A release of a specialized distribution kit, Tails 5.0 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed to provide anonymous access to the network, has been created. Anonymous access to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections other than traffic through the Tor network are blocked by the packet filter by default. To store user data in the user data saving mode between launches, […]
The Firefox 100 web browser was released. In addition, a long-term support branch update was created - 91.9.0. The Firefox 101 branch will soon be transferred to the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for May 31. The main innovations in Firefox 100: The ability to simultaneously use dictionaries for different languages when checking spelling has been implemented. In the context menu you can now activate [...]
The PyScript project is presented, which allows you to integrate handlers written in Python into web pages and create interactive web applications in Python. Applications are given access to the DOM and an interface for bidirectional interaction with JavaScript objects. The logic of developing web applications is preserved, and the differences boil down to the ability to use the Python language instead of JavaScrpt. PyScript source code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. In contrast […]
An open implementation of the machine learning system DALL-E 2, proposed by OpenAI, has been published and allows you to synthesize realistic images and paintings based on a text description in natural language, as well as apply commands in natural language to edit images (for example, add, delete or move objects in the image ). The original DALL-E 2 models from OpenAI are not published, but an article is available […]
The OpenSSF (Open Source Security Foundation), formed by the Linux Foundation and aimed at improving the security of open source software, introduced the open project Package Analysis, which develops a system for analyzing the presence of malicious code in packages. The project code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. A preliminary scan of the NPM and PyPI repositories using the proposed tools allowed us to identify more […]
Oracle has published a sysdiff utility that makes it easier to migrate legacy applications from Solaris 10 to a Solaris 11.4-based environment. Due to the transition of Solaris 11 to the IPS (Image Packaging System) package system and the end of support for SVR4 packages, direct porting of applications with existing dependencies is difficult, despite maintaining binary compatibility, so it is still one of the most […]
The release of the GDB 12.1 debugger has been presented (the first release of the 12.x series, the 12.0 branch was used for development). GDB supports source-level debugging for a wide range of programming languages (Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal, Go, Rust, etc.) on various hardware (i386, amd64, ARM, Power, Sparc, RISC- V, etc.) and software platforms (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Unix, Windows, macOS). Key […]
The Linux Foundation announced that Microsoft has joined the Open 3D Foundation (O3DF), created to continue the joint development of the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) game engine after its discovery by Amazon. Microsoft was among the top participants, along with Adobe, AWS, Huawei, Intel and Niantic. A Microsoft representative will join the Governing Council […]
KaOS 2022.04 is released, a continuous update distribution aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest KDE releases and applications using Qt. Of the distribution-specific design features, one can note the placement of a vertical panel on the right side of the screen. The distribution is developed with Arch Linux in mind, but maintains its own independent repository of over 1500 packages, and […]
The release of the Trinity R14.0.12 desktop environment has been published, continuing the development of the KDE 3.5.x and Qt 3 codebase. Binary packages will soon be prepared for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE and other distributions. Among the features of Trinity are its own tools for managing screen parameters, a udev-based layer for working with equipment, a new interface for […]
Richard Hughes, creator of the PackageKit project and an active contributor to GNOME, announced the release of fwupd 1.8.0, which provides a background process for managing firmware updates and a utility called fwupdmgr for managing firmware, checking for new versions, and downloading firmware. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2.1 license. At the same time, it was announced that the LVFS project had reached the milestone […]
The developers of the Ubuntu Unity project, which develops an unofficial edition of Ubuntu Linux with the Unity desktop, have published the release of Unity 7.6.0, which marks the first significant release in 6 years since Canonical stopped developing the shell. The Unity 7 shell is based on the GTK library and is optimized for efficient use of vertical space on laptops with widescreen screens. The code is distributed under [...]
