Snapcraft — the Linux package format Canonical developed for Ubuntu — now works on multiple Linux distros, including Arch, Debian, Fedora and various flavors of Ubuntu, Canonical announced last week.

Some software refuses to die, even when the distro that birthed it does.

Developers from a number of GNU/Linux distributions have agreed to work on a package format known as snap that can be installed on any and all distributions. An announcement from Canonical, maker of ...

The bug, which affects the current version of zlib, 1.2.2, can be exploited to create a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, which could crash any application using the library or let the attacker plant ...