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The Linux Foundation has prepared an informative report showcasing the development statistics of the Linux kernel. Notably, the first Linux kernel 0.01 consisted of 88 files and 10,239 lines of code. The latest kernel 5.8 includes 69,325 files and 28,442,673 lines of code (over 110 million tokens). More than half of the code present in the latest releases was written in the past seven years. […]
The release of the diagnostic utility htop 3.0 has been announced, providing tools for interactive process monitoring in the style of the top program. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The utility is notable for features such as free vertical and horizontal scrolling of the process list, tools for evaluating SMP performance and utilization of each CPU core, a tree view mode, flexible interface customization options, and support for […]
Starting with Fedora version 33, the Fedora IoT project, positioned as a comprehensive solution for the Internet of Things, will receive official release status. Over the past few years, the Fedora team has been developing a distribution tailored for the concept of the 'Internet of Things.' This fall, starting with the Fedora 33 release, this project eagerly anticipates its first official release. […]
NPM developers have warned about the removal of the fallguys package from the repository due to detected malicious activity. Aside from displaying an ASCII graphic splash screen featuring a character from the game "Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout", this module included code attempting to transfer some system files via webhook to the Discord messenger. The module was published in early August but only managed to get 288 downloads before […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.16 has been made. Since the release of version 5.15, 21 bug reports have been closed and 221 changes have been made. The most important changes include: support for AVX registers on x86 added in ntdll. Improved ARM64 support for macOS. Ongoing work on restructuring console support. Bug reports related to the operation of games and applications have been closed: Memorex […]
The enthusiast community is pleased to present the new version of Pleroma — a blogging server with text markup, written in Elixir and utilizing the standardized W3C ActivityPub federation protocol. This is the second most widespread implementation of the server. Compared to the nearest competing project — Mastodon, written in Ruby and operating in the same ActivityPub network — Pleroma boasts a smaller size and […]
An initial prototype of the experimental openSUSE Jump distribution is available for testing, created as part of the initiative to merge the development and compilation processes of openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions. ISO images, sized at 3.8 GB, are offered for download, prepared for x86_64, Aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. The traditional openSUSE distribution is formed based on the core set of SUSE Linux Enterprise packages, but the packages […]
The release of Supertuxkart 1.2 has been published, a free racing game with a large number of tracks, maps, and features. The game's code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Binary builds are available for Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS. In this release: for low-level window creation and input processing, the SDL2 library has replaced the Irrlicht engine. The use of SDL2 has significantly improved gamepad support, in addition to […]
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-24717) has been identified in the added OpenZFS code supporting the FreeBSD OS, leading to access rights processing issues. The core of the problem is that the rights assigned to the group were processed as rights for the file owner. The issue has been addressed in the OpenZFS 2.0.0-rc1 update. The fix was implemented before the FreeBSD HEAD codebase was migrated to OpenZFS. The problem arose because […]
The release of the Electron platform 10.0.0 has been prepared, providing a self-sufficient framework for developing cross-platform user applications based on components such as Chromium, V8, and Node.js. The significant version number change is due to the update to Chromium base 85, Node.js 12.16.3, and JavaScript engine V8 8.5. In this new release: The method contents.getBackgroundThrottling() and the property contents.backgroundThrottling have been added. The main process provides […]
Following Fedora and Debian, Ubuntu developers are considering a shift to using the nftables packet filter by default. To maintain backward compatibility, the iptables-nft package is proposed, providing utilities with the same command-line syntax as iptables, but translating the received rules into nf_tables bytecode. This change is planned to be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 20.10 release this fall. This is the second […]
Users of the Mypal browser, which is a fork of Pale Moon for Windows XP created after support for this platform was discontinued with Pale Moon 27.0, have noticed the loss of the ability to install add-ons from the site 'addons.palemoon.org,' which has also blocked access for other browsers whose User Agent headers mention Windows XP. M.C. Straver (Moonchild), the creator of the Pale Moon browser, […]