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Wedson Almeida Filho from Microsoft proposed for discussion in the Linux kernel developers' mailing list a second version of patches with a set of wrappers over the VFS subsystem, aimed at developing Rust-based file systems that operate in read-only mode. Along with the wrappers, two drivers implementing file systems based on them were published […]
Gradually, a few days ago, version 9.4 of the Rocky Linux project was released — a distribution organized by Gregory Kurtzer in response to the discontinuation of classic CentOS releases and the shift to CentOS Stream. Gregory Kurtzer, being a developer of CentOS, decided to start anew and launched the Rocky Linux project, which was intended to do everything that CentOS used to do, but now […]
VMware is the largest developer of virtualization and cloud computing software. In their blog, they announced that from May 13, 2024, local hypervisors Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro will become free for personal use, while for commercial use, a paid subscription will be required. The products Workstation Player and Fusion Player can no longer be downloaded as separate applications; however, they still […]
Researchers from ESET have published a 43-page report analyzing the Ebury rootkit and its associated activity. It is claimed that Ebury has been in use since 2009 and has since been installed on over 400,000 Linux servers and several hundred systems based on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris. Approximately 110,000 servers remained compromised by Ebury […]
SiPearl has clarified the specifications of its Rhea1 server Arm processors, which will be used, in particular, in the first European exaflop supercomputer JUPITER, although the main chips in this system will still be the hybrid NVIDIA GH200 accelerators. Additionally, SiPearl has pushed back the Rhea1 release dates — initially, the first samples were planned to be presented in 2022, but now the company states […]
Corrective releases of the distributed version control system Git 2.45.1, 2.44.1, 2.43.4, 2.42.2, 2.41.1, 2.40.2, and 2.39.4 have been published, addressing five vulnerabilities. The most serious vulnerability (CVE-2024-32002), rated as critical, allows an attacker to achieve code execution when cloning a repository controlled by the attacker using the 'git clone' command. The vulnerability occurs only in file systems that are case-insensitive […]
The NetBSD Foundation has presented updated rules for making changes to the project's source code tree. The new guidelines include a clause prohibiting the inclusion of code generated using AI tools based on large language models, such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and Code Llama, in NetBSD without prior written approval from the Core Team. The reasoning cited includes uncertainty in the area of […]
The developers of GNOME OS, an experimental distribution for GNOME developers and testers that allows them to evaluate the development status of the desktop environment, familiarize themselves with new emerging features, and test their applications in the development branches of GNOME, have announced the transition to using the systemd-sysupdate component for organizing atomic system updates. The goal of this change is to adapt the nightly builds of GNOME OS for […]
Oracle has released the Oracle Linux 9.4 distribution, based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 and fully binary compatible with it. Unrestricted downloads are offered for installation ISO images, sized 10 GB and 900 MB, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. Unlimited and free access to the yum repository for Oracle Linux 9 is available […]
The release of Endless OS 6.0 has been announced, aimed at creating an easy-to-use system where users can quickly find applications to their liking. Applications are distributed as self-contained packages in Flatpak format. The size of the offered boot images ranges from 1.2 to 23 GB. The distribution does not use traditional package managers, but instead offers a minimal, atomically updatable base system, […]
Firefox 126 is now available. Notable new features include support for zstd compression, the Catalan language, an increase in Rust code share, the start of deprecation support for Theora, stricter requirements for old extensions, and much more. In this version: The 'Copy link without tracking parameters' function can now remove parameters from nested links. Additionally, the number of known tracking parameters that it recognizes and removes […]
Job Snijders, a prominent OpenBSD developer and head of one of the committees at IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), the author of 11 RFCs related to routing and RPKI, and the creator of IRRd (Internet Routing Registry Daemon), has published a set of patches for OpenBSD that adds a new sysctl parameter 'net.inet.tcp.nodelay' to disable the Nagle algorithm at the system-wide level. This parameter relieves application developers of the need to specify […]