A new version of passwdqc has been released, a set of tools for monitoring the complexity of passwords and passphrases, including the pam_passwdqc module, the pwqcheck, pwqfilter (added in this version) and pwqgen programs for use manually or from scripts, as well as the libpasswdqc library. Both systems with PAM (most Linux, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, Solaris, HP-UX) and without PAM are supported (passwordcheck interface is supported […]
GitHub blocked the RE3 project repository and 232 forks, including three private repositories, after receiving a complaint from Take-Two Interactive, which owns intellectual property related to the games GTA III and GTA Vice City. To block, a statement of violation of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was used. RE3 code remains available for now […]
Presented is the release of the classic sysvinit 2.99 init system, which was widely used in Linux distributions in the days before systemd and upstart, and now continues to be used in distributions such as Devuan, Debian GNU/Hurd and antiX. At the same time, the release of the insserv 1.23.0 utility used in conjunction with sysvinit was created (the version of the startpar utility has not changed). The insserv utility is designed to organize the download process [...]
New bootable assemblies of the Void Linux distribution have been generated, which is an independent project that does not use the developments of other distributions and is developed using a continuous cycle of updating program versions (rolling updates, without separate releases of the distribution). Previous builds were published in 2019. Apart from the appearance of current boot images based on a more recent slice of the system, updating assemblies does not bring functional changes and […]
A stable release of the interface is available to simplify setting up network parameters - NetworkManager 1.30.0. Plugins to support VPN, OpenConnect, PPTP, OpenVPN and OpenSWAN are being developed through their own development cycles. The main innovations of NetworkManager 1.30: The ability to build with the standard Musl C library has been implemented. Added support for Veth (Virtual Ethernet) devices. Added support for new features of the ethtool utility for enabling offload handlers of a network card. […]
After almost three years of silence, the twenty-fourth alpha release of the free game 0 AD took place, which is a real-time strategy with high-quality 3D graphics and gameplay in many ways similar to the games in the Age of Empires series. The game's source code was open sourced by Wildfire Games under the GPL license after 9 years of development as a proprietary product. The game build is available [...]
A release of the APT 2.2 (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit has been prepared, which incorporates the changes accumulated in the experimental 2.1 branch. In addition to Debian and its derivative distributions, APT is also used in some distributions based on the rpm package manager, such as PCLinuxOS and ALT Linux. The new release will soon be integrated into the Debian Unstable branch and […]
On February 20, 1991, Guido van Rossum published in the alt.sources group the first release of the Python programming language, which he had been working on since December 1989 as part of a project to create a scripting language for solving system administration problems in the Amoeba operating system, which would be of a higher level, than C, but, unlike the Bourne shell, would provide […]
Mark Kettenis, one of the active OpenBSD developers, reported successfully booting OpenBSD in multi-user mode on an Apple M1 device. Currently, not all changes necessary to work on M1 have been accepted into the main OpenBSD code repository, as they are essentially hacks, however, a start has been made and plans are being made to support this platform […]
The source code of the msd (Multi Stream daemon) project has been translated to a BSD license, and the source code has been published on GitHub. Previously, only a shortened version of msd_lite was distributed in the source code, and the main product was proprietary. In addition to changing the license, work has been done to port it to the macOS platform (previously FreeBSD and Linux were supported). The msd program is designed for organizing IPTV streaming in […]
Representatives of the NASA space agency, in an interview with Spectrum IEEE, revealed details about the internals of the autonomous reconnaissance helicopter Ingenuity, which successfully landed on Mars yesterday as part of the Mars 2020 mission. A special feature of the project was the use of a control board based on the Snapdragon 801 SoC from Qualcomm, which is used in the production of smartphones. Ingenuity's software is based on the Linux kernel and open source flight software. […]
After two years since the publication of the last significant thread, the open media center Kodi 19.0, previously developed under the name XBMC, was released. Ready-made installation packages are available for Linux, FreeBSD, Raspberry Pi, Android, Windows, macOS, tvOS and iOS. A PPA repository has been created for Ubuntu. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Since the last release, approximately […]
