📰 Ubuntu Snap Prompting Improvements
If you haven’t tried Ubuntu’s ‘Permission Prompting’ feature for a while, there’s more reason to do so in the latest release. Canonical’s Oliver Calder has shared an update on recent improvements to the security feature, which sets out to “empower users” by letting them decide what software can access on the rest of the system at runtime rather than retrospectively.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-snap-prompting-client-improved
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📰 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Is Out Now with Linux Kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS operating system is now available for public beta testing with the Linux 7.0 kernel, Mesa 26.0 graphics stack, and GNOME 50 desktop environment.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-beta-is-out-now-with-linux-kernel-7-0-and-gnome-50
#gnome#ubuntu#linux#kernel
📰 KDE Plasma 6.6 is out – screenshot OCR, refresh rate fix + more
KDE Plasma 6.6 release lets you extract text from screenshots, control app volume from the taskbar, save custom themes and fixes the 60Hz animation cap.You're reading KDE Plasma 6.6 is out – screenshot OCR, refresh rate fix + more, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-released
#plasma#kde#ubuntu
📰 CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake
Most of my Intel Panther Lake benchmarking over the past two months for the new Core Ultra Series 3 hardware has been done with Ubuntu Linux given the pervasiveness of it, especially in the corporate/enterprise space. But for those looking at achieving even greater out-of-the-box Linux performance on Intel Panther Lake, the Arch Linux based CachyOS does a pretty fine job at further advancing the performance.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-panther-lake
#linux#arch#ubuntu#intel
📰4 derivatives of popular Linux distros that are better than the originals
There will always be a dedicated group of people that think the original is better than the spin-off, and that's true with Linux distros as well. The big names like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and others have played a massive role in the creation of other distros, and as a beginner, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking that using one of the originals should be better because of their ubiquity.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/derivatives-of-popular-linux-distros-that-are-better-than-the-originals/
#fedora#arch#ubuntu#linux
📰 Firefox 149 vs. Chrome 147 Web Browser Performance On Linux
It has been a while since featuring a showdown of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers on Linux. With some fresh benchmarks being overdue plus the new JetStream 3 browser benchmark having been announced last week, here is some fresh data for how these two dominant web browsers are competing on the modern Linux desktop from an Intel Panther Lake system running Ubuntu 26.04.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-chrome-2026
#firefox#intel#linux#ubuntu
📰 The Integrated ROCm Story For Ubuntu 26.04 Still Playing Out
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is just three weeks out for release with many great features in tow from the GNOME 50 desktop to the very leading-edge Linux 7.0 kernel and many other package updates. One feature that many had been looking forward to is Canonical's plans to ship AMD ROCm directly in the Ubuntu archive for a much cleaner experience for those wanting to make use of AMD's open-source GPU compute stack.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-ROCm-State
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