Author: ProHoster

NixOS 20.09 "Nightingale" Released

NixOS is a purely functional Linux distribution that takes inspiration from functional programming. It is based on the Nixpkgs package manager, which makes system configuration declarative, reproducible, atomic, etc. NixOS is known as the most modern distribution and is one of the top three in terms of total number of packages. In addition to 7349 new, 14442 updated, and 8181 removed packages, this release […]

FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE

Notable in this release: Updates have been made to the wireless stack and various drivers to provide better support for 802.11n and 802.11ac; Added ice(4) driver supporting Intel® 100Gb network cards; The jail(8) utility now allows you to run Linux® in an isolated environment; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1h; OpenSSH has been updated to version 7.9p1; LLVM has been updated to version […]

Internet resource XDA has released its phone with LineageOS

Earlier this year, XDA partnered with F(x)tec to produce the Pro1-X. According to XDA, this is the world's first phone to have LineageOS installed right out of the box. Not only can the Pro1-X run LineageOS, Ubuntu Touch and Android OS options are also available. Main characteristics of the phone: 8 GB RAM 256 GB built-in […]

Fedora 33 release

Today, October 27, Fedora 33 was released. A variety of options are offered for installation: the already classic Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server, Fedora for ARM, the new edition of Fedora IoT, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Core OS and many Fedora Spins options with software selections for the solution specialized tasks. Installation images are published on the website https://getfedora.org/. There you can […]

Import substitution in ambulance

Ambulance services in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Irkutsk Region have switched to using the Russian software complex "ADIS", running on the domestic Astra Linux OS. The use of these tools allows you to improve the work of ambulances, reduce the time for processing calls and the arrival of teams, and also reduce costs. The use of "ADIS" helps improve the quality of medical care through formalized algorithms for primary diagnosis and […]

Zabbix 5.2 released with support for IoT and synthetic monitoring

The free monitoring system with completely open source Zabbix 5.2 has been released. Zabbix is ​​a universal system for monitoring the performance and availability of servers, engineering and network equipment, applications, databases, virtualization systems, containers, IT services, web services, cloud infrastructure. The system implements a full cycle from data collection, processing and transformation, analysis of the received data, and ending with the storage of this data, […]

fwupd 1.5.0 release

This project is designed to automatically update firmware in Linux. By default, fwupd downloads firmware from the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). This service is designed for OEMs and firmware developers who want to make their firmware available to Linux users. Some new features added in this release: Commands for interacting with ESP in fwupdtool plugin for fingerprint sensors […]

BiglyBT became the first torrent client to support the BitTorrent V2 specification

The BiglyBT client has added full support for the BitTorrent v2 specification, including hybrid torrents. According to the developers, BitTorrent v2 has several advantages, some of which will be noticeable to users. BiglyBT was released in the summer of 2017. The open source software was created by Parg and TuxPaper, who previously worked on Azureus and Vuze. Now the developers have released a new version of BiglyBT. Last […]

Release of libtorrent 2.0 with support for BitTorrent 2 protocol

A major release of libtorrent 2.0 (also known as libtorrent-rasterbar) has been introduced, offering a memory- and CPU-efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. The library is used in such torrent clients as Deluge, qBittorrent, Folx, Lince, Miro and Flush (not to be confused with the other libtorrent library, which is used in rTorrent). The libtorrent code is written in C++ and distributed […]

Embox v0.5.0 Released

On October 23, the 50th release 0.5.0 of the free, BSD-licensed, real-time OS for embedded systems Embox took place: Changes: Added the ability to separate threads and tasks Added the ability to set the task stack size Improved support for STM32 (added support for the f1 series, cleaned up the series f3, f4, f7, l4) Improved operation of the ttyS subsystem Added support for NETLINK sockets Simplified DNS setup […]

GDB 10.1 released

GDB is a source code debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust and many other programming languages. GDB supports debugging on more than a dozen different architectures and can run on the most popular software platforms (GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows). GDB 10.1 includes the following changes and improvements: BPF debugging support (bpf-unknown-none) GDBserver now supports the following […]