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openSUSE develops a web interface for the YaST installer

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After the announcement of the transfer to the web interface of the Anaconda installer used in Fedora and RHEL, the developers of the YaST installer revealed plans to develop the D-Installer project and create a front end for managing the installation of openSUSE and SUSE Linux distributions through the web interface. It is noted that the project has been developing the WebYaST web interface for a long time, but it is limited by the capabilities of remote administration and system configuration, and is not designed for […]

Linux kernel VFS vulnerability allowing privilege escalation

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A vulnerability (CVE-2022-0185) has been identified in the Filesystem Context API provided by the Linux kernel, which allows a local user to gain root privileges on the system. The researcher who identified the problem published a demonstration of an exploit that allows you to execute code as root on Ubuntu 20.04 in the default configuration. The exploit code is planned to be posted on GitHub within a week, after the distributions release the update with […]

ArchLabs distribution release 2022.01.18

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The release of the Linux distribution ArchLabs 2021.01.18 has been published, based on the Arch Linux package base and supplied with a lightweight user environment based on the Openbox window manager (optional i3, Bspwm, Awesome, JWM, dk, Fluxbox, Xfce, Deepin, GNOME, Cinnamon, Sway). To organize a permanent installation, the ABIF installer is offered. The basic package includes applications such as Thunar, Termite, Geany, Firefox, Audacious, MPV […]

New version of monitoring system Monitorix 3.14.0

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Presented is the release of the monitoring system Monitorix 3.14.0, designed for visual monitoring of the operation of various services, for example, monitoring CPU temperature, system load, network activity and responsiveness of network services. The system is controlled via a web interface, the data is presented in the form of graphs. The system is written in Perl, RRDTool is used to generate graphs and store data, the code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. […]

GNU Ocrad 0.28 OCR release

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After three years since the last release, the Ocrad 0.28 (Optical Character Recognition) text recognition system, developed under the auspices of the GNU project, has been released. Ocrad can be used both in the form of a library for integrating OCR functions into other applications, and in the form of a stand-alone utility that, based on the image passed to the input, produces text in UTF-8 or 8-bit […]

Firefox Update 96.0.2

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A maintenance release of Firefox 96.0.2 is available, which fixes several bugs: Fixed a crash when resizing the browser window in which the Facebook web application is open. Fixed an issue that caused the tab button to spread out when playing on a sound page in Linux builds. Fixed a bug due to which the Lastpass add-on menu was displayed empty in incognito mode. Source: opennet.ru

Vulnerability in Rust Standard Library

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A vulnerability (CVE-2022-21658) has been identified in the Rust standard library due to a race condition in the std::fs::remove_dir_all() function. If this function is used to delete temporary files in a privileged application, an attacker can achieve the deletion of arbitrary system files and directories that the attacker would not normally have access to delete. The vulnerability is caused by incorrect implementation of checking symbolic links before recursive […]

SUSE develops its own replacement for CentOS 8 compatible with RHEL 8.5

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Additional details have emerged about the SUSE Liberty Linux project, which was announced this morning by SUSE without technical details. It turned out that within the framework of the project, a new edition of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 distribution was prepared, assembled using the Open Build Service platform and suitable for use instead of the classic CentOS 8, support for which was discontinued at the end of 2021. Supposed, […]

Qt Company introduced a platform for embedding ads in Qt applications

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The Qt Company has published the first release of the Qt Digital Advertising platform to simplify the monetization of application development based on the Qt library. The platform provides a cross-platform Qt module with the same name with a QML API for embedding advertising into the application interface and organizing its delivery, similar to inserting advertising blocks into mobile applications. The interface to simplify the insertion of advertising blocks is designed in the form of [...]

SUSE Liberty Linux initiative to unify support for SUSE, openSUSE, RHEL and CentOS

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SUSE introduced the SUSE Liberty Linux project, aimed at providing a single service for supporting and managing mixed infrastructures that, in addition to SUSE Linux and openSUSE, use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS distributions. The initiative implies: Providing unified technical support, which allows you not to contact the manufacturer of each distribution used separately and solve all problems through one service. […]

Sourcegraph added search for Fedora repositories

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The Sourcegraph search engine, aimed at indexing publicly available source code, has been enhanced with the ability to search and navigate the source code of all packages distributed through the Fedora Linux repository, in addition to previously providing search for GitHub and GitLab projects. More than 34.5 thousand source packages from Fedora have been indexed. Flexible means of sampling are provided with [...]

Lighttpd http server release 1.4.64

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The lightweight http server lighttpd 1.4.64 has been released. The new version introduces 95 changes, including previously planned changes to default values ​​and a cleanup of outdated functionality: The default timeout for graceful restart/shutdown operations has been reduced from infinity to 8 seconds. The timeout can be configured using the "server.graceful-shutdown-timeout" option. A transition has been made to using an assembly with the library [...]

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