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Bruce Perens, one of the authors of the Open Source definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, believes that the Open Source paradigm has reached a point where open licenses no longer provide adequate protection and that it is time to create a revised concept of Post-Open Source, which will help harmonize the relationships between open source developers and commercial companies.
The results of the general resolution voting by Debian developers involved in package maintenance and infrastructure support have been published, confirming the text of a statement expressing the project's position regarding the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) bill being promoted in the European Union. The bill introduces additional requirements for software manufacturers aimed at encouraging the maintenance of security, disclosure of incident details, and more.
The Linux Foundation has published its annual report, which states that 270 new members joined the organization in 2023, and the number of projects overseen by the organization reached 1,133. Over the year, the organization generated $263.6 million in revenue and spent $269 million. Compared to last year, expenses for kernel development fell by nearly $400,000. The overall share of...
The AlmaLinux project, which develops a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has announced the formation of additional builds based on AlmaLinux versions 9.3 and 8.9. Live builds have been updated for these versions with user environments including GNOME (standard and mini), KDE, MATE, and Xfce, as well as images for Raspberry Pi platforms, containers (Docker, OCI, LXD/LXC), virtual machines (Vagrant Box), and cloud platforms...
A corrective release of the Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 office suite is now available, which includes 14 fixes. Ready packages have been prepared for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Among the changes in the new version: In Calc, a crash preventing documents from being saved in ODS format in non-Latin alphabet builds has been fixed. In Calc, an issue causing formula misalignment when moving...
On December 26, a remix of the Fedora distribution was released, specifically designed for gaming and streaming. This version of Nobara is based on Fedora 39. Notably, the project is led by GloriousEggroll from the Proton-GE project. Now, the default build is based on KDE Plasma, whereas the previous release primarily used GNOME. Additional builds with Gnome are also available. This version also includes: updates to the compositor […]
In the document viewer Xreader, being developed by the Linux Mint distribution team, two vulnerabilities have been identified that could allow an attacker to execute code by opening specially crafted files in EPUB and CBT formats. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in updates Xreader 4.0.0, 3.8.5, 3.6.6, 3.2.3, and 2.6.5. The vulnerabilities were caused by coding errors in parsing EPUB and CBT formats. In the case of […]
The release of the Nobara 39 distribution has been announced, based on the Fedora Linux 39 package base and including additional fixes that address known issues encountered when launching computer games, streaming, and performing content creation tasks. Six installation images have been prepared for download: the official version with KDE (3.6 GB), additional versions with GNOME (3.5 GB) and KDE (3.5 GB), as well as […]
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Netfilter subsystem (CVE-2023-6817) that could theoretically be exploited by a local user to elevate their privileges in the system. The root of the problem lies in the use of freed memory (use-after-free) in the nf_tables module, which is responsible for the functionality of the nftables packet filter. The vulnerability is present starting from Linux kernel version 5.6. A fix has been proposed in the test release of Linux kernel 6.7-rc5 and incorporated into […]
Brandt Bucher from Microsoft, a core developer of CPython and a member of the team focused on enhancing the performance of the CPython interpreter, has published an implementation of a JIT compiler for Python using the Copy-and-Patch technique. The JIT release coincides with Christmas, and the announcement is written in verse. The proposed JIT is notable for its extremely high code generation speed, ease of maintenance, and complete integration with the interpreter. The suggested method […]
A vulnerability has been detected in the Netfilter subsystem (CVE-2023-6817) that potentially allows a local user to elevate their privileges in the system. The issue is caused by access to memory after it has been freed (use-after-free) in the nf_tables module, which ensures the operation of the nftables packet filter. The vulnerability manifests starting from Linux kernel version 5.6. A fix for the vulnerability has been proposed in the test release of Linux kernel 6.7-rc5 and transferred to the current stable branches […]
The release of LibreELEC 11.0.4 has been published, developing a fork of the OpenELEC distribution for creating home theaters. The user interface is based on the Kodi media center. Images for USB drive or SD card usage (32- and 64-bit x86, Raspberry Pi 2/3/4/5, various devices on Rockchip, Allwinner, NXP, and Amlogic chips) are prepared for download. The build size for the x86_64 architecture is 227 MB. During […]
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