Canonical finally gives Launchpad (a bit of) a glow-up

Launchpad, the home of Ubuntu development, has finally received some design attention. Canonical last updated the site’s homepage back in 2024, but many of the pages that the distro’s developers actually use or reference on a regular basis have remained untouched for the best part of a decade. Now that’s starting to change. Canonical UX designer Enzo Deng has announced that the company has “begun […] a complete redesign of the series page” for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, describing it as the start of “the journey of modernizing the Launchpad user experience” (sic). Save for a line on how the company […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu-launchpad-website-revamp

📰 Canonical finally gives Launchpad (a bit of) a glow-up

Launchpad, the home of Ubuntu development, has finally received some design attention. Canonical last updated the site’s homepage back in 2024, but many of the pages that the distro’s developers actually use or reference on a regular basis have remained untouched for the best part of a decade. Now that’s starting to change.

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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu-launchpad-website-revamp

В Rust Coreutils выявлено 113 уязвимостей. В Ubuntu 26.04 возвращены cp, mv и rm из GNU Coreutils

Компания Canonical опубликовала предварительные итоги внешнего аудита безопасности инструментария uutils coreutils (Rust Coreutils), написанного на языке Rust и частично применяемого в Ubuntu вместо пакета GNU Coreutils. Аудит был выполнен компанией Zellic, имеющей опыт анализа уязвимостей в проектах на языке Rust. В ходе проверки было выявлено 113 проблем с безопасностью.
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https://www.linux.org.ru/news/security/18274765

Microsoft LiteBox: a library OS for secure sandboxing and running Linux apps on Windows

Microsoft has released LiteBox, an open-source Library Operating System (Library OS) designed to strengthen security through application sandboxing. LiteBox minimizes the attack surface by restricting application access to system resources. While the core relies on Rust, the project includes specific low-level components written in C and Assembly. Additionally, LiteBox enables running Linux applications on Windows.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-litebox-a-library-os-for-secure-sandboxing-and-running-linux-apps-on-windows/

📰 Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal

Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Removes-Old-Net

#kernel #linux

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Обновление программы для распознавания текста dpScreenOCR 1.5.1

Состоялся выпуск программы для оптического распознавания текста dpScreenOCR 1.5.1, использующей Tesseract. dpScreenOCR позволяет при помощи глобальной горячей клавиши и мыши захватить произвольную область экрана, текст из которой будет распознан. В зависимости от выбора пользователя, программа может копировать распознанный текст в буфер обмена, добавить его в историю или отправить внешней программе. Готовые сборки сформированы для Linux и Windows (также доступны репозитории пакетов для Debian и Ubuntu). Код программы написан на C++ и распространяется под лицензией zlib.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65281

Выпуск языка программирования Nim 2.2.10

Представлен релиз языка системного программирования Nim 2.2.10. Nim – статически типизированный компилируемый язык программирования с синтаксисом, вдохновлённым Python, и возможностями метапрограммирования на уровне Lisp. Язык компилируется в C, C++ и JavaScript, обеспечивая производительность на уровне C при выразительности высокоуровневых языков. Код проекта поставляется под лицензией MIT.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65282

В законопроект о верификации возраста CO SB51 добавлено исключение для открытых проектов

Карл Ричелл (Carl Richell), основатель и руководитель компании System76, разрабатывающей дистрибутив Pop!_OS и среду рабочего стола COSMIC, добился внесения поправок в продвигаемый в штате Колорадо законопроект CO SB51 (Colorado Senate Bill 51), определяющий требования по верификации возраста в операционных системах. В текст законопроекта добавлено исключение, выводящее из области действия будущего закона дистрибутивы и приложения, поставляемые под открытыми лицензиями.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65283

В KDE повышена эффективность работы на GPU Intel

Опубликован очередной еженедельный отчёт о разработке KDE, в котором представлены изменения для ветки KDE Plasma 6.7, релиз которой ожидается в июне. Среди недавно внесённых изменений.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65285

📰 Raspberry Pi owners are missing this one free tweak that changes everything

A couple of years ago, when I was working on my Raspberry Pi 5, I noticed that it was very slow. I googled possible reasons, and the main one was its lack of RAM. It has 4 gigs of RAM, but I noticed that running multiple Chromium tabs made it run at a snail's pace. So, I looked for ways to increase the RAM. Given that I was using an SD Card as a hard drive, using a swap file wasn't really an option. However, I found a program called ZRAM and...

