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On March 5, iXsystems announced the merging of the codebases of its two projects, FreeNAS and TrueNAS, under the common name — TrueNAS Open Storage. FreeNAS is a free operating system for organizing network storage. FreeNAS is based on the FreeBSD operating system. A key feature is the integrated support for ZFS, along with the ability to manage the system through a web interface written in Python using […]
Many are already aware of the issues with the KB4535996 update for Windows 10. After installation (if it even occurs), there may be 'blue screen of death' errors, slower startups, and reduced FPS in games. Issues have also been reported with SignTool, Explorer, Task Manager, the desktop, and so on. Even sleep mode has not been spared by this update. These shortcomings have been noted for quite some time. However, only […]
The neofetch utility version 7.0.0 is now available. It is designed to create console screensavers that display information about the system, hardware, and software. By default, the program outputs the operating system logo, which can be replaced with an arbitrary image (for terminals that support image display) or an ASCII drawing. The utility supports about 150 operating systems, from Linux and Windows to Minix, AIX, and Haiku. The program is written in […]
A new release of the PostgreSQL Anonymizer project is available, providing an add-on to the PostgreSQL database management system that addresses the challenge of hiding or replacing confidential data or information that constitutes a trade secret. Data can be anonymized on the fly based on specially defined rules and user lists whose query responses need to be anonymized. The code is distributed under the PostgreSQL license. For example, using this add-on, access can be provided […]
The release of 4MLinux 32.0 has been published, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be used not only as a live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks but also as a system for recovery after failures and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and […
iXsystems has announced the unification of its products for the rapid deployment of Network-Attached Storage (NAS). The free distribution FreeNAS will be merged with the commercial project TrueNAS, which extends FreeNAS's capabilities for enterprises and is pre-installed on storage systems released by iXsystems. For historical reasons, FreeNAS and TrueNAS were developed, tested, and released separately despite the large amount of shared code. For […
A vulnerability (CVE-2020-10174) has been identified in the Timeshift application, allowing a local user to execute code with root privileges. Timeshift is a backup system that uses rsync with hard link installation or Btrfs snapshots to provide functionality similar to System Restore in Windows and Time Machine in macOS. The program is included in the repositories of many distributions and is used by default in PCLinuxOS […]
The release of Zorin OS 15.2, based on the Ubuntu 18.04.4 package base, has been announced. The target audience for the distribution is beginner users accustomed to working in Windows. To manage the appearance, the distribution offers a special configurator that allows users to give the desktop the look typical of various Windows versions, and it includes a selection of programs similar to those familiar to Windows users. The size of the bootable ISO image […]
A significant release of the in-memory caching data system Memcached 1.6.0 has occurred, operating with key/value format data and known for its ease of use. Memcached is typically used as a lightweight solution to speed up high-load websites by caching access to databases and intermediate data. The code is distributed under the BSD license. In the new version, the implementation of the "extstore" storage has been stabilized, which can now be assembled […]
On March 8, the US6711293B1 patent expired, describing the SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) technique designed for detecting features in images. SIFT is applicable in areas such as object recognition in images, overlaying 3D models on real images in augmented reality systems, map matching, 3D space location determination, and panorama stitching. Previously, to use SIFT in […]
The release of Pygments 2.6.1 has occurred. Pygments is a library for Python and a command-line utility for syntax highlighting of source code. It is used by various platforms such as Wikipedia, BitBucket, and Progopedia. It outputs the following formats: HTML, LaTeX, RTF, and syntax highlighting through ANSI sequences (in the console). In the new version (changes for version 2.6 are indicated; version 2.6.1 fixes packaging issues): Support for Python 2 has been removed. […]
The infamous update KB4535996, released in February, has brought new issues. This time, users are reporting spontaneous waking of computers from sleep mode. Users claim that the problem occurs on the Surface Laptop 2 and some other laptops, as well as PCs, even when the lid is closed. In various cases, wake-ups are reported after several minutes or hours. Owners […]