A release of the specialized Tails 4.26 distribution (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been formed, based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous internet browsing. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the firewall by default. For storing user data in persistent mode between boots, […] is used.
The release of the SDL 2.0.20 library (Simple DirectMedia Layer) has taken place, aimed at simplifying the development of games and multimedia applications. The SDL library provides tools such as hardware-accelerated output of 2D and 3D graphics, input processing, sound playback, and 3D output via OpenGL/OpenGL ES/Vulkan, along with many other supporting operations. The library is written in C and is distributed under the zlib license. To utilize SDL’s capabilities, […]
The far2l project, which has been developing the Far Manager port for Linux, BSD, and macOS since 2016, has entered the beta testing stage, with corresponding changes committed to the repository on January 12. Currently, the port, described on the project page as a fork, supports both console and graphical modes, with plugins such as colorer, multiarc, tmppanel, align, autowrap, drawline, editcase, SimpleIndent, […]
The release of DXVK 1.9.3 is available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10, and 11, working through call translation to the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers supporting Vulkan API 1.1 are required, such as Mesa RADV 20.2, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]
The release of the Firefox 96 web browser has taken place. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch — 91.5.0 — has been formed. The Firefox 97 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for February 8. Key innovations: The ability to force-enable dark or light themes for websites has been added. The color scheme is changed by the browser and does not require support from the website, which […]
Solo.io, a company developing products for the operation of cloud systems, microservices, isolated containers, and serverless computing, has published an open toolset called BumbleBee, aimed at simplifying the preparation, distribution, and execution of eBPF programs that run in a special virtual machine inside the Linux kernel and allow for network operation processing, access control, and system monitoring. The code is written in Go and is distributed under the […]
Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of the open messenger Signal and co-author of the Signal protocol, which is also used for end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp, has announced his departure from the position of head of Signal Messenger LLC, overseeing the development of the Signal app and protocol. Until a new leader is selected, the responsibilities of interim CEO will be taken on by Brian Acton, co-founder and head of […]
After seven months of development, the release of DragonFlyBSD 6.2 has been published, an operating system with a hybrid kernel created in 2003 for the alternative development of the FreeBSD 4.x branch. Features of DragonFly BSD include the distributed versioning file system HAMMER, support for booting 'virtual' system kernels as user processes, and the ability to cache file system data and metadata on SSDs, considering contextual variant symbolic […]
The Latin American Free Software Foundation has released the fully free version of the Linux kernel 5.16 — Linux-libre 5.16-gnu, which is cleared of firmware and driver elements containing non-free components or code segments restricted by the manufacturer. Additionally, Linux-libre disables kernel functions for loading non-free components not included in the kernel distribution and removes mentions of using non-free components.
After nearly 8 months of development, a significant release of the OpenIPC 2.2 project has been published, which develops a Linux distribution for installation in surveillance cameras instead of the default firmware. Firmware images have been prepared for IP cameras based on Hisilicon Hi35xx, SigmaStar SSC335/SSC337, and XiongmaiTech XM510/XM530/XM550 chips. The oldest supported chip is the 3516CV100, which was discontinued by the manufacturer back in 2015. The project's developments include...
Marak Squires, the author of the popular packages colors (node.js console colorization) and faker (a fake data generator for input fields), which have 2.8 and 25 million weekly downloads, has released new versions of his products in the NPM repository and on GitHub, which include destructive changes aimed at causing failures during the build and execution stages of dependent projects. As a result of Marak's actions...
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 5.16. Among the most notable changes are: the futex_waitv system call to enhance the performance of Windows games in Wine, error tracking in the filesystem through fanotify, the concept of folios in memory management, support for AMX processor instructions, the ability to reserve memory for network sockets, support in netfilter for packet classification at the egress stage, and the involvement of...