Games, Systemd, and More
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For Honor from Ubisoft gets an anti-cheat update - now Playable on Steam Deck
Nice to see more bigger publisher jumping in to get their games working on Steam Deck and desktop Linux. Ubisoft has now upgraded For Honor to support Easy Anti-Cheat on Deck.
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Systemd 254 released
Systemd 254 has been released. As usual, there is a long list of changes, including a new list-paths command for systemctl, the ability to send POSIX signals to services, a "soft reboot" feature that restarts user space while leaving the kernel in place, improved support for "confidential virtual machines", and a lot more.
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On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions
To date, this public good has broadly been provided for free for various periods of time by Debian developers, Red Hat, Canonical, and so on. Red Hat's switch from 'CentOS' to 'CentOS Stream' and now their change to how Stream works marks Red Hat ceasing to provide this public good for free; it's now fairly likely to be a more or less private, for pay thing. Canonical has never provided this public good beyond five years (and in practice only to a limited extent), and now there are signs they're going to limit this in various ways (also). Debian has sort of provided this only semi-recently, in the form of non-official five year support (and extended paid support). I'm not sure about the practical state of openSUSE but see their lifetime page for the current claims.
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N2WS Backup and Recovery enhancements strengthen AWS workload protection
In a significant move toward enhancing business continuity and data security for enterprises, N2WS has launched the latest version of N2WS Backup and Recovery.
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The N2WS version 4.2 instance is deployed on Ubuntu 22, With this latest release, customers can choose to upgrade the underlying Ubuntu instances to Ubuntu Pro by using AWS License Manager.
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Modern Samizdat Libraries
Samizdat (“self-publishing” in Russian) was the practice of illegally copying and distributing books, manuscripts, and other materials to evade Soviet censorship.
While samizdat initially started with Russian literature and expanded to politically focused materials, it was also reimagined for hacker culture. When Bell Labs made UNIX source code illegal to distribute, the book A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System (which contained an annotated version of the source code) was retracted. Illegally copying and distributing the book was known amongst hackers as samizdat.