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The Linux Foundation has published its annual report. Over the year, the organization earned $292.2 million (compared to $263.6 million last year), but spent $299.7 million (compared to $269 million last year). The expenses for the development of the Linux kernel amounted to $6.8 million, which is one million dollars less than last year and $1.4 million less than the year before […
The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), responsible for the development of internet protocols and architecture, has finalized the RFC for the free audio codec FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), developed by the Xiph.Org community. The specification associated with the format has been published under RFC 9639. The RFC has been designated as a 'Proposed Standard' and describes the current state of the FLAC compression format, with the explicit addition of support for 32-bit audio […]
Users of systems utilizing the zRAM mechanism for compressed swap storage in memory have encountered a boot failure after upgrading the Linux kernel to version 6.12. The issue appears in Gentoo, Void, and other distributions that support zRAM and offer packages with the new kernel versions. The failure is due to a change in kernel 6.12 that adds the ability to configure algorithms […]
The Home Assistant project, which develops an open platform for home automation, has announced the creation of the Home Assistant Voice hardware device featuring a voice assistant implementation. The device can be used to manage a smart home, perform tasks, and provide responses to user queries through natural language interaction. Schematics, board wiring, and designs for 3D printing the case are distributed under open licenses. The firmware code […]
The meta-distribution T2 SDE 24.12 has been released, providing an environment for building custom distributions, cross-compiling, and maintaining up-to-date package versions. Popular distributions built on the T2 system include Puppy Linux. The project offers 37 bootable ISO images with a minimal graphical environment in variants featuring Musl, uClibc, and Glibc libraries. Builds for current architectures have been prepared with […]
The ninth anniversary release of the LSP Plugins effect package version 1.2.20 has been launched! These plugins are designed for audio processing during mixing and mastering of recordings, in live performance settings, as well as for broadcasting and podcasts. The package is compatible with LADSPA, LV2, VST2 (LinuxVST), VST3, CLAP, and GStreamer formats, and also provides standalone versions with JACK support. This time, we provide […]
The release of the Live distribution grml 2024.12 has been announced, offering a selection of tools for performing tasks commonly encountered by system administrators (data recovery after a crash, incident analysis, etc.), as well as for processing text data using the texttools package. The distribution is based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base and celebrated its twentieth anniversary at the end of October. The graphical environment is built using the window manager […]
The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.39 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that complement the core Wayland protocol and provide the necessary capabilities for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols undergo phases of development, testing, and stabilization. After the development stage (category 'unstable') is completed, the protocol is moved to the 'staging' branch and officially included in the wayland-protocols package, and after the completion of […]
The developers of the ScyllaDB database management system announced the transition of the project to a proprietary license, limiting its application scope. The ScyllaDB 6.2.x branch will be the last available under the AGPL license. Interested parties can create a fork and continue developing the ScyllaDB codebase under the old license if they wish. Previously, the ScyllaDB project followed an Open Core development model, wherein the basic part of the product is developed under a free license, […]
In the multimedia framework GStreamer, used in GNOME, 29 vulnerabilities have been identified. Eight vulnerabilities lead to out-of-bounds data writes, and one (CVE-2024-47540) leads to a function pointer overwrite. These vulnerabilities could potentially be exploited by attackers to execute code while processing improperly formatted multimedia data in MKV, MP4, Ogg, Vorbis, and Opus formats, as well as subtitles in […]
The release of the mobile platform /e/OS 2.6 has been published, focusing on user data privacy. The platform is developed by Gaël Duval, the creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution. The project supports 180 smartphone models and creates firmware builds for the most popular ones. Custom editions of devices based on OnePlus, Fairphone, Teracube, and Pixel are distributed with pre-installed /e/OS firmware under the Murena brand […]
The high-performance HTTP server and multi-protocol proxy server Angie 1.8.0 has been introduced, branching from Nginx by a group of former developers who left F5 Network. The source code of Angie is available under the BSD license. The project has received compatibility certificates with Russian operating systems Red OS, Astra Linux Special Edition, Rosa Chrome Server, Alt, and the FSTEC versions of Alt. The development is supported by the company 'Web Server', established […]