Valve has released Proton 7.0, which is based on the Wine project's codebase and aims to enable the running of Windows-developed games on Linux, available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under a BSD license. Proton allows the direct launching of Windows-only game applications in the Linux Steam client. The package includes […]
Thorsten Behrens, one of the leaders of the LibreOffice graphical subsystem development team, has released a demonstration version of a LibreOffice variant compiled to WebAssembly, capable of running in a web browser (about 300 MB of data is downloaded to the user's system). The Emscripten compiler is used for conversion to WebAssembly, and to organize output, a VCL backend (Visual Class Library) based on a modified […]
Google has introduced Chrome OS Flex, a new variant of Chrome OS designed for use on standard PCs, not just on devices originally shipped with Chrome OS like Chromebooks, Chromebases, and Chromeboxes. Key use cases for Chrome OS Flex include upgrading existing older systems to extend their lifecycle […]
The release of the compact distribution for creating firewalls and network gateways, pfSense 2.6.0, has been published. The distribution is based on the FreeBSD codebase with contributions from the m0n0wall project and active use of pf and ALTQ. An ISO image for the amd64 architecture, sized at 430 MB, is prepared for download. The distribution is managed through a web interface. It allows users to access both wired and wireless networks […]
The release of Kali Linux 2022.1 has been announced, designed for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual information, and identifying the consequences of attacks by malicious actors. All original developments made within the framework of the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through a public Git repository. Several iso images have been prepared for download, sized at 471 MB, 2.8 GB, 3.5 GB, and 9.4 […]
The release of the free and open-source monitoring system Zabbix 6.0 LTS has taken place. Version 6.0 is classified as a Long-Term Support (LTS) version. For users currently using non-LTS versions, migration to LTS versions is recommended. Zabbix is a versatile system for monitoring the performance and availability of servers, engineering and network equipment, applications, databases, […]
Google has released Chrome 98.0.4758.102, which contains fixes for 11 vulnerabilities, including one critical issue already being exploited by attackers (0-day). Details are not yet disclosed, but it is known that the vulnerability (CVE-2022-0609) is caused by accessing memory after it has been freed (use-after-free) in code related to the Web Animations API. Other serious vulnerabilities include buffer overflow […]
AV Linux MX-21 is now available, featuring a collection of applications for creating/processing multimedia content. The distribution is based on the package base of the MX Linux project and additional packages of its own build (Polyphone, Shuriken, Simple Screen Recorder, etc.). The distribution can operate in Live mode and is available for the x86_64 architecture (3.4 GB). The user environment is based on Xfce4 with the OpenBox window manager instead of xfwm. […]
The release of the Firefox add-on libredirect 1.3 is available, which performs automatic redirection to alternative versions of popular websites that ensure privacy, allowing content viewing without registration and functioning without JavaScript. For example, to view Instagram in anonymous mode without registration, it redirects to the front-end Bibliogram, and to view Wikipedia without JavaScript, it uses Wikiless. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Applied replacements: […]
qxkb5 has been released, an interface for switching keyboard layouts, allowing different behaviors for different windows. For instance, for messaging application windows, only the Russian layout can be fixed. The program also allows using both embedded graphical and text language labels. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Supported operating modes: Normal mode — the active window remembers the last […]
Researchers from the Google Project Zero team summarized data on manufacturers' response times to newly discovered vulnerabilities in their products. According to Google's policy, vulnerabilities identified by Google Project Zero researchers are to be fixed within 90 days, and additional public disclosure can be delayed by another 14 days upon separate request. After 104 days, information about […]
Miguel Ojeda, the author of the Rust-for-Linux project, proposed for consideration by the Linux kernel developers the fifth variant of components for developing device drivers in the Rust language. Rust support is considered experimental but is already included in the linux-next branch and is sufficiently developed to begin working on creating abstraction layers over kernel subsystems, as well as for writing drivers and modules. Development […]