This Week in Linux

275: COSMIC Alpha Launched, Manjaro going Immutable, GNOME Tray Icons & more Linux news

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This week in Linux, the much anticipated COSMIC desktop is HERE! well, kind of. GNOME have finally added back a feature that people have been asking about for years or did they? Manjaro is working on an immutable version of their distro. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews!

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:37 COSMIC Desktop Alpha is HERE!
06:21 GNOME's Official Extension for Legacy Tray Icons
09:30 Manjaro Linux work on an Immutable version
10:46 SLUBStick: new Linux kernel exploit
13:23 Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4 Released
15:25 Sway Adds Wayland Explicit Sync Support
16:10 Hyprland 0.42 Released
18:43 Support the show
19:42 Outro

Links:
  • COSMIC Desktop Alpha is HERE!
    • https://system76.com/cosmic
    • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/you-can-now-download-pop_os-24-04-alpha-with-cosmic-desktop
    • https://9to5linux.com/system76-launches-pop_os-24-04-lts-with-cosmic-alpha-desktop-environment
    • GNOME's Official Extension for Legacy Tray Icons
      • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/gnome-official-status-icons-extension
      • https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions/-/merge_requests/194
      • https://extensions.gnome.org/
      • Manjaro Linux work on an Immutable version
        • https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-immutable-out-now-for-community-testing/166364
        • https://github.com/arkanelinux/arkdep
        • https://arkanelinux.org/
        • Linux kernel exploitation SLUBStick can read and write memory arbitrarily
          • https://github.com/IAIK/SLUBStick
          • https://thehackernews.com/2024/08/new-linux-kernel-exploit-technique.html?m=1
          • https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linux-kernel-impacted-by-new-slubstick-cross-cache-attack/amp/
          • Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4 Released
            • https://www.supergrubdisk.org/2024/07/30/super-grub2-disk-2-06s4-released/
            • https://9to5linux.com/super-grub2-disk-2-06s4-system-rescue-tool-released-with-btrfs-support
            • Sway Adds Wayland Explicit Sync Support
              • https://swaywm.org/
              • https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sway-Explicit-Sync-Merged
              • https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sway-Tearing-Control-Lands
              • Hyprland 0.42 Released
                • https://hyprland.org/
                • https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.42-Wayland
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