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An update of the specialized build of the DogLinux distribution (Debian LiveCD in the style of Puppy Linux), built on the package base of Debian 11 "Bullseye," has been prepared and is intended for testing and maintaining PCs and laptops. It includes applications such as GPUTest, Unigine Heaven, ddrescue, WHDD, and DMDE. The distribution allows you to test hardware functionality, stress the CPU and GPU, and check SMART HDD and NVMe […]
The results of the experiment on launching Linux within a virtual 3D space of the multiplayer online game VRChat, which allows the upload of 3D models with custom shaders, have been published. To implement the intended idea, a RISC-V architecture emulator was created, run on the GPU side as a pixel (fragment) shader (VRChat does not support compute shaders and UAVs). The emulator code is published under the MIT license. The emulator is based on […]
An update for the Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS distribution has been formed, which includes changes related to improved hardware support, updates to the Linux kernel and graphics stack, and bug fixes in the installer and bootloader. Additionally, current updates for several hundred packages related to vulnerabilities and stability issues have been included. Simultaneously, similar updates for Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.3 LTS, Kubuntu […]
The developers of the GNOME project have introduced a new application directory at apps.gnome.org, which features a selection of the best applications created in line with the GNOME community philosophy and seamlessly integrated with the desktop. Three sections are proposed: main applications, additional applications from the community developed under the GNOME Circle initiative, and applications for developers. The directory also includes mobile applications created with […]
The Document Foundation has published download statistics for the week following the release of LibreOffice 7.2. It is reported that LibreOffice 7.2.0 was downloaded 473 thousand times. In comparison, the long-stagnant project Apache OpenOffice garnered 456 thousand downloads for its release 4.1.10, which included only a few fixes, in the first week after its launch, and 666 thousand downloads in the second week […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.9 suite of internet applications has taken place, which combines a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom news feed aggregator, and the WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer into one product. The package also includes pre-installed add-ons such as the IRC client Chatzilla, the web development tools DOM Inspector, and the Lightning calendar-planner. This new release incorporates fixes and changes from the latest Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
An updated release of the OpenSSL cryptographic library 1.1.1l is now available, addressing two vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3711 — a buffer overflow in the code implementing the SM2 cryptographic algorithm (widely used in China), which allows up to 62 bytes to be overwritten in an out-of-bounds buffer due to a miscalculation of the buffer size. An attacker could potentially achieve arbitrary code execution or crash the application by sending specially crafted […]
The release of QEMU 6.1 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows running programs compiled for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, executing an application for ARM on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, QEMU's code execution performance in an isolated environment approaches that of a physical system thanks to the direct execution of instructions on the CPU and leveraging […]
On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced in the comp.os.minix newsgroup the creation of a working prototype of the new operating system Linux, marking the completion of the porting of bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40. The first public release of the Linux kernel was presented on September 17. Kernel 0.0.1 was 62 KB in compressed form and contained […]
The GNU project has released version 0.8 of the GNU Taler electronic payment system. A key feature of the system is that it provides anonymity for buyers while ensuring that sellers are not anonymous, thereby ensuring transparency in tax reporting. That means the system does not allow tracking user spending, but it provides the means to track incoming funds (the sender remains anonymous), addressing inherent […]
In Ruffle, the emulator for Adobe Flash Player written in Rust, support for the H.263 video compression format decoder has been added, allowing playback of video streams embedded in SWF files (currently without FLV format support). The H.263 decoder is built from scratch in Rust and is not a wrapper around FFmpeg. The codec implementation was initially proposed for inclusion in Ruffle back in January, […]
The first beta release of the GNOME 41 desktop environment has been introduced, marking the freeze of changes related to the user interface and API. The release is scheduled for September 22, 2021. Experimental builds for testing GNOME 41 have been prepared by the GNOME OS project. It is worth noting that GNOME has transitioned to a new version numbering system, with the release of version 40.0 in spring instead of 3.40, followed by […]