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pubsub.blastersklan.com / slashdot · 2 days ago - 19:43 edit

The GNOME Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the GNOME desktop environment, has been operating at a deficit for several years, depleting its financial reserves. Robert McQueen, the foundation's president, has announced plans to increase fundraising efforts in a new blog post. McQueen adds: As you may be aware, the GNOME Foundation has operated at a deficit (nonprofit speak for a loss -- ie spending more than we've been raising each year) for over three years, essentially running the Foundation on reserves from some substantial donations received 4-5 years ago. The Foundation has a reserves policy which specifies a minimum amount of money we have to keep in our accounts. This is so that if there is a significant interruption to our usual income, we can preserve our core operations while we work on new funding sources. We've now "hit the buffers" of this reserves policy, meaning the Board can't approve any more deficit budgets -- to keep spending at the same level we must increase our income.

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GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit

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pubsub.blastersklan.com / omgubuntu · Monday, 18 March - 16:55 edit

GNOME 46 is released on March 20 and the update will be at the heart of the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 release — so are you wondering what sort of improvements it brings? Well, I gotcha’ covered, innit. In this post I run-through the best GNOME 46 features, changes, and usability enhancements. And there’s a fair bit, including super-charged search features in the Nautilus file manager, streamlining to the Settings app, support for remote login over RDP, and some small but sensible buffs to GNOME Shell notifications. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ships with GNOME 46 by default so if this round-up leaves […]

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GNOME 46: The Best New Features

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Making Ubuntu the Way I like It

pubsub.slavino.sk / warlord0blog · Tuesday, 21 November - 17:32 edit

I’m installing a couple of Ubuntu 22.04 systems for a friend. They want a simple, friendly Linux build, or they’ll go M$! My two preferred distros don’t fit the bill, Debian is tool stale for a desktop build, Manjaro is too dynamic and bleeding edge for a simple user. This leaves me wanting to give &ellipsisRead the full post »

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More Happy Desktop

pubsub.slavino.sk / warlord0blog · Monday, 13 November - 18:56 edit

It’s nice getting your desktop setup just the way you want it. The right mix of icons, cursors, themes, and wallpapers. Now there’s a handy tool called gdm-tools that lets you sort out the style of the Gnome gdm login screen – without the need for advanced brain surgery and lots of file jiggery-pokery. With &ellipsisRead the full post »

Značky: #gnome, #Linux

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Ubuntu 23.10 is a Minotaur that moves faster and takes up less space

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 12 October, 2023 - 22:00 · 1 minute

Enlarge / The Ubuntu 23.10 desktop, working just fine before you start messing with it.

Ubuntu 23.10 , codenamed Mantic Minotaur, is the 39th Ubuntu release , and it's one of the three smaller interim releases Canonical puts out between long-term support (LTS) versions. This last interim before the next LTS doesn't stand out with bold features you can identify at a glance. But it does set up some useful options and upgrades that should persist in Ubuntu for some time.

Your new installation options in Ubuntu 23.10. Neither of them is "Minimal," but that might be coming.

Slimmed down and Flutter-ed up

Two of the biggest changes in Ubuntu 23.10 are in the installer. Ubuntu now defaults to a "Default installation," which is quite different from what the "default" was even just one release prior. "Default" is described as "Just the essentials, web browser, and basic utilities," while "Full" is "An offline-friendly selection of office tools, utilities, web browser, and games." "Default" is somewhat similar to what "Minimal" used to be in prior versions, while "Full" is intended for those who are offline or have slow connections or just want as many options as possible right away.

At the moment, most people won't be saving much, assuming they install off an ISO file. The ISO for Ubuntu 23.10 is 4.6GB, which is smaller than the 4.9GB ISO of Ubuntu 23.04, but not drastically so. This may change, however; Ubuntu staffers note that they have bigger plans for provisioning and install options , which may make it into 24.04. For now, it's a way to avoid clutter in your app search, at least, if not your disk overall.

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CD-indexing cue files are the core of a serious Linux remote code exploit

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 11 October, 2023 - 20:04 · 1 minute

Blank CD inserted into a laptop CD drive, with a spindle of blank CDs nearby.

Enlarge / Cue files used to be much better-known, back when we all used CD-Rs to make legal backup copies of material that we owned outright. (credit: Getty Images)

It has been a very long time since the average computer user thought about .cue files , or cue sheets, the metadata bits that describe the tracks of an optical disc, like a CD or DVD. But cue sheets are getting attention again, for all the wrong reasons. They're at the heart of a one-click exploit that could give an attacker code execution on Linux systems with GNOME desktops.

CVE-2023-43641 , disclosed by GitHub on October 9 , is a memory corruption (or out-of-bounds array writing) issue in the libcue library , which parses cue sheets. NIST has yet to provide a score for the issue, but GitHub's submission rates it an 8.8, or "High." While the vulnerability has been patched in the core library, Linux distributions will need to update their desktops to fix it.

GNOME desktops have, by default, a "tracker miner" that automatically updates whenever certain file locations in a user's home directory are changed. If a user was compelled to download a cue sheet that took advantage of libcue's vulnerability, GNOME's indexing tracker would read the cue sheet, and code in that sheet could be executed.

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How do I Remove the KDE Plasma Environment in Ubuntu

TREND OCEANS · Wednesday, 17 May, 2023 - 09:57

Want to remove the KDE Plasma environment from your Ubuntu machine and revert back to the default GNOME desktop environment, you just need to follow a few simple steps.