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Google continues to develop its Chrome OS operating system, which recently received a major update with version 80. The stable version of Chrome OS 80 was supposed to be released a few weeks ago, but the developers apparently miscalculated the timelines and the update arrived late. One of the significant innovations in version 80 is the revamped tablet interface, which can […]
The non-profit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, managed by the community and providing certificates for free to anyone who wants them, has warned of the upcoming revocation of many previously issued TLS/SSL certificates. Out of 116 million currently active Let’s Encrypt certificates, just over 3 million (2.6%) will be revoked, of which about 1 million are duplicates tied to a single domain (the error primarily affected certificates that were updated very frequently […]
In accordance with the previously planned schedule, the GCC compiler set has been removed from the FreeBSD source tree. The build of GCC along with the base system for all architectures was disabled by default at the end of December, and now the GCC code has been removed from the SVN repository. It is noted that at the time of removing GCC, all platforms not supporting Clang have transitioned to using external build tools, […]
The release of Chrome OS 80, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild/portage build tool, open components, and web browser Chrome 80 has taken place. The user environment of Chrome OS is limited to the web browser, and instead of standard applications, web applications are used. However, Chrome OS includes a fully-fledged multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The Chrome OS 80 build […]
On March 2nd, the fifth version of the Porteus Kiosk 5.0.0 distribution, based on Gentoo Linux, was released. It is designed for the rapid deployment of demonstration stands and self-service terminals. The image size is only 104 MB. The distribution includes a minimal environment necessary to run a web browser (Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome) with restricted rights—changes to settings and installation of add-ons are prohibited […]
A few months ago, the number of extensions for the new Microsoft Edge was 162. Now, that number has grown to approximately 1200. While it's still a bit behind the metrics for Chrome and Firefox, the mere fact itself is commendable. Additionally, the 'blue' browser supports working with Chrome extensions, so there shouldn't be any significant issues. It's worth noting that upon launch […]
A release of the Porteus Kiosk 5.0.0 distribution, based on Gentoo and designed for equipping standalone internet kiosks, demo stands, and self-service terminals, has been prepared. The bootable image of the distribution occupies 104 MB. The base build includes only the minimal set of components necessary to run a web browser (both Firefox and Chrome are supported), which is stripped down in its capabilities to prevent unwanted activity in the system (for instance, it does not […]
New releases of the Linux From Scratch 9.1 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 9.1 (BLFS) guides have been introduced, along with the LFS and BLFS editions featuring the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions on building a basic Linux system from scratch using only the source texts of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements the LFS instructions with information on building […]
After eight months of development, the earlyoom 1.4 background process has been released, which periodically checks the amount of available memory (MemAvailable, SwapFree) and attempts to respond early to memory shortages. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. If the amount of available memory falls below a specified threshold, earlyoom will forcibly terminate processes (via SIGTERM or SIGKILL) […]
A new release of the source-based Linux From Scratch distribution has been announced. Differences from the previous release 9.0 include: bc-2.1.3 -> bc-2.5.3 binutils-2.32 -> binutils-2.34 bison-3.4.1 -> bison-3.5.2 check-0.12.0 -> check-0.14.0 e2fsprogs-1.45.3 -> e2fsprogs-1.45.5 elfutils-0.177 -> elfutils-0.178 eudev-3.2.8 -> eudev-3.2.9 expat-2.2.7 -> expat-2.2.9 file-5.37 -> file-5.38 findutils-4.6.0 -> findutils-4.7.0 glibc-2.30 -> glibc-2.31 gmp-6.1.2 -> gmp-6.2.0 grep-3.3 -> grep-3.4 iproute2-5.2.0 -> iproute2-5.5.0 […]
The release of the distributed document-oriented database Apache CouchDB 3.0, belonging to the NoSQL class, has been announced. The project's source code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Improvements made in Apache CouchDB 3.0 include: Strengthening default configuration security. Now, an admin user must be defined at startup, without which the server will shut down with an error (resolves issues with […]
Google has made changes indicating that the Fuchsia operating system is transitioning to the final internal testing stage known as 'dogfooding', meaning that employees use the product in their daily activities before it is released to regular users. At this stage, the product is in a state that has already undergone primary testing by dedicated quality assessment teams. Before delivering the product to the masses, a final check is performed […]