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According to The Register, Lenovo will officially sell used computers and servers. The new initiative is called Lenovo Certified Refurbished: it is expected to help customers save on equipment purchases while also reducing the negative impact on the environment. Before being re-sold, all devices will undergo a restoration and repair process. It involves […]
The Distrobox 1.7 toolkit has been released, allowing for quick installation and running of any Linux distribution in a container while ensuring its integration with the main system. The project code is written in Shell and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project provides a wrapper around Docker, Podman, or Lilipod and is characterized by maximum simplification of working and integrating the deployed environment with the rest of the system. To create an environment with […]
The startup Ente, developing the eponymous service for securely storing photos, has announced the opening of the source code for the server-side of its platform, in addition to previously opened client and mobile applications. The published code allows for the deployment of a photo storage and sharing service reminiscent of Google Photos and Apple Photos. The server-side code is written in Go and is distributed under […]
The Linux From Scratch community announces the release of the LFS 12.1 book distribution, with a translation available in Russian. Key changes include updates to the toolchain for binutils-2.42 and glibc-2.39. In total, since the last release, 43 packages have been updated, including Grub 2.12, Systemd 255, SysVinit 3.08, Openssl 3.2.1, Python 3.12, and others. The Linux kernel has been updated […]
On February 28, 2024, WinRAR and RAR version 7.0 were released. The console version of RAR is natively available on FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS (Intel and Silicon), while the graphical version of RAR is available for Android, and WinRAR with both graphical and console interfaces is available for Windows (both 64-bit and 32-bit). New features include support for dictionaries up to 64 gigabytes. Maximum directory length […]
The release of the MenuetOS 1.50 operating system has been published, which is developed entirely in assembly language. MenuetOS builds are prepared for 64-bit x86 systems and can run under QEMU. The system build is 1.4 MB in size and is available as a floppy disk image and an ISO image for writing to CD (VirtualBox launch is supported). The project's source code is distributed under a modified MIT license, […]
Proxmox, known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution for deploying virtual server infrastructure, has announced the release of the Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.1 distribution, which is presented as a ready solution for quickly setting up a mail traffic control system and protecting the internal mail server. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are open under the AGPLv3 license. For update installations […]
The OSTIF (Open Source Technology Improvement Fund), established to enhance the security of open projects, has announced the completion of an independent code audit of the LLVM project. The work was carried out by the English company Ada Logics. During this process, the interrupted testing in OSS-Fuzz, which had been paused for over a year, was resumed. Code coverage increased from 1.1 to 2.4 million lines of code, involving […]
After more than a year of development, the release of the Live distribution grml 2024.02 has been published, based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base. The distribution includes a selection of programs for text data processing using the texttools package and for performing tasks that arise in the practice of system administrators (data recovery after failures, incident analysis, etc.). The graphical environment is built using the Fluxbox window manager. Size […]
The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) committee, which focuses on the development of internet protocols and architecture, has approved the assignment of the status of 'Proposed Standard' to the free audio codec FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) developed by the Xiph.Org community. Based on the 14th draft specification of FLAC, an RFC will be formed (typically, final editing and publication of an RFC takes 3-6 months). Notably, the list of items at the stage […]
After 10 months of development, the release of the Musl standard C library 1.2.5 has been presented, providing a libc implementation suitable for use on both desktop PCs and servers as well as mobile systems, combining full standards support (as in Glibc) with a small size, low resource consumption, and high performance (like in uClibc, dietlibc, and Android Bionic). It has support for all mandatory […]
New releases of the Linux From Scratch 12.1 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 12.1 (BLFS) guides have been introduced, available in two versions, with SysVinit and systemd initialization systems. In Linux From Scratch, instructions are provided for building a basic Linux system from scratch using only the source texts of the required software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements LFS instructions with information on building […]
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