# Linux Action News 90

URL: /show/linux-action-news/90/
> Debian has a big fix, Chromium might block ads, Valve makes another big investment in Linux, and Google gets serious about bringing Fuchsia to market.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 90
- Date: 2019-01-27
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:33:11
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/2abd710d-92b9-4830-957c-bdba4c1d7a6f.mp3
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgHVXy5Jj48





### Episode Links

  * [Choose Linux - New JB Show](https://chooselinux.show/ "Choose Linux - New JB Show") — The show that captures the excitement of discovering Linux.
  * [Steam For Linux Now Lets You Play Windows Games From Other Stores](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/01/23/steam-for-linux-now-lets-you-play-windows-games-from-other-stores/#7bb5472138b4 "Steam For Linux Now Lets You Play Windows Games From Other Stores") — Users can now launch Windows games purchased on platforms outside of Steam from inside the Steam for Linux client. 
  * [Looks like it’s still using Wine 3.16 ](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine/blob/478f3c4a2cdb181c31af19a9031e5c3c6daad2f2/VERSION "Looks like it’s still using Wine 3.16 ")
  * [Wine 4.0 Released](https://www.winehq.org/announce/4.0 "Wine 4.0 Released") — This release represents a year of development effort and over 6,000 individual changes.
  * [Microsoft Employee Hints at Windows Core OS Open Source Components](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-employee-leaks-windows-core-open-source-components,38476.html "Microsoft Employee Hints at Windows Core OS Open Source Components") — The Security Program Manager then said that he "improved the security posture of Windows Open Source Components through initiatives that investigate vulnerabilities found and establish a process for remediation.” 
  * [Multipass for Win10 public beta](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/multipass/ "Multipass for Win10 public beta") — Multipass, at its core, is a service to manage Linux (in this case, Ubuntu) virtual machines in Windows 10 without the overhead of faffing about with Hyper-V (although Hyper-V is most definitely required to make the thing work).
  * [Ubuntu Core 18 gets 10 years of support](https://blog.ubuntu.com/2019/01/22/ubuntu-core-18-released-for-secure-reliable-iot-devices "Ubuntu Core 18 gets 10 years of support") — Dell has been working closely with Canonical over the past three years to certify Ubuntu Core on all our Edge Gateway platforms. 
  * [Debian releases new images with apt fix](https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190123 "Debian releases new images with apt fix") — This point release incorporates the recent security update for APT, in order to help ensure that new installations of stretch are not vulnerable. No other updates are included.
  * [It might be harder to block ads in Chromium](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/ "It might be harder to block ads in Chromium") — Google engineers have proposed changes to the open-source Chromium browser that will break content-blocking extensions, including ad blockers.
  * [Google poaches 14-year Mac veteran from Apple to bring Fuchsia to market](https://9to5google.com/2019/01/22/google-fuchsia-poaches-mac-veteran/ "Google poaches 14-year Mac veteran from Apple to bring Fuchsia to market") — Stevenson started at Apple in 2004 as a Product Release Engineer for OS X. In this role, he “triaged and diagnosed” application and framework issues, while also working with third-party developers.