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Development of Funtoo Linux, created by the founder of Gentoo, has been discontinued.

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Daniel Robbins, the founder of the Gentoo distribution, who stepped away from the project in 2009, has announced the cessation of development for the Funtoo Linux distribution, which he had been developing since 2006 as a project to further enhance the technologies present in Gentoo. The reason for closing the project is cited as the loss of interest and a desire to devote his time to other pursuits. Management will be handed over to other […]

Release of Redis DB 7.4 transitioned to proprietary licenses.

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The release of the Redis 7.4 database management system, classified as a NoSQL system, has been published. Redis provides features for storing data in a key/value format, enhanced with support for structured data formats such as lists, hashes, and sets, as well as the ability to execute handler scripts on the server side in Lua. Unlike in-memory storage systems like Memcached, Redis stores the database not […]

Chrome 127.0.6533.88 Update Addressing Critical Vulnerability

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Google has rolled out the Chrome 127.0.6533.88 update, which fixes three vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-6990) that allows bypassing all browser security layers and executing code in the system beyond the sandbox environment. Details have not yet been disclosed, but it is known that the critical vulnerability is related to the use of uninitialized values in the Dawn component implementing the WebGPU specification. The other two vulnerabilities are marked as […]

Building a Turing-complete computing environment using GNU find and mkdir utilities

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Japanese developer Keigo Oka demonstrated that a Turing-complete computational environment can be created using the GNU find and mkdir utilities, allowing for the implementation of any computable function and self-replication. Previously, the possibility of creating such an environment was demonstrated for the sed and awk utilities. Implementations confirming Turing completeness are provided based on find […]

jdupes 1.28.0

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On July 27, version 1.28.0 of the jdupes console utility was released, written in C and distributed under the MIT license. The utility is designed to find duplicate files, with options for deletion, block deduplication, or replacement with links. In the new version, security fixes from the in-development version 2 have been ported; crashes when creating a new hash database have been fixed; performance of name length calculation has been improved; […]

Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 Focal

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Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 (Focal) is a mobile operating system from UBports focused on freedom and privacy. This update is part of the 20.04 series and includes several important changes and improvements. Key innovations: Improved power profile system: the system can now distinguish between 'supported' and 'interactive' modes on supported devices. Fix for settings migration: an issue with migrating settings when updating from […]

Release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 Focal firmware

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After six months of development, the UBports project, which has taken over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical stepped away from it, has released the OTA-5 Focal (over-the-air) firmware. This is the fourth release of Ubuntu Touch, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04. The project is also developing an experimental desktop port of Unity 8, which has been renamed to Lomiri. The Ubuntu update […]

Release of the Git version control system 2.46.

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After three months of development, the release of the distributed version control system Git 2.46 has been published. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible tools for non-linear development based on branching and merging branches. To ensure the integrity of history and resilience against retroactive changes, implicit hashing of all previous history is used in each commit, […]

New Article: Review of the ASUS Vivobook S 15 OLED (S5506M): flagship CPU and exceptional display

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Core Ultra mobile processors with a powerful integrated GPU architecture based on Arc and an NPU unit have launched another wave of upgrades in slim laptops. However, thanks to the OLED screen and RGB keyboard backlighting, the upgraded Vivobook S 15 OLED looks more like a gaming computer than a dull laptop for office applications and web browsing. ⇡#Specifications, Prices The Vivobook S 15 OLED configuration does not […]

Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X, and Ryzen 5 9600X have proved to be up to 12.6% faster than their predecessors in Cinebench R23.

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Performance testing results for the latest Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X, and Ryzen 5 9600X processors based on Zen 5 architecture have surfaced online in the Cinebench R23 benchmark. The Tom’s Hardware portal compared their results with those of their direct predecessors — Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X, and Ryzen 5 7600X. The Ryzen 9 9900X is a 12-core processor operating at […]

Release of Vanilla OS 2 distribution, using containers and atomic updates

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After a year and a half of development, the release of the user distribution Vanilla OS 2 has been published, based on the Debian package base, but going beyond a typical rebuild. The system environment in Vanilla OS is mounted in read-only mode and updated atomically, while applications run in separate containers using a Distrobox-based layer. The user environment offers an unmodified GNOME, […]

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