Ubuntu developers have begun migrating deb packages to use the zstd algorithm, which will nearly double the speed of package installation at the cost of a slight increase in size (~6%). Notably, support for zstd was added to apt and dpkg back in 2018 with the release of Ubuntu 18.04, but it was not used for package compression. In Debian, zstd support is already […]
After ten months of development, a significant release of the specialized Tor Browser 10.5 has been unveiled, continuing the functionality development based on the ESR branch of Firefox 78. The browser focuses on anonymity, security, and privacy, with all traffic routed exclusively through the Tor network. Direct access through the operating system’s regular network connection is not possible, making it impossible to track the user's real IP (in case […]
The founder of the 'temporary-audacity' fork (now tenacity) announced his resignation as maintainer due to harassment during the voting process for the project's name. Users in the /g/ section of the 4chan forum pushed for the name Sneedacity, where 'sneed' is a reference to the meme 'Sneed’s Feed & Seed'. The fork's author rejected this name, held a new vote, and approved the name 'tenacity'. […]
The release of the Nextcloud Hub 22 platform has been presented, providing a self-sufficient solution for organizing collaboration among enterprise employees and teams developing various projects. The underlying cloud platform Nextcloud 22 has also been published, allowing the deployment of a cloud storage solution with support for synchronization and data sharing, enabling data viewing and editing from any device anywhere on the network (with […]
Red Hat developers have started forming builds of CentOS Stream 9, a continuously updated edition of CentOS, which is the basis for the development of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 branch. CentOS Stream allows for earlier access to features of the future RHEL branch, but includes not yet fully stabilized packages. CentOS Stream 9 builds are being developed for x86_64, Aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures, but […]
VMS Software, which acquired the rights to continue developing the OpenVMS (Virtual Memory System) operating system from Hewlett-Packard five years ago, has released OpenVMS 9.1, notable for implementing support for the x86-64 architecture. The OpenVMS operating system has been in development since 1977, used in fault-tolerant systems requiring high reliability, and was previously available only for VAX, Alpha, and Intel Itanium architectures. Notably, […]
In response to the reckless promotion of telemetry by Muse Group, which acquired the intellectual property and trademarks associated with Audacity, the Sartox Free Software organization has commenced the development of a fork of the audio editor Audacity, stripped of any code related to data collection and telemetry transmission. In addition to removing the dubious code that makes network calls (sending telemetry and reports on […]
Virtuozzo, a company developing server software for virtualization based on open projects, has published the release of Virtuozzo Linux 8.4, built by repackaging the source texts of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4. The distribution is fully binary compatible and functionally identical to RHEL 8.4, and can be used as a transparent replacement for RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 solutions. Available for download […]
Miguel Ojeda, the author of the Rust-for-Linux project, has proposed for consideration by the Linux kernel developers an updated version of the components for developing device drivers in Rust. Rust support is regarded as experimental but is already approved for inclusion in the linux-next branch. The new version addresses the comments raised during the discussion of the first version of the patches. Linus Torvalds has already joined the discussion and […]
The release of the reference implementation of the Yggdrasil 0.4 protocol has been published, allowing the deployment of a separate decentralized private IPv6 network over the common global network, utilizing end-to-end encryption for privacy protection. Any existing applications that support IPv6 can be used over the Yggdrasil network. The implementation is written in Go and distributed under the LGPLv3 license. Support is provided for Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and […]
The release of the postmarketOS 21.06 project has been presented, developing a Linux distribution for smartphones based on Alpine Linux, Musl, and BusyBox. The goal of the project is to provide a way to use a Linux distribution on a smartphone that is independent of the support lifecycle of official firmware and not tied to the typical solutions from the industry's major players that dictate the direction of development. Builds have been prepared for PINE64 PinePhone, Purism Librem 5 […]
Kudelski Security, a company specializing in security audits, has published the Oramfs file system with the implementation of ORAM (Oblivious Random Access Machine) technology, which masks the nature of data access patterns. The project offers a FUSE module for Linux that implements a file system layer that prevents tracking the structure of read and write operations. The Oramfs code is written in Rust and is distributed under the […]