ProHoster > Articles by: ProHoster

Author: ProHoster

The second edition of patches for the Linux kernel with support for the Rust language

Submitted by

Miguel Ojeda, author of the Rust-for-Linux project, has submitted an updated version of Rust's device driver development components for consideration by Linux kernel developers. Rust support is considered experimental, but has already been agreed to be included in the linux-next branch. The new version eliminates the comments made during the discussion of the first version of the patches. Linus Torvalds has already joined the discussion and […]

Release of Free Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2) - 0.9.5

Submitted by

A release of the fheroes2 0.9.5 project is available, attempting to recreate the Heroes of Might and Magic II game. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. To run the game, game resource files are required, which can be obtained, for example, from the demo version of Heroes of Might and Magic II. Main changes: Detailed […]

Release of Yggdrasil 0.4, implementation of a private network running on top of the internet

Submitted by

The release of the reference implementation of the Yggdrasil 0.4 protocol has been published, which allows deploying a separate decentralized private IPv6 network on top of a conventional WAN, which uses end-to-end encryption to protect confidentiality. Any existing applications that support IPv6 can be used to work through the Yggdrasil network. The implementation is written in Go and distributed under the LGPLv3 license. Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and […]

Release of postmarketOS 21.06, a Linux distribution for smartphones and mobile devices

Submitted by

The release of the postmarketOS 21.06 project is presented, which develops a Linux distribution for smartphones based on Alpine Linux, Musl and BusyBox. The goal of the project is to provide the possibility of using a Linux distribution on a smartphone that does not depend on the official firmware support life cycle and is not tied to standard solutions of the main industry players that set the development vector. Builds prepared for PINE64 PinePhone, Purism Librem 5 […]

FS Oramfs published, hiding the nature of data access

Submitted by

Kudelski Security, a company specializing in security auditing, has published the Oramfs file system with the implementation of ORAM (Oblivious Random Access Machine) technology, which masks the data access pattern. The project proposed a FUSE module for Linux with the implementation of a FS layer that does not allow tracking the structure of write and read operations. The Oramfs code is written in Rust and is licensed under […]

AbiWord 3.0.5 word processor update

Submitted by

A year and a half since the last update, the release of the free multi-platform word processor AbiWord 3.0.5 was published, which supports the processing of documents in common office formats (ODF, OOXML, RTF, etc.) and provides features such as collaborative document editing and multi-page mode , which allows you to view and edit different pages of a document on the same screen. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. […]

Audacity's New Privacy Policy Allows Collection of Data for Government Benefits

Submitted by

Users of the audio editor Audacity noticed the publication of a privacy notice that regulates issues related to sending telemetry and processing the accumulated information about users. Two points cause dissatisfaction: In the list of data that can be obtained during the collection of telemetry, in addition to such parameters as the hash of the IP address, operating system version and CPU model, there is a mention of information […]

Neovim 0.5 is available, a modernized version of the Vim editor

Submitted by

After nearly two years of development, Neovim 0.5 is released, a fork of the Vim editor focused on increasing extensibility and flexibility. The project has been reworking the Vim codebase for more than seven years, as a result of which changes are made that simplify code maintenance, provide a means of dividing labor between several maintainers, separating the interface from the base part (the interface can […]

Wine 6.12 release

Submitted by

An experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.12 — has been released. Since the release of version 6.11, 42 bug reports have been closed and 354 changes have been made. The most important changes: The composition includes two new themes "Blue" and "Classic Blue". An initial implementation of the NSI (Network Store Interface) service is proposed, which stores and transmits information about network […]

OpenZFS 2.1 release with dRAID support

Submitted by

The release of the OpenZFS 2.1 project, which develops the implementation of the ZFS file system for Linux and FreeBSD, has been published. The project became known as "ZFS on Linux" and was previously limited to developing a module for the Linux kernel, but after the FreeBSD support port was adopted as the main implementation of OpenZFS and was spared from mentioning Linux in the name. OpenZFS has been tested with Linux kernels c 3.10 […]

Jim Whitehurst, former head of Red Hat, steps down as president of IBM

Submitted by

Nearly three years after Red Hat's integration with IBM, Jim Whitehurst has decided to step down as president of IBM. At the same time, Jim expressed his readiness to continue to participate in the development of IBM's business, but already as an adviser to IBM management. It is noteworthy that after the announcement of the departure of Jim Whitehurst, IBM shares fell in price by 4.6%. […]

Vulnerabilities in NETGEAR Devices Allowing Unauthenticated Access

Submitted by

Three vulnerabilities have been identified in the firmware for NETGEAR DGN-2200v1 series devices that combine the functions of an ADSL modem, router, and wireless access point, allowing you to perform any operations in the web interface without passing authentication. The first vulnerability is caused by the fact that the http server code has a hardcoded ability to directly access images, CSS, and other auxiliary files, which does not require authentication. The code has a request check […]

« back to top 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 In the end "