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The release of the specialized distribution Tails 6.4 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on Debian 12, has been formed, supplied with the GNOME 43 desktop, and designed for anonymous internet access. Anonymous access in Tails is ensured by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. User data storage in […]
The release of the web browser Pale Moon 33.2.0 has been published, a fork from the Firefox codebase designed to provide higher performance, maintain a classic interface, minimize memory consumption, and offer additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are available for Windows and Linux (x86_64). The project's code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to a classic interface organization, without transitioning to […]
A group of researchers from Seoul University and Samsung has developed an attack technique for ARM processors, code-named TikTag, which can be used to bypass the MemTag (MTE, Memory Tagging Extension) hardware protection mechanism present in ARMv8.5-A architecture chips. This attack allows for the determination of TikTag tag contents for arbitrary memory addresses due to data leaks resulting from speculative […]
After a year of development, SUSE has released SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6. Based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension have been formed. The distribution can be downloaded and used for free, but access to updates is […]
After 6 months of development, the release of postmarketOS 24.06 has been announced, evolving a Linux distribution for smartphones based on the Alpine Linux package base, the standard C library Musl, and the BusyBox utility set. The project's goal is to provide a Linux distribution for smartphones that is independent of the support lifecycle of official firmware and not tied to standard solutions from major players in the industry that set the development direction. Builds […]
After 6 months of development, the release of the Cinnamon 6.2 desktop environment has been formed, within which the Linux Mint community develops a fork of the GNOME Shell interface, the Nautilus file manager, and the Mutter window manager, aimed at providing a classic GNOME 2 style environment with support for successful interaction elements from the GNOME Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these […]
The release of the lightweight window manager IceWM 3.6.0 is now available. IceWM offers full control through keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, task panels, and application menus, and tabs can be used to group windows. The window manager is configured through a fairly simple configuration file, and theme customization is possible. Window grouping in the form of tabs is supported. Built-in applets for monitoring CPU, memory, and traffic are available. […]
The release of the Python library for scientific computing, NumPy 2.0.0, which focuses on working with multidimensional arrays and matrices, is now available. It also provides a large collection of functions implementing various algorithms related to matrix operations. NumPy is one of the most in-demand libraries used for scientific calculations. The project's code is written in Python, with optimizations in C, and is distributed […]
Christian Schaller, head of the Fedora Desktop Team and the desktop systems development group at Red Hat, discussed some features planned for inclusion in the upcoming release of Fedora Workstation: The toolkit Instructlab is planned to be included, which enables quick installation of the large language model Granite, open-sourced by IBM under the Apache 2.0 license, which covers 7 billion parameters and […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.11, has been made. Since the release of 9.10, 27 bug reports have been closed and 251 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Support for exception handling on ARM platforms has been added to the msvcrt library for C++. Improvements to DPI Awareness mode have continued for better display of applications on high-density screens, […]
A release of the distribution for creating routers and firewalls, IPFire 2.29 Core 186, has been published. IPFire features a simple installation process and an intuitive web interface filled with informative graphs for configuration. The size of the installation ISO image is 421 MB (x86_64, AArch64). The system is modular: in addition to basic packet filtering and traffic management functions, modules are available for IPFire to implement prevention systems […]
Stamus Networks has announced the release of the specialized distribution SELKS 10, designed for deploying intrusion detection and prevention systems, as well as organizing responses to identified threats and monitoring network security. It provides users with a fully ready-to-use network security management solution that can be utilized immediately after download. The distribution supports operation in Live mode and launching in virtualization environments or […]