Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18704 · 07.05.2026, 20:58
📰 StarFighter Linux laptop with detachable webcam and premium specs finally launches
Star Labs has been selling Linux laptops and mini PCs since 2017. While most of the company’s products have featured budget or mid-range hardware, Star Labs introduced a premium laptop called the StarFighter in 2022… and then never managed to ship that laptop. Until now. The Star Labs StarFighter is a Linux laptop with a .
🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/starfighter-linux-laptop-with-detachable-webcam-and-premium-specs-finally-launches/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18689 · 06.05.2026, 14:20
📰 Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service
Dell and Lenovo have stepped up to become premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that provides for seamless system firmware and device/component firmware updating under Linux with the Fwupd client...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18685 · 06.05.2026, 05:49
📰 New stealthy Quasar Linux malware targets software developers
A previously undocumented Linux implant named Quasar Linux (QLNX) is targeting developers' systems with a mix of rootkit, backdoor, and credential-stealing capabilities.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-stealthy-quasar-linux-malware-targets-software-developers/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18684 · 05.05.2026, 21:41
📰 Orion for Linux adds a content blocker and download manager
A new beta build of Orion for Linux is available, with the v0.3 update ready for ‘broader, real-world use and feedback’, according to Kagi, the company behind it. Orion for Linux is a native GTK4/libadwaita web browser powered by WebKitGTK, aiming for feature parity with established macOS version (platform-specific features notwithstanding). It launched an alpha in early 2026 and an initial beta in March.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/orion-for-linux-public-beta
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18682 · 05.05.2026, 20:57
📰 Orion for Linux’s latest beta is out
A new beta build of Orion for Linux is available, with the v0.3 update described by its makers, the search company Kagi, as being “ready for broader, real-world use and feedback”. Orion for Linux is a native GTK4/libadwaita web browser powered by WebKitGTK. It launched an alpha build in early 2026 followed by early beta in March. The goal is to offer feature parity with the macOS version (platform-specific features notwithstanding).
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/orion-for-linux-public-beta
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18678 · 05.05.2026, 14:12
📰 Linux is finally ready for gamers, but gamers are still not ready for Linux
We're in a golden age of Linux gaming, but most people are not ready to switch.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-ready-for-gamers-but-gamers-not-ready-for-linux/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18667 · 04.05.2026, 11:42
📰 Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner
Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s new licenses, according to Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/gartner_state_of_mainframes/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18661 · 03.05.2026, 10:28
📰 CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a case of local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an.
🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/cisa-adds-actively-exploited-linux-root.html
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18658 · 02.05.2026, 19:10
📰 I always tweak my Proxmox host's settings before spinning up a single VM or LXC
Over the last couple of years, I’ve installed Proxmox on PCs of all shapes and sizes, including enterprise-grade servers, dinosaur machines, single-board computers, and gaming laptops. After all, Proxmox’s lightweight nature lets me run this killer platform on anything with an x86 CPU, and since it supports Linux containers and KVM-based virtual machines, I can use my PVE-powered systems as hybrid project-building workstations and self-hosting...
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-always-tweak-my-proxmox-hosts-settings/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18655 · 02.05.2026, 17:55
📰 NVIDIA Ships Fixes For Descriptor Heaps, More Vulkan Performance Optimizations
NVIDIA on Friday released the 595.44.06 beta driver build as their newest Vulkan developer beta for Linux. This was joined by the NVIDIA 595.46 Windows Vulkan beta and there are performance improvements in tow and more work on their descriptor heaps support...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-595.44.06-Vulkan-Beta
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18642 · 01.05.2026, 12:09
📰 The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
CopyFail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more.
🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/as-the-most-severe-linux-threat-in-years-surfaces-the-world-scrambles/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18632 · 30.04.2026, 19:12
📰 New Linux ‘Copy Fail’ flaw gives hackers root on major distros
An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed "Copy Fail" that impacts Linux kernels released since 2017, allowing an unprivileged local attacker to gain root permissions.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-copy-fail-flaw-gives-hackers-root-on-major-distros/
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