93: LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Day 1

Episode Links

• LinuxFest Northwest Homepage — 25 Years of Community Excellence.
• nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
• COSMIC Alpha 7 — ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence!
• The best-looking Linux desktop I’ve seen so far in 2025 — The creators of one of the coolest Linux distros just released a new version - and it puts the old one to shame.
• Linux Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Escalate Privileges via Out-of-Bounds Write — The vulnerability can be triggered by manipulating a specially crafted HFS+ filesystem, which, under certain conditions, can overwrite sensitive data in kernel space.
• Zorin OS 17.3 takes Brave step of changing default browser — Zorin OS 17.3 is the latest point release in the 17.x series, meaning it’s still built on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It’s a free upgrade for anyone already running a previous 17.x release.