This News Flight Night took its turns as things do. Colin joined us talking about his Surface Go running Cosmic Desktop for a unique purpose. The strawpoll lead us into a kind of continuation conversation about containerized apps. The news topics revolved around the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release and Framework Computer’s latest Laptop 13 Pro
What have you been doing in tech or Linux?
Colin using his Surface Go running Cosmic Desktop, Arch Linux. Turned into a Karaoke machine with FreeTube
https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.freetubeapp.FreeTube
If Android loses sideloading, will you switch to some Android Rom?
Replies
- Sand is annoying. It gets everywhere and could cause some chafing. 😉🤣
- Yes. I have been in some game jams.. since game jams are evaluated by the participants one has to run other peoples games. And i really don’t want just run other peoples stuff without some protection.
- A position was posed last time about native packages polluting their file system. I’d argue this was also a problem with docker and flatpak etc, they may have not known it. Its just another packaging system. All have gotten better at this. I specifically hated docker/podman pollution and images left in limbo as they are huge space wasters. With each has specific commands if you want to remove config or dangling files. But in cases like database install you want to upgrade, but not remove your data or configuration. So its just knowing why and options to get what you want.
News Flight Night
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released: GNOME 50, Wayland-only and Linux 7.0
- Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What’s new since 24.04?
- Ubuntu audits Rust rewrites of coreutils, flags security notes
- Ubuntu 26.10 release date confirmed for October 2026
- Ubuntu Server 26.04 picks up HWE, OEM kernels and platform updates
- Edubuntu 26.04 LTS Released
- Kubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon Released
- Lubuntu 26.04 LTS Released!
- Welcome to Ubuntu Budgie 26.04
- Ubuntu Cinnamon 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” Release Notes
- Ubuntu Kylin 26.04 officially released
- Ubuntu Mate [NO NOTES/NO Release??]
- Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS Released
- Ubuntu Unity 26.04 release notes
- Xubuntu 26.04 Release Notes
Framework Laptop 13 Pro receives Ubuntu certification
- Framework Laptop 16 upgrades make it look less like an unfinished prototype
- Framework’s CEO on the RAM crisis and creating a MacBook Pro for Linux users
Firefox 150: new features, UI tweaks and performance improvements
- Firefox ships Brave’s adblock engine (Firefox builds with Brave adblocking tech)
Topics We Didn’t Cover
Bitwarden CLI npm package compromised to steal developer credentials
NIST to stop rating non-priority flaws due to volume increase
Debian elects Sruthi Chandran as new DPL
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-DPL-Sruthi-Chandran
Memory card and flash drive prices surge up 123%
https://www.techspot.com/news/112097-memory-card-flash-drive-prices-surge-up-123.html
AES-128 remains secure in a post-quantum world, research finds
GNU coreutils 9.11 released with updates and fixes
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.11
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12 Apr 2026
Name: Advait
Question for each of the panel members on Linux Saloon: What do you do if an update messes up your system and you can’t login to your system (but you can still get into GRUB)? Love to hear your step-by-step response to this situation. Cheers!
Use MX Linux https://mxlinux.org/
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