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Claude desktop app for Linux enters beta – here's how to try it

Anthropic has released a beta of its Claude desktop app for Linux, launching alongside an apt repo Ubuntu users can add for ongoing updates. According to the official docs, Claude desktop for Linux offers "the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code experience as macOS and Windows: parallel sessions, visual diff review, an integrated terminal and editor, and live app preview". However, not all of the app's features are yet available. The Linux beta lacks Computer Use, which lets Claude control apps directly, and voice dictation, both present on macOS and Windows. Anthropic says Computer Use support is coming to Linux [...]

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Categories: News, AI/ML, App Updates, Claude
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/claude-desktop-linux-beta Jul 09, 2026, 08:39 PM

Linux Mint 23 to offer full Wayland support (but X11 is staying)

Linux Mint says Wayland support in its next release will no longer be considered experimental, but available as a fully-supported option. However, it will continue to provide and support X11, unlike other Linux distributions which have jettisoned the legacy Xorg/X11 display server from their default installations – Ubuntu dropped Xorg support in 25.10. "We worked really hard on Wayland and we got to the point where it feels solid and the experience is almost on par with X11", Clement Lefebvre wrote in an update, confirming "both X11 and Wayland will be fully supported" in the next release. Whether Wayland will become [...]

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Categories: News, Cinnamon, Linux Mint, Wayland
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/linux-mint-wayland-fully-supported Jul 08, 2026, 07:13 PM

TUXEDO OS drops Ubuntu to rebase on Debian Testing

TUXEDO Computers is rebasing TUXEDO OS on Debian, moving away from Ubuntu. The German Linux hardware company launched TUXEDO OS in 2022, building on top of an Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) release to, chiefly, support its own hardware with customisations, though the distro is free to download and install on any machine. To keep things fresh, TUXEDO updates web browsers, GPU graphics drivers and the Plasma desktop continuously, but leaves the underlying Ubuntu LTS base intact. Now, after almost four years of taking that approach, TUXEDO's had enough. Why TUXEDO OS is dropping Ubuntu TUXEDO list a number of reasons [...]

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Categories: News, Debian, tuxedo
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/slug-tuxedo-os-debian-rebase Jul 08, 2026, 01:55 AM

Ubuntu 25.10 loses security updates on 9 July, 2026

Support for Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" ends 9 July 2026 – which is this week. If you're still using it, you can upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS directly to keep receiving updates. Ubuntu 25.10 was released in October 2025. As an 'interim release' the desktop edition it receives only 9 months of ongoing updates. Ubuntu's Long-Term Support versions get 5 years of updates on desktop, plus a further 5 years through an Ubuntu Pro subscription. Nothing dramatic happens when a release goes end of life. Your install keeps working. What stops is the flow of high-impact security updates and critical bug fixes [...]

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Categories: News, end of life, Ubuntu 25.10, Ubuntu Support
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-2510-eol-july-9-2026 Jul 05, 2026, 08:59 PM

Ubuntu is swapping its time sync tool for a Rust-based version

Canonical wants ntpd-rs, a Rust rewrite of NTP (Network Time Protocol), to become Ubuntu's default time sync client. To help get there, Canonical has become a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, the non-profit behind ntpd-rs, committing €40,000 a year to help fund its memory-safe software projects. The goal is to make the Rust-based version the default time sync client and server in Ubuntu 27.04, and it will be made it available for testing in Ubuntu 26.10, out in October. Eventually, it'll also replace chrony, linuxptp and gpsd for time-syncing use cases, according to Jon Seager, Ubuntu VP of Engineering at Canonical. Your Ubuntu system keeps [...]

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Categories: News, Chrony, rust, security, time server, Ubuntu 26.10
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-ntpd-rs-rust-time-sync Jul 04, 2026, 07:13 AM

Snap Store will be down for maintenance this weekend

Canonical's Snap Store will be shutting down for database maintenance at the weekend, meaning users won't be able to install or update snaps until it's back online. The planned downtime is expected to last for four hours, starting on Sunday, 5 July 2026 at 22:00 UTC and ending on Monday, 6 July at 02:00 UTC. During the maintenance you will not be able to install or update snaps. If there's an app you've been wanting to try, or your IoT or core device runs automated tasks during the affected window, you'll want to plan accordingly To make that planning less [...]

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Categories: News, Canonical, snap store
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/snap-store-offline-july-2026 Jul 03, 2026, 07:28 PM

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has fixed its missing video/audio thumbnails

If you installed Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and noticed video and music files weren't showing image thumbnails in the file manager, a packaging oversight was to blame, not anything you did. It turns out that Ubuntu's Default install option (aka minimal install) wasn't pulling in the gst-audio-thumbnailer and gst-video-thumbnailer packages which generate media thumbnails when you open a folder full of compatible files. A metapackage doesn't contain software itself, just a list of the packages that need to be installed for, in this case, an Ubuntu desktop experience. Confusingly, both thumbnailers were present in the full install's meta file, so if [...]

