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The Steam Machine has released and as Valve go through the list more people will get it, but it was pushed out clearly a bit too early. ICYMI: you can see my initial thoughts in the previous GamingOnLinux article. Even with the extra delay we saw due to the component pricing situation, the Steam Machine…
DistroWatch.com: StratOS Linux Last Update: 2026-07-29 21:59 UTC stratos-2026.07.29-swayfx (more screenshots in our gallery) StratOS Linux is an Arch-based Linux distribution which uses scripts from Bedrock Linux to include various packages and repositories from other Linux distributions. It provides several desktop variants featuring the GNOME desktop as well as the Hyprland and the Niri Wayland…
Project Zomboid just had a big free upgrade with Build 42 now out in the stable branch, bringing with it an overhaul to various parts of the game. They said that Build 42 represents one of the most substantial evolutions in Project Zomboid’s long colourful history. The update transforms Knox Country into a more detailed,…
It was discovered that Samba’s pam_winbind incorrectly handled homedirectory ownership when mkhomedir was enabled. A local attacker couldpossibly use this issue to cause a denial of service by triggering a changein ownership of the root directory. (CVE-2026-15779) Arjun Basnet, Douglas Bagnall, and Andrew Tridgell discovered that Sambaincorrectly handled TSIG packets with name compression. A remote…
DistroWatch.com: LinuxHub Prime Last Update: 2026-06-02 19:23 UTC linuxhub-2026.05.06 (more screenshots in our gallery) LinuxHub Prime is an Arch-based Linux distribution with a customised Openbox window manager as the default desktop environment. Its main feature is a unique installer that provides one-click installation options for several popular window managers and desktop environments, including Awesome, bspwm,…
FireDragon is the default browser on Garuda Linux, the Arch-based distro known for its polished KDE Plasma spins and reliability despite riding the bleeding edge. It has traditionally run on a Floorp base, giving it Firefox’s extension support wrapped in Garuda’s privacy defaults and Dr460nized branding. Now the developers have flipped the playbook, changing its…
GE-Proton 11-3 (and 11-2 just before) is a huge release for the popular compatibility layer for SteamOS / Linux. With this release you can expect to see upgrades and improvements for OptiScaler, AMD FSR4, controller support, video playback and updated versions of various translation layers like: DXVK, DXVK-NVAPI, VKD3D-Proton, D7VK, Vulkan headers, and FEX (for…
The following was written by Dave Hansen and Thomas Gleixner. The Linux Kernel community mourns the unexpected and premature passing of Dan Williams. Dan was a computer scientist with a focus on storage, persistent memory, filesystems and trusted computing. Aside from his outstanding technical contributions he served as a member and chairman of the Linux…
DistroWatch.com: MagOS Linux Last Update: 2026-07-25 00:27 UTC MagOS Linux is a Russian desktop-oriented distribution based on ROSA, a distribution that was forked from Mandriva Linux in 2011. It uses the RPM package management. MagOS Linux comes with KDE Plasma desktop by default, but it also ships the lightweight LXQt desktop for older and low-specification…
Every two years, Canonical puts out a Long Term Support release that gets five years of security updates, which can be stretched further with Ubuntu Pro. In between those LTS releases, Canonical ships an interim version every six months, and each one is supported for nine months. Those releases don’t carry the same importance as…
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