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Fornite is coming to Linux, vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher available now Epic Games has confirmed that Fortnite is coming to Linux, and the launcher it will arrive through is already available to try in preview on Ubuntu. Epic’s also rebuilt its anti-cheat tech to bring Fornite to Linux. Easy Anti-Cheat 2 will require Secure Boot, TPM 2.0 and a signed kernel to function. Easy Anti-Cheat has been available on Linux for a while, including for Windows games running via Proton, but not all games developers trust or enable it, since it’s not considered as robust as Windows versions. The nuances of anti-cheat is not my forte as I am not a […] You're reading Fornite is coming to Linux, vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher available now, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/epic-confirm-fortnite-linux

📰 Wine 11.20 Fixes 24 Bugs, Improves ARM64EC Support Wine 11.20 adds ARM64EC relay debugging, improves XML validation, moves CD-ROM handling to Mount Manager, and fixes 24 bugs. 🔗 Source: / #wine 👉@sysadminoff https://linuxiac.com/wine-11-20-fixes-24-bugs-improves-arm64ec-support

📰 GNOME OS Preview Launches for the General Public with GNOME 51 GNOME OS Preview has been released today as a new edition of the GNOME OS distribution featuring the latest and greatest GNOME desktop environment. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gnome-os-preview-launches-for-the-general-public-with-gnome-51 #gnome 👉@sysadminoff

📰 Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped. 🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researchers-demonstrate-openbsd-root.html #kernel 👉@sysadminoff

📰 The Best Features Of Linux 7.3: Performance Improvements, Lots From Valve The Linux 7.3 kernel is slated to be officially released on Sunday, 18 October, barring any last minute issues from coming about. With that said, here's a reminder about some of the most exciting features to look forward to in this next kernel version... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Best-Features #kernel #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Best-Features

📰 First Look at Devario OS: A Modern, Shelly-First Linux Distro Based on Arch Linux A first look at Devario OS Linux distro featuring the Aqueous dynamic tiling Wayland compositor, Pearl shell, and Shelly package manager. 🔗 Source: #arch #distro #linux #wayland 👉@sysadminoff https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-devario-os-a-modern-shelly-first-linux-distro-based-on-arch-linux

📰 After 23 Years, Longtime Linux Developer To "Step Back For A While" Longtime Linux kernel engineer Darrick Wong who stepped down as the XFS file-system maintainer in 2023 is now taking a step back from his other Linux kernel development roles after working on the kernel the past 23 years... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Darrick-Wong-Step-Back-23-Years #kernel #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://phoronix.com/news/Darrick-Wong-Step-Back-23-Years

Azure RBAC, Policy, and locks stop different changes—and return different errors Azure RBAC, Azure Policy, and resource locks can all block Azure management requests, but they enforce different rules. A practical test shows how to identify which control denied an operation: RBAC returns `AuthorizationFailed`, Policy returns `RequestDisallowedByPolicy`, and locks return `ScopeLocked`—even for an Owner. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/azure-rbac-policy-and-locks-stop-different-changes-and-return-different-errors/

How AI can become smarter without human-generated knowledge using synthetic data Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneering AI scientist whose work on neural networks helped lay the foundations of modern AI and who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, discusses AI’s potential to learn beyond human-written material.In an episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's show, Hinton describes how AI could use its existing knowledge to identify contradictions and enhance its intelligence by creating synthetic data that does not contain these contradictions. Similarly to how AlphaGo improved its Go play by playing against itself, LLMs could learn independently of human knowledge. Hinton mentions that the Gemini team is working on this approach. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/how-ai-can-become-smarter-without-human-generated-knowledge-using-synthetic-data/

Teams Efficiency Mode cuts startup time by 20% on older PCs Microsoft Teams can now start up to 20% faster on hardware-constrained PCs with Efficiency Mode, while its Android app is 40% more responsive than it was a year ago. The mode turns on by default on devices with older processors and 8 GB of RAM or less, and users can also switch it on or off in settings. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/teams-efficiency-mode-cuts-startup-time-by-20-on-older-pcs/

Релиз менеджера паролей KeePassXC 2.8 Опубликован выпуск открытого кроссплатформенного менеджера паролей KeePassXC 2.8.0, предоставляющего средства для безопасного хранения обычных паролей, одноразовых паролей (TOTP), SSH-ключей и прочей информации, которую пользователь считает конфиденциальной. Данные могут храниться как в локальном зашифрованном хранилище, так и во внешних облачных хранилищах. Код проекта написан на языке C++ с использованием библиотеки Qt и распространяется под лицензиями GPLv2 и GPLv3. Готовые сборки подготовлены для Linux (AppImage, Flatpak, Ubuntu PPA, Snap), Windows и macOS. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66527

