenGL, have formally opened up a Brussels-based European entity. Seems like a good move, making things less US-centric has been happening a lot across the tech industry lately. The new entity is Khronos AISBL, an international non-profit association headquartered in Brussels, Belgium operating directly under…
Fedora Linux 45 Beta is here! On Tuesday, 15 September 2026 you can download or upgrade your systems from your usual spots to start enjoying what F45 has to offer early. How to get the beta release You can download F45 Beta, or our pre-release edition versions, from any of the following places: You can…
USN-8739-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ImageMagick. This update provides thecorresponding fixes for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain images. Anattacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Thisissue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04…
Firefox 156 is out with faster start-up times for its built-in PDF viewer and lower CPU usage when viewing large JPEG images. As you browse the web you (pretty much always) see images smaller than their native resolution. To wit, if I embed a 4K JPEG in this post, for example, you don’t see it…
28 Liam’s Systems Brief: Every Linux system needs an init system to manage services, handle boot, and supervise processes. The two most talked-about options are runit and systemd, and they could not be more different. Runit is lean, transparent, and boots in seconds. systemd is comprehensive, feature-packed, and powers over 90% of desktop Linux. In…
When a server slows down, the first question is what it is waiting on. Is the CPU saturated? Is memory exhausted and the system is swapping? Is disk I/O holding up processes? The vmstat command puts clues about each resource in one compact table, making it a useful first check before you move to a…
Most of us carry a phone every day, but very few of us could say what’s actually going on inside one. That gap is exactly what CircuitMess is trying to fill or should I say, has been trying to fill. The Croatian company CircuitMess, founded by Albert Gajšak, ran its first MAKERphone campaign back in…
Last week, we revealed the Free Tmux course. I am also working on creating roadmaps so that members can follow a dedicated learning path with all the resources we have created in the last 8 years. Next week, we should have the GitOps course, focusing on ArgoCD. This will build upon the foundation of the…
