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A release of the specialized distribution Tails 6.0 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been formed. It is based on the Debian package base and is intended for anonymous access to the internet. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by default by a packet filter. User data storage in persistent mode between runs is encrypted. […]
The release of Radix Cross Linux 1.9.383 is now available for devices based on ARM/ARM64, RISC-V, and x86/x86_64 architectures. This release updates the versions of Chromium, Firefox, LibreOffice, and nmap. The build for the TF307 v4 board (based on Baikal M1000) has been transitioned to Linux kernel version 6.1.63. The Radix Cross Linux distribution is not a 'based on' development. Everything from the toolkit to […]
Very soon, as part of the technical creativity festival 'TechnoHowTUS', the Youth Competitions in Linux — Linux-skills will start. The competitions will be held in two categories: Alt-skills (ALT Linux) and Calculate-skills (Calculate Linux) and in three age groups: 10-13 years, 14-17 years, 18-22 years. Registration is now open and will be available until March 5, 2024, inclusive. The competitions will take place from June […]
After a year of development, the release of the free automated circuit design system KiCad 8.0.0 has been published. This is the second significant release since the project transitioned under the wing of the Linux Foundation. Builds are prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. The code is written in C++ using the wxWidgets library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. KiCad provides tools for editing electrical schematics […]
RED SOFT has released a new version of the Linux distribution called RED OS 8. The main features of the release include: The distribution is currently available for 64-bit x86-compatible processors. It includes the Linux kernel 6.6.6. The graphical shells GNOME 44, KDE (Plasma 5.27), MATE 1.26, and Cinnamon 4.8.1 are available. Unlike many distributions, various versions of one and the same […]
The ksmbd module, which offers a kernel-integrated implementation of a file server based on the SMB protocol, has revealed two vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution with kernel privileges without authentication or the ability to read kernel memory on systems with the ksmbd module enabled. The issues have been present since kernel 5.15, which included the ksmbd module. […]
On February 23, 2024, the KiCad project released the new version 8.0.0. New features have been added, along with numerous fixes. Change log: Over 1500 symbols and 760 footprints have been added to the component library. The style of the first output indication of chips has been changed. Data import has been added for the following formats: EasyEDA (JLCEDA) project and library; CADSTAR symbol and footprint libraries; Solidworks PCB files; symbols […]
After two years of development, a new major version of MClient has been released — a program for viewing electronic dictionaries. It is aimed at professional linguists but can also be used by anyone studying foreign languages. Status — beta, but stable enough for daily use. Screenshot What makes this program different from GoldenDict and most others? Table view; sorting of dictionary entries by various […]
The release of the minimalist Linux distribution Tiny Core Linux 15.0 has been published, capable of running on systems with 48 MB of RAM. The graphical environment of the distribution is based on the Tiny X server, the FLTK toolkit, and the FLWM window manager. The distribution loads entirely into RAM and operates from memory. The bootable ISO image occupies only 18 MB. A version for 64-bit systems, CorePure64, has been prepared, with a size of […]
The release of the CoreBoot project 24.02 has been published, developing a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project's code is released under the GPLv2 license. A total of 111 developers participated in creating the new version, preparing 814 changes. Starting with this release, the project switched to a new version naming scheme that ties to the date (year.month.update), so in February 2024 instead of version 4.23, formed […]
Intel has released the OSPRay Studio 1.0 project, developing an application for interactive 3D visualization using the OSPRay distributed ray tracing engine. Among other things, the program can be used for high-precision rendering of complex scenes and processing very large scenes that require distributed computation in a cluster of several computers. The application code is written in C++ and is distributed under the Apache […]
After four months of development, the release 0.7 of the text editor NotepadNext has occurred, written in C++ using the Qt, Scintilla libraries, and others, and distributed under the GPL-3.0 license. Changes: improvements for Python: added match and case keywords; support for decorator attributes; added the ability to select the localization language in the settings dialog; added a visual indicator for zoom level; added the ability to save […]