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Canonical has revealed its financial results for 2025. Revenue for 2025 reached $345 million, with a net profit of $22.8 million and a gross margin of 89%. In comparison, revenue in 2024 was $292 million, with net profit of $18.1 million. Regarding expenses, 27% of the revenue was spent on […]
The release of Wifibox 0.17 is now available, aimed at addressing the issue of using wireless adapters in FreeBSD for which necessary drivers are missing. The problematic adapters for FreeBSD in Wifibox are made operational by running a guest system with Linux, which loads the native Linux drivers for the wireless devices. The environment can potentially be used for any WiFi cards supported in Linux and has been tested […]
The release of the note-taking application OutWiker 4.1 has been published. The program stores notes as directories with text files, and an arbitrary number of files can be attached to each note. Notes can be created using HTML, wiki, and Markdown formatting (if the corresponding plugin is installed). With plugins, the ability to display formulas on wiki pages in LaTeX format and insert blocks […]
The postmarketOS project, which develops a Linux distribution for mobile devices, has announced a name change to Nura. The name is inspired by the ancient Nuraghe towers in Sardinia, symbolizing stability and longevity, which aligns with the project's goal of extending the life of mobile devices. The logo has largely remained the same but has been refined for improved readability. The domain has changed from postmarketos.org to nura.eco. […]
The release of the Budgie 10.10.3 desktop environment has been presented, marking the third update of the 10.10 branch, which has transitioned to using the Wayland protocol. Simultaneously, similar releases have been formed for accompanying components, such as the Budgie Desktop View and the Budgie Desktop Services suite (the update for the Budgie Session manager and the interface for configuring the Budgie Control Center is delayed). The project code is distributed under […]
Several recently discovered dangerous vulnerabilities allow for root access to the system or remote code execution. There are 7 vulnerabilities in the LXD container management system and 11 vulnerabilities in the Incus fork. A number of vulnerabilities, marked as critical, enable local unprivileged users to modify any files on the system or execute their own code with root privileges. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in LXD versions 6.9, […]
The release of the M-Commander 6.1.0 console two-panel file manager has been published. It is being developed as a fork of GNU Midnight Commander and enhanced with support for panel plugins that can be loaded during runtime. Through these plugins, users can open archives, external storage (FTP, SFTP, Samba, S3), Git repositories, Docker containers, Kubernetes resources, and MongoDB and SQLite databases. The subshell mechanism has been replaced with the built-in PTY terminal mcterm. The code is written in […]
The release of the CoreBoot project 26.09 has been published, developing a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version includes 1251 changes, prepared with the participation of 112 developers, 28 of whom contributed for the first time. Key changes: Support for 26 motherboards has been implemented: Acer TravelMate P633-M and P633-V; Apple iMac4,1; ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X […]
The virtio-nvgpu project develops a virtio device that allows access to NVIDIA GPUs from guest systems running under the KVM hypervisor, with minimal performance loss. It includes a kernel module loaded in the guest system and a virtio device running on the host environment. The kernel module code is written in C and distributed under the GPLv2 license, while the virtio device code is written in Rust […]
After more than six years since the last major release, the Apache Software Foundation has launched the release of the centralized version control system Subversion 1.15.0. Key improvements in Subversion 1.15 include the addition of a mode that operates without caching base revisions of all files on the local system (Pristines On Demand), allowing the size of the working copy on disk to be reduced by up to 50% by downloading files from the server as needed […]
After 6 months of development, the release of Samba 4.25.0 has been presented, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a complete implementation of the domain controller and Active Directory service compatible with the Windows Server implementation and capable of serving all supported Microsoft Windows client versions, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product, also providing file server, print service, and server […]
Researchers from Graz University of Technology (Austria) have identified a series of attacks through side channels (PDF) conducted via file system change tracking mechanisms. These attacks enable the monitoring of other users' activities based on analyzing events related to file and directory access through APIs such as inotify in Linux, FileObserver in Android, ReadDirectoryChangesW in Windows, and File System Events in […]