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The distribution side-0.1.0 has been released. Side is a GNU/Linux distribution built using the pisi package manager and system scripts written in python2 as part of the pardus project in the mid-2000s. By default, it offers the SDE graphical user interface. It is partially based on pisilinux. The first minor version is not related to significant changes and is assigned only for the convenience of further versioning. What […]
The release of the libmdbx 0.13.2 (MDBX) library has been announced, featuring a high-performance compact embedded key-value database. The libmdbx code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It supports all current operating systems and architectures, as well as the Russian Elbrus 2000. libmdbx offers a comprehensive API for C++, along with enthusiast-supported bindings for languages such as Rust, Haskell, Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Go, Nim, […]
The release of the mergiraf 0.4 project has been announced, which develops a Git driver with three-way merging capabilities. Mergiraf supports the resolution of various kinds of conflicts during merging and can be used for different programming languages and file formats. It is possible to call mergiraf separately to handle conflicts that arise when working with standard Git, as well as replacing the merge handler in Git to extend […]
A group of researchers from the University of Leuven, University of Lübeck, and University of Birmingham has developed the BadRAM attack method (CVE-2024-21944), which allows bypassing authentication mechanisms and compromising environments protected using the SEV-SNP extension in AMD processors. To carry out the attack, the attacker typically must gain physical access to the memory modules and have the ability to execute code at ring 0 level […]
Starting with the release of Fedora 42, scheduled for spring next year, it has been proposed to create official Spin builds of the distribution with the COSMIC desktop environment developed in Rust. The proposal has not yet been considered by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical development of the Fedora distribution. COSMIC is being developed by System76 as a universal project, independent of any specific distribution and suitable for […]
The release of LittleFS 2.10 has been published, which develops a compact file system for embedded devices and microcontrollers. Initially, the file system was created by ARM for the Mbed OS operating system but was later spun off into a separate project. The file system code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. The reference implementation of LittleFS is provided as a C library, on the basis of which a FUSE module has been created […]
The CentOS project has officially announced the availability of the CentOS Stream 10 distribution, which serves as the foundation for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 distribution. CentOS Stream is considered a continuously updated distribution that allows users to access packages developed for future RHEL releases earlier. Builds of CentOS Stream 10 are created for x86_64_v3, Aarch64, ppc64le (POWER9), and s390x architectures […]
The release of the open-source PaaS platform Cozystack 0.20.0, built on Kubernetes, has been announced. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform installs directly on servers and encompasses all aspects of infrastructure preparation for delivering managed services. Cozystack allows for the deployment and provision of Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
The latest release of Apache NetBeans has been introduced – an integrated development environment supporting programming languages such as Java, PHP, JavaScript, C, C++, and others. The IDE is written in Java and is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. In this release: improved support for build systems Gradle and Maven; enhanced support for languages: Java: refactoring of renaming for Java has been fixed; Markdown support for javadoc has been added; improved […]
The release of QEMU 9.2 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows a program compiled for one hardware platform to run on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, running an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, QEMU’s execution performance in an isolated environment is close to that of a hardware system due to direct execution of instructions on the CPU and leveraging […]
A new version of the open-source system manager systemd has been released. New features include: Changes that break backward compatibility: The logic for handling the —purge option of the systemd-tmpfiles component has been redesigned: now only those paths from tmpfiles.d/ marked with the $ flag are subject to removal. Support for cgroup v1 is disabled by default; to force it on, the systemd parameter SYSTEMD_CGROUP_ENABLE_LEGACY_FORCE=1 must be passed via the kernel command line. Symbolic links /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-*, for […]
Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 9.0-4, based on the Wine project codebase and aimed at enabling the launch of gaming applications created for Windows on Linux, available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are released under the BSD license. Proton allows direct launching of Windows-only gaming applications in the Linux Steam client. The package includes […]