Ariadne Conill, creator of the Audacious music player, initiator of the IRCv3 protocol, and leader of the Alpine Linux security team, criticized the Free Software Foundation's policies on proprietary firmware and microcode, as well as the rules of the Respect Your Freedom initiative aimed at certification of devices that meet the requirements for ensuring user privacy and freedom. According to Ariadne, the Foundation’s policy […]
The release of the sane-backends 1.1.1 package has been prepared, which includes a set of drivers, the scanimage command line utility, a daemon for organizing scanning over the saned network, and libraries with the implementation of SANE-API. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The package supports 1747 (in the previous version 1652) scanner models, of which 815 (737) have the status of full support for all functions, for 780 (766) the level […]
The lawyers of the Roskomsvoboda project, acting on behalf of the American non-profit organization The Tor Project Inc, filed an appeal and will demand the cancellation. Source: opennet.ru
Dmitry Zavalishin spoke about a project to port a virtual machine of the Phantom operating system to work in the Genode microkernel OS environment. The interview notes that the main version of Phantom is already ready for pilot projects, and the Genode-based version will be ready for use at the end of the year. At the same time, only a workable conceptual concept has been announced on the project’s website [...]
The JingOS 1.2 distribution is now available, providing an environment specially optimized for installation on tablet PCs and touchscreen laptops. The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. Release 1.2 is only available for tablets with processors based on the ARM architecture (previously releases were also made for the x86_64 architecture, but after the release of the JingPad tablet, all attention switched to the ARM architecture). […]
The release of the composite manager Sway 1.7 has been published, built using the Wayland protocol and fully compatible with the i3 mosaic window manager and the i3bar panel. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project is aimed at use on Linux and FreeBSD. i3 compatibility is provided at the command, configuration file and IPC levels, allowing […]
The attackers managed to embed a backdoor into 40 plugins and 53 themes for the WordPress content management system, developed by AccessPress, which claims that its add-ons are used on more than 360 thousand sites. The results of the analysis of the incident have not yet been provided, but it is assumed that malicious code was introduced during the compromise of the AccessPress website, making changes to the archives offered for download […]
Laptop manufacturer Framework Computer, which is a proponent of self-repair and strives to make its products as easy to disassemble, upgrade and replace components, has announced the release of the source code for the Embedded Controller (EC) firmware used in the Framework Laptop. The code is open under the BSD license. The main idea of the Framework Laptop is to provide the ability to build a laptop from modules […]
After about six months since the previous major release, a new version of the platform for building decentralized social networks, Hubzilla 7.0, has been published. The project provides a communication server that integrates with web publishing systems, equipped with a transparent identification system and access control tools in decentralized Fediverse networks. The project code is written in PHP and JavaScript and is distributed under the MIT license as a data warehouse […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
