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An anonymous reader writes: Ubuntu Linux 18.04 “Bionic Beaver” is almost here — it is due on April 26. In the interim, today, the second — and final — beta becomes available. Bionic Beaver is very significant, as it is an LTS version, meaning “Long … Continue reading Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS ‘Bionic Beaver’ Beta 2 Now Available
BrianFagioli writes: GNOME 3.28 is the latest version of GNOME 3, and is the result of 6 months’ hard work by the GNOME community. It contains several major new features, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. In total, the release incorpo… Continue reading GNOME 3.28 ‘Chongqing’ Linux Is Here
Gnome contributor Tobias Bernard is on a crusade against title bars — “the largely empty bars at the top of some application windows [that] contain only the window title and a close button.” Instead he wants to see header bars — “a newer, more flexib… Continue reading Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars?
The Fedora Project has announced the general availability of Fedora 27 Workstation and Fedora 27 Atomic editions. Fedora 27 brings with it “thousands of improvements” from both the Fedora Community and various upstream software projects, the team said … Continue reading Fedora 27 Released
BrianFagioli writes: The Librem 5 smartphone by Purism has a long and difficult road ahead of it. Competing against the likes of Apple and Google on the mobile market has proven to be a death sentence for many platforms — including Microsoft with its … Continue reading GNOME Partners With Purism On Librem 5 Linux-based Privacy-focused Smartphone
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: Today, GNOME 3.26 codenamed “Manchester” sees release. It is chock full of improvements, such as a much-needed refreshed settings menu, enhanced search, and color emoji! Yes, Linux users like using the silly … Continue reading GNOME 3.26 Released
BrianFagioli quotes BetaNews: On August 24 and 25, the Ubuntu Desktop team will be holding a “Fit and Finish Sprint,” where they will aggressively test GNOME. Canonical is also asking the Ubuntu community to help with this process. In other words, you … Continue reading Canonical Needs Your Help Transitioning Ubuntu Linux From Unity To GNOME
AmiMoJo brings news about gedit, the default text editor for GNOME:
In a post to the gedit mailing list, Sébastien Wilmet states that gedit is no longer maintained and asks “any developer interested to take over the maintenance of gedit?” Just i… Continue reading GNOME’s Text Editor gedit ‘No Longer Maintained’, Needs New Developers
A security researcher has discovered a code injection vulnerability in the thumbnail handler component of GNOME Files file manager that could allow hackers to execute malicious code on targeted Linux machines.
Dubbed Bad Taste, the vulnerability (CVE-… Continue reading Critical Code Injection Flaw In Gnome File Manager Leaves Linux Users Open to Hacking
Reader BrianFagioli writes: Today, Fedora 26 sheds its pre-release status and becomes available for download as a stable release. GNOME fans are in for a big treat, as version 3.24 is default. If you stick to stable Fedora releases, this will be your f… Continue reading Fedora 26 Linux Distro Released