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https://www.xda-developers.com/free-tweak-old-pi-changes-everything/

📰 KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency

KDE developers continued to land more feature changes for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. It's a busy spring of fixes, optimizations, and shiny new features for Plasma 6.7...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Intel-Overlay

📰 Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week

After being deemed not ready for debuting this week as an early release target, Fedora stakeholders have decided that Fedora 44 will be ready to officially debut next Tuesday...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-Next-Week

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📰 New NTFS Driver Sees A Number Of Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc1

With the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out tomorrow to cap off the Linux 7.1 merge window, one of the most notable additions this cycle is the introduction of the new NTFS driver that aims to provide better performance and more modern features than the existing NTFS3 in-kernel driver that was originally contributed by Paragon Software...

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#kernel #linux

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Fixes-Linux-7.1

📰 Your Gen 5 SSD is probably throttling right now, and you have no idea

You paid a premium for 14,000 MB/s speeds, but during a large Steam download or 4K video export, it feels like your PC is struggling to keep up and overall just comes across quite mushy. Unlike a CPU, which might trigger a loud fan spike, an SSD suffers in silence, making it hard for you to identify when it is actually occurring.

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https://www.xda-developers.com/your-pcie-50-ssd-might-be-throttling-without-you-knowing/

Первые результаты модернизации сервиса Launchpad

Компания Cаnonical анонсировала инициативу по модернизации сервиса Launchpad, применяемого в процессе разработки Ubuntu для совместной работы с кодом, отслеживания ошибок, рецензирования изменений, сборки и размещения пакетов. Первыми от устаревшего интерфейса избавлены сводные страницы с информацией о релизах Ubuntu.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65288

📰 Microsoft Reportedly Looking At Rebasing Azure Linux On Fedora

Microsoft's in-house Azure Linux operating system used within Azure and for WSL and other purposes is reportedly pursuing an overhaul where it would be derived from Fedora Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MS-Azure-Linux-Fedora-Based

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https://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=364350

📰 Niri 26.04 Brings Long-Awaited Blur Support to the Wayland Compositor

Niri 26.04 scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor adds long-awaited blur support, improved screencasting, faster rendering, and more.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/niri-26-04-brings-long-awaited-blur-support-to-the-wayland-compositor/

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https://linuxiac.com/?p=211386

📰 I turned a Raspberry Pi and mini PC into a portable homelab that fits in my backpack

I love my homelab — but accessing it remotely from a hotel or café only gets me so far. That remote connection works fine for simpler tasks like checking dashboards, running scripts, waking up, or shutting down machines. But anything heavier — large file transfers, streaming, or running intensive workloads — quickly reveals public Wi-Fi’s limitations.

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https://www.xda-developers.com/turned-raspberry-pi-mini-pc-into-portable-homelab-that-fits-backpack/

📰 LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA

LACT, one of the leading open-source solutions to provide a graphics card management GUI that works across AMD / NVIDIA / Intel graphics hardware on Linux, is out with a major update this weekend...

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#amd #intel #linux #opensource

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.9-Released

BleachBit 6.0 Introduces New Cookie Manager, Improves Browser Cleaning

BleachBit 6.0 open-source and free disk space cleaner, privacy manager, and computer system optimizer software is now available for download with many improvements and major changes.
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https://9to5linux.com/bleachbit-6-0-introduces-new-cookie-manager-improves-browser-cleaning