The release of the PulseAudio 16.0 sound server has been presented, which acts as an intermediary between applications and various low-level sound subsystems, abstracting the interaction with hardware. PulseAudio allows volume and sound mixing management at the application level, organizes audio input, mixing, and output when multiple input and output channels or sound cards are present, and allows on-the-fly changes to sound format […]
After more than two years since the last update, the release of the LXLE Focal distribution, designed for use on outdated systems, has been prepared. The LXLE distribution is based on the Ubuntu MinimalCD and aims to provide a lightweight solution that combines support for old hardware with a modern user interface. The need to create a separate branch is due to the desire to include additional drivers for legacy systems and […]
The release of Chrome OS 102, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild/portage build toolkit, open components, and the Chrome 102 web browser, is now available. The user interface of Chrome OS is limited to the web browser, with web applications used instead of standard programs; however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The Chrome OS 102 build […]
Members of the Kernal community have identified an extraordinarily careless attitude towards security in the Linuxfx distribution, which offers a build of Ubuntu with a KDE user interface styled after Windows 11. According to the project's website, the distribution is used by more than a million users, and approximately 15,000 downloads have been recorded this week. The distribution offers activation of additional paid features, made by entering a license key […]
GitHub has published the results of an investigation into an attack where, on April 12, attackers gained access to cloud environments in the Amazon AWS service used in the NPM project infrastructure. The analysis of the incident showed that the attackers accessed backups of the host skimdb.npmjs.com, including a database backup containing the credentials of approximately 100,000 NPM users […]
Canonical has begun addressing performance issues with the snap package of Firefox, which was offered by default in Ubuntu 22.04 instead of the usual deb package. The main complaint from users is the very slow launch of Firefox. For example, on a Dell XPS 13 laptop, the first launch of Firefox after installation takes 7.6 seconds; on a Thinkpad X240 laptop — 15 seconds; and on a board […]
Microsoft has implemented support for the WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) in Windows Server 2022. Initially, the WSL2 subsystem, which allows the execution of Linux executables in Windows, was only available in Windows versions for workstations, but now Microsoft has also ported this subsystem to the server editions of Windows. Components for supporting WSL2 in Windows Server are currently available for testing in […]
In the repository where the release of the Linux kernel 5.19 is being prepared, a new set of changes related to the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) subsystem and graphics drivers has been accepted. This set of patches is notable for including 495 thousand lines of code, which is comparable to the total size of changes in each kernel branch (for example, in kernel 5.17, 506 thousand lines of code were added). About […]
The board of the Perl project has summarized plans for the further development of the Perl 5 branch and the creation of the Perl 7 branch. During discussions, the board agreed that breaking compatibility with already written Perl 5 code is unacceptable, unless such a break is necessary to address vulnerabilities. The board also concluded that the language should evolve and […]
The release of the AlmaLinux 9.0 distribution has been formed, synchronized with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 distribution and containing all proposed changes for this branch. The AlmaLinux project has become the first publicly available distribution based on the RHEL package base to release stable builds based on RHEL 9. Installation images have been prepared for the x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of a bootable (800 MB), minimal (1.5 […]
In the release of the NTFS-3G project 2022.5.17, which develops the driver and set of utilities for working with the NTFS file system in user space, 8 vulnerabilities allowing privilege escalation in the system have been fixed. These issues were caused by inadequate checks when processing command-line options and when working with metadata in NTFS partitions. CVE-2022-30783, CVE-2022-30785, CVE-2022-30787 are vulnerabilities in the NTFS-3G driver built with […]
The release of the anonymous network I2P 1.8.0 and the C++ client i2pd 2.42.0 has taken place. I2P is a multi-layered anonymous distributed network that operates over the regular internet, actively utilizing end-to-end encryption to guarantee anonymity and isolation. The network is built in a P2P mode and forms itself through the resources (bandwidth) provided by its users, allowing for the avoidance of centrally managed servers (communications within the network […]