On January 9, version 2.34.0 of the cross-platform console utilities fastfetch and flashfetch was released, written in C and distributed under the MIT license. These utilities are designed to output system information similar to neofetch. They support Linux, Android, FreeBSD, macOS, SunOS, and Windows 7+. Unlike fastfetch, flashfetch does not support extended information output capabilities, profiles, and more. Change log: […]
The specialized distribution Tails 6.11 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been released, developed as part of the Tor project. The distribution is based on the Debian 12 package base, comes with the GNOME 43 desktop environment, and is designed for anonymous internet access using the Tor toolkit. By default, all connections except traffic through the Tor network are blocked by a packet filter. For storing user […]
After eight months of development, version 0.38 of the console utility nwipe has been released, designed for securely wiping the contents of disks using various wiping methods and pseudorandom number generators. It can wipe a single disk or multiple disks simultaneously. The utility is written in C using the ncurses library for the text interface and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2.0 license. Change log […]
The release of the free document layout package Scribus 1.6.3 has been announced. The package provides tools for professional layout of printed materials, includes tools for generating PDF, and supports working with separate color profiles, CMYK, spot colors, and ICC. The program is written using the Qt toolkit and is released under the GPLv2+ license. Ready binary builds are available for Linux (AppImage), macOS, and Windows. […]
Information has been revealed about a vulnerability (CVE-2024-5594) in the OpenVPN package for creating virtual private networks, which can lead to arbitrary data being injected into third-party executable files or plugins in the system on the other side of the connection. The vulnerability is caused by the lack of checking for null bytes and invalid characters when processing control messages such as PUSH_REPLY. The issue has been resolved in OpenVPN versions 2.5.11 […]
On January 6, version 1.7.4 of the high-performance speech recognition system whisper.cpp was released, implementing the Whisper model from OpenAI, written in C and C++ and distributed under the MIT license. The project uses the proprietary machine learning tensor library GGML, written in C and optimized for various backends (CUDA, Vulkan, BLAS, SYCL, OpenCL, etc.). Changelog: […]
On January 6, version 4.3.0 of one of the fastest JSON read and write libraries, written in C++ (header-only, C++23 standard) and distributed under the MIT license, was released. It also supports CSV and BEVE formats. Changelog: Added compile-time option (and wrapper) append_arrays, which appends data to types similar to std::vector without overwriting them: std::vector v{}; constexpr glz::opts append_opts{.append_arrays […]
The release of the OrangePi Neo gaming console, jointly developed by Orange Pi and the Manjaro Linux distribution community, is scheduled for the first quarter of 2025. The device is equipped with a 7-inch display (1920 x 1200, 120Hz), an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or 8840U CPU, 16GB or 32GB of RAM, from 512GB to 2TB NVMe SSD, and two USB 4.0 ports, audio […]
After three months of development, version 0.25.0 of the cross-platform console utility for viewing bat files has been released, written in Rust and distributed under the MIT or Apache 2.0 license. The utility supports syntax highlighting for 174 ($ bat -L) programming and markup languages. Key changes: Displaying the filename in the terminal header when the Paging option is not equal to Paging::Never. bat […]
OpenRC is an initialization system for Linux systems that replaces systemd in distributions like Gentoo and Alpine Linux. The master branch of the openrc repository has added functionality necessary for launching services in a user session using this initialization system. Configuration files and initialization scripts for user services are located in the following directories: /etc/user/init.d ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/rc/init.d /etc/user/conf.d ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/rc/conf.d ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/rc/rc.conf ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/rc/runlevels All […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.20 internet application suite has been announced, combining a web browser, email client, news feed aggregator (RSS/Atom), and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer in one product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, a set of tools for web developers DOM Inspector, and the calendar-scheduler Lightning. This new release incorporates fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on the browser […]
The AlmaLinux project has released an update for the Kitten 10 distribution, based on the package base of CentOS Stream 10, which serves as the foundation for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 release. Kitten 10 is presented as a test distribution that allows users to explore the features being developed for RHEL 10 while complementing CentOS Stream with its own modifications. Installation builds of the distribution are available for x86_64, x86_64_v2, aarch64, and ppc64le architectures […]