Filippo Valsorda, a cryptographer responsible for the security of the Go programming language at Google, has published the first stable release of a new data encryption utility, Age (Actually Good Encryption). The utility provides a simple command line interface for encrypting files using symmetric (password) and asymmetric (public key) cryptographic algorithms. The project code is written in Go and […]
The human rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created an application called apkeep, designed to download packages for the Android platform from various sources. By default, apps are downloaded from ApkPure, a site containing copies of apps from Google Play, due to the lack of authentication required. Direct downloading from Google Play is also supported, but for this you need to provide login information (the password is sent open […]
Finnix 123 Live distribution based on the Debian package base is available. The distribution only supports work in the console, but contains a good selection of utilities for administrator needs. The composition includes 575 packages with all kinds of utilities. The iso image size is 412 MB. In the new version: Added options passed during boot on the kernel command line: “sshd” to enable the ssh server and “passwd” […]
The fheroes2 0.9.7 project is now available, attempting to recreate the game Heroes of Might and Magic II. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. To run the game, files with game resources are required, which can be obtained, for example, from the demo version of Heroes of Might and Magic II. Main changes: A system of AI hero roles has been introduced to optimize game expansion. […]
Cisco has announced a major new release of its free antivirus suite, ClamAV 0.104.0. Let us recall that the project passed into the hands of Cisco in 2013 after the purchase of Sourcefire, the company developing ClamAV and Snort. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. At the same time, Cisco announced the beginning of the formation of ClamAV branches with a long term support (LTS), support for which will be provided […]
The release of the Lakka 3.4 distribution kit has been published, which allows you to turn computers, set-top boxes or single-board computers into a full-fledged game console for running retro games. The project is a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally designed for creating home theaters. Lakka builds are generated for platforms i386, x86_64 (GPU Intel, NVIDIA or AMD), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Cubieboard, Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, […]
Nate Graham, who leads the QA team for the KDE project, announced that the KDE Plasma desktop running using the Wayland protocol has been brought to a stable state. It is noted that Nate has personally switched to using a Wayland-based KDE session in his daily work and all standard KDE applications are not causing any problems, but some problems remain […]
Linus Torvalds accepted into the repository in which the future branch of the Linux 5.15 kernel is being formed, patches with the implementation of the NTFS file system from Paragon Software. Kernel 5.15 is expected to be released in November. The code for the new NTFS driver was opened by Paragon Software in August last year and differs from the driver already available in the kernel by the ability to work in […]
A new significant release of the OpenWrt 21.02.0 distribution has been introduced, aimed at use in various network devices such as routers, switches and access points. OpenWrt supports many different platforms and architectures and has a build system that allows for simple and convenient cross-compilation, including various components in the build, which makes it easy to create ready-made firmware or […]
Con Kolivas has warned of his intention to stop developing his projects for the Linux kernel, aimed at improving the responsiveness and interactivity of user tasks. This includes stopping the development of the MuQSS task scheduler (Multiple Queue Skiplist Scheduler, previously developed under the name BFS) and stopping the adaptation of the “-ck” patch set for new kernel releases. The reason mentioned [...]
In response to a message about the very slow rendering of the interface for managing site data on the macOS platform (“chrome://settings/siteData”, section “All cookies and site data” in settings), Google representatives stated that they plan to remove this interface and make it the main one the interface for evaluating these sites is the page “chrome://settings/content/all”. The problem is that in its current form, the “chrome://settings/content/all” page only provides general […]
After a year of development, the RPM 4.17.0 package manager has been released. The RPM4 project is developed by Red Hat and is used in distributions such as RHEL (including derivative projects of CentOS, Scientific Linux, AsiaLinux, Red Flag Linux, Oracle Linux), Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, Tizen, and many others. Previously, an independent development team developed the RPM5 project, which […]
