Western Digital has developed a driver for the Linux kernel that implements the NVMe PCI Endpoint Function Target. When paired with a PCIe controller that supports endpoint mode, this driver allows a Linux system to present itself as a PCI NVMe controller, appearing to other systems as an NVMe interface storage device. For example, such a storage device has been implemented based on the Rock5B board […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 6.13. Among the most notable changes are: lazy eviction mode in the task scheduler, support for atomic writes in XFS and Ext4, 'multigrain timestamps' mechanism, adaptive polling mode in the networking subsystem, the ability to build with AutoFDO optimizations, support for the ARM65 Guarded Control Stack protection mechanism, and isolating virtual machines using […]
The release of version 2025.1 of the Rhino Linux 2025 distribution has occurred, based on Ubuntu and offering a rolling-release model, meaning the system updates continuously without the need for reinstallation. The new version 2025.1 features several significant improvements and new features. One of the main highlights is the support for dynamic workspaces in Unicorn Desktop, which allows new workspaces to be automatically created when applications are opened […]
The release of web browser Dillo 3.2.0 has been announced. The browser offers a tabbed graphical interface and supports HTML 4.01, CSS, and HTTPS (no JavaScript support). Dillo's functionality can be extended through plugins, including those for IPFS and Gemini protocols. Upon opening the Dillo start page, it consumes 12 MB of RAM, and the installation deb package takes about 600 KB. The graphical interface is built […]
On January 17, after more than four years of hiatus, the console utility lzbench was released, written in C and C++ and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 or GPL 3 license. This utility is designed to compare the speed of many popular compression and decompression algorithms (the list can be obtained with the command lzbench -l). Changelog: Added CPU definition. Added CUDA support and […]
The release of GDB 16.1 has been announced (the first release of the 16.x series, branch 16.0 was used for development). GDB supports source-level debugging for a wide range of programming languages (Ada, C, C++, D, Fortran, Go, Objective-C, Modula-2, Pascal, Rust, etc.) on various hardware (i386, amd64, ARM, Power, Sparc, RISC-V, LoongArch, etc.) and software platforms (GNU/Linux, *BSD, […]
The release of Lanemu P2P VPN 0.12 has taken place — a decentralized virtual private network implementation that operates on a Peer-To-Peer principle, where participants are connected to each other rather than through a central server. Network participants can find each other via BitTorrent trackers or BitTorrent DHT, or through other network participants (peer exchange). The application is a free and open alternative to the VPN Hamachi, written […]
The stable version of the GNU Coreutils 9.6 basic system utilities set has been published, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, ls, etc. Key innovations: The cksum utility has been updated with the '-a crc32b' option for calculating checksums according to the ITU V.42 specification, used, for example, in gzip. […]
The release of the free PaaS platform Cozystack 0.22.0, built on Kubernetes, is available. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform installs directly on servers and covers all aspects of preparing the infrastructure for providing managed services. Cozystack allows for running and providing Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
The developers of the openSUSE project have discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2025-23013) in the PAM module pam-u2f, which is used for authentication via YubiKey, Yubico Security Key, YubiHSM, and other FIDO devices that support the U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) protocol. The vulnerability allows a user with unprivileged local access to the system to authenticate without inserting a hardware token in certain PAM configurations. In practice, the pam-u2f module is typically enabled for […]
One of the package maintainers in NixOS presented an attack technique that allows accessing data on encrypted disk partitions in configurations that do not require entering a unlock password at boot, due to placing decryption information in the TPM2 (Trusted Platform Module). Such configurations are often used on servers or multi-user workstations where it is problematic to manually enter […]
A change has been made to the GCC codebase used to build the GCC 15 branch, deprecating support for the ARM64 ILP32 ABI (-mabi=ilp32). ILP32 is similar to the x32 subarchitecture for x86_64 systems and allows the use of 32-bit pointers and a 32-bit memory addressing model, while the processor operates in 64-bit mode with support for 64-bit registers and extended instructions. The limitation of the ILP32 ABI […]