Every few months (or years, depending upon how old you are), there is a new “anti-smartphone” device that comes with a physical keyboard and a tiny screen and focuses on doing one thing well. Freewrite did it for writers. PicoCalc did it for tinkerers. Now Talisman Design, an independent hardware studio out of Phoenix, Arizona,…
Diving in deep to the roots of the POSTAL franchise, Running With Scissors plan to release Flesh & Wire sometime in 2027 and we have a new trailer. More about it: “Meet Angel, a normal college student with her whole life ahead of her, and Solomon, her loyal sphynx cat. In a sudden muzzle flash…
Proton 11.0-1 was just released as stable as the newest major version of this downstream of Wine that powers Valve’s Steam Play to provide for a great Windows gaming experience across conventional Linux systems plus the popular Steam Deck and brand new Steam Machine. Since April the Proton 11.0 series has been available in beta…
Aleksander Iwicki discovered that Request Tracker did not properly sanitizethe search “Page” URL parameter. A remote attacker could possibly use thisissue to conduct a reflected cross-site scripting attack. (CVE-2026-6841) It was discovered that Request Tracker did not properly sanitize user-controlled data written to spreadsheet exports of search results. A remoteattacker could possibly use this issue…
Valve has released Proton 11.0, the latest major update to its Wine-based compatibility layer that allows Windows games to run on Linux and SteamOS, including the Steam Deck. It rebases the stack on Wine 11.0, refreshes several graphics and compatibility components, and brings many game-specific fixes covering EA titles, VR games, and classic Resident Evil…
Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the In the Commit History campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague…
DistroWatch.com: Slimbook OS Last Update: 2026-07-07 14:43 UTC Slimbook OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution customised for the Slimbook line of Linux computers assembled in Spain. It offers a choice of GNOME or KDE Plasma desktops on a single ISO image which also includes some custom extensions and utilities. The distribution provides its own repositories…
New GTK4/libadwaita app Whisp is positioning itself as the note-taking app for people fed up with note-taking apps (the best one is always the next one, right?). Scratch that; Whisp pitches itself as “the anti-note for GNOME”, a riff on Antinote, a macOS app with a similar look and feature set. Developer Tanay Bhomia describes it as “a…
We are used to hearing about Copilot eating storage space on Windows machines, showing up in applications it has no business in, and generally being a nuisance for anyone who prefers an AI-free computer. Now, we have a Windows log file that has been silently eating up space on people’s storage drives, with a Microsoft…
253 Sarah’s Networking Brief: I manage remote access for a fleet of production Linux servers, and the one rule that has never failed me is this: never expose a raw VNC port to the internet. Every method I cover below comes with a security note, because convenience means nothing if your box gets popped. Remote…
