The MidnightBSD 2.2 desktop operating system, based on FreeBSD with elements ported from DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, has been released. The base desktop environment is based on GNUstep, but users have the option to install WindowMaker, GNOME, Xfce, or Lumina. A 774 MB installation image (x86, amd64) has been prepared for download. Unlike other FreeBSD desktop builds, MidnightBSD was originally developed […]
The maintainer of the Debian Qt framework packages announced the formation of packages with the Qt6 branch for Debian 11. The set included 29 packages with various Qt 6.2.4 components and a package with the libassimp library with support for 3D model formats. The packages are available for installation through the backport system (the bullseye-backports repository). Initially, there were no plans for Debian 11 to maintain […]
The release of the PoCL 3.0 (Portable Computing Language OpenCL) project has been presented, which develops an implementation of the OpenCL standard that is independent of graphics accelerator manufacturers and allows using various backends to execute OpenCL cores on different types of graphics and central processors. The project code is distributed under the MIT license. Supports X86_64, MIPS32, ARM v7, AMD HSA APU, NVIDIA GPU and various […]
The Apache CloudStack 4.17 cloud platform has been released, which allows you to automate the deployment, configuration and maintenance of a private, hybrid or public cloud infrastructure (IaaS, infrastructure as a service). The CloudStack platform was donated to the Apache Foundation by Citrix, which received the project after it acquired Cloud.com. Installation packages are prepared for CentOS, Ubuntu and openSUSE. CloudStack is hypervisor agnostic and allows […]
A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, has developed a method for identifying mobile devices using beacons sent over the air using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and used by passive Bluetooth receivers to detect new devices within range. Depending on the implementation, beacon signals are sent with a frequency of approximately 500 times per minute and, as conceived by the creators of the standard, are completely anonymous […]
Researchers from Intezer and BlackBerry have discovered malware codenamed Simbiote, which is used to inject backdoors and rootkits into compromised servers running Linux. Malware was detected on the systems of financial institutions in several Latin American countries. To install Simbiote on a system, an attacker must have root access, which can be obtained, for example, by […]
After a year of development, the release of the Regolith 2.0 desktop environment, developed by the developers of the Linux distribution of the same name, is available. Regolith is based on GNOME session management technologies and the i3 window manager. The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. Packages for Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 and Debian 11 have been prepared for download. The project is positioned as a modern desktop environment, developed for faster execution of typical […]
A maintenance release of Firefox 101.0.1 is available, which fixes three issues: On Linux systems, an issue with the inability to access the right-click context menu in the Picture-in-Picture window has been resolved. In macOS, an issue with clearing the shared clipboard after closing the browser has been resolved. On the Windows platform, the problem with the interface not working when the Win32k Lockdown mode is enabled has been resolved. Additionally, you can mention updating your browser […]
The release of a decentralized platform for organizing video hosting and video broadcasting PeerTube 4.2 took place. PeerTube offers a vendor-neutral alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo, using a content distribution network based on P2P communications and linking visitors' browsers together. The project's developments are distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Key innovations: A Studio mode has been added to the menu, allowing you to perform typical video editing operations from [...]
The release of the Pale Moon 31.1 web browser has been published, which forked from the Firefox codebase to provide higher performance, retain the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are generated for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classical organization of the interface, without […]
The developers of the Pyston project, which offers a high-performance implementation of the Python language using modern JIT compilation technologies, presented the Pyston-lite extension with an implementation of the JIT compiler for CPython. While Pyston is a branch of the CPython codebase and is developed separately, Pyston-lite is designed as a universal extension designed to connect to the standard Python interpreter (CPython). Pyston-lite allows you to use core Pyston technologies without changing the interpreter, […]
GitHub has announced that it will no longer develop the Atom code editor. On December 15th of this year, all projects in the Atom repositories will be switched to archive mode and will become read-only. Instead of Atom, GitHub intends to focus its attention on the more popular open source editor Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code), which at one time was created as […]
