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A new security flaw has been disclosed in the libcue library impacting GNOME Linux systems that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on affected hosts. Tracked as CVE-2023-43641 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue is described as a case of memory corruption in libcue, a library designed for parsing cue sheet files. It […]
GNOME Foundation has partnered up with Endless to launch a new ‘Coding Education Challenge’ for budding programmers. The competition aims to encourage new projects that would offer innovative ideas to educators and students to promote coding around free/open-source software. Endless has issued $500,000 in funding to support the prizes. The prize money will be awarded […]
There are many Linux users out there and despite that, Linux desktops have failed to break into the mainstream when compared to Microsoft’s Windows. One of the main reasons behind it, as described by Linus Torvalds, is “the fragmentation of different [Linux] vendors.” There are multiple Linux vendors, unlike the Windows ecosystem, which creates a […]
We recently saw a merge proposal from Canonical to replace gnome-software snap with their own Snap Store. Along the similar lines, Red Hat’s Richard Hughes has announced that Fedora will disable snap plugin for GNOME Software. His announcement comes just a day after this. Fedora will disable the snap plugin in its next major update […]
Fedora is a community-driven Linux distro that’s sponsored by the open source giant Red Hat. As Fedora is the upstream source of the company’s commercial RHEL distro, it’s also used as a testing ground for RHEL. As Linux enthusiasts might already know, Fedora is known as an innovative Linux distro that doesn’t hesitate when it comes […]
Canonical has officially announced the release of the final version of Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo. Unlike the LTS (Long Term Support) releases that are supported for 5 years, Disco Dingo is a regular release that comes with 9 months of support. “From the public cloud to the private data center to the edge appliance or cluster, […]
The GNOME Foundation has released the latest version of GNOME desktop environment, i.e., GNOME 3.32 ‘Taipei’. GNOME arguably the most popular Linux desktop around and many mainstream distributions — including Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE — feature the same. The latest version is the result of a six-month-long development process and it incorporates a total 26,438 […]
The development work of Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo is going on in full progress. In a related development, according to a recent report from Phoronix, the Ubuntu developers are working to reduce the CPU usage of the open source operating system. Specifically, Canonical’s Daniel Van Vugt has shared his updates on different bug fixes that […]
Last month, Purism announced that its Librem 5 Linux smartphone will ship in April 2019; earlier, it was scheduled to arrive in January 2019. It seems that the developers will now get sufficient time to ship their phone with GNOME 3.32. In a blog post, the project urged the app developers to “use libhandy 0.0.4 […]
GNOME 3.30 GNOME is one of the best options when it comes to choosing a desktop environment for Linux. Many popular distros like Ubuntu, openSUSE, and Fedora already ship with GNOME as the default option. Just recently, the GNOME Project shipped the latest version in the form of GNOME 3.30 ‘Almeria.’ The team calls it […]
Linux is all about what you want and having it from the ocean of free and open source software. The same applies while performing a comparison of desktop environments as they comprise of different applications and a GUI via which the user interacts with the operating system. Just like a plethora of Linux-based free operating […]
A theme is a collection of background image, window color and with theme can be given according to the picture as you wish. images and colors are most influential in terms of mood. To install themes in Linux, you will need to use GNOME tweak tool to apply them. Gnome Tweak Tool is a useful […]
Gnome has been Ubuntu’s default desktop environment for a while. Recently, some Ubuntu 17.10 users have started to observe a memory leak issue when running the Linux distro with Gnome Shell 3.26.2. The bug which was also present in Ubuntu 17.04 running Gnome Shell 3.23 doesn’t seem to be linked to a specific application. It […]
Linux smartphone Librem 5 has met its $1.5 million crowdfunding goal with 2 weeks left in the campaign. With this campaign, Purism aims to create the world’s first encrypted, open smartphone ecosystem that brings total control to the users. Reaching this goal ahead of schedule will help the people behind the project accelerate the production of […]
Earlier this year in February, the GNOME Foundation announced the appointment of Neil McGovern as its new Executive Director. He is a well-known figure in Free Software community; he served as Debian Project Leader from 2014-15. The GNOME Project, apart from developing GNOME desktop, also takes care of multiple other emerging projects. We, recently, spoke to Neil McGovern […]
Last week, we reported that KDE has partnered with the privacy-focused hardware maker Purism to help them build the “world’s first free and open smartphone” Librem 5. Now, the GNOME Foundation has also announced a similar partnership. In an announcement post, the GNOME Foundation said that they’ll be providing their endorsement and support to build […]
GNOME 3.26 The GNOME Project has finally released GNOME 3.26, which is the latest version of the most popular Linux desktop environment. After six months of development, this version, codenamed Manchester, has been released. “We are happy and proud to announce GNOME 3.26, the latest major release of GNOME, “Manchester”, just a few weeks after […]
Because Windows executables haven’t wreaked enough damage on Windows computers, now you can use malformed MSI files to run malicious code on Linux systems. This scenario is possible because of a vulnerability discovered by German IT expert Nils Dagsson Moskopp, which he named “Bad Taste.” Vulnerability resides in GNOME Files file manager The vulnerability affects GNOME […]
Short Bytes: After some wait, GNOME desktop environment has found its place as the default desktop in Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark daily builds. The current experience is mainly vanilla and one should expect to see some more custom inputs from Ubuntu desktop team in near future. As this is an early development build, you should also […]
Short Bytes: The Solus Project has launched Solus GNOME Edition. This release arrives with the second ISO snapshot, i.e., Solus 2017.04.18.0, which is powered by Linux kernel 4.9.22 LTS. The GNOME edition ships with GNOME 3.24 and GNOME theme provided by Arc. The interested users can download the ISO and torrent files from Solus website. Earlier […]
Short Bytes: Ubuntu GNOME developers have announced that Ubuntu GNOME development team will be merging with Canonical’s Ubuntu Desktop team. As a result, Ubuntu GNOME won’t remain a separate official flavor. With Ubuntu 18.04, Canonical plans to ditch Unity and use GNOME as the default desktop environment of Ubuntu Desktop. Just yesterday, Canonical announced the final […]