Canonical has revealed some details in a security notice about a few Oxide vulnerabilities that have been found and repaired in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS operating systems.

This is not the first round of patches in Ubuntu for various Oxide issues in this development cycle, and there might be others. For now, users should upgrade their systems when they have the chance. The Ubuntu maintainers have pushed some new packages and they are coming through th… (read more)

The Solus project is moving very fast, and its developers have managed to push another release out the door, this time with a lot of fixes that have been spotted and repaired in a very short amount of time.

Solus is following a relatively strict schedule, and a stable edition should be landing in a couple of months if nothing out of the ordinary happens. It’s interesting to notice that the devs are still making huge changes to the operating system, like an entirely new Linu… (read more)

4MLinux, a mini Linux distribution that is focused on the 4Ms of computing, Maintenance (system rescue Live CD), Multimedia (e.g., playing video DVDs), Miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and Mystery (Linux games), has been upgraded to version 13 and is now ready for download.

4MLinux distros have always been very small, but that that has changed somewhat because the developer has chosen to include many more packages by default. In all other aspect, 4MLinux has remained pr… (read more)

The GNOME developers are working to improve the functionality and looks of some of the core apps in the stack, and it looks like Photos is just one of them. Allan Day has explained some of the changes that are going to be made to Photos, and they are quite impressive.

You might think that Photos is a pretty decent apps with just the right amount of features, but it looks like it’s about to become a lot better. Currently, it’s not exactly the go-to app if you want to edit so… (read more)