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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.

Release of Porteus Kiosk 5.5.0, a distribution for equipping internet kiosks

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After a year of development, the Porteus Kiosk 5.5.0 distribution has been released, based on Gentoo and designed for equipping standalone internet kiosks, demo stands, and self-service terminals. The bootable image of the distribution is 170 MB (x86_64). The base build includes only the minimal set of components necessary to launch a web browser (supporting Firefox and Chrome), which has limited capabilities to prevent unwanted activity […]

Release of Ventoy 1.0.90, a tool for booting arbitrary systems from USB drives

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The release of Ventoy 1.0.90, a toolkit for creating bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems, has been published. This program is notable for enabling OS booting from unmodified ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI images without the need to unpack the image or reformat the drive. For instance, simply copying the desired set of ISO images onto a USB flash drive with the Ventoy bootloader will allow you to boot […]

Debian 9 Stretch has been moved to the archive

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Debian 9 (Stretch) repositories have been moved to archive.debian.org, and after that, the distribution will soon no longer be accessible through the main mirror network. The removal of Debian 9 from the main archive is scheduled for April 23. The release of Debian 9 was presented on June 18, 2017, and was officially supported until July 18, 2020, and in the LTS branch until June 30, 2022. As part of […]

Release of the free financial accounting system GnuCash 5.0

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The free personal finance management system GnuCash 5.0 has been released, providing tools for tracking income and expenses, managing bank accounts, handling information about stocks, deposits, and investments, and planning loans. GnuCash also allows for accounting for small businesses and balancing (debit/credit). It supports data import in QIF/OFX/HBCI formats and provides visual representation of information in graphs. […]

BlenderGPT — a plugin for controlling Blender commands in natural language

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A small plugin called BlenderGPT has been prepared for the 3D modeling system, allowing content generation based on tasks defined in natural language. The command input interface is presented as an additional tab ‘GPT-4 Assistant’ in the 3D View sidebar, where arbitrary instructions can be entered (for example, ‘create 100 cubes in random locations’, ‘take existing cubes and make them different sizes’) and […]

Let's Encrypt has implemented an extension for coordinating certificate renewal.

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The nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, community-controlled and providing certificates free of charge to anyone interested, has announced the implementation of ARI (ACME Renewal Information) support within its infrastructure, which is an extension of the ACME protocol, allowing the client to receive information about the need to update certificates and recommending the optimal time for updates. The ARI specification is undergoing standardization by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) committee that develops protocols […]

The Wine project has released Vkd3d 1.7 with Direct3D 12 implementation

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The Wine project has released version 1.7 of the vkd3d package, implementing Direct3D 12 through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes the libvkd3d libraries for implementing Direct3D 12, libvkd3d-shader with a shader translator for models 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify porting Direct3D 12 applications, as well as a set of demonstration examples, including a port of glxgears […]

Docker Hub has reversed its decision to eliminate the free Free Team service

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Docker has announced the cancellation of its earlier decision to discontinue the "Docker Free Team" subscription service, which allows organizations managing open projects to host container images for free in the Docker Hub registry, organize team work, and use private repositories. Users of the "Free Team" plan can continue operating as before and do not have to worry about the previously intended removal of their […]

Vulnerability in OverlayFS allowing privilege escalation

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A vulnerability (CVE-2023-0386) has been identified in the Linux kernel's OverlayFS file system implementation, which can be exploited to gain root access on systems with the FUSE subsystem installed and where unprivileged users are allowed to mount OverlayFS partitions (starting from Linux kernel 5.11 with unprivileged user namespace enabled). The issue has been resolved in the 6.2 kernel branch. The release of package updates in distributions can be tracked at […]

Release of Proxmox VE 7.4, a distribution for managing virtual servers

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The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.4 has been announced, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of serving as a replacement for products like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation ISO image is 1.1 GB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully ready virtual […]

Release of the MyLibrary 2.1 home library cataloger.

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The release of the MyLibrary 2.1 home library cataloger has taken place. The program code is written in C++ and is available (GitHub, GitFlic) under the GPLv3 license. The graphical user interface is implemented using the GTK4 library. The program is adapted for use in Linux and Windows operating systems. For Arch Linux users, a ready-to-use package is available in AUR. MyLibrary catalogs book files in […]

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