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A little over a year ago, I decided to create a web panel for my needs that would allow exporting webpage positions and other statistics from Google Search Console for easy analysis. Now I think it's time to share the tool with the OpenSource community to receive feedback and improve the program. Main features: Allows loading all available statistics on impressions, […]
On September 9, the long beta testing phase concluded, and the final build of the flight simulator X-Plane 11.50 was released. The main innovation in this version is the port of the rendering engine from OpenGL to Vulkan, which significantly increases performance and frame rates under normal conditions (i.e., not just in benchmarks). X-Plane is a cross-platform flight simulator (GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, as well as Android and iOS) […]
The release of the Thunderbird 78.2.2 email client is now available, which introduces support for rearranging email recipients via Drag&Drop. The chat feature has removed Twitter support, which was inoperable. The built-in OpenPGP implementation has improved failure handling during key imports, established online key searching, and addressed decryption issues when using certain HTTP proxies. Proper handling of vCard 2.1 attachments has been ensured. […]
Seventeen new participants have joined the initiative to increase predictability in open source software licensing, agreeing to apply more lenient revocation conditions for their open projects, allowing time to address identified violations. The total number of companies that have signed the agreement has exceeded 60. New participants signing the GPL Cooperation Commitment include NetApp, Salesforce, Seagate Technology, Ericsson, Fujitsu Limited, Indeed, Infosys, Lenovo, […]
An update has been prepared for the OpenWrt 19.07.4 distribution, designed for use in various networking devices such as routers and access points. OpenWrt supports a wide range of different platforms and architectures and features a build system that simplifies cross-compilation, allowing various components to be included in the build, which makes it easy to create firmware or disk images tailored to specific tasks with […]
The Ubuntu*Pack 20.04 distribution is now available for free download, presented in the form of 13 independent systems with various interfaces, including Budgie, Cinnamon, GNOME, GNOME Classic, GNOME Flashback, KDE (Kubuntu), LXqt (Lubuntu), MATE, Unity, and Xfce (Xubuntu), as well as two new interfaces: DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) and Like Win (Windows 10 style interface). The distributions are based on […]
Details have emerged about a new vulnerability (CVE-2020-1968) in the TLS protocol, codenamed Raccoon, which under rare circumstances allows the determination of the pre-master key that can be used to decrypt TLS connections, including HTTPS, when intercepting transit traffic (MITM). It is noted that the attack is very complex to implement in practice and is more theoretical in nature. To carry out the attack […]
The Astra Linux group of companies plans to allocate 3 billion rubles for investments in shares of companies, joint ventures, and grants for small developers who are developing niche solutions for the Linux-based software stack. These investments will help address the issue of functionality gaps in the domestic software stack, necessary to solve the problems of various corporate and governmental enterprises. The company intends to build a complete technical […]
The release of KnotDNS 3.0.0 has been published, a high-performance authoritative DNS server (the resolver is implemented as a separate application) that supports all modern DNS capabilities. The project is developed by the Czech name registry CZ.NIC, written in the C programming language, and distributed under the GPLv3 license. KnotDNS is distinguished by its focus on high-performance query processing, employing a multithreaded, mostly non-blocking implementation, which scales well on […]
The Funkwhale project has released its first stable version. As part of this initiative, a free server is being developed, written in Python using the Django framework, for hosting music and podcasts, which can be accessed through a web interface, clients that support Subsonic API, or the native Funkwhale API, and from other Funkwhale instances using the ActivityPub federated network protocol. User interaction with audio happens […]
The release of the Zorin OS 15.3 Linux distribution has been announced, based on the Ubuntu 18.04.5 package base. The target audience for the distribution is beginner users accustomed to working in Windows. To customize the appearance, the distribution offers a special configurator that allows the desktop to resemble different versions of Windows, and it includes a selection of applications similar to those familiar to Windows users. The size of the bootable iso image […]
In episode 122 of the SDCast podcast (mp3, 71 MB, ogg, 52 MB), there was an interview with Georgy Melikov, a contributor to the OpenZFS and ZFS on Linux projects. The podcast discusses how the ZFS file system is structured, its features and differences from other file systems, what components it consists of, and how it operates. Source: opennet.ru