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The release of Parrot 5.2, based on the Debian 11 package base and including a suite of tools for system security testing, forensic analysis, and reverse engineering, is now available. Several ISO images with a MATE environment are offered for download, intended for everyday use, security testing, installation on Raspberry Pi 4 boards, and creating specialized setups for use in cloud environments […]
The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.0.3 has been announced, designed for quick disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 334 MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizes code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast. Booting is possible from […]
Intel has opened the source code of OpenCL CPU RT (OpenCL CPU RunTime), an implementation of the OpenCL standard designed for executing OpenCL kernels on a central processor. The OpenCL standard defines an API and language extensions in C for organizing cross-platform parallel computations. The implementation contains 718,996 lines of code distributed across 2,750 files. The code is adapted for integration with LLVM and will be offered for inclusion in […]
AMD has announced the availability of the source code for the updated implementation of the FSR 2.2 (FidelityFX Super Resolution) supersampling technology, employing spatial scaling algorithms and detail reconstruction to reduce image quality loss when upscaling and converting to higher resolutions. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the MIT license. In addition to the basic API for C++, the project provides […]
Debian developers have announced that Debian 12 has entered the soft freeze phase for its package base, during which the acceptance of new source packages is halted and the ability to reintroduce previously removed packages is closed. A hard freeze is scheduled for March 12, 2023, before the release, during which the process of transferring key packages and packages without autopkgtests from unstable to testing will be completely halted […]
The release of the open platform webOS Open Source Edition 2.20 has been announced, which can be used on various portable devices, boards, and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The reference hardware platform is considered to be the Raspberry Pi 4 boards. The platform is developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, and the development is overseen by the community, adhering to a collaborative development model. The webOS platform was originally developed by […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI—Wine 8.2—has taken place. Since the release of version 8.1, 22 bug reports have been closed, and 285 changes have been made. The most significant changes include the addition of system call thunk converters for the WPCAP library in WoW64, which is the layer for running 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows. Debug information in WoW64 mode has been improved. Support for the video codec […]
The release of an experimental build of the Simply Linux 10.1 distribution (branch p10 Aronia) for the riscv64 architecture has been published. The distribution is designed to be user-friendly, featuring a classic desktop based on Xfce, providing full localization of the interface and most applications. The build is prepared from the Sisyphus riscv64 repository and tested in QEMU, on the VisionFive v1 board, and on SiFive boards. The development […]
The first stable release of the new branch of the MariaDB DBMS 10.11 (10.11.2) has been published, which is a fork of MySQL that retains backward compatibility while integrating additional storage engines and expanded features. The development of MariaDB is overseen by the independent MariaDB Foundation in accordance with an open and transparent development process, independent of individual vendors. MariaDB is shipped instead of MySQL in many […]
Apple Inc. has yielded to demands from companies like Google and Netflix, announcing the release of the beta version of Safari 16.4 with support for AV1 video decoding. It remains unclear whether this will affect the mobile version of the browser, which has a significantly larger user base. For instance, the mobile version of Safari still does not fully support the VP9 codec. The AV1 video codec was developed […]
The release of Tails 5.10 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), a specialized distribution based on the Debian package base and intended for anonymous internet access, has been announced. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. Encryption is used to store user data in persistence mode between boots. […]
After three and a half months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 253 has been introduced. Among the changes in the new release: the inclusion of the ‘ukify’ utility, which is designed for building, checking, and forming signatures for unified kernel images (UKI, Unified Kernel Image), combining the boot handler from UEFI (UEFI boot stub), the Linux kernel image, and the in-memory loaded system […]