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30 years have passed since the first working release of 386BSD, the predecessor of FreeBSD and NetBSD.

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On July 14, 1992, the first working release (0.1) of the 386BSD operating system was published, offering a BSD UNIX implementation for i386 processors based on the developments of 4.3BSD Net/2. The system featured a simplified installer, included a full network stack, modular kernel, and a role-based access control system. In March 1993, due to a desire to make the patch acceptance process more open and […]

Release of DXVK 1.10.2, an implementation of Direct3D 9/10/11 on top of the Vulkan API

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The release of the DXVK 1.10.2 layer is now available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10, and 11, which operates by translating calls to the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers supporting Vulkan API 1.1 are required, such as Mesa RADV 22.0, NVIDIA 510.47.03, Intel ANV 22.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]

A new leader has been appointed at Red Hat

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Red Hat has announced the appointment of a new president and CEO. Matt Hicks has been named the new head of the company, previously serving as the vice president of products and technologies at Red Hat. Matt joined Red Hat in 2006 and started his career in the development team, working on porting code from Perl to Java. […]

Release of Tails 5.2

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A release of the specialized distribution Tails 5.2 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been formed, based on the Debian package base and intended for anonymous internet browsing. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor network. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by the packet filter by default. User data is encrypted when saving data between sessions. […]

The original source codes of the CP/M operating system are available for free use.

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Enthusiasts of retro systems have resolved the licensing issue for the source code of the CP/M operating system, which dominated computers with 8-bit processors i8080 and Z80 in the 1970s. In 2001, the CP/M code was transferred to the community cpm.z80.de by Lineo Inc., which acquired the intellectual property of Digital Research, the company that developed CP/M. The license for the transferred code permitted […]