According to Valve's July report on the preferences of users of the Steam game delivery service, the share of active Steam users using the Linux platform reached 1%. A month ago this figure was 0.89%. Among the distributions, the leader is Ubuntu 20.04.2, which is used by 0.19% of Steam users, followed by Manjaro Linux - 0.11%, Arch Linux - 0.10%, Ubuntu 21.04 - […]
The third release candidate for the installer for the next major Debian release, “Bullseye,” has been published. Currently, there are 48 critical errors blocking the release (a month ago there were 155, two months ago - 185, three months ago - 240, four months ago - 472, at the time of freezing in Debian 10 - 316, Debian 9 - 275, Debian 8 - […]
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in the Linux kernel that allow the eBPF subsystem to be used to bypass protection against the Specter v4 attack (SSB, Speculative Store Bypass). Using an unprivileged BPF program, an attacker can create conditions for speculative execution of certain operations and determine the contents of arbitrary areas of kernel memory. The eBPF maintainers in the kernel have access to a prototype exploit demonstrating the ability to carry out […]
After six months of development, the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.34 system library has been released, which fully complies with the requirements of the ISO C11 and POSIX.1-2017 standards. The new release includes fixes from 66 developers. Among the improvements implemented in Glibc 2.34, we can note: The libpthread, libdl, libutil and libanl libraries are integrated into the main structure of libc, the use of functionality of which in applications […]
The release of the Lakka 3.3 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, […]
The first beta version of the MX Linux 21 distribution is available for download and testing. The MX Linux 21 release uses the Debian Bullseye package base and the MX Linux repositories. A distinctive feature of the distribution is the use of the sysVinit initialization system, its own tools for setting up and deploying the system, as well as more frequent updates of popular packages than in the Debian stable repository. 32- […]
NVIDIA and Mozilla have released an update to their Common Voice datasets, which include 182 people's speech samples, up 25% from 6 months ago. The data is published as public domain (CC0). The proposed sets can be used in machine learning systems to build speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to the past [...]
The release of the Gerbera 1.9 media server is available, continuing the development of the MediaTomb project after its development was discontinued. Gerbera supports UPnP protocols, including the UPnP MediaServer 1.0 specification, and allows you to broadcast multimedia content on a local network with the ability to watch video and listen to audio on any UPnP-compatible device, including TVs, game consoles, smartphones and tablets. The project code is written in [...]
The Orbiter Space Flight Simulator project has been open sourced, offering a realistic space flight simulator that complies with the laws of Newtonian mechanics. The motive for opening the code is the desire to provide the community with the opportunity to continue the development of the project after the author has been unable to develop for several years for personal reasons. The project code is written in C++ with scripts in [...]
When discussing the recently published 27th edition of a set of patches with the implementation of the NTFS file system from Paragon Software, Linus Torvalds said that he sees no obstacles to accepting this set of patches in the next window for accepting changes. If no unexpected problems are identified, Paragon Software's NTFS support will be included in the 5.15 kernel, which will be released […]
The developers of the server-side JavaScript platform Node.js have published corrective releases 12.22.4, 14.17.4 and 16.6.0, which partially correct a vulnerability (CVE-2021-22930) in the http2 module (HTTP/2.0 client), which allows to initiate a process crash or potentially organize the execution of your code in the system when accessing a host controlled by the attacker. The problem is caused by accessing an already freed memory area when closing the connection after receiving RST_STREAM frames […]
An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI, Wine 6.14, was released. Since the release of version 6.13, 30 bug reports have been closed and 260 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Mono engine with the implementation of .NET technology has been updated to release 6.3.0. WOW64, a layer for running 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows, adds 32-bit system call thunks to […]
