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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 […]
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 […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.14 — has been published. Since the release of 9.13, 20 bug reports have been closed and 205 changes made. The most significant updates: The implementation of the one-way inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism Mailslots has been transitioned to use input/output on the server process side. Support for Windows ODBC drivers for DBMS has been expanded. Work is ongoing to place […]
The CMF by Nothing brand emerged just last year, initially offering headphones, smartwatches, and other mobile accessories with striking designs at very affordable prices. In the brand's first smartphone — CMF Phone 1 — the manufacturer stayed true to this concept, also offering an interesting and somewhat unique device without exorbitant pricing […]
A new version of the actively developed fork of the XMPP client Conversations – Conversations Classic – has been quietly released. Changes from the previous version include: synchronization with the upstream project (excluding the new UI), restructured and organized app settings, and the ability to set wallpapers for each chat as well as globally. Multiple enhancements related to message replies (XEP-0461) have been made. A 'notification throttling' feature has been added […]
Daniel Robbins (drobbins) announced that he has decided to end the Funtoo Linux project: 'All Good Things Must Come to an End…'. Briefly: drobbins is tired; there is no new BDFL; he will not seek a successor or transfer the project; Funtoo Linux will exist in some form until the end of August. This unfortunate but expected decision comes against the backdrop of Daniel's decreasing activity. It all started with […]