KeePassXC 2.8 brings Qt 6 UI, auto-type on Wayland If KeePassXC is your password-management app of choice on Linux, the new 2.8.0 update is going to please. KeePassXC 2.8.0 sees some “long-awaited new features” arrive, including a Qt6 port of the main app interface, auto-type support on Wayland via XDG Desktop Portals, fingerprint unlock and a new experimental Aarch64 AppImage. The Qt6 port has been a long-gestating effort. There’s no dramatic change to the way that KeePassXC looks and behaves (maybe a bit sharper on HiDPI), but it also benefits from being able to access improvements in platform capabilities, security and so on. Auto-type is what allows your saved login […] You're reading KeePassXC 2.8 brings Qt 6 UI, auto-type on Wayland, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/keepassxc-2-8-auto-type-wayland

📰 KDE Plasma 6.6.7 Arrives as the First Update in the New LTS Series Originally expected to end with version 6.6.6, KDE Plasma 6.6 now continues as an LTS branch, with version 6.6.7 delivering important bug fixes. 🔗 Source: / #kde #plasma 👉@sysadminoff https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-6-7-arrives-as-the-first-update-in-the-new-lts-series

📰 Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids Performance On Linux Over The Past Year It's been nearly one year since receiving the Gigabyte R284-A92-AAL1 2U Granite Rapids server platform for continuing my testing of the flagship Xeon 6980P processors. Curious how the Xeon 6980P 2P performance has evolved on Linux since then, I ran some benchmarks on the newly-released Ubuntu Server 26.10 against the tests carried out last year on Ubuntu 25.10 with the same hardware. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-granite-rapids-ubuntu-2610 #intel #linux #ubuntu 👉@sysadminoff https://phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-granite-rapids-ubuntu-2610

📰 Speech Synthesis on Linux: Adding a Voice to Scripts and Systems by George WhittakerLinux users have long had a pragmatic relationship with text-to-speech. The classic open-source engines have been available for years, wired into accessibility tools and the occasional script, dependable but unmistakably robotic. They do the job where the job is simply to convert text to some kind of speech, but the mechanical output has kept them out of anything where the voice actually matters. 🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/speech-synthesis-linux-adding-voice-scripts-and-systems #linux #opensource 👉@sysadminoff https://linuxjournal.com/content/speech-synthesis-linux-adding-voice-scripts-and-systems

📰 Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026 Next week we'll be in Paris for Kernel Recipes! We’re pleased to sponsor this gathering of the kernel community and contribute a talk on upstream H.264 and HEVC decoding for Rockchip RK3588/RK3576. 🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/decoding-with-rockchip-at-kernel-recipes-2026.html #kernel 👉@sysadminoff https://collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/decoding-with-rockchip-at-kernel-recipes-2026.html

📰 Ubuntu 26.10 Has Come Out as a Rust-Packed Interim Release It ships with Linux 7.3, GNOME 51, an improved App Center, and many other upgrades. 🔗 Source: #gnome #linux #rust #ubuntu 👉@sysadminoff https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17498285/ubuntu-26-10-release

📰 AI-Generated Starling Desktop Environment Rolls Out Its Own Office Suite Starling, the open-source desktop environment written in Swift and with its own Wayland compositor too and written largely via Claude Code, has now rolled out its own AI-generated office suite... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-Starling-Desktop-Office #opensource #wayland 👉@sysadminoff https://phoronix.com/news/AI-Starling-Desktop-Office

📰 Valve’s Steam Client for Linux Goes 64-bit in Beta and Moves Into a Container They say running Steam in the same kind of container its games use should make the client behave more consistently. 🔗 Source: #linux #steam 👉@sysadminoff https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17498835/steam-linux-64-bit-client

📰 Fedora 46 Looking At Moving To RPM v6 Package Format The RPM v4 packaging format has been used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora and its derivatives for more than two decades. With next year's Fedora 46 release, Fedora Linux may finally transition to the modern RPM v6 packaging format... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-46-RPM-v6 #fedora #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://phoronix.com/news/Fedora-46-RPM-v6