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FOSS Weekly #26.45: Fedora 45, Immutable Ubuntu, Mint New Feature, Dual Boot Without USB and More Linux Stuff
Fedora 45 arrived about two weeks late, but it’s packed. You get Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, and Plasma 6.7, plus kmscon replacing the old text console and a QR code that now leads to a page for kernel panics.
Could Ubuntu go immutable? Canonical has restarted Ubuntu Core Desktop, a snap-based system that stays locked down, and a dedicated team is now working on it. Both it and a proposed LTS firmware package are still early.
Ubuntu and many other distros turned hibernation off by default years ago, partly because it was slow. Linux Mint is bringing it back, with a few useful tweaks..
KDE Linux will load the ntsync kernel module by default. It gives Wine and Proton a closer match to Windows sync primitives, which can substantially boost performance.
A ministry merger ended Denmark’s Collabora pilot before its evaluation, Collabora says. It adds that the result shouldn’t count against the suite, and it says the first phase worked well.
France’s National Assembly has backed a tax of 5.5 euro cents per gigabyte delivered to French internet subscribers. VideoLAN, the nonprofit behind VLC, says it could cost over €1 million a year.
Nitrux is warning users that nitrux.org is an unaffiliated, AI-generated site using its name and logo.
Serious about using Ubuntu Linux on servers? Mastering Ubuntu Server book has now been updated for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The new version is available on Amazon.This bestseller book is written by Jay LaCroix, of LearnLinuxTV and Ken VanDine, Staff Engineer at Ubuntu. From the Linux fundamentals to Ansible, MicroK8s and even Local AI with Lemonade, the book covers it all.
There are two trends I am noticing. More European countries are opting for open source software in public institutions.
Latest in this list is the news that schools in six German states can now sign up for a Nextcloud-based cloud run by IONOS in German data centers. The four-year contract is open to other states later, and schools aren’t required to join.