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LibreOffice 7.3 office suite release

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The Document Foundation presented the release of the office suite LibreOffice 7.3. Ready-made installation packages are prepared for various Linux, Windows and macOS distributions. 147 developers took part in preparing the release, of which 98 are volunteers. 69% of the changes were made by employees of the companies overseeing the project, such as Collabora, Red Hat and Allotropia, and 31% of the changes were added by independent enthusiasts. LibreOffice release […]

Chrome Release 98

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Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 98 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, and transmitting RLZ parameters when searching. The next Chrome 99 release is scheduled for March 1th. […]

Weston Composite Server 10.0 Release

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After a year and a half of development, a stable release of the composite server Weston 10.0 has been published, developing technologies that contribute to the emergence of full support for the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE and other user environments. Weston's development aims to provide a high-quality code base and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, TVs […]

Valve Adds AMD FSR Support to Gamescope's Wayland Composer

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Valve continues to develop the Gamescope composite server (formerly known as steamcompmgr), which uses the Wayland protocol and is used in the operating system for SteamOS 3. On February 3, Gamescope added support for AMD FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution) supersampling technology, which reduces the loss of image quality when scaling on high resolution screens. The operating system SteamOS XNUMX is based on Arch […]

NVIDIA proprietary driver release 510.39.01 with Vulkan 1.3 support

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NVIDIA has presented the first stable release of the new branch of the proprietary NVIDIA driver 510.39.01. At the same time, an update was proposed that passed the stable branch of NVIDIA 470.103.1. The driver is available for Linux (ARM64, x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64) and Solaris (x86_64). Main innovations: Added support for Vulkan 1.3 graphics API. Support for accelerating video decoding in AV1 format has been added to the VDPAU driver. Implemented a new background process nvidia-powerd, […]

GNU screen 4.9.0 console window manager released

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After two years of development, the release of the full-screen console window manager (terminal multiplexer) GNU screen 4.9.0 has been published, which allows you to use one physical terminal to work with several applications, which are allocated separate virtual terminals that remain active between different user communication sessions. Among the changes: Added escape sequence '%e' to show the encoding used in the status line (hardstatus). On the OpenBSD platform to run […]

Trisquel 10.0 Free Linux Distribution Available

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The release of the completely free Linux distribution Trisquel 10.0 was released, based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS package base and aimed at use in small businesses, educational institutions and home users. Trisquel has been personally endorsed by Richard Stallman, is officially recognized by the Free Software Foundation as completely free, and is listed as one of the foundation's recommended distributions. Installation images available for download are […]

User system identification method based on GPU information

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Researchers from Ben-Gurion University (Israel), the University of Lille (France) and the University of Adelaide (Australia) have developed a new technique for identifying user devices by detecting GPU operating parameters in a web browser. The method is called "Drawn Apart" and is based on the use of WebGL to obtain a GPU performance profile, which can significantly improve the accuracy of passive tracking methods that work without using cookies and without storing […]

nginx 1.21.6 release

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The main branch of nginx 1.21.6 has been released, within which the development of new features continues (in the parallel supported stable branch 1.20, only changes related to the elimination of serious errors and vulnerabilities are made). Main changes: Fixed an error in the uneven distribution of client connections between worker processes that occurs when using EPOLLEXCLUSIVE on Linux systems; Fixed a bug where nginx was returning […]

Release of Tiny Core Linux 13 Minimalist Distribution

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A release of the minimalistic Linux distribution Tiny Core Linux 13.0 has been created, which can run on systems with 48 MB of RAM. The graphical environment of the distribution is built on the basis of the Tiny X X server, the FLTK toolkit and the FLWM window manager. The distribution is loaded entirely into RAM and runs from memory. The new release updates system components, including Linux kernel 5.15.10, glibc 2.34, […]

Amazon releases Firecracker 1.0 virtualization system

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Amazon has published a significant release of its Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), Firecracker 1.0.0, designed to run virtual machines with minimal overhead. Firecracker is a fork of the CrosVM project, used by Google to run Linux and Android applications on ChromeOS. Firecracker is being developed by Amazon Web Services to improve productivity and efficiency […]

Remote root vulnerability in Samba

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Corrective releases of the package 4.15.5, 4.14.12 and 4.13.17 have been published, eliminating 3 vulnerabilities. The most dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2021-44142) allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on a system running a vulnerable version of Samba. The issue is assigned a severity level of 9.9 out of 10. The vulnerability only appears when using the vfs_fruit VFS module with default parameters (fruit:metadata=netatalk or fruit:resource=file), which provides an additional […]

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