4MLinux 42.0 is released, a minimalist, non-forked custom distribution that uses a JWM-based graphical environment. 4MLinux can be used not only as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, but also as a disaster recovery system and platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, […]
NVIDIA has open-sourced the runtime components of the RTX Remix modding platform, which allows existing classic PC games based on the DirectX 8 and 9 APIs to add support for rendering with simulated light behavior based on path tracing, improve the quality of textures using machine learning methods, connect user-prepared game resources (assets) and apply DLSS technology to realistically scale […]
The Xenoeye Netflow collector is available, which allows you to collect traffic flow statistics from various network devices transmitted using the Netflow v9 and IPFIX protocols, process data, generate reports, and build graphs. In addition, the collector can run custom scripts when thresholds are exceeded. The core of the project is written in C, the code is distributed under the ISC license. Collector features: Aggregated by the required […]
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in the Linux kernel (CVE-2023-1281, CVE-2023-1829) that allow a local user to elevate their privileges in the system. The attack requires the authority to create and modify traffic classifiers, available with the CAP_NET_ADMIN rights, which can be obtained with the ability to create user namespaces. Problems appear since the 4.14 kernel and are fixed in the 6.2 branch. […]
The Botan 3.0.0 cryptographic library used by the NeoPG project, a fork of GnuPG 2, is now available. The library provides a large collection of out-of-the-box primitives used in the TLS protocol, X.509 certificates, AEAD ciphers, TPM modules, PKCS#11, password hashing, and post-quantum cryptography (hash-based signatures and McEliece-based key agreement). The library is written in C++ and is licensed under the BSD license. […]
After 11 months of development, FreeBSD 13.2 has been released. Installation images are generated for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, builds have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine and Vagrant cloud environments. Key changes: Implemented the ability to create snapshots of UFS and FFS file systems, […]
The release of the free UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 7.3 is presented. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the NetBSD developers that denied Theo access to the NetBSD CVS repository. After that, Theo de Raadt and a group of like-minded people created a new open […]
Minetest 5.7.0 has been released, a free cross-platform sandbox game engine that allows you to create various voxel buildings, survive, dig for minerals, grow crops, etc. The game is written in C++ using the IrrlichtMt 3D library (a fork of Irrlicht 1.9-dev). The main feature of the engine is that the gameplay is completely dependent on a set of mods created in the Lua language and […]
The release of the VVenC 1.8 project is available, which develops a high-performance encoder for video in the H.266/VVC format (the VVDeC decoder is being developed separately by the same development team). The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. The new version offers additional optimizations, which made it possible to speed up encoding by 15% in fast mode, by 5% in slow mode, and by 10% in other […]
VMS Software, which bought the rights to continue developing the OpenVMS (Virtual Memory System) operating system from Hewlett-Packard, has provided enthusiasts with the opportunity to download the x9.2_86 port of the OpenVMS 64 operating system. In addition to the system image file (X86E921OE.ZIP), community edition license keys (x86community-20240401.zip) are offered for download, valid until April next year. The OpenVMS 9.2 release is marked as the first full release available […]
The release of the Fonoster 0.4.0 project is available, which develops an open alternative to the Twilio service. Fonoster allows you to deploy a cloud service at its facilities that provides a Web API for making and receiving calls, sending and receiving SMS messages, creating voice applications and performing other communication functions. The project code is written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT license. The main features of the platform: Tools for creating programmable […]
The DNF 4.15 release of the package manager is available and is used by default in Fedora Linux and RHEL distributions. DNF is a fork of Yum 3.4 adapted to work with Python 3 and uses the hawkey library as a backend for dependency resolution. Compared to Yum, DNF has noticeably faster performance, lower memory consumption, and better […]
