Author: ProHoster

Trisquel 11.0 Free Linux Distribution Available

The release of the completely free Linux distribution Trisquel 11.0, based on the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS package base and aimed at use in small businesses, educational institutions and home users, has been published. Trisquel is personally endorsed by Richard Stallman, officially recognized as completely free software by the Free Software Foundation, and placed on the foundation's list of recommended distributions. Installation images are available for download, size 2.2 […]

Release of Polemarch 3.0, a web interface for infrastructure management

Polemarch 3.0.0, a web interface for managing server infrastructure based on Ansible, has been released. The project code is written in Python and JavaScript using the Django and Celery frameworks. The project is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. To start the system, it is enough to install the package and start 1 service. For industrial use, it is recommended to additionally use MySQL/PostgreSQL and Redis/RabbitMQ+Redis (cache and MQ broker). For […]

Release of the GNU Coreutils 9.2 set of core system utilities

A stable version of the GNU Coreutils 9.2 set of basic system utilities is available, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, ls, etc. Key changes: Added "--base64" (-b) option to cksum utility to print and verify base64 encoded checksums. Also added "--raw" option […]

Release of Dragonfly 1.0, a system for caching data in RAM

The Dragonfly in-memory caching and data storage system has been released, which manipulates data in the key/value format and can be used as a lightweight solution to speed up the work of highly loaded sites, caching slow queries to the DBMS and intermediate data in RAM. Dragonfly supports the Memcached and Redis protocols, which allows you to use existing client libraries and […]

aptX and aptX HD audio codecs are part of the Android open source codebase

Qualcomm has decided to implement support for aptX and aptX HD (High Definition) audio codecs in the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) repository, which will make it possible to use these codecs in all Android devices. We are talking only about aptX and aptX HD codecs, more advanced versions of which, such as aptX Adaptive and aptX Low Latency, will still be shipped separately. […]

Release of Scrcpy 2.0, Android Smartphone Screen Mirroring App

The release of the Scrcpy 2.0 application has been published, which allows you to mirror the contents of the smartphone screen in a stationary user environment with the ability to control the device, remotely work in mobile applications using the keyboard and mouse, view video and listen to sound. Client programs for smartphone management are prepared for Linux, Windows and macOS. The project code is written in C language (mobile application in Java) and […]

Flatpak update to fix two vulnerabilities

Corrective updates to the toolkit for creating self-contained Flatpak 1.14.4, 1.12.8, 1.10.8 and 1.15.4 packages are available in which two vulnerabilities are fixed: CVE-2023-28100 - the ability to copy and substitute text into the virtual console input buffer through manipulations with ioctl TIOCLINUX when installing an attacker-prepared flatpak package. For example, the vulnerability could be used to launch arbitrary commands in the console after […]

Libreboot release 20230319. Beginning development of a Linux distribution with OpenBSD utilities

The release of free bootable Libreboot firmware 20230319 is presented. The project develops a ready assembly of the coreboot project, which provides a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals and other hardware components, minimizing binary inserts. Libreboot aims to create a system environment that completely dispenses with proprietary software, not only at the operating system level, but […]

Java SE 20 release

After six months of development, Oracle has released Java SE 20 (Java Platform, Standard Edition 20), which uses the OpenJDK open source project as a reference implementation. With the exception of the removal of some deprecated features, Java SE 20 maintains backward compatibility with past releases of the Java platform - most previously written Java projects will work without changes when run under […]

Apache CloudStack 4.18 release

The Apache CloudStack 4.18 cloud platform has been released, which allows you to automate the deployment, configuration and maintenance of a private, hybrid or public cloud infrastructure (IaaS, infrastructure as a service). The CloudStack platform was donated to the Apache Foundation by Citrix, which received the project after it acquired Cloud.com. Installation packages are prepared for CentOS, Ubuntu and openSUSE. CloudStack is hypervisor agnostic and allows […]

Release of the cURL 8.0 utility

The utility for receiving and sending data over the curl network is 25 years old. In honor of this event, a new significant cURL 8.0 branch has been formed. The first release of the last branch of curl 7.x was formed in 2000 and since then the code base has increased from 17 to 155 thousand lines of code, the number of command line options has been increased to 249, […]

Release of Tor Browser 12.0.4 and Tails 5.11 distribution

The release of Tails 5.11 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), a specialized distribution kit based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous access to the network, has been released. Anonymous exit to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by default by the packet filter. Encryption is used to store user data in the save user data between runs mode. […]