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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

The first solution to the memory shortage problem in Linux has been introduced

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Red Hat developer Bastien Nocera has announced a potential solution to the memory shortage problem in Linux. This application, called Low-Memory-Monitor, aims to address system responsiveness issues when RAM is limited. It is expected that this program will enhance the experience in the Linux user environment on systems with minimal memory. The operation is straightforward. The Low-Memory-Monitor daemon monitors memory usage and […]

Linux kernel has turned 28 years old

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On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced in the comp.os.minix newsgroup the creation of a working prototype of the new operating system Linux, marking the completion of the porting of bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40. The first public release of the Linux kernel was presented on September 17. Kernel 0.0.1 was 62 KB in compressed form and contained […]

Introducing low-memory-monitor, a new memory shortage handler for GNOME

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Bastien Nocera has announced a new memory shortage handler for the GNOME desktop — low-memory-monitor. The daemon assesses memory availability via /proc/pressure/memory and, upon exceeding a threshold, suggests to processes via DBus the need to temper their resource usage. Additionally, the daemon may attempt to maintain system responsiveness by writing to /proc/sysrq-trigger. Combined with the work done in Fedora on implementing zram […]

Linux 28 years

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28 years ago, Linus Torvalds announced in the comp.os.minix newsgroup the creation of a working prototype of a new operating system, Linux. The system included ported versions of bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40, making it self-sufficient. Linux was created in response to MINIX, whose license did not allow the community to conveniently share developments (at that time, MINIX was positioned as educational and […]

Enlightenment v0.23

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Enlightenment is a window manager for X11. Improvements in the new release: An additional option for taking screenshots. The build system is now Meson Build. Music Control now supports the rage mpris dbus protocol. Support for Bluez5 has been added with an updated module and device. An option to enable and disable dpms has been introduced. When switching windows with Alt-Tab, they can now also be moved. […]

‘Hacker’

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In this humorous tale, I wanted to imagine what a "hack" of a washing machine might look like in the near future using a voice interface, intelligent systems, and ubiquitous donations. I couldn't sleep. The smartphone showed 3:47, but it was already quite bright outside the summer window. Yarik kicked off the edge of the blanket and sat up. * "I won’t get enough sleep again; I'll be going […]

Release of the Enlightenment 0.23 user environment

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After nearly two years of development, the Enlightenment 0.23 user environment has been released, built on the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Library) and Elementary widget libraries. The release is available in source code, but packages for distributions are not yet prepared. The most notable innovations in Enlightenment 0.23 include: Significantly improved support for running under Wayland; Transition to the Meson build system; A new Bluetooth module has been added […]

The yaxim XMPP client has turned 10 years old

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The developers of yaxim, the free XMPP client for Android, are celebrating the project's ten-year anniversary. Ten years ago, on August 23, 2009, the first commit of yaxim was made, meaning that today this XMPP client is officially half as old as the protocol it operates on. Since then, many changes have occurred both in XMPP itself and in the Android system. 2009: […]

Release of the composite server Weston 7.0

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A stable release of the Weston 7.0 composite server has been published, advancing technologies that support full Wayland protocol integration in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other user environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, televisions, and other consumer devices. […]

Document collaboration system for Zimbra Open-Source Edition

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The importance of collaborative document editing in modern business cannot be overstated. The ability to draft contracts and agreements with the involvement of colleagues from the legal department, write commercial proposals under the supervision of management in real time, and so on, allows companies to save thousands of man-hours that were previously spent on numerous approvals. This is why one of the major innovations in Zextras Suite 3.0 was the introduction of Zextras […]

Not by scanning alone, or how to build a vulnerability management process in 9 steps

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On July 4th, we held a large seminar on vulnerability management. Today we publish the transcript of a presentation by Andrey Novikov from Qualys. He will discuss the steps necessary to establish a vulnerability management workflow. Spoiler: we won't get to scanning until the mid-point. Step #1: Determine the maturity level of vulnerability management processes At the very beginning, it's essential to understand at what level […]

Release of CUPS printing system 2.3 with change of project code license

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Nearly three years after the creation of the previous significant branch, Apple has released version 2.3 of the open printing system CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), used in macOS and most Linux distributions. The development of CUPS is fully overseen by Apple, which acquired Easy Software Products, the creator of CUPS, in 2007. Starting with this release, the code license has been changed […]

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