The release of Rocky Linux 9.0 has occurred, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL capable of taking the place of traditional CentOS. The release is marked as ready for production deployments. The distribution is fully binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9 and CentOS 9 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will be provided until May 31 […]
Google has released a build of the Rocky Linux distribution, positioned as an official solution for users who utilized CentOS 8 in Google Cloud but faced the need to migrate to another distribution due to the early termination of CentOS 8 support by Red Hat. Two system images are prepared for download: a standard one and one specifically optimized for maximum network performance […]
The developers of the Lubuntu distribution have announced the publication of the Lubuntu Backports PPA repository, offering packages for installation in Lubuntu/Ubuntu 22.04 of the latest release of the LXQt 1.1 user environment. The initial builds of Lubuntu 22.04 come with the outdated LXQt 0.17 branch, released in April 2021. The Lubuntu Backports repository is currently in beta testing and was created similarly to the repository with fresh versions of the desktop […]
On July 14, 1992, the first working release (0.1) of the 386BSD operating system was published, offering a BSD UNIX implementation for i386 processors based on the developments of 4.3BSD Net/2. The system featured a simplified installer, included a full network stack, modular kernel, and a role-based access control system. In March 1993, due to a desire to make the patch acceptance process more open and […]
The release of the DXVK 1.10.2 layer is now available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10, and 11, which operates by translating calls to the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers supporting Vulkan API 1.1 are required, such as Mesa RADV 22.0, NVIDIA 510.47.03, Intel ANV 22.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]
Red Hat has announced the appointment of a new president and CEO. Matt Hicks has been named the new head of the company, previously serving as the vice president of products and technologies at Red Hat. Matt joined Red Hat in 2006 and started his career in the development team, working on porting code from Perl to Java. […]
A release of the specialized distribution Tails 5.2 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been formed, based on the Debian package base and intended for anonymous internet browsing. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor network. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. User data is encrypted when saving data between sessions. […]
Enthusiasts of retro systems have resolved the licensing issue for the source code of the CP/M operating system, which dominated computers with 8-bit processors i8080 and Z80 in the 1970s. In 2001, the CP/M code was transferred to the community cpm.z80.de by Lineo Inc., which acquired the intellectual property of Digital Research, the company that developed CP/M. The license for the transferred code permitted […]
A group of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich has discovered a new variant of an attack on the speculative execution mechanism of indirect branch prediction in CPUs, allowing the extraction of information from kernel memory or conducting an attack on the host system from virtual machines. The vulnerabilities have been code-named Retbleed (CVE-2022-29900, CVE-2022-29901) and are similar in nature to Spectre-v2 attacks. The difference lies in the organization of speculative execution […]
A corrective release of X.Org Server 21.1.4 is available, which addresses two vulnerabilities in the Xkb extension handlers that allow privilege escalation in the system if the X server is running with root privileges, or executing code on a remote system if session redirection via X11 is used over SSH. The vulnerabilities are caused by a lack of proper size checking in the ProcXkbSetGeometry request handlers (CVE-2022-2319) and […]
A set of patches has been proposed for inclusion in the Linux kernel, featuring an optimized implementation of the memchr() function, which is used for searching for a character in an array. Unlike the older version that relied on byte-by-byte comparison, the proposed implementation is designed to fully utilize 64-bit and 32-bit CPU registers. Instead of bytes, comparisons are conducted using machine words, allowing multiple comparisons at once […]
After a year of development, the release of Live Distribution NST 36 (Network Security Toolkit) has been published, aimed at conducting network security analysis and monitoring its performance. The size of the bootable ISO image (x86_64) is 4.1 GB. A special repository has been prepared for Fedora Linux users, enabling them to install all the developments created as part of the NST project onto an already installed system. The distribution is based on Fedora 36 […]