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The Document Foundation announced the release of the LibreOffice 7.0 office suite. You can download it using the link. This release highlights the following innovations: Writer Implemented extended list numbering. Numbering types available: [0045] [0046] Bookmarks and fields can be protected from changes Enhanced text rotation management in tables Implemented the ability to create semi-transparent fonts Bookmarks in the text are highlighted […]
Peter Robinson from the Red Hat Release Engineering Team posted a proposal to accept a version of the distribution for the Internet of Things as one of the official editions of Fedora 33. Thus, starting with Fedora 33, Fedora IoT will be shipped alongside Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server. The proposal has not yet been officially approved, but its publication was preliminarily agreed upon in […]
The main Linux distributions have formed a corrective update for the GRUB2 bootloader package, addressing issues that arose after the BootHole vulnerability was patched. After the installation of the first update, some users encountered the inability to boot their systems. Boot issues occurred on some systems with BIOS or UEFI in 'Legacy' mode and were caused by regression changes that, in certain situations, led to crashes in […]
A study conducted on the portal BSD-Hardware.info indicates that hardware support in FreeBSD is not as poor as commonly claimed. The evaluation took into account that not all hardware on the market is equally popular. There are widely used devices that need support, and there are rare devices whose owners can be counted on one hand. Accordingly, the weight of each individual device in the assessment was considered […]
The release of the Pale Moon 28.12 web browser has occurred, which branched from the Firefox codebase to ensure higher performance, maintain a classic interface, minimize memory consumption, and provide additional customization features. Pale Moon builds are created for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 license (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to a classic interface organization, without […]
Christoph Hellwig, a well-known Linux kernel developer and former member of the governing technical committee of the Linux Foundation, who was a plaintiff in a GPL-related lawsuit against VMware, has proposed to tighten protections against the binding of proprietary drivers to Linux kernel components exported only for GPL-licensed modules. To circumvent the limitation on exporting GPL symbols, producers […]
The release of the open-source platform for deploying decentralized social networks—Mastodon 3.2—has been announced, allowing users to create services on their own infrastructure that are not controlled by individual providers. If a user cannot launch their own node, they can choose a trustworthy public service for connection. Mastodon falls into the category of federated networks, where a set of […] is used to form a unified structure of connections.
The non-profit organization SPI (Software in the Public Interest), which oversees donations and legal matters (trademark, asset ownership, etc.) for projects such as Debian, Arch Linux, LibreOffice, X.Org, systemd, 0.A.D, PostgreSQL, FFmpeg, freedesktop.org, OpenWrt, OpenZFS, Jenkins, and OpenEmbedded, has published its financial report for 2019. The total amount raised was 920 thousand dollars […]
The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of a new collaborative project called OpenSSF (Open Source Security Foundation), aimed at bringing together leading industry representatives to enhance open source software security. OpenSSF will continue the development of initiatives like the Infrastructure Initiative and the Open Source Security Coalition, as well as consolidate other related security efforts undertaken by project participants. The founders of OpenSSF […]
IBM has announced a toolkit for implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) technology for Linux-based operating systems (for IBM Z and x86 architectures). Previously available for macOS and iOS, IBM's FHE toolkit is now released for Linux as well. It is provided in the form of Docker containers for three distributions: CentOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu Linux. What’s special about the technology […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 5.8. Among the most notable changes are: the KCSAN race condition detector, a universal notification delivery mechanism to user space, support for inline encryption hardware, enhanced protection mechanisms for ARM64, support for the Russian processor Baikal-T1, the ability to separately mount instances of procfs, and the implementation of protection mechanisms for ARM64 such as Shadow Call Stack and BTI. The kernel […]
Bpytop is a system resource monitor that displays current values and statistics for CPU, memory, disks, network, and individual processes. It is written in Python using psutil. This is a port of the bashtop utility to Python. According to the author, it is faster and consumes less CPU by itself. Features: Easy to use, with a menu system similar to […]