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In the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release, scheduled for October 9, the use of Dracut as the default tool for generating initial RAM disk (initrd) images has been approved, replacing the initramfs-tools package, whose development has stagnated in recent years and is limited to maintenance work. Since the development of the 25.10 release has been frozen since mid-August, preventing the addition of new functionality, the transition to […]
Stamus Networks has released a specialized distribution of Clear NDR 1.0, designed for deploying network intrusion detection and prevention systems, as well as organizing responses to detected threats and network security monitoring. Users are provided with a ready-made solution for managing network security that can be used immediately after download. The distribution supports operation in Live mode and deployment in virtualization environments or […]
The first beta release of the Term.Everything utility has been published, allowing any graphical applications to be displayed inside a terminal emulator window. Among other features, the program enables launching graphical applications in the terminal when accessing a remote system via SSH. The project code is distributed under the AGPL 3.0 license, written in TypeScript, and runs on the Bun platform. Ready-to-use builds are provided in AppImage format. Technically […]
The story of the compromise of 18 NPM packages, which collectively have over 2 billion downloads per week, has continued. A similar hijacking was detected through phishing of credentials related to the NPM packages of the DuckDB project. Malicious versions with code that substitutes payment details via cryptocurrencies were also created for DuckDB packages, but the attack was detected immediately, and only a few downloads were recorded […]
Developers of the AlmaLinux distribution have announced the decision to activate the CodeReady Builder (CRB) package repository by default with the publication of the almalinux-repos package update for AlmaLinux OS 10.0 tomorrow. In AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10, based on CentOS Stream 10, this repository has already been included since the end of August. For those who do not wish to enable CRB, the command 'dnf config-manager […]
The fifth release of the Orbitiny Desktop Environment has been published, created from scratch using the Qt framework. The project aims to combine innovative ideas not previously seen in user environments with traditional elements such as panels, menus, and icon placements on the desktop. Currently, the work is focused on launching in environments based on the X server, but in the future it will not […]
The release of the I2P Anonymous Network 2.10.0 and C++ Client i2pd 2.58.0 has been presented. I2P is a multilayered anonymous distributed network that operates over the regular internet, actively using end-to-end encryption to guarantee anonymity and isolation. The network is built in a P2P mode and is formed by the resources (bandwidth) provided by the users of the network, allowing it to function without centralized servers (communications within the network […]
The first alpha release of FreeBSD 15.0 has been prepared. Installation builds have been created for amd64, powerpc64le, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. The release is scheduled for December 2. Upgrading to the 15.0-ALPHA1 branch from previous releases using the freebsd-update utility has not yet been implemented. Starting from the FreeBSD 15 branch, the support time for significant branches after the formation of the first release (15.0) has been reduced from 5 to 4 years, and […]
Dmitry Brant from Wikimedia has introduced a port of the ftape driver for modern Linux kernels. The driver ceased updating in 2000 and was removed from kernel 2.6.20 in 2006 due to issues on multi-core systems. To restore the capability to compile and run the driver in distributions with modern Linux kernels, it needed to be reworked considering […]
The release of FreeType 2.14.0 has been announced, a modular font engine providing a unified API for standardizing the processing and rendering of font data in various vector and raster formats. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD-like FreeType license. Among the changes: The TrueType instruction interpreter has been optimized, now loading glyphs 15% faster. The processing of variable fonts has been accelerated. On modern 64-bit […]
The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 25.8 has been published, providing a compact system environment for single-board computers based on ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures, supporting various models including Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard with processors from Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos. To build the assemblies […]
The release of the uutils coreutils 0.2.0 project (Rust Coreutils), which develops an alternative implementation of the GNU Coreutils package written in Rust, has been published. The coreutils package includes more than a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The project aims to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, among other things capable of running on Windows, Redox […]