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Several recently discovered vulnerabilities: A critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-41034) has been identified in the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor, allowing for code execution when a user opens a link crafted by an attacker. Code can be executed both on the computer with VS Code and on any other computers connected to VS Code using the ‘Remote Development’ feature. This issue poses the greatest danger to […]
The release of the Live distribution NomadBSD 131R-20221130 is available, which represents a FreeBSD edition adapted for use as a portable desktop that can be booted from a USB drive. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. DSBMD is used for mounting drives (supporting CD9660, FAT, HFS+, NTFS, Ext2/3/4 mounting). The size of the boot image is 2 GB (x86_64, i386). In the new release: The base environment has been updated to FreeBSD 13.1. […]
The release of the free distribution OpenIndiana 2022.10 has been published, which replaces the binary distribution OpenSolaris, the development of which was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides users with a working environment built on a fresh slice of the Illumos project codebase. The development of OpenSolaris technologies continues with the Illumos project, which advances the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, and the basic set of user system utilities […]
Participants in the Fosshost project, which provides virtual servers for free projects, have announced the impossibility of continuing their services and anticipate the imminent shutdown of the company’s servers. The issues at Fosshost have arisen because Thomas Markey, the company director, has not been in contact for over six months, and without him, it has been impossible to resolve both financial and technical matters. Access […]
Red Hat has released a stable version of the Cygwin 3.4.0 package, which includes a DLL library to emulate the basic Linux API on Windows, allowing for minimal changes when compiling programs created for Linux. The package also contains standard Unix utilities, server applications, compilers, libraries, and header files specifically built to run on Windows. This release is notable for the discontinuation of support for 32-bit installations and the WoW64 layer, […]
After more than a year of development, the Live distribution grml 2022.11 has been released, based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base. The distribution includes a selection of programs for processing text data using the texttools package and for tasks commonly encountered by system administrators (data recovery after failures, incident analysis, etc.). The graphical environment is built using the Fluxbox window manager. Size […]
The release of 4MLinux 41.0 has been announced, a minimalist user distribution that is not a derivative of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be used not only as a live environment for playing multimedia files and addressing user tasks but also as a recovery system after crashes and a platform for deploying LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and […]
The OpenBSD project has released OpenIKED 7.2, an implementation of the IKEv2 protocol developed by the OpenBSD project. This marks the fourth release of OpenIKED as a separate project—initially, IKEv2 components were an inseparable part of the OpenBSD IPsec stack, but they have since been separated into a portable package and can now be used across different operating systems. OpenIKED has been tested on FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS, and various […]
Michael R Sweet, the author of the CUPS printing system, has introduced PAPPL 1.3, a framework for developing applications for printing based on the IPP Everywhere protocol, which is recommended as a replacement for traditional printer drivers. The framework's code is written in C and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license with an exception that allows linking to code under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. […]
Engineers from Google have reported the first results of implementing Rust language support in the Android platform. In Android 13, approximately 21% of the new added compiled code is written in Rust, while 79% is in C/C++. The AOSP (Android Open Source Project) repository, where the source code of the Android platform is developed, contains about 1.5 million lines of code in Rust, […]
The release of the open platform webOS Open Source Edition 2.19 has been announced, which can be used on various portable devices, boards, and automotive infotainment systems. Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered as the reference hardware platform. The platform is developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, with the development being overseen by the community under a collaborative model. The webOS platform was initially developed by […]
The Nonpolynomial organization has released a stable and widely applicable version of the Buttplug 6.2 library, which can be used to manage various types of devices through gamepads, keyboards, joysticks, and VR devices. Among other features, it supports synchronization of device operation with content played in Firefox and VLC, and plugins are being developed for integration with game engines Unity and Twine. Initially […]