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Finally, another publisher has realised extra launchers on Steam are a pain in the ass, surprisingly this time it’s Ubisoft doing something good. They’ve announced “Ubisoft Connect Services”, a new way their games will sync up with their own cloud stuff on Steam. So in future their games will hook into the smaller Ubisoft Connect…
USN-8716-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in FFmpeg. This update providesthe corresponding fix for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain crafted mediafiles in the VobSub subtitle demuxer. An attacker could possibly usethis issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2026-64830) It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly…
It’s been a while since I last wrote about Bottles. For anyone new to it, Bottles runs Windows software on Linux by hiding most of Wine’s configuration work behind a straightforward interface. Its feature list has been growing consistently too. You can pull common Windows components like .NET and Visual C++ runtimes with a single…
From developer caiys who made the excellent Boneraiser Minions, along with Voids Vigil and Xenosensory has another game out now with Deadzoned. Note: this was a personal purchase. They’ve quickly become a favourite indie developer of mine, because they keep releasing such interesting looking games. All of them have reviewed well by me and others…
26.04 LTS resolute miniupnpd – 2.3.9-2ubuntu0.1~esm1  Ubuntu Pro Fix available with Ubuntu Pro via ESM Apps. A community fix might become publicly available in the future. miniupnpd-iptables – 2.3.9-2ubuntu0.1~esm1  Ubuntu Pro Fix available with Ubuntu Pro via ESM Apps. A community fix might become publicly available in the future. miniupnpd-nftables – 2.3.9-2ubuntu0.1~esm1  Ubuntu Pro Fix…
DistroWatch.com: AfagOS Last Update: 2026-09-06 21:12 UTC AfagOS, a sister project of AgarimOS, is a Void-based Linux distribution featuring a vanilla KDE Plasma desktop. Like all distributions based on Void, it uses the XBPS package manager with the OctoXBPS graphical frontend and the Topgrade meta-updater. The distribution is free of systemd, using the runit init…
Debian has gotten some good press thanks to Federico Vaga and Nikos Tsipinakis, who presented a talk at MiniDebConf Winterthur this past weekend. The two CERN engineers laid out why the organization is moving its particle accelerator control computers onto Debian 13, with more than 2,200 industrial computers and embedded systems set to run it…
It seems the upcoming shooter WARDOGS will actually not have Linux support with Proton at launch. This might end up being the next big shooter – so it’s a bit of a shame that we have to wait and see what they will actually do. GamingOnLinux covered their previous statement, and since then it seems…
It was discovered that the rabbitmq-c command-line tools only acceptedcredentials on the command line, making them visible to other local usersthrough the process list. An attacker could possibly use this to obtainsensitive credentials. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-35789) It was discovered that rabbitmq-c…
DistroWatch.com: ShrikeLinux Last Update: 2026-08-04 17:39 UTC shrikelinux-2026.01.23 (more screenshots in our gallery)Â Â ShrikeLinux is an Arch Linux-based distribution featuring a customised Xfce desktop. It offers three separate edition with different Linux kernels: a long-term supported Linux kernel for servers and workstations that require rock-solid stability, the latest stable Linux kernel as provided upstream by…
