Category: Internet News

New Article: Review and Testing of the MSI MEG Z490 Godlike Motherboard: It's Hard to be a God

Alongside other manufacturers, the Taiwanese company MSI introduced its motherboards for Comet Lake-S processors with LGA1200 construction, presenting a variety of options at once. The company's lineup includes a total of 11 motherboards, ranging from the basic and affordable Z490-A PRO to the elite MEG Z490 Godlike, which leads MSI's series of models designed for extreme overclocking, MEG (MSI Enthusiast Gaming). […]

Release of nginx 1.19.1 and njs 0.4.2

The release of the new main branch nginx 1.19.1 has been announced, which is focused on the development of new features. The stable branch 1.18.x, which is maintained concurrently, only receives changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. Next year, a stable branch 1.20 will be formed based on the main branch 1.19.x. Key changes: The directives "proxy_cache_path", "fastcgi_cache_path", "scgi_cache_path", and "uwsgi_cache_path" have been updated to include the "min_free" parameter, […]

A fork VKD3D has been created to improve Direct3D 12 support in Proton.

As part of the VKD3D-Proton project, a fork from the vkd3d codebase has been created. Valve plans to use this fork in the Wine-based package for running Windows games called Proton. Support for DirectX 9/10/11 in Proton is based on the DXVK package, while the implementation of DirectX 12 has continued to rely on the vkd3d library (which was carried on after the original author's passing, […]

The Gentoo project has released a build for mobile devices shipped with Android

The Gentoo project has introduced a new 64-bit build called "Gentoo on Android", aimed at providing a working Gentoo environment for mobile devices based on the Android platform. The build installs within the existing Android operating system (Gentoo stage3 is installed in a separate directory /data/gentoo64 and uses the Android system kernel). Root access to the device's Android firmware is required for installation. The environment is launched with the command /data/gentoo64/startprefix, which […]

CentOS has launched a repository with RealTime packages developed for RHEL 8.3

The developers of the CentOS project announced the continuation of the development of the continuously updated version CentOS Stream, which provides access to packages being prepared for the next intermediate release of RHEL (the rolling variant of RHEL). The most notable innovation is the launch of the new RealTime (RT) repository, which offers a set of packages aimed at applications demanding minimal latency. These packages are being developed as part of the "Red […

OpenBSD has begun forming builds for the powerpc64 architecture.

OpenBSD developers have organized snapshots for systems running on POWER9 processors. If the developers maintain their interest, powerpc64 will become the thirteenth officially supported hardware platform in OpenBSD, not including the 20 obsolete platforms that have been deprecated. Currently, the list of officially supported architectures in OpenBSD includes: alpha, amd64, arm64, armv7, hppa, i386, landisk, loongson, luna88k, macppc, […]

Release of NomadBSD 1.3.2

The release of the Live distribution NomadBSD 1.3.2 is available, which is a version of FreeBSD adapted for use as a portable desktop, bootable from a USB drive. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. DSBMD is used for mounting drives (supporting CD9660, FAT, HFS+, NTFS, Ext2/3/4), while wifimgr is used for configuring the wireless network. The size of the boot image is 2.6 GB (x86_64). In the new release: […]

Release of the integrated internet applications suite SeaMonkey 2.53.3

The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.3 suite of internet applications has taken place, which combines a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom feed aggregator, and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer in a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, the web development tools DOM Inspector, and the calendar-scheduler Lightning. This release includes fixes and changes from the current codebase of Firefox (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]

The developers of LibreOffice intend to release new versions under the label 'Personal Edition'

The Document Foundation, which oversees the development of the free LibreOffice suite, has announced upcoming changes regarding the branding and positioning of the project in the market. The anticipated release of LibreOffice 7.0, currently available for testing in release candidate form, is planned to be distributed as 'LibreOffice Personal Edition.' The code and distribution conditions will remain unchanged, and the office suite, as […]

Release of Clonezilla Live 2.6.7

The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 2.6.7 is available, designed for quick disk cloning (only the used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to those of the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 277 MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizes code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, udpcast. Booting from […]

Linus Torvalds on the issues of finding maintainers, Rust, and workflows

At the virtual conference 'Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux' held last week, Linus Torvalds discussed the present and future of the Linux kernel in an opening talk with Dirk Hohndel from VMware. During the discussion, the topic of generational change among developers was addressed. Linus pointed out that despite the project's nearly 30-year history, in general, the community […]

Dismantling EncroChat

Recently, Europol, NCA, the National Gendarmerie of France, and a joint investigative team formed with the participation of France and the Netherlands conducted a joint operation aimed at compromising the EncroChat servers by 'installing technical devices' on the servers in France(1) to facilitate the 'calculation and identification of criminals through the analysis of millions of messages and hundreds of thousands of images.'(2) Some time after the operation, […]

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