The company STC IT ROSA has released the ROSA Fresh 12 distribution based on the new rosa2021.1 platform. ROSA Fresh 12 is positioned as the first release demonstrating the capabilities of the new platform. This release is intended primarily for Linux enthusiasts and contains the latest versions of the software. Currently, only the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment image is officially released. Image releases […]
Three vulnerabilities in the LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice office suites have been disclosed that could allow attackers to prepare documents that appear to be signed by a trustworthy source or change the date of an already signed document. The problems were fixed in the releases of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 and LibreOffice 7.0.6/7.1.2 under the guise of non-security bugs (LibreOffice 7.0.6 and 7.1.2 released in early May, […]
NVIDIA has published the source code for StyleGAN3, a machine learning system based on a generative adversarial neural network (GAN) aimed at synthesizing realistic images of people's faces. The code is written in Python using the PyTorch framework and is distributed under the NVIDIA Source Code License, which imposes restrictions on commercial use. Ready-made trained models trained on […]
A release of the system for capturing, storing and indexing network packets Arkime 3.1 has been prepared, providing tools for visually assessing traffic flows and searching for information related to network activity. The project was originally developed by AOL with the goal of creating an open source and deployable replacement for commercial network packet processing platforms that could scale to handle traffic at […]
The libmdbx 0.10.4 (MDBX) libraries were released with the implementation of a high-performance compact embedded key-value database, and the associated library libfpta 0.3.9 (FPTA), which implements a table view of data on top of MDBX with secondary and composite indexes. Both libraries are distributed under OSI approved licenses. All current operating systems and architectures are supported, as well as the Russian Elbrus 2000. Historically, libmdbx is […]
The release of the Redo Rescue 4.0.0 Live distribution kit, designed to create backup copies and restore the system in case of failure or data corruption, has been published. Distribution-generated state slices can be fully or selectively cloned to a new drive (with a new partition table created) or used to restore system integrity after malware activity, hardware failures, or accidental deletion of data. Distribution […]
The Geany 1.38 project release is available, developing a lightweight and compact application development environment. Among the goals of the project is the creation of a very fast code editing environment that requires a minimum number of build dependencies and is not tied to the features of specific user environments such as KDE or GNOME. Building Geany requires only the GTK library and its dependencies (Pango, Glib and […]
On the day of the twentieth anniversary of the project, the release of the free cross-platform interpreter of classic quests ScummVM 2.5.0 was published, replacing the executable files for games and allowing you to run many classic games on platforms for which they were not originally intended. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. In total, it is possible to launch more than 250 quests and more than 1600 interactive text games, including games from LucasArts, […]
In the October ranking of the popularity of programming languages, published by TIOBE Software, the triumph of the programming language Python (11.27%) was noted, which moved from third to first place in a year, displacing C (11.16%) and Java (10.46%). The TIOBE Popularity Index builds its conclusions based on the analysis of search query statistics in systems such as Google, Google Blogs, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, MSN, […]
A new stable branch of the Flatpak 1.12 toolkit has been published, which provides a system for building self-contained packages that are not tied to specific Linux distributions and run in a special container that isolates the application from the rest of the system. Support for running Flatpak packages is provided for Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mageia, Linux Mint, Alt Linux and Ubuntu. Flatpak packages are included in the Fedora repository […]
The first corrective update of the Debian 11 distribution has been generated, which includes package updates released in the two months since the release of the new branch, and fixed flaws in the installer. The release includes 75 stability updates and 35 security updates. Of the changes in Debian 11.1, we can note the update to the latest stable versions of the clamav […]
The first stable release of the OpenSilver project has been published, offering an open implementation of the Silverlight platform, which allows you to create interactive web applications using C#, XAML and .NET technologies. The project code is written in C# and distributed under the MIT license. Compiled Silverlight applications can run on any WebAssembly-enabled desktop and mobile browsers, but direct compilation is currently only possible on Windows […]
