The first releases of the re3 and reVC projects are available, within which work was carried out to reverse engineer the source code of the GTA III and GTA Vice City games, released about 20 years ago. Published releases are considered ready to build a fully working game. Builds have been tested on Linux, Windows and FreeBSD on x86, amd64, arm and arm64 systems. Additionally, ports are being developed [...]
Almost five years after the last release, alpha testing of the Slackware 15.0 distribution has begun. The project has been developing since 1993 and is the oldest currently existing distribution. Features of the distribution include the absence of complications and a simple initialization system in the style of classic BSD systems, which makes Slackware an interesting solution for studying the operation of Unix-like systems, conducting experiments and getting to know Linux. […]
One of the clients of the Microsoft Azure cloud was outraged by the disregard for privacy and personal data at Microsoft and Canonical. Three hours after installing Ubuntu in the Azure cloud, a message was received on the social network LinkedIn from Canonical's sales department with promotional offers related to the use of Ubuntu in the enterprise. At the same time, the message clearly indicated that it [...]
Collabora has announced the release of Monado 21.0.0, an open source implementation of the OpenXR standard. The OpenXR standard was prepared by the Khronos consortium and defines a universal API for creating virtual and augmented reality applications, as well as a set of layers for interacting with hardware that abstracts the characteristics of specific devices. Monado provides a runtime that is fully compliant with OpenXR requirements, which can be used to implement virtual and augmented […]
After three years since the last update, the release of the Siduction 2021.1 project has been formed, developing a desktop-oriented Linux distribution built on the Debian Sid (unstable) package base. It is noted that the preparation of the new issue began about a year ago, but in April 2020, the key developer of the Alf Gaida project stopped communicating, about whom nothing has been heard since and […]
Introduced the release of Devuan 3.1 "Beowulf", a fork of Debian GNU/Linux that ships without the systemd system manager. Devuan 3.1 is an interim release that continues the development of the Devuan 3.x branch, built on the Debian 10 “Buster” package base. Live assemblies and installation iso images for AMD64 and i386 architectures have been prepared for download. Builds for ARM (armel, armhf and arm64) and images for virtual machines […]
A new version of the programming language translator Vala 0.51.1 has been released. The Vala language is an object-oriented programming language that provides a syntax similar to C# or Java. Gobject (Glib Object System) is used as an object model. Memory management is carried out based on reference counting. The language has support for introspection, lambda functions, interfaces, delegates and closures, signals and slots, exceptions, properties, non-null types, inference […]
The release of the sane-backends 1.0.32 package has been prepared, which includes a set of drivers, the scanimage command line utility, a daemon for organizing scanning over the saned network, and libraries with the implementation of SANE-API. The package supports 1652 scanner models, of which 737 have the status of full support for all functions, for 766 the level of support is rated as good, for 126 – acceptable, and for 23 – […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented the release of the Linux kernel 5.11. Among the most notable changes: support for Intel SGX enclaves, a new mechanism for intercepting system calls, a virtual auxiliary bus, a ban on assembling modules without MODULE_LICENSE(), a fast filtering mode for system calls in seccomp, termination of support for the ia64 architecture, transfer of WiMAX technology to the “staging” branch, the ability to encapsulate SCTP in UDP. IN […]
A release of the Haxe 4.2 toolkit is available, which includes the multi-paradigm high-level programming language of the same name with strong typing, a cross-compiler and a standard library of functions. The project supports translation to C++, HashLink/C, JavaScript, C#, Java, PHP, Python and Lua, as well as compilation to JVM, HashLink/JIT, Flash and Neko bytecode, with access to the native capabilities of each target platform. The compiler code is distributed under the license [...]
Vincent Canfield, administrator of email and hosting reseller cock.li, discovered that his entire IP network was automatically added to the UCEPROTECT DNSBL list for port scanning from neighboring virtual machines. Vincent’s subnet was included in the Level 3 list, in which blocking is carried out based on autonomous system numbers and covers entire subnets from which […]
An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 6.2 - took place. Since the release of version 6.1, 51 bug reports have been closed and 329 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Mono engine has been updated to version 6.0 with DirectX support. Added support for the NTDLL debugger API. The WIDL (Wine Interface Definition Language) compiler has expanded support for WinRT IDL (Interface Definition Language). […]
