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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Transforming GNOME OS into a distribution for regular users

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Adrian Vovk, the creator of the atomically updatable distribution carbonOS and installer for GNOME OS, as well as one of the developers of systemd-homed and systemd-sysupdate, announced an initiative to transform GNOME OS from a distribution for GNOME testers and developers into a general-purpose distribution suitable for daily use by ordinary users. Adrian also stated that the development of the carbonOS distribution will be discontinued in […]

Firefox has significantly upgraded its address bar.

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In the nightly builds of Firefox, which will form the release of Firefox 134 on January 7, testing has begun on the updated address bar, which includes a button for selecting a search engine, similar to the button in the menu added to the panel of a separate search bar. In addition to the ability to quickly send a query to the desired search engine, the menu displayed when clicking the new button also […]

A 21-line patch has been accepted into the Linux kernel, speeding up the per_thread_ops test by 2.6%.

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Josh Poimboeuf from Red Hat has published a patch for the Linux kernel that speeds up the "per_thread_ops" test by 2.6%, which measures the number of operations that can be performed in a single thread. The patch uses pointer masking to reduce the number of slow barrier_nospec() calls in the 64-bit function copy_from_user(), which is used to copy data into the kernel from user space. Linus Torvalds […]

The Qucs-S 24.4.0 electronic circuit simulator has been released.

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Qucs-S is a program for simulating analog electronic circuits. You can use either Ngspice for general-purpose schematics or QucsatorRF (included with Qucs-S) for microwave devices as the simulation engine. On October 31, this year, the next release 24.4.0 was presented. The main new features of this release include: a utility for viewing Touchstone (SnP) files has been added (see screenshot). This file format […]

The Genode project has released the general-purpose OS Sculpt 24.10

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The Sculpt project version 24.10 has been released, advancing the operating system built on the Genode OS Framework technologies, which can be used by regular users to perform everyday tasks. The project's source code is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A LiveUSB image is available for download, with a size of 32 MB. It supports operation on systems with Intel processors and graphics subsystems with VT-d and VT-x extensions enabled, as […]

Release of Bubblewrap 0.11, a layer for creating isolated environments

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A new version of the tooling for creating isolated environments, Bubblewrap 0.11, has been released. This tool is used to restrict individual applications of unprivileged users. In practice, Bubblewrap is used by the Flatpak project as a layer for isolating applications run from packages. Isolation uses traditional Linux container virtualization technologies based on cgroups, namespaces, Seccomp, and SELinux. The project's code is written […]

Release of the Tails 6.9 distribution.

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The specialized distribution Tails 6.9 (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, and is intended for anonymous internet access using the Tor toolkit. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. User data […]

The openSUSE distribution has introduced an alternative installer, Agama 10

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The developers of the openSUSE project have released version 10 of the Agama installer, designed to replace the classic installation interface of SUSE and openSUSE and noteworthy for separating the user interface from the internal components of YaST. Agama allows for the use of various front-ends, such as a front-end for managing installations via a web interface. Live builds have been created for testing the new installer for x86_64, ppc64le, s390x, and ARM64 architectures, supporting the installation of the alpha version […]

Pluto 0.10.0

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On October 30, the release of version 0.10.0 of the Pluto console interpreter and embedded library took place – an alternative implementation of the Lua 5.4 language with numerous changes and improvements in syntax, standard library, and interpreter. Project participants are also developing the Soup library and a simple project building system in C++ Sun. The projects are written in C++ and distributed under the MIT license. Change log: […]

Distributions for testing security BackBox 9 and Parrot 6.2 are available

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After a year of development, the release of BackBox Linux 9, based on Ubuntu 24.04 and including a collection of tools for system security testing, exploit testing, reverse engineering, network traffic analysis, wireless network investigation, malware exploration, stress testing, and recovery of hidden or lost data, has been published. The user environment is based on Xfce. The size of the ISO image is 6 GB (x86_64). The new version features […]

Fedora 41 has been released

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Among the most noteworthy changes, in the author's view: DNF has been rewritten in C++ and has become significantly faster and more compact (there's no need for MicroDNF anymore), and it has been decoupled from PackageKit. Gnome has been updated to version 47. KDE has been updated to 6.2. Packages related to xorg-server are now optional and are not installed by default. This can be seen as a sign of […]

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