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The distribution for mobile devices postmarketOS has been renamed to Nura.

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The postmarketOS project, which develops a Linux distribution for mobile devices, has announced a name change to Nura. The name is inspired by the ancient Nuraghe towers in Sardinia, symbolizing stability and longevity, which aligns with the project's goal of extending the life of mobile devices. The logo has largely remained the same but has been refined for improved readability. The domain has changed from postmarketos.org to nura.eco. […]

Release of Budgie Desktop 10.10.3

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The release of the Budgie 10.10.3 desktop environment has been presented, marking the third update of the 10.10 branch, which has transitioned to using the Wayland protocol. Simultaneously, similar releases have been formed for accompanying components, such as the Budgie Desktop View and the Budgie Desktop Services suite (the update for the Budgie Session manager and the interface for configuring the Budgie Control Center is delayed). The project code is distributed under […]

Vulnerabilities in LXD, Incus, Flatpak, GitLab, Radicle, the Linux kernel, WordPress, OpenVPN, NTFS-3G, FreeRDP, CUPS, and Dovecot

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Several recently discovered dangerous vulnerabilities allow for root access to the system or remote code execution. There are 7 vulnerabilities in the LXD container management system and 11 vulnerabilities in the Incus fork. A number of vulnerabilities, marked as critical, enable local unprivileged users to modify any files on the system or execute their own code with root privileges. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in LXD versions 6.9, […]

Release of M-Commander 6.1.0, a fork of the Midnight Commander file manager

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The release of the M-Commander 6.1.0 console two-panel file manager has been published. It is being developed as a fork of GNU Midnight Commander and enhanced with support for panel plugins that can be loaded during runtime. Through these plugins, users can open archives, external storage (FTP, SFTP, Samba, S3), Git repositories, Docker containers, Kubernetes resources, and MongoDB and SQLite databases. The subshell mechanism has been replaced with the built-in PTY terminal mcterm. The code is written in […]

Coreboot Release 26.09, the open-source alternative to proprietary firmware

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The release of the CoreBoot project 26.09 has been published, developing a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version includes 1251 changes, prepared with the participation of 112 developers, 28 of whom contributed for the first time. Key changes: Support for 26 motherboards has been implemented: Acer TravelMate P633-M and P633-V; Apple iMac4,1; ASRock Fatal1ty Z97X […]

virtio-nvgpu — a module for providing access to NVIDIA GPUs from KVM virtual machines

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The virtio-nvgpu project develops a virtio device that allows access to NVIDIA GPUs from guest systems running under the KVM hypervisor, with minimal performance loss. It includes a kernel module loaded in the guest system and a virtio device running on the host environment. The kernel module code is written in C and distributed under the GPLv2 license, while the virtio device code is written in Rust […]

The Apache Subversion version control system 1.15.0 is available.

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After more than six years since the last major release, the Apache Software Foundation has launched the release of the centralized version control system Subversion 1.15.0. Key improvements in Subversion 1.15 include the addition of a mode that operates without caching base revisions of all files on the local system (Pristines On Demand), allowing the size of the working copy on disk to be reduced by up to 50% by downloading files from the server as needed […]

Samba 4.25.0 Release

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After 6 months of development, the release of Samba 4.25.0 has been presented, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a complete implementation of the domain controller and Active Directory service compatible with the Windows Server implementation and capable of serving all supported Microsoft Windows client versions, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product, also providing file server, print service, and server […]

Attacks through external channels via the file system change tracking mechanism

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Researchers from Graz University of Technology (Austria) have identified a series of attacks through side channels (PDF) conducted via file system change tracking mechanisms. These attacks enable the monitoring of other users' activities based on analyzing events related to file and directory access through APIs such as inotify in Linux, FileObserver in Android, ReadDirectoryChangesW in Windows, and File System Events in […]

COSMIC Desktop Environment Release 1.9.0

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System76, the company behind the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released the COSMIC 1.9.0 desktop environment. Packages for COSMIC 1.9.0 are available in the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution and are expected soon in Fedora, NixOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries) licenses. COSMIC is evolving as a versatile […]

Ubuntu moves to an accelerated vulnerability patch cycle for packages with the Linux kernel

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Canonical has announced a shift to a unified 2-week cycle for preparing Linux kernel package updates, with a new update released each week. The development cycle for updates has been shortened due to the increased frequency of vulnerability discoveries in the Linux kernel. The new cycle for generating the next patch update for the kernel package will now be initiated weekly, without separating regular updates and […]

Qualcomm implements support for Snapdragon X2 chips in Linux

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Qualcomm has announced the incorporation of changes into the mainline Linux kernel that provide support for devices with Snapdragon X2 chips, featuring Qualcomm Oryon CPUs (ranging from 6 to 18 cores depending on the model), an AI accelerator Hexagon (80 TOPS), and Adreno X2-90 GPUs. Among other things, a FastRPC driver for the Hexagon NPU will be prepared and support for new Adreno GPUs will be added to the Mesa drivers Freedreno, Turnip, and […]

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