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Based on Nouveau, a new driver for the Vulkan graphics API is being developed

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Developers from Red Hat and Collabora have begun creating an open Vulkan nvk driver for NVIDIA graphics cards, which will complement the anv (Intel), radv (AMD), tu (Qualcomm) and v3dv (Broadcom VideoCore VI) drivers already available in Mesa. The driver is being developed on the basis of the Nouveau project with the use of some subsystems previously used in the Nouveau OpenGL driver. At the same time, Nouveau began […]

Another vulnerability in the Linux Netfilter kernel subsystem

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A vulnerability (CVE-2022-1972) has been identified in the Netfilter kernel subsystem, similar to the problem disclosed at the end of May. The new vulnerability also allows a local user to gain root rights in the system through manipulation of rules in nftables and requires access to nftables to carry out the attack, which can be obtained in a separate namespace (network namespace or user namespace) with CLONE_NEWUSER rights, […]

Coreboot 4.17 release

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The release of the CoreBoot 4.17 project has been published, within the framework of which a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS is being developed. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. 150 developers took part in the creation of the new version, who prepared more than 1300 changes. Main changes: Fixed a vulnerability (CVE-2022-29264), which appeared in CoreBoot releases from 4.13 to 4.16 and allowed […]

Release of the Tails 5.1 distribution

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The release of Tails 5.1 (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. […]

The Open SIMH project will continue to develop the SIMH simulator as a free project

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A group of developers unhappy with the change in the license for the retrocomputer simulator SIMH founded the Open SIMH project, which will continue to develop the simulator code base under the MIT license. Decisions related to the development of Open SIMH will be collectively made by the governing council, which includes 6 participants. It is noteworthy that Robert Supnik, the original author of the […]

Wine 7.10 release and Wine staging 7.10

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An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.10 - took place. Since the release of version 7.9, 56 bug reports have been closed and 388 changes have been made. The most important changes: The macOS driver has been switched to use the PE (Portable Executable) executable file format instead of ELF. The Wine Mono engine with the implementation of the .NET platform has been updated to release 7.3. Windows compatible […]

Paragon Software has resumed maintenance of the NTFS3 module in the Linux kernel

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Konstantin Komarov, founder and head of Paragon Software, proposed the first corrective update of the ntfs5.19 driver for inclusion in the Linux 3 kernel. Since the inclusion of ntfs3 in the 5.15 kernel last October, the driver has not been updated and communication with the developers has been lost, leading to discussions about the need to move the NTFS3 code to the orphaned category […]

Updating Replicant, a completely free Android firmware

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After four and a half years since the last update, the fourth release of the Replicant 6 project has been formed, developing a completely open version of the Android platform, free of proprietary components and closed drivers. The Replicant 6 branch is built on the LineageOS 13 code base, which in turn is based on Android 6. Compared to the original firmware, Replicant has replaced a large portion of […]

Firefox has hardware video acceleration enabled by default for Linux systems with Mesa

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In the nightly builds of Firefox, on the basis of which the Firefox 26 release will be formed on July 103, hardware acceleration of video decoding is enabled by default using VA-API (Video Acceleration API) and FFmpegDataDecoder. Support is included for Linux systems with Intel and AMD GPUs that have at least version 21.0 of Mesa drivers. Support is available for both Wayland and […]

Chrome is developing an automatic spam blocking mode in notifications

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A mode for automatically blocking spam in push notifications has been proposed for inclusion in the Chromium codebase. It is noted that spam via push notifications is among the complaints most often sent to Google support. The proposed protection mechanism will solve the problem of spam in notifications and will be applied at the discretion of the user. To control the activation of the new mode, the “chrome://flags#disruptive-notification-permission-revocation” parameter has been implemented, which […]

Linux ported for Apple iPad tablets on A7 and A8 chips

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Enthusiasts were able to successfully boot the Linux 5.18 kernel on Apple iPad tablet computers built on A7 and A8 ARM chips. Currently, the work is still limited to adapting Linux for the iPad Air, iPad Air 2 and some iPad mini devices, but there are no fundamental problems for applying the developments for other devices on Apple A7 and A8 chips, such […]

Armbian distribution release 22.05

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The Armbian 22.05 Linux distribution has been released, providing a compact system environment for various ARM-based single board computers, including various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi processors , Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa and Samsung Exynos. Debian package databases are used to generate builds […]

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