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The release of the Armbian 22.08 Linux distribution has been published, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including different models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard running on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. The builds are created using Debian package repositories […]
The release of the free graphical client Nicotine+ 3.2.5 for the P2P file-sharing network Soulseek has occurred. Nicotine+ aims to be a user-friendly, free open-source alternative to the official Soulseek client, offering additional functionality while maintaining compatibility with the Soulseek protocol. The client's code is written in Python using the GTK graphical library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Builds are available for GNU/Linux, […]
The release of the QEMU 7.1 project has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows a program built for one hardware platform to run on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, executing an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, the performance of code execution in an isolated environment is close to that of the hardware system due to the direct execution of instructions on the CPU and the involvement of […]
The developers of the Apache OpenOffice office suite have reported surpassing 333 million downloads for the project (according to SourceForge statistics — 352 million), made since the first release of Apache OpenOffice in May 2012. The milestone of 300 million downloads was reached in late October 2020, 200 million — in late November 2016, and 100 million — […]
GitLab has released another series of corrective updates for its collaborative development platform — 15.3.2, 15.2.4, and 15.1.6, in which a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-2992) has been fixed, allowing an authenticated user to execute code remotely on the server. Similar to the CVE-2022-2884 vulnerability fixed a week ago, the new issue is present in the API for importing data from GitHub. The vulnerability also manifests itself in […]
A corrective release of Firefox 104.0.1 is available, which fixes an issue with video playback stopping on the YouTube site. The problem is caused by the reuse of the device for accelerating video decoding and primarily occurs on systems with NVIDIA graphics cards. As a workaround for this issue, you can set the parameters media.wmf.zero-copy-nv12-texture and gfx.direct3d11.reuse-decoder-device to false on the page about:config. Additionally, […]
Google has made changes to the Play Store catalog rules, which restrict the platform's provided VpnService API. New rules prohibit the use of VpnService to filter traffic from other applications for monetization purposes, hidden collection of personal and confidential data, and any ad manipulations that could affect the monetization of other applications. Services are also required to implement mandatory encryption for tunneled traffic […]
The Fedora project developers have outlined a plan to discontinue support for digital signatures based on the SHA-1 algorithm in Fedora Linux 39. The discontinuation entails ceasing trust in signatures that use SHA-1 hashes (SHA-224 will be declared the minimum supported in digital signatures), while maintaining support for HMAC with SHA-1 and providing the option to enable the LEGACY profile with SHA-1. After these changes are applied, the library […]
The lxqt-sway project, focused on porting LXQt desktop components to work in the Sway environment and with a compositor using the Wayland protocol, has published its developments. In its current form, the project resembles a hybrid of the two environments. LXQt settings are transformed into a Sway configuration file. To carry out operations such as changing the virtual desktop, splitting, and closing windows, additional menus have been implemented, making it easier to […]
In the package with the Chromium browser offered in the Debian distribution, there has been a transition to using DuckDuckGo as the default search engine instead of Google. The proposal to replace the search engine with DuckDuckGo has been under consideration since April 2020. Concerns about user privacy are cited as the reason — DuckDuckGo does not utilize result personalization and eliminates data that can be used for tracking […]
A release of the lightweight distribution MX Linux 21.2 has been presented, created as a result of collaboration between communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. This release is based on the Debian package base with enhancements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution uses the sysVinit initialization system and its own tools for system configuration and deployment. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available for download […]
IEEE Spectrum magazine, published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), has released a new edition of its programming language popularity ranking. Python continues to lead the ranking, with C, C++, and C# following closely behind. Compared to last year's ranking, Java has dropped from 2nd to 5th place. The position of C# has strengthened, moving up from 6th to […]