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The specialized distribution Tails 6.9 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been released, developed as part of the Tor project. The distribution is based on the Debian 12 package base, comes with the GNOME 43 desktop, and is intended for anonymous internet access using the Tor toolkit. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. User data […]
The developers of the openSUSE project have released version 10 of the Agama installer, designed to replace the classic installation interface of SUSE and openSUSE and noteworthy for separating the user interface from the internal components of YaST. Agama allows for the use of various front-ends, such as a front-end for managing installations via a web interface. Live builds have been created for testing the new installer for x86_64, ppc64le, s390x, and ARM64 architectures, supporting the installation of the alpha version […]
On October 30, the release of version 0.10.0 of the Pluto console interpreter and embedded library took place – an alternative implementation of the Lua 5.4 language with numerous changes and improvements in syntax, standard library, and interpreter. Project participants are also developing the Soup library and a simple project building system in C++ Sun. The projects are written in C++ and distributed under the MIT license. Change log: […]
After a year of development, the release of BackBox Linux 9, based on Ubuntu 24.04 and including a collection of tools for system security testing, exploit testing, reverse engineering, network traffic analysis, wireless network investigation, malware exploration, stress testing, and recovery of hidden or lost data, has been published. The user environment is based on Xfce. The size of the ISO image is 6 GB (x86_64). The new version features […]
Among the most noteworthy changes, in the author's view: DNF has been rewritten in C++ and has become significantly faster and more compact (there's no need for MicroDNF anymore), and it has been decoupled from PackageKit. Gnome has been updated to version 47. KDE has been updated to 6.2. Packages related to xorg-server are now optional and are not installed by default. This can be seen as a sign of […]
The first stable release of the Thunderbird email client for Android has been introduced, built using technologies acquired after merging with the K-9 Mail project. Thunderbird for Android is version 8.0, continuing the version numbering of K-9 Mail. All native features of K-9 Mail are supported, including email encryption using OpenPGP, handling multiple accounts, and the availability of both dark and light themes […]
iXsystems has released the TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 distribution, which uses a Linux kernel and a Debian package base (previous products from this company, including TrueOS, PC-BSD, TrueNAS, and FreeNAS, were based on FreeBSD). Like TrueNAS CORE (FreeNAS), TrueNAS SCALE can be downloaded and used free of charge. The size of the ISO image is 1.4 GB. The source code specific to the TrueNAS SCALE build […]
Firefox 132 is now available. Among the new features in this release: Linux: The ability to open downloaded files in programs installed via Flatpak has been established. In strict tracking protection mode, all cookies from third-party sites are now blocked. Support for the TLS key exchange algorithm mlkem768x25519 (a combination of X25519 ECDH and ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber), resistant to brute-force attempts both in standard and […]
The release of Wasmer 5.0 has been announced, enhancing the runtime for executing WebAssembly modules that can be used to create universal applications capable of running across different operating systems. Wasmer can also be employed for the isolated execution of untrusted code blocks within regular applications. The project code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT license. The ability to run a single application […]
After a year of development, a major version of the Wayland compositor and tiling window manager Sway 1.10 has been released. New capabilities following the transition to Wlroots 0.18: the rendering code has been rewritten using the new scene graph API from Wlroots, enhancing performance; a recovery mechanism after GPU resets has been implemented; a command for applying ICC profiles to specific outputs has been added. New protocols: support for the tearing-control-v1 protocol has been added […]
Canonical has released the official Intel NPU driver for Linux in the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU driver in Snap format consolidates various components, including firmware, user-space driver, and compiler, along with an application for driver verification and the compiler. In other words, the driver includes everything needed to utilize AI inference accelerators embedded in the latest […]
Corrective releases of X.Org Server 21.1.14 and the device-dependent X (DDX) component xwayland 24.1.4 have been published, providing the execution of X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. The new versions address a vulnerability (CVE-2024-9632) that can be exploited to escalate privileges in systems where the X server runs with root rights, as well as for remote code execution in configurations […]