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Collabora has announced progress in the development of the Tyr driver for the Linux kernel, written in Rust. The driver is designed to work with ARM Mali GPUs that utilize the CSF (Command Stream Frontend) technology, such as the Mali G310, G510, and G710. It is noted that Tyr has reached a level suitable for supporting the GNOME desktop environment and the Weston compositing server […]
The ntop project, which develops tools for capturing and analyzing traffic, has released the nDPI 5.0 toolkit for deep packet inspection, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was established after an unsuccessful attempt to transfer changes to the OpenDPI repository, which has remained unmaintained. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The system allows for the identification of protocols used in traffic […]
A patch set has been published addressing 6 vulnerabilities in the GRUB2 bootloader, most of which lead to memory access after it has been freed (use-after-free). The potential issues identified could be used to bypass the UEFI Secure Boot verified boot mechanism. The status of vulnerability mitigation in distributions can be assessed on the following pages: Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, RHEL, Arch, and Fedora. To address the issues […]
The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with Canonical, conducted a survey (PDF, 43 pages) among representatives of various companies regarding the usage and implementation of open-source software in enterprises. The statistics are based on a survey of 851 participants. Key trends: Participation in open-source software development: 19% of companies using open-source software are actively involved in maintaining or transferring code to key open-source projects from which they […]
Developers of the Zorin OS distribution, based on the Ubuntu package base and aimed at beginner users accustomed to working in Windows, announced that the release of Zorin OS 18 on October 15 has surpassed one million downloads, breaking all previous project records. 78% of all downloads were performed by Windows users. At the same time, it was announced that test support for Zorin OS release updates is being provided […]
The codebase of Firefox, which will form the basis for the release of Firefox 147 on January 13, has been updated to default to using the directory '~/\.config\/mozilla' for storing profiles, extensions, settings, and internal databases on UNIX-like systems (the cache was previously moved to '~/\.cache\/mozilla'). This change was made to align the browser with the Freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory specification (the change request […]
The release of the home library cataloger MyLibrary 4.3 has been announced. The program's code is written in C++ and is available (on GitHub, GitFlic) under the GPLv3 license. The graphical user interface is implemented using the GTK4 library. The program is adapted to work on Linux and Windows operating systems. An Arch Linux build script is available in AUR for users. For Windows users, […]
The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.1 has been published, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, capable of serving as a replacement for products like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation ISO image is 1.7 GB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully ready virtual […]
The developers of the Xubuntu project have released a report on the hacking of the Xubuntu.org website that occurred a month ago, during which a link to the archive 'Xubuntu-Safe-Download.zip' containing malicious code was placed on the distribution's download page. Inside the archive, masquerading as the Xubuntu installer, there was an executable file for Windows that installed malware on the system, analyzing clipboard data and substituting […]
After 8 months of development, the release of the free hypervisor Xen 4.21 has been published. The development of the new release involved companies such as Amazon, Arm, EPAM Systems, and AMD. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Development is carried out as part of the Linux Foundation organization. Key changes in Xen 4.21 include full support for the Linux stubdomain device model, […]
Cloudflare has published an analysis of one of the largest incidents in its infrastructure, which caused a significant portion of its content delivery network to be inoperable for over 3 hours yesterday. The failure occurred after a change in the structure of the database hosted in ClickHouse, after which the configuration file for the bot mitigation system doubled in size. The database contained […]
After three months of development, the release of the distributed source code management system Git 2.52 has been announced. Git is known for its high performance and provides tools for non-linear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of the history and resilience against 'backward' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, as well as verification through digital signatures of individual tags by developers […]
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