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The sixth maintenance update of the Debian 11 distribution has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes for issues in the installer. The release includes 69 updates addressing stability problems and 78 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 11.6 include updates to the latest stable versions of packages such as mariadb-10.5, nvidia-graphics-drivers, postfix, and postgresql-13. For download and installation […]
After a year of development, the release of the open-source hypervisor Xen 4.17 has been announced. Companies such as Amazon, Arm, Bitdefender, Citrix, EPAM Systems, and Xilinx (AMD) participated in the development of this release. Updates for the Xen 4.17 branch will continue until June 12, 2024, while vulnerability fixes will be published until December 12, 2025. Key changes in Xen 4.17 include partial […]
The Pine64 community, dedicated to creating open devices, has announced the beginning of production next year for the new PineTab2 tablet, built on the Rockchip RK3566 SoC featuring a quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor (1.8 GHz) and ARM Mali-G52 EE GPU. The price and release date have not yet been determined, but it is known that the first units for developer testing will start production after […]
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recognized the hashing algorithm as obsolete, not meeting security requirements, and not recommended for use. The plan is to eliminate the use of SHA-1 by December 31, 2030, and to fully transition to more secure algorithms SHA-2 and SHA-3. By December 31, 2030, all current specifications and protocols from NIST will cease […]
The Riffusion project develops a variant of the Stable Diffusion machine learning system, adapted for music generation instead of images. Music can be synthesized from a textual description in natural language or based on a suggested template. The components for music synthesis are written in Python using the PyTorch framework and are available under the MIT license. The interface-binding is implemented in TypeScript and is also distributed […]
iXsystems has released the TrueNAS SCALE 22.12 distribution, which uses the Linux kernel and the Debian package base (previous products from this company, including TrueOS, PC-BSD, TrueNAS, and FreeNAS, were based on FreeBSD). Like TrueNAS CORE (FreeNAS), TrueNAS SCALE can be downloaded and used for free. The size of the ISO image is 1.6 GB. Source texts specific to TrueNAS SCALE […]
The seventh edition of the starter sets has been released, small live builds with various graphical environments, on the Tenth platform of ALT. Builds based on the stable repository are intended for experienced users. The starter sets allow users to quickly and conveniently get acquainted with the new desktop environment and window manager (DE/WM). It is also possible to deploy the next system with minimal time spent on installation and configuration […]
After two years of development, the desktop environment Xfce 4.18 has been released, aimed at providing a classic desktop that requires minimal system resources to operate. Xfce consists of several interconnected components that can be used in other projects if desired. Among these components are: the window manager xfwm4, an application launcher panel, a display manager, a user session management system, and monitoring of […]
The Live distribution grml 2022.11, based on Debian GNU/Linux, has been released. The distribution positions itself as a tool for system administrators to recover data after failures. The standard version uses the Fluxbox window manager. Key changes in the new version: packages are synchronized with the Debian Testing repository; the live system has been moved to the /usr partition (the /bin, /sbin, and /lib* directories are symbolic links to their corresponding directories […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel (CVE-2022-42896), which could potentially be exploited to enable remote code execution at the kernel level by sending a specially crafted L2CAP packet via Bluetooth. Additionally, another similar issue (CVE-2022-42895) has been found in the L2CAP handler, which may lead to a leak of kernel memory content in configuration information packets. The first vulnerability has been manifested since August […]
The release of the Libreboot 20221214 free boot firmware has been announced. This project represents a fully free branch of the CoreBoot project, providing a binary-free replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripheral devices, and other hardware components. Libreboot aims to create a system environment that can function entirely without proprietary software, not only at the operating system level, […]
labwc is a composite manager for Wayland with features similar to Openbox. It is compatible with Openbox themes. It is built on the wlroots library. Key innovations include: Support for virtual desktops added; Touch device support added (such as tablets and smartphones); Protocols implemented for using virtual keyboards and pointers; Added a mode to pin windows on top of others (ToggleAlwaysOnTop); Arrow rendering ensured […]