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The author of Libopenaptx has changed the license to block code borrowing by Freedesktop projects.

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Pali Rohár has changed the license for the libopenaptx project, which offers an implementation of the aptX codec (Audio Processing Technology) used in the A2DP Bluetooth profile. The package includes the libopenaptx.so library and utilities for encoding and decoding sound. The license has been changed from LGPLv2.1 to GPLv3+, which will prevent the use of the libopenaptx code in projects distributed only under the GPLv2 license without re-licensing linking with […]

Release of NomadBSD 130R-20210508 Distribution

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The release of the NomadBSD 130R-20210508 live distribution is available, representing a FreeBSD edition adapted for use as a portable desktop bootable from a USB flash 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 2.4 GB (x86_64). In this new release, the base environment has been updated to FreeBSD 13.0. Offered […]

Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT, and Fedora CoreOS will add code to count users.

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Fedora distribution developers have announced the decision to integrate a component for sending user statistics to the project server into the Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT, and Fedora CoreOS editions, allowing insights into the number of users with the distribution installed. Previously, such statistics were sent in traditional Fedora builds, and now they will also be added to the atomically updated editions based on rpm-ostree. By default […]

The release of the Bodhi Linux 6.0 distribution, offering the Moksha desktop environment

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The release of Bodhi Linux 6.0 has been introduced, which comes with the Moksha desktop environment. Moksha is developed as a fork of the Enlightenment 17 (E17) codebase, created to continue the development of Enlightenment as a lightweight desktop, due to disagreements with the project's development policy, the growth of the Enlightenment 19 (E19) environment, and the degradation of the codebase's stability. Three installation images are offered for download: standard (872 MB), with […]

Release of the SystemRescue 8.03 distribution

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The release of SystemRescue 8.03 is now available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux, designed for system recovery after a failure. The graphical environment used is Xfce. The size of the ISO image is 717 MB (amd64, i686). Changes in the new version include an updated Linux kernel 5.10.34, the inclusion of the gsmartcontrol utility for detecting problems with disks and SSDs, and the addition of the utility […]

Seventeenth Update of Ubuntu Touch Firmware

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The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after Canonical withdrew from it, has released the OTA-17 (over-the-air) firmware update. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, now renamed Lomiri. The Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 update is available for smartphones including OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 […]

Release of OpenIPC 2.1, an alternative firmware for surveillance cameras

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The release of the Linux distribution OpenIPC 2.1 has been announced, intended for use in surveillance cameras instead of the default firmware, most of which become outdated due to a lack of updates from manufacturers. This release is positioned as experimental and, unlike the stable branch, is built not on the OpenWRT package base but using buildroot. The project's developments are distributed under the MIT license. Firmware images are prepared for IP cameras on […]

FragAttacks — a series of vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi standards and implementations

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Mathy Vanhoef, the author of the KRACK attack on wireless networks, has revealed information about 12 vulnerabilities affecting various wireless devices. The identified issues are collectively named FragAttacks and encompass nearly all commonly used wireless chips and access points — of the 75 devices tested, each was susceptible to at least one of the proposed attack methods. The problems are divided […]

IBM has opened CodeNet for machine learning systems that translate and verify code.

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IBM has introduced the CodeNet initiative, aimed at providing researchers with a dataset to experiment with machine learning methods for creating translators from one programming language to another, as well as code generators and analyzers. CodeNet includes a collection of 14 million code examples that solve 4,053 typical programming problems. In total, the collection comprises about 500 million lines of code […]

Release of the decentralized communication platform Hubzilla 5.6

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A new release of the decentralized social network building platform Hubzilla 5.6 has been published. The project provides a communication server that integrates with web publishing systems, featuring a transparent identification system and access control tools in decentralized Fediverse networks. The project code is written in PHP and JavaScript and is distributed under the MIT license, with support for MySQL and its forks as data storage […]

Microsoft has prepared an eBPF implementation for Windows

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Microsoft has released an implementation of the eBPF subsystem for Windows, allowing the execution of arbitrary handlers operating at the kernel level of the operating system. eBPF provides a built-in bytecode interpreter in the kernel, enabling the creation of user space-loadable network operation handlers, monitoring access, and tracking system performance. eBPF has been a part of the Linux kernel since version 3.18 and allows for the processing of incoming/outgoing […]

Coreboot 4.14 Release

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The release of CoreBoot 4.14 has been presented, as part of which a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS is being developed. A total of 215 developers participated in creating the new version, preparing 3660 changes. Key innovations include: initial support for AMD Cezanne APU and a general code reorganization to support AMD SoC. The standard code type for AMD SoC has been unified, allowing for improvements in the code […].

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