COSMIC Alpha Launched, Manjaro going Immutable, GNOME Tray Icons & more Linux news

Support the show by becoming a patron at https://tuxdigital.com/membership or get some swag at https://tuxdigital.com/store### SHOW NOTES ►► https://thisweekinlinux.com/275### FORUM THREAD ►► https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/275-cosmic-alpha-launched-manjaro-going-immutable-gnome-tray-icons-more-linux-news/6365This 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!### Chapters:00:00 Intro00:37 COSMIC Desktop Alpha is HERE!06:21 GNOME's Official Extension for Legacy Tray Icons09:30 Manjaro Linux work on an Immutable version10:46 SLUBStick: new Linux kernel exploit13:23 Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4 Released15:25 Sway Adds Wayland Explicit Sync Support16:10 Hyprland 0.42 Released18:43 Support the show19:42 OutroSHOW NOTES ►► https://thisweekinlinux.com/275-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thanks For Watching!#Linux #News #Podcast...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4xG6z-jDtI