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A year after the closure of Linux Journal, it is returning to operation under the guidance of Slashdot Media (which owns and manages the technical news site Slashdot and the open source developer portal SourceForge). The editorial team currently has no plans to resume a subscription model for the publication; all new content will be published for free on LinuxJournal.com. The team also invites anyone to contact them […]
The release of the Thunderbird email client version 78.3.0 is now available. Key changes: Performance of decrypting large messages has improved in the built-in OpenPGP implementation. A confirmation dialog has been added in the account setup wizard that appears when connecting to a server using a self-signed TLS certificate. Installation of old add-ons (MailExtensions) has been disabled. In the message composition interface, the Reply-To header has been moved below the From header. The sidebar design has been improved in […]
Mozilla has released version 12 of Firefox Reality, a specialized browser for virtual reality systems. Firefox Reality is presented as an application for the Android platform and is available for 3D headsets including Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Go, VIVE Focus, HoloLens 2, and Pico VR. The browser uses a full-featured Quantum web engine but offers a fundamentally different three-dimensional user interface that allows for website navigation […]
After a year of development, a new stable branch of the PostgreSQL database management system 13 has been released. Updates for this new branch will be available for five years until November 2025. Key innovations: Deduplication of records in B-tree indexes has been implemented, allowing for improved query performance and reduced disk space usage when indexing records with duplicate data. Deduplication is performed through periodic execution of a handler that merges […]
On September 23, SystemRescueCd 6.1.8 was released — a popular live distribution based on Arch Linux for data recovery and partition management. Changes include: Kernel updated to version 5.4.64, added support for obtaining autorun scripts over HTTPS. A boot menu option for starting with nomodeset has been added. The package now includes hex editors hexedit and ghex. Download source: linux.org.ru
Well-known German enthusiast Roman "Der8auer" Hartung had the opportunity to visit the ASUS office and get acquainted with one of the first GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards from the ROG STRIX series. Roman wasted no time and immediately began disassembling the novelty. The video published by Der8auer starts when the card is already fully disassembled. The enthusiast did not specify which exactly […]
The release of EndeavourOS 2020.09.20 is now available, taking over from the Antergos distribution, which was discontinued in May 2019 due to the remaining maintainers' lack of free time to support the project adequately. This distribution offers a simple installer for setting up a basic Arch Linux environment with Xfce desktop by default, along with the option to install one of 9 standard desktop types […]
The release of KaOS 2020.09 has been presented, a distribution with a continuous update model aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest releases of KDE and applications using Qt. The distribution develops with an eye on Arch Linux but maintains its own independent repository with about 1,500 packages and offers a range of its own graphical utilities. Builds are published for x86_64 systems (2.3 GB). In the new […]
Cisco announced the formation of a candidate for the release of the completely revamped Snort 3 intrusion prevention system, also known as the Snort++ project, which has been in development intermittently since 2005. A stable release is expected to be published within a month. The Snort 3 branch has completely rethought the product concept and redesigned its architecture. Key areas of development for Snort 3 include simplification […]
Microsoft is actively promoting its new Edge browser, which is based on the Chromium engine. It is already available for many popular platforms aside from Windows, such as Android, macOS, and iOS. Now Microsoft has announced that a developer preview of the browser will also be released on Linux in October. The Edge version for Linux will have virtually no differences from the Windows version. It will include all […]
Canonical and Lenovo have announced the expansion of their program to pre-install Linux on ThinkPad and ThinkStation devices. 29 models of ThinkPad laptops and ThinkStation workstations will be available for purchase with Ubuntu 20.04 pre-installed. Previously, Lenovo began supplying Fedora on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 model and intended to ensure RHEL pre-installation, and has also engaged in […]
Radeon Open Compute is a free set of drivers, libraries, and utilities for implementing OpenCL and machine learning technologies for platforms based on AMD graphics cards. It is developed by AMD. The set includes the rock-dkms kernel module, HCC and HIP compilers, and the rocm-clang-ocl version, libraries to support OpenCL, as well as libraries and sample sets for implementing basic machine learning algorithms. In the new release: […]
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