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Categories: News, Bug Fixes, thumbnailers, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-2604-video-audio-thumbnails-fix Jul 03, 2026, 12:23 AM

Linux App Release Roundup (June 2026)

June was sweltering, but the summer heat didn't slow down open-source software developers.  Last month delivered a wave of app updates, including the release of Firefox 152 with its streamlined settings, HandBrake resolved its Linux WebM handling and the Audacity 4.0 beta made a brand-new design available for public scrutiny (mainly of the "much better" variety). But underneath those highs – yes, I'm determined to make this heat theme work – a quiet simmer of smaller maintenance updates rolled out too... Cine gained Watch History I spotlighted the Cine Linux video player earlier this year. It's an MPV-based player with [...]

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Categories: News, App Updates, Bazaar, Cine, LRR, qBittorrent
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/linux-app-release-roundup-june-2026 Jul 02, 2026, 01:35 AM

Firefox is adding Vulkan video decoding for Nvidia GPUs

Firefox is adding hardware-accelerated Vulkan Video decoding, saving Nvidia users on Linux the hassle of manually configuring the nvidia-vaapi-driver package. The change will be included in Firefox 153, out July 21, but it will not be enabled by default – not to start with. Instead, users will be able to flip a pair of preferences in about:config to try it out, with the awareness that there may be hiccups and edge cases (especially on devices with hybrid graphics, mentioned further down). Given that Nvidia GPUs are capable (understatement klaxon), I was surprised to hear that this didn't already work. Turns out, Firefox's [...]

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Categories: Hardware, News, Firefox, NVIDIA, vulkan
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/firefox-vulkan-video-decoding-nvidia Jul 01, 2026, 05:10 PM

DirtyClone Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability fixes available

On June 25, 2026, JFrog published their research  into CVE-2026-43503 , referring to the vulnerability as DirtyClone. The vulnerability had previously been responsibly disclosed to the Linux kernel maintainers and the CVE record published on May 23, 2026. The vulnerability affects multiple Linux distributions, including all Ubuntu releases. The first security updates for Ubuntu were released on June 2, 2026.

The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8, corresponding to HIGH severity, as published on May 30, 2026.

This vulnerability affects the same components as the Dirty Frag  and Fragnesia  vulnerabilities. As such, if you have applied the mitigations for any of these vulnerabilities by blocking the affected kernel modules, you are also protected against the DirtyClone vulnerability.

Impact
Deployments without container workloads

On hosts that do not run container workloads, the vulnerability allows a local user to elevate privileges to the root user. The published exploit executes in this type of deployment.

Container deployments

In container deployments that may execute arbitrary third-party workloads, the vulnerability may additionally facilitate container escape scenarios, in addition to local privilege escalation on the host. A proof-of-concept exploit has not been published yet for container escape.

Affected releases

The vulnerability fix is distributed through the Linux kernel image packages.

Please note that if you have previously applied the mitigations described for Dirty Frag  or Fragnesia , your system is not affected by DirtyClone.

ReleasePackage NameRemediation StatusTrusty Tahr (14.04 LTS)linuxAffectedXenial Xerus (16.04 LTS)linuxAffectedBionic Beaver (18.04 LTS)linuxAffectedFocal Fossa (20.04 LTS)linuxLinux 5.4: AffectedLinux 5.15: Fixed in 5.15.0-181.191~20.04.1Jammy Jellyfish (22.04 LTS)linuxFixed in 5.15.0-181.191Noble Numbat (24.04 LTS)linuxFixed in 6.8.0-124.124Questing Quokka (25.10)linuxFixed in 6.17.0-35.35Resolute Raccoon (26.04 LTS)linuxFixed in 7.0.0-22.22
How to check if you are impacted

On your system, run the following command to get the version of the currently running kernel and compare the listed version to the corresponding table above.

uname -r

The list of installed kernel packages can be obtained using the following command:

dpkg -l 'linux-image*' | grep ^ii
Security updates

We recommend you upgrade all packages:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

If this is not possible and the Linux kernel is installed via a meta package, its update can be targeted directly:

sudo apt update
dpkg-query -W -f '${source:Package}\t${binary:Package}\n' | awk '$1 ~ "^linux-meta" { print $2 }' | xargs sudo apt install --only-upgrade

A reboot is required once the security updates for the Linux kernel are installed. 

sudo reboot

The unattended-upgrades feature is enabled by default for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS onwards. This service:  

• Applies new security updates every 24 hours automatically.
• If you have this enabled, the patches above will be automatically applied within 24 hours of being available, but a reboot is still required.

On June 25, 2026, JFrog published their research into CVE-2026-43503, referring to the vulnerability as DirtyClone. The vulnerability had previously been responsibly disclosed to the Linux kernel maintainers and the CVE record published on May 23, 2026. The vulnerability affects multiple Linux distributions, including all Ubuntu releases. The first security updates for Ubuntu were released [...]


Categories: Security, Vulnerabilities
Source: https://ubuntu.com//blog/dirtyclone-linux-vulnerability-fixes-available Jul 01, 2026, 10:57 AM