Download SteamOS Beta 2.88

SteamOS was designed by Valve as an operating system focused on playing games, of course in conjunction with the steam store. It can also play games stream from another Linux, Mac OS X or Windows system on the network. Valve has released an update to SteamOS in the brewmaster_beta branch with 2.88 as the version number. The corresponding announcement looks like this:

SteamOS brewmaster update 2.88 pushed to brewmaster_beta

Updated driver from AMD, updated linux kernel to 4.1.30, added ttf-dejavu-core to fix a crash in the Steam update UI, and the usual security fixes.

==== SteamOS build 88 2016-08-16 ====

• curl – CVE-2016-5419 CVE-2016-5420 CVE-2016-5421
• devscripts – CVE-2016-1238
• firmware-free – update to LTS kernel 4.1.30
• libgd2 – CVE-2016-6207
• linux – update to LTS kernel 4.1.30
• linux-latest – update to LTS kernel 4.1.30
• ntp – CVE-2015-7974 CVE-2015-7977 CVE-2015-7978 CVE-2015-7979 CVE-2015-8138 CVE-2015-8158 CVE-2016-1547 CVE-2016-1548 CVE-2016-1550 CVE-2016 -2516 CVE-2016-2518
• perl – CVE-2016-1238 CVE-2016-6185
• steamos-packages – add ttf-dejavu-core to provide fallback font for Steam update UI
• amdgpu-pro-installer – latest from AMD
• firmware-nonfree – Add firmware for Killer 1535 wireless module