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The release of the Linux distribution Zorin OS 16.1, based on the Ubuntu 20.04 package base, has been announced. The target audience for the distribution is novice users accustomed to working in Windows. To manage the appearance, the distribution offers a special configurator that allows the desktop to resemble various versions of Windows and macOS, and it includes a selection of programs similar to those familiar to Windows users. For […]
The first beta release of FreeBSD 13.1 has been prepared. The FreeBSD 13.1-BETA1 release is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, images have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. Notable changes in the new version include the inclusion of the LLDB debugger build and the implementation of assembler optimizations for PowerPC architectures. For […]
The release of the LibreELEC 10.0.2 project, which develops a fork of the OpenELEC distribution for creating home theaters, has been announced. The user interface is based on the Kodi media center. Images for loading from USB drives or SD cards (32- and 64-bit x86, Raspberry Pi 4, various devices on Rockchip and Amlogic chips) have been prepared. With LibreELEC, any computer can be turned into a media center, working with […]
The release of xine-lib 1.2.12 has been announced, a cross-platform library for playing video and audio files, along with a set of accompanying plugins. The library can be used in several media players, including xine-ui, gxine, and kaffeine. Xine supports multithreading, works with a wide range of popular and lesser-known formats and codecs, and can handle both local content and multimedia streams transmitted over the network. Its modular architecture […]
Users of the Russian Federation's state services portal (gosuslugi.ru) have been notified about the establishment of a government certification authority with its own root TLS certificate, which is not included in the root certificate stores of operating systems and major browsers. Certificates are issued voluntarily to legal entities and are intended for use in situations where TLS certificates are revoked or not renewed due to sanctions. For instance, certification authorities located in […]
A release of the specialized distribution Tails 4.28 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been formed, based on Debian's package base and designed to ensure anonymous internet access. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are by default blocked by a packet filter. For storing user data in persistent mode between launches, […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 98 has taken place. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch has been formed — 91.7.0. The Firefox 99 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for April 5. Key changes: The behavior of file downloads has been modified — instead of prompting for approval before starting a download, files now begin to download automatically, and a notification appears in the panel indicating the start of the […]
To be implemented in Fedora Linux 37, a directive is proposed recommending maintainers to cease building packages for the i686 architecture if the necessity for such packages is doubtful or leads to significant time or resource expenditure. This recommendation does not apply to packages used as dependencies in other packages or utilized in the context of "multilib" to ensure the execution of 32-bit programs on 64-bit systems […]
The release of the DentOS 2.0 network operating system, based on the Linux kernel and designed for switches, routers, and specialized network equipment, is now available. The development is being carried out with the participation of companies such as Amazon, Delta Electronics, Marvell, NVIDIA, Edgecore Networks, and Wistron NeWeb (WNC). The project was initially founded by Amazon to equip network equipment for its infrastructure. The DentOS code is written in […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2022-0847) has been identified in the Linux kernel that allows for overwriting the contents of the page cache for any files, including those in read-only mode, opened with the O_RDONLY flag, or located in filesystems mounted in read-only mode. Practically, this vulnerability can be exploited to inject code into arbitrary processes or corrupt data in opened […]
The first release of LWQt, a variant of the LXQt user interface 1.0, translated to use the Wayland protocol instead of X11, has been introduced. Like the LXQt project, LWQt is presented as a lightweight, modular, and fast user environment that adheres to classic desktop organization methods. The project code is written in C++ using the Qt framework and is distributed under the LGPL 2.1 license. The first release includes […]
Details of the vulnerability (CVE-2022-0492) in the implementation of the resource limit mechanism cgroups v1 in the Linux kernel have been revealed, which can be used to escape isolated containers. The issue manifests starting with Linux kernel 2.6.24 and is fixed in kernel releases 5.16.12, 5.15.26, 5.10.97, 5.4.177, 4.19.229, 4.14.266, and 4.9.301. You can track updates for package releases in distributions on these pages: Debian, SUSE, […]