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)