📰 Ubuntu’s App Center doesn’t know what went wrong

I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. I don’t see it often, but when I do it (un)helpfully informs me: “Something went wrong. We’re sorry, but we’re not sure what the error is.” While I sympathise with its honesty and the general sense of unease in imparts – I say something similar, looking at the state of the...

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-app-center-something-went-wrong

#distro #ubuntu

📰 CISA Flags Actively Exploited Ray Flaw That Can Trigger Browser-Based RCE

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. As of writing, the GitHub project has more than.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisa-flags-actively-exploited-ray-flaw.html

#opensource #python

📰 I Found an Easy Way to Make GNOME More Colorful

Rewaita makes it easy to recolor GTK and Libadwaita apps with popular palettes, custom colors and a few extra visual effects.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17422068/rewaita

#gnome

📰 Lenovo Lands New Watchdog Driver In Linux 7.3 For Their SE30G2 + SE60 Edge AI Computers

When it comes to the watchdog driver changes for Linux 7.3, standing out is the new Lenovo driver for their upcoming ThinkEdge AI edge computing systems...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Watchdog

#linux

📰 The Xen Project is Serious About Safety, So It Formed a Committee

Founding members AMD, EPAM, and Renesas already put in the groundwork, and there's a new Premier Plus membership tier to go with it.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17422118/xen-project-safety-committee

#amd

📰 Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment

Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/sponsor-gives-kde-plasma-66-the-lts-treatment/5288531

#kde #plasma

📰 Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend

In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submitted. Most notable are early fixes toward eventually allowing the experimental Rust GCC back-end to be used as an alternative to the official rustc compiler with LLVM code generation...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-For-Linux-7.3

#kernel #linux

📰 IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further

As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mapping logical file byte offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage. With the now-merged code, this modern block mapping framework is allowing better performance at least for the EXT4 file-system...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/IOmap-Linux-7.3-Faster

#kernel #linux

📰 This Solo Dev Already Built a Popular Distro. Now He's Trying It Again

Built on AlmaLinux with bootc, it promises atomic updates and zero manual upkeep.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17422317/stillos-review

#distro

📰 VirtualBox 7.2.16 Improves Shared Clipboard in Wayland, Adds FRED Support

VirtualBox 7.2.16 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with improvements to shared clipboard handling in Wayland, improved support for RHEL 9.8 kernels, and more.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-2-16-improves-shared-clipboard-in-wayland-adds-fred-support

#opensource #wayland

📰 Framework Laptop 12 Updated For Intel Wildcat Lake, Shipping Starts In October

Last year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as an upgrade-friendly and Linux-compatible 2-in-1 laptop. The Framework Laptop 12 was originally powered by Intel Core 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" low-end processor while now Framework is adding Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" as an upgrade or for new Laptop 12 orders...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-12-WCL

#intel #linux

📰 Mozilla Firefox 155 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

Firefox 155 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with support for Happy Eyeballs v3 for faster page loading and many other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-155-enters-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect

#firefox #opensource

📰 COSMIC Epoch 1.6 Released With Per-App Volume Control, Remote Desktop Preparations

COSMIC Epoch 1.6 was released this evening as the latest milestone for this open-source, Rust-based desktop environment led by System76 as part of the work on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.6

#linux #opensource

📰 Mojo Programming Language Goes Fully Open Source

Just days after Mojo 1.0 arrived, Modular has opened the language’s compiler and toolchain source code under the Apache 2.0 license with LLVM exceptions.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/mojo-programming-language-goes-fully-open-source/

#opensource

📰 Someone made a Raspberry Pi D&D DM cyberdeck that tracks campaigns, rolls dice, and generates NPCs

There's nothing like being put on the spot as a D&D dungeon master when your players ask to talk to someone you haven't made notes for. And you know you can't just make up a random name and backstory, because your players will somehow make that one NPC a bigger part of the story than your planned villain.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-made-a-raspberry-pi-dd-gm-cyberdeck-that-tracks-campaigns-rolls-dice-and-generates-npcs/

#raspberry

📰 Raspberry Pi gets jiggy with batch CM5 provisioning

Clamp, flash, repeat – no separate IO board or host computer required.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/edge-and-iot/2026/08/19/raspberry-pi-gets-jiggy-with-batch-cm5-provisioning/5289499

#raspberry

📰 New AMD Low-Power Core & Unified Intel/AMD CPU Core Type Handling In Linux 7.3

Covered first on Phoronix back in June was an AMD Linux patch for introducing a new "low power" CPU core type to complement their typical "performance" cores and their "efficiency" cores like with Zen 4C/5C. That low power core is presumed for some Zen 6 clients and that integration is now merged for Linux 7.3 as well as unifying the Intel/AMD CPU core type handling...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-Core-Types-Linux-7.3

#amd #intel #linux

📰 Proton Experimental brings fixes for Company of Heroes 3, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Arma 3 and more

Valve just launched the latest Proton Experimental update to improve gaming on Linux / SteamOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine - here's all that's changed.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-company-of-heroes-3-avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-arma-3-and-more/

#linux #proton #steam

📰 Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins

David Sterba of SUSE sent in the Btrfs file-system feature updates today that target the Linux 7.3 merge window. Among other changes are more performance improvements for this next version of the Linux kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Btrfs

#kernel #linux

📰 I ditched three subscription services with a $15 Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, and my setup is bulletproof

A tiny DietPi and Docker base turns a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W into a privacy-first hub for passwords and PDFs.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/my-pi-zero-2w-runs-the-three-services-i-actually-use/

#raspberry

📰 Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3

Andrew Morton on Tuesday sent out all of the memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 7.3 merge window. The MM pull was particularly heavy as he noted 1,250 "added-to-MM" emails were sent out this cycle compared to 920 the prior cycle. With a lot of patch churn, he also turned to Google's Gemini AI for writing his patch summaries.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-MM

#linux