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Japanese developer Keigo Oka demonstrated that a Turing-complete computational environment can be created using the GNU find and mkdir utilities, allowing for the implementation of any computable function and self-replication. Previously, the possibility of creating such an environment was demonstrated for the sed and awk utilities. Implementations confirming Turing completeness are provided based on find […]
Five years after the last release, a specialized boot image of Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4 has been introduced, designed for booting any systems in situations where users encounter bootloader damage, inability to boot the system, or overwriting of the main bootloader in multi-OS setups. A console interface is provided for managing and searching available bootable systems […]
On July 27, version 1.28.0 of the jdupes console utility was released, written in C and distributed under the MIT license. The utility is designed to find duplicate files, with options for deletion, block deduplication, or replacement with links. In the new version, security fixes from the in-development version 2 have been ported; crashes when creating a new hash database have been fixed; performance of name length calculation has been improved; […]
Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 (Focal) is a mobile operating system from UBports focused on freedom and privacy. This update is part of the 20.04 series and includes several important changes and improvements. Key innovations: Improved power profile system: the system can now distinguish between 'supported' and 'interactive' modes on supported devices. Fix for settings migration: an issue with migrating settings when updating from […]
After six months of development, the UBports project, which has taken over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical stepped away from it, has released the OTA-5 Focal (over-the-air) firmware. This is the fourth release of Ubuntu Touch, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04. The project is also developing an experimental desktop port of Unity 8, which has been renamed to Lomiri. The Ubuntu update […]
The release of the mobile platform /e/OS 2.2, aimed at preserving user data privacy, is now available. The platform is founded by Gaël Duval, the creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution. The project provides firmware for many popular smartphone models and offers smartphone editions under the brands Murena One, Murena 2, Murena Fairphone 4/5, Murena Teracube 2e, and Murena Pixel 5, including OnePlus, Fairphone, Teracube, and […]
After three months of development, the release of the distributed version control system Git 2.46 has been published. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible tools for non-linear development based on branching and merging branches. To ensure the integrity of history and resilience against retroactive changes, implicit hashing of all previous history is used in each commit, […]
Core Ultra mobile processors with a powerful integrated GPU architecture based on Arc and an NPU unit have launched another wave of upgrades in slim laptops. However, thanks to the OLED screen and RGB keyboard backlighting, the upgraded Vivobook S 15 OLED looks more like a gaming computer than a dull laptop for office applications and web browsing. ⇡#Specifications, Prices The Vivobook S 15 OLED configuration does not […]
Performance testing results for the latest Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X, and Ryzen 5 9600X processors based on Zen 5 architecture have surfaced online in the Cinebench R23 benchmark. The Tom’s Hardware portal compared their results with those of their direct predecessors — Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X, and Ryzen 5 7600X. The Ryzen 9 9900X is a 12-core processor operating at […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of the user distribution Vanilla OS 2 has been published, based on the Debian package base, but going beyond a typical rebuild. The system environment in Vanilla OS is mounted in read-only mode and updated atomically, while applications run in separate containers using a Distrobox-based layer. The user environment offers an unmodified GNOME, […]
Christian Brauner, the leader of the LXC and Incus projects, one of the maintainers of glibc and a contributor to systemd, discovered issues in the code of the Linux kernel's VFS (Virtual File System) subsystem that could lead to crashes, data corruption, or security problems. After identifying a problem that had gone unnoticed for 5 years, developer Seth Forshee from Digital […]
Jann Horn from the Google Project Zero team, who previously uncovered the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, has found a logical error in the implementation of the Linux Security Module (LSM) Landlock that allows a program to regain already dropped privileges if it has access to the system calls fork() and keyctl(). The Landlock mechanism enables unprivileged programs to drop unnecessary privileges needed for operation […]