After a year of development, the release of a new stable branch of the Perl programming language - 5.36 - has been published. In preparing the new release, about 250 thousand lines of code were changed, the changes affected 2000 files, and 82 developers took part in the development. Branch 5.36 was released in accordance with the fixed development schedule approved nine years ago, which implies the release of new stable branches once a year […]
After more than two years since the last update, the LXLE Focal distribution has been released, developing for use on legacy systems. The LXLE distribution is based on the developments of Ubuntu MinimalCD and attempts to provide a lightweight solution that combines support for legacy hardware with a modern user environment. The need to create a separate branch is due to the desire to include additional drivers for older systems and […]
A release of the Chrome OS 102 operating system is available, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild / portage assembly tool, open components and the Chrome 102 web browser. The Chrome OS user environment is limited to a web browser, and web applications are used instead of standard programs, however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop and taskbar. Chrome OS build 102 […]
Members of the Kernal community have identified an unusually careless attitude to security in the Linuxfx distribution, which offers a build of Ubuntu with the KDE user environment, stylized as the Windows 11 interface. According to data from the project website, the distribution is used by more than a million users, and about 15 thousand downloads have been recorded this week. The distribution offers activation of additional paid features, which is performed by entering a license key […]
GitHub published the results of an analysis of the attack, as a result of which on April 12, attackers gained access to cloud environments in the Amazon AWS service used in the infrastructure of the NPM project. Analysis of the incident showed that the attackers gained access to backup copies of the skimdb.npmjs.com host, including a database backup copy with the credentials of approximately 100 thousand NPM users […]
Canonical has begun to address performance issues with the Firefox snap package that was offered by default in Ubuntu 22.04 instead of the regular deb package. The main dissatisfaction among users is related to 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 it takes 15 seconds, and on […]
Microsoft has implemented support for the WSL2 subsystem (Windows Subsystem for Linux) in Windows Server 2022. Initially, the WSL2 subsystem, which ensures the launch of Linux executable files in Windows, was offered only in Windows versions for workstations, but now Microsoft has transferred this subsystem to server editions of Windows. Components for WSL2 support in Windows Server are currently available for testing in […]
The repository in which the release of the Linux kernel 5.19 is being formed has accepted the next set of changes related to the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) subsystem and graphics drivers. The accepted set of patches is interesting because it includes 495 thousand lines of code, which is comparable to the total size of changes in each kernel branch (for example, 5.17 thousand lines of code were added in kernel 506). Near […]
Valve has introduced an update to the Steam OS 3.2 operating system that comes with the Steam Deck gaming console. Steam OS 3 is based on Arch Linux, uses the Gamescope composite server based on the Wayland protocol to speed up game launch, comes with a read-only root file system, uses an atomic update mechanism, supports Flatpak packages, uses the PipeWire media server, and […]
The Perl Project Governing Council outlined plans for further development of the Perl 5 branch and the creation of a Perl 7 branch. During the discussions, the Governing Council agreed that it is not acceptable to break compatibility with code already written for Perl 5, unless breaking compatibility is necessary to fix vulnerabilities. The Council also concluded that the language must evolve and […]
A release of the AlmaLinux 9.0 distribution kit has been created, synchronized with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 distribution kit and containing all the changes proposed in this branch. The AlmaLinux project became the first public distribution based on the RHEL package base, releasing stable builds based on RHEL 9. Installation images are prepared for x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le and s390x architectures in the form of a bootable (800 MB), minimal (1.5 […]
The release of the NTFS-3G 2022.5.17 project, which develops a driver and a set of utilities for working with the NTFS file system in user space, eliminated 8 vulnerabilities that allow you to elevate your privileges in the system. The problems are caused by the lack of proper checks when processing command line options and when working with metadata on NTFS partitions. CVE-2022-30783, CVE-2022-30785, CVE-2022-30787 - vulnerabilities in the NTFS-3G driver compiled with […]
