Ubuntu Linux

Install sober (android app for Linux) following below guide, then ignore vinegar or grapejiuce (both broken) and just run studio lite with sober.

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/the-ultimate-guide-on-how-to-play-roblox-on-linux/3171920

https://www.roblox.com/it/games/10959918411/Studio-Lite

The log scale makes it seem like the snap has roughly 2x more Ubuntu 24.04 users than Fedora users.

The raw numbers shows that the snap has more than 50x more Ubuntu 24.04 users than Fedora users.

In particular tools to help manage backup and rollback of system configuration. Or tools to help migrate and old laptop to the new one? I've seen things about dot file management? Stuff like that.

For what this would mean, check out Phoronix's reporting.

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.