While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp.

Ptyxis is the terminal emulator formerly known as GNOME Prompt and has an emphasis on performance and features while leveraging the VTE library. Ptyxis development is led by GNOME developer Christian Hergert.

Ptyxis began being offered on Ubuntu 24.10 but not by default. On current Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds GNOME Console is still there by default too, but there's an apparent growing fondness for Ptyxis.

I have everything working for learning front-end web development using VSCodium.

I'm currently learning back-end stuff like nodejs, npm, and Express.

What are some challenges coming my way as far as getting things to work on Ubuntu?

Is it possible to have both of these enabled at the same time? It appears to be one or the other? This is making gaming less fun.

I said "good riddance" to Apple and got a new Linux-first laptop, then proceeded to note down my first impressions.

Having used Ubuntu and Linux for 20 years, and having had a stint period with Apple, I decided to stick with Linux for good.

https://fredrocha.net/2024/11/27/2024-the-year-of-the-linux-laptop/

Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04.

The flaws were discovered by Qualys and are tracked as CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003. They were introduced in needrestart version 0.8, released in April 2014, and fixed only yesterday, in version 3.8.

Needrestart is a utility commonly used on Linux, including on Ubuntu Server, to identify services that require a restart after package updates, ensuring that those services run the most up-to-date versions of shared libraries.

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Apart from upgrading to version 3.8 or later, which includes patches for all the identified vulnerabilities, it is recommended to modify the needrestart.conf file to disable the interpreter scanning feature, which prevents the vulnerabilities from being exploited.

With the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be interesting to examine the latest version of this Linux distribution to see if we could find any interesting privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

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During our research, we successfully identified a privilege escalation from the default user on a fresh Ubuntu Desktop installation to root. To achieve this, we chained one small bug in a privileged component together with a number of features, which all work as expected, to achieve arbitrary command execution as root.

This blog post will outline the journey of our research, discuss how we identified these vulnerabilities, and, we hope, show that you can keep it simple when it comes to exploitation and achieve the same results without needing a very complex (although extremely cool) kernel memory corruption vulnerability, for example.

Hi,

I am still an unexperianced linux user. But I encountered a problem that seems to be unfixable to me as a user.

My laptop is a tuxedo infinityBook pro gen2 with an intel iris xe integrated gpu in its intel i7 11370h.

At the moment it runs on ubuntu 24.04.

My Problem: My 3440x1440 display gets recognized, but its resolution does not work properly. It looks like the resolution is set to the correct size, but the monitor does not recognises it if this makes any sense. It means everything is to big and parts are invisible because they simply leave the panel.

My searches led me to following: It seams like the support for this resolution was patched into the driver only for 22.04 and 23.04. Since I updated the driver as stated on the intel site and nothing changed, I guess I have three options now:

1. Reinstalling an older version of ubuntu
2. Wait for a fix by intel
3. Downgrade to an older version of ubuntu.

Atm option 3 feels like my way to go since I am not the admin of the laptop. Nor i want to wait.

I found tutorials to downgrading but also comments wich said, it is to avoid to downgrade.

Is anybody in here that has ever downgraded ubuntu or fixed my problem somehow?

Thx for reading.

The Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA is great for quickly and easily fetching new upstream Linux kernel builds assembled for Ubuntu/Debian systems. It's a big time saver for grabbing the latest stable or daily development kernel on Ubuntu. It's also great for having them publicly and readily available -- one of the reasons I prefer it as well is for that transparency into the kernel builds and prefer using them so when a vendor or user asks about my kernel configuration or if I can supply the kernel used for testing, it's darn simple to just cite the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA.

But it hasn't been producing any new kernel builds since the middle of September... All of the Linux 6.12 release candidates and daily builds have not been producing. Presumably due to a broken Kconfig change or something else failing from the Linux 6.12 merge window changes.

Similar to last year the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA being broken for over a month. Frustrating that such a useful feature and one maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team can remain broken for weeks on end. It's been an annoyance on my end for a number of weeks, but at least last time when calling out the broken state for more than a month, it wound up being fixed shortly thereafter. Hopefully that happens again to restore this great feature of Ubuntu Linux particularly for hardware enthusiasts, kernel testers, etc.

Hi everyone I’m happy to announce the new 2024 Ubuntu Community Council!

• Heather Ellsworth (~hellsworth1) @hellsworth1
• Scarlett Moore (~scarlettmoore) @scarlettmoore
• Nathan Haines (~nhaines) @nhaines
• José Antonio Rey (~jose) @jose
• Thomas Ward (~teward) @teward
• Merlijn Sebrechts (~merlijn-sebrechts) @merlijn-sebrechts
• Aaron Rainbolt (~arraybolt3) @arraybolt3 They are all elected for a period of two years.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 861 for the week of October 6 - 12, 2024.

• Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole
• Ubuntu Stats
• Hot in Support
• Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
• LXD: Weekly news #366
• Rocks Public Journal 2024-10-11
• Ubuntu HPC Meeting Notes: 2024/10/9
• Ubuntu 24.10 Release Party @ Pohang
• Ubuntu 24.10 Release & 20th Anniversary Event @ Busan
• LoCo Events
• Introducing the NVMe/TCP PoC with Ubuntu Server 24.10
• Expanding the Xubuntu Community: Matrix & Discourse
• ...
• Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
• And much more!

Powered by the latest Linux 6.11 kernel series, Ubuntu 24.10 features the latest and greatest GNOME 47 desktop environment for the Ubuntu Desktop flavor with additional patches for Mutter and GNOME Shell to enhance stability and performance. In addition, the Ubuntu Dock now visualizes Snap refreshes and includes better handling for PWAs installed via the Chromium Snap.

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Under the hood, Ubuntu 24.10 comes with an updated toolchain that includes GCC 14.2, GNU Binutils 2.43.1, GNU C Library 2.40, LLVM 19, Rust 1.80, Go 1.23, OpenSSL 3.3, systemd 256.5, Netplan 1.1, and .NET 8. The Ubuntu Desktop installer was also updated with support for local file paths for autoinstall import.

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Ubuntu 24.10 will be supported for only nine months, until July 2025. If you’re looking for long-term support, you should download and install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), which is supported until at least 2029.

Official Website: Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole)

The latest release of snapd, the engine that installs, manages, and configures snap apps, includes a couple of changes that improve the performance of the Steam snap specifically.

Snapd 2.65 sees the removal of “all AppArmor and seccomp restrictions to improve user experience”.

This doesn’t mean the Steam runs un-sandboxed, rather the Steam snap is more in control of its own containers (Steam is really more of a framework than app, with multiple components, parts, and so on).

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Anecdotally, the latest Steam snap release paired with snapd 2.65 is also reported to open faster than before, with launch times on-par with those of the DEB version. They’re also reported to be a couple seconds faster1 than the Steam Flatpak.

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Not strictly Steam related, but perhaps relevant from a gaming POV, snapd 2.65 also ships with improved snap-confine and OpenGL interface compatibility with NVIDIA drivers.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 860 for the week of September 29 - October 5, 2024.

• Ubuntu Community Council 2024 elections are open!
• Oracular Oriole (24.10) Final Freeze
• Welcome New Members and Developers
• Ubuntu Stats
• Hot in Support
• Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
• LXD: Weekly news #365
• Rocks Public Journal; 2024-10-03
• Ubuntu Summit 2024
• LoCo Events
• The 2024.09.30 SRU Cycle started
• Event Report - KDE Akademy 2024
• ...
• And much more!

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 859 for the week of September 22 - 28, 2024.

• Ubuntu Stats
• Hot in Support
• Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
• Rocks Public Journal
• LXD: Weekly news #364
• LoCo Events
• Oracular Oriole (24.10) Release Status Tracking
• CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available
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• And much more!

Canonical’s security team has released updates for the cups-browsed, cups-filters, libcupsfilters and libppd packages for all Ubuntu LTS releases under standard support. The updates remediate CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176, while CVE-2024-47177 is addressed by the other 3 vulnerabilities being patched. Information on the affected versions can be found in the CVE pages linked above. If you have any of these installed, our recommendation is to update as soon as possible. Read on to learn more about the details. Security updates for ESM releases will be released shortly.