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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 openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution has switched to using SELinux by default.

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The developers of the openSUSE project announced the transition of the openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution, which employs a rolling release cycle, to the use of SELinux for mandatory access control. Starting with the update 20250211, SELinux in 'enforcing' mode is suggested by default for new installations of openSUSE Tumbleweed. Pre-built virtual machine images of openSUSE Tumbleweed minimalVM will now come with SELinux enabled by default. Support for […]

Release of DuckDB Database 1.2.0

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The release of DuckDB 1.2.0 has been published, which is aimed at executing analytical queries and conceptually resembles SQLite. DuckDB combines features of SQLite, such as compactness, embedding as a library, storing the database in a single file, and a CLI interface, with capabilities and optimizations for executing analytical queries that cover a significant portion of stored data, such as aggregating all the contents of tables or merging several […]

Vifm 0.14

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On February 8, after more than a year and a half of development, version 0.14 of the console file manager Vifm was released, featuring Vim-like modal control and some ideas borrowed from the mail client mutt. Vifm is written in C and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license. To extend its capabilities, an embedded Lua interpreter can be used. Change list: Use of Unicode normalization during […]

Release of Alt Server 10.4

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The release of the Alt Server version on the p10 Aronia platform 10.4 is now available. The build is prepared for x86_64, AArch64, and 'Elbrus', based on kernel 6.1 LTS. During installation, you can choose the std-def 5.10 kernel. Download the image from download.basealt.ru, mirror.yandex.ru, ftp.altlinux.org. In the new image, the gpupdate 0.12 feature has introduced the ability to configure policies for the Thunderbird mail client, with added settings being saved in dconf, support for […]

For systemd, the ability to boot system images via HTTP is being developed.

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Lennart Poettering proposed to include a change in the system manager systemd that allows the system to boot using a root file system image obtained from an external host via the HTTP protocol. This change expands systemd's capabilities to not only download a disk image via HTTP during the initial boot stage but also to unpack the downloaded image, link it to a block device in loopback mode, and mount […]

FLAC 1.5 with the long-awaited multithreading

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The free lossless audio codec FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) has introduced its new version 1.5, which includes several long-awaited improvements that will surely please both audiophiles and professionals. This release comes more than a year and a half after the previous version 1.4.3 and brings significant enhancements in both encoding and decoding processes. Key innovations include multi-threaded encoding. The most […]

OpenSSL 3.4.1 Update with Vulnerability Fixes

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Corrective releases of the OpenSSL cryptographic library 3.0.16, 3.1.8, 3.2.4, 3.3.3, and 3.4.1 are now available. Versions 3.2.4, 3.3.3, and 3.4.1 have addressed a vulnerability (CVE-2024-12797) that has been assigned a high severity rating. This vulnerability allows for a MITM attack on TLS and DTLS connections. The issue only manifests in systems that use Raw Public Key (RPK, RFC 7250) for client authentication. By default, support for […]

The free audio codec FLAC 1.5 has been released

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The Xiph.Org community has released an update for the free audio codec FLAC 1.5.0, which allows for lossless audio compression. FLAC employs only lossless encoding methods, ensuring the complete preservation of the original audio stream's quality and its identity with the reference version encoded. The lossless compression methods used can reduce the size of the original audio stream by 50-60%. […]

Release of the KDE Plasma 6.3 Desktop Environment

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After four months of development, the release of the KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment has been published. To evaluate the performance of the new KDE releases, you can utilize builds from the KDE Neon and openSUSE projects (Argon, based on openSUSE Leap, and Krypton, based on openSUSE Tumbleweed). Key changes include a redesigned fractional scaling support in the composite manager KWin to reduce blurriness and enhance clarity when […]

An AI mode has been added in Chrome for automatically changing compromised passwords.

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The test builds of Chrome Canary have introduced a password auto-change feature based on AI. This option can be enabled in the 'Experimental AI Features' section (chrome://settings/ai). If a password is deemed compromised, Chrome will display a warning when trying to log in with that password, suggesting to change it. Upon agreement, the browser will generate a strong password, change it on the site, and save […]

Release of the EndeavourOS 25.02 distribution

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The release of EndeavourOS 25.02 'Mercury' has been announced, continuing the development of the Antergos project and aimed at providing a straightforward installation of Arch Linux with a selected desktop environment. The desktop environment's foundations match the original offerings of the chosen project. The size of the installation image is 2.7 GB (x86_64). The distribution offers a simple installer for setting up the basic Arch Linux environment, based on the Calamares framework. For […]

Fastfetch 2.36: Enhanced CPU and GPU detection and new features

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The most important screenshot tool, fastfetch, has been updated. This tool for displaying system information in the terminal, the successor to the no longer supported Neofetch, continues to delight users with new features and improvements. Fastfetch is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. Key changes include the use of the kernel API for detecting sound devices on NetBSD; detection of the sound server with sndio.

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