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The Fedora project is celebrating its 20th anniversary since the first release of the project, published on November 6, 2003. The project was formed after Red Hat split the Red Hat Linux distribution into two projects — the community-driven Fedora Linux and the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora Linux was focused on intensive development of new Linux technologies, promoting innovations early […]
Three vulnerabilities have been identified in the developing Kubernetes ingress controller ingress-nginx that allow access to the Ingress object settings in the default configuration, which, among other things, store the credentials for accessing Kubernetes servers, enabling privileged access to the cluster. These issues only affect the ingress-nginx controller from the Kubernetes project and do not impact the kubernetes-ingress controller being developed by […]
Unlike their 16 GB counterparts, 32 GB DDR5 modules feature a dual-rank architecture. But how does this affect performance? We analyze this by comparing identical DDR5-6400 kits of 32 and 64 GB in terms of specifications. Source: 3dnews.ru
The release of LXQt 1.4 (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) has been presented, developed by a combined team of LXDE and Razor-qt project developers. The LXQt interface continues to follow the principles of classic desktop organization, bringing modern design and techniques that enhance usability. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast, and user-friendly evolution of the Razor-qt and LXDE desktops, incorporating the best features of both shells. […]
Artist David Revua complained in his blog that after upgrading the Linux kernel to version 6.5.8 on Fedora Linux, the right button on his tablet stylus started behaving like an eraser. The model of the tablet used by Revua has an eraser that is pressure-sensitive on the back, while the right button on the stylus has been configured in Krita for […]
An update for the Static Linux distribution has been released, based on the Alpine Linux package base and offering an environment based on the Linux 6.1.60 kernel, the standard Musl library, and BusyBox tools. The graphical environment is built on the Labwc compositor server using Wayland, featuring the CoreFM file manager, CoreImage image viewer, CorePad text editor, CoreTerminal terminal emulator, and mpv media player. It also includes utilities for […]
The release of the dynamic tracing system SystemTap 5.0 has been published, providing debugging tools for the Linux platform similar to the DTrace technology. SystemTap allows for in-depth monitoring of a running Linux system, collecting statistics on application performance, profiling, and controlling system calls. Management is performed through a command-line interface and a special C-like scripting language. The system is compatible with Linux kernels starting from version […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, on which version 121 will be based and released on December 19, a new option has been added to the context menu, allowing users to copy the URL of the selected link to the clipboard while removing tracking options used for transitions between sites. For example, when copying a link, the mc_eid and fbclid parameters used during transitions from the pages will be removed […]
The release of the Exim mail server 4.97 has occurred, incorporating accumulated fixes and new features. According to a November automated survey of about 700 thousand mail servers, Exim accounts for 58.73% (down from 60.90% a year ago), while Postfix is used on 34.86% (previously 32.49%) of mail servers, Sendmail on 3.46% (3.51%), MailEnable on 1.84% (1.91%), MDaemon on 0.40% (0.42%), and Microsoft Exchange […]
The release of the EdgeDB 4.0 DBMS, implementing a relational-graph model and the EdgeQL query language optimized for working with complex hierarchical data, has been introduced. The code is written in Python and Rust (for the parser and performance-critical parts) and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The project is evolving as an extension on top of PostgreSQL. Client libraries are prepared for Python, Go, Rust, and .NET […]
Another version of the Radix cross Linux distribution 1.9.212 is available, built using the proprietary Radix.pro build system, which simplifies the creation of distributions for embedded systems. Distribution builds are available for devices based on ARM/ARM64, MIPS, and x86/x86_64 architectures. Boot images prepared according to the instructions in the Platform Download section contain a local package repository, thus system installation does not require an Internet connection […]
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenELA Creator Association, which includes Rocky Linux represented by CIQ, Oracle Linux, and SUSE, has launched an alternative repository containing the source code for RHEL. The source code is available for free, without registration or SMS. The repository is maintained and supported by members of the OpenELA association. In the future, there are plans to create tools for building your own Enterprise Linux distribution, and […]