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Shawn Anastasio, a free software enthusiast who previously developed his own operating system ShawnOS and worked on porting Chromium and Qubes OS to the ppc64le architecture, founded the Xfce Classic project, which aims to develop forks of the Xfce desktop environment components that operate without client-side decorations (CSD), where the header and borders […]
The next generation of Intel desktop processors will be the Rocket Lake-S family chips. Previous rumors hinted at the unusual nature of these chips — they would be a 14nm adaptation of Willow Cove cores designed for the 10nm process. However, now even stranger information has emerged that this new generation will reportedly include processors with eight cores and twelve threads. And no, we […]
Linus Torvalds joined the discussion about the possibility of adding support for the Rust programming language to the Linux kernel. Josh Triplett from Intel, who is working on a project to bring Rust up to parity with C in system programming, suggested initially adding an option for Rust support in Kconfig that would not lead to […]
Linus Torvalds accepted changes related to code style guidelines in the Linux 5.8 kernel branch. The third revision of the document concerning the use of inclusive terminology, which was approved by 21 prominent kernel developers, including members of the technical committee of the Linux Foundation, has been accepted. Linus was requested to include changes in kernel 5.9, but he believed there was no reason to wait […]
An extension for PostgreSQL called AGE (AgensGraph-Extension) has been proposed, implementing the openCypher query language for manipulating sets of interconnected hierarchical data forming a graph. Instead of columns and rows, graph-oriented databases use a structure similar to a network, defining nodes, their properties, and the relationships between them. AGE is released under the Apache 2.0 license and was contributed by Bitnine under the auspices of the Apache Foundation […]
Firefox developers have continued to advance the 'HTTPS Only' mode, in which all unencrypted requests are automatically redirected to their secure page versions (replacing 'http://' with 'https://'). In the nightly builds from which Firefox 80 will be released on August 25, a section for controlling the activation of these settings has been added to the browser preferences interface (about:preferences) under the 'Privacy & Security' section […]
After a year of development, the Slackel 7.3 distribution has been released, built on the foundations of the Slackware and Salix projects and fully compatible with the repositories they offer. A key feature of Slackel is the use of the constantly updated Slackware-Current branch. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. The size of the boot image, which can operate in Live mode, is 1.9 GB (32 and 64 bit). The distribution can […]
The certificate authority Digicert plans to revoke approximately 50,000 EV (Extended Validation) TLS certificates on July 11. The certificates subject to revocation were issued through accredited certificate authorities that do not appear in audit reports. EV certificates confirm the claimed identification parameters and require the certificate authority to verify domain ownership documents and the physical presence of the resource owner. The rules governing the activities of certificate authorities prescribe […]
Corrective releases of the Tor tooling (0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, and 4.4.2-alpha) have been released, which is used to operate the anonymous Tor network. The new versions fix a vulnerability (CVE-2020-15572) caused by accessing memory outside the bounds of the allocated buffer. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to initiate a crash of the tor process. The issue only manifests when built with the NSS library (by default, Tor is built with OpenSSL, and […]
Nick Desaulniers, who works at Google on supporting Linux kernel builds using the Clang compiler and also helps fix bugs in the Rust compiler, proposed to hold a session at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2020 to discuss the possibility of developing kernel components in Rust. Nick is organizing a micro-conference dedicated to LLVM and believes it would be beneficial […
The release of Minetest 5.3.0 has been presented, an open cross-platform version of the game MineCraft that allows groups of players to collaboratively create various structures from standard blocks, forming a virtual world (sandbox genre). The game is written in C++ using the irrlicht 3D engine. Lua is used for creating extensions. Minetest code is distributed under the LGPL license, and game resources are under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Ready […
Dale Hirt, PHP project manager at Microsoft, warned developers that the company will not support the PHP 8.0 branch for Windows. Support for the PHP 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 branches included build support, fixes for specific errors, and development for the Windows platform. For the 8.0 branch, this work will have to be carried out by community members interested in […