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Bohemia Interactive say DayZ Badlands is the largest expansion so far for the popular open-world zombie survival game. Coming out of the recent Convergence Showcase with some fresh details – we now know it will launch sometime in October and they’ve graced us with a fresh teaser video too. It’s playable on SteamOS / Linux…
It was discovered that NTFS-3G had a heap buffer overflow when readingcertain NTFS images. A local attacker could possibly use this issue toexecute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-42616) It was discovered that NTFS-3G had multiple heap buffer overflows whenprocessing certain NTFS images. A local attacker could possibly use theseissues to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-42617, CVE-2026-42618,CVE-2026-46569, CVE-2026-46570, CVE-2026-46572,…
Open source firm Collabora who work with Valve (Steam), just announced a preview of Holo Core – the aarch64 port of Arch Linux for Steam Frame. Valve’s SteamOS is based on a snapshot of Arch Linux along with a bunch of their own patches, and to get it all working on Arm it needed a…
Bilal Teke discovered that Ubuntu Advantage Tools exposed the Pro bearertoken in command-line arguments when validating APT credentials. A localattacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive informationand gain unauthorized access to Ubuntu Pro repositories. (CVE-2026-9494) Frederick Jerusha discovered that Ubuntu Advantage Tools did not properlyvalidate data received from the contract server when writing…
DistroWatch.com: Netdeep Secure Firewall Last Update: 2026-07-17 20:16 UTC Netdeep Secure Firewall is a comercial Linux distribution designed for firewalls, developed by Neetdeep Tecnologia Ltda in Brazil. It is built from scratch on top of a Linux kernel and GNU utilities. The distribution provides a web-based interface for configuring various services, including network, Unified Threat…
By now, you must know that Linus Torvalds, the leader of the Penguin army, uh, I mean the Linux kernel project, does not shy away from being blunt, especially when it comes to making a point. When he has one, the Linux kernel mailing list hears about it, and so do we, the ones who…
Bethesda Game Studios have given a rare update into their roadmap of what they’re working on, and it sounds like quite exciting news. Seems like there’s going to be a lot to look forward to in a few years time – and I’m excited to see what they eventually release. Why are they giving such…
DistroWatch.com: KLV-Airedale Last Update: 2026-05-27 19:06 UTC KLV-Airedale is an independently-developed, general-purpose and minimalist Linux distribution featuring a customised Xfce desktop. It is compatible with Void, as it uses Void’s package management tools and repositories. The distribution is built using a custom build script called FirstRib, which deploys the OverlayFS filesystem to provide a frugal…
No! It will take quite some time, and you will perish before that happens. Elon Musk has announced that X’s entire codebase will go open source once xAI wraps up an internal review for security vulnerabilities. He says they will publish the whole thing without holding anything back. Further stating that they are inviting third-party…
Beyond All Reason is a seriously impressive grand-scale open source RTS game that just got a big engine upgrade that brings ARM64 support. There’s a lot more to the update, but it’s interesting to see more games begin to support ARM64. You should check it out if strategy games with lots of units and explosions…
