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Fosshost free projects hosting ceases operations due to the unavailability of the director

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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 […]

Release Cygwin 3.4.0, GNU environment for Windows

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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, […]

Release of the Grml Live distribution 2022.11

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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 […]

Release of the 4MLinux distribution 41.0

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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 […]

Release of OpenIKED 7.2, a portable implementation of the IKEv2 protocol for IPsec.

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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 […]

PAPPL 1.3 is available, a framework for organizing print output.

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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. […]

About 21% of the new compiled code in Android 13 is written in Rust.

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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, […]

LG has released webOS Open Source Edition 2.19.

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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 […]

Release of Buttplug 6.2, an open library for managing external devices.

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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 […]

Root vulnerability in the Snap package management toolkit.

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Qualys has detected the third serious vulnerability of the year (CVE-2022-3328) in the snap-confine utility, which is shipped with the SUID root flag and invoked by the snapd process to create the execution environment for applications distributed in self-contained snap packages. This vulnerability allows a local unprivileged user to execute code with root privileges in the default Ubuntu configuration. The problem has been fixed in the release […]

Chrome OS 108 is now available.

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The release of Chrome OS 108, based on the Linux kernel, upstart system manager, ebuild/portage build tools, open components, and Chrome 108 web browser, is now available. The user environment of Chrome OS is limited to the web browser, and instead of standard applications, web applications are used. However, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The source code is distributed under […]

The Linux 6.2 kernel will include a subsystem for acceleration.

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A new subsystem called 'accel' was accepted into the DRM-Next branch, which is set to be included in the Linux kernel 6.2, implementing a framework for computation accelerators. This subsystem is built on top of DRM/KMS, as developers have already broken down the GPU view into separate components, including sufficiently independent aspects of 'graphics output' and 'computations', allowing the subsystem to already operate […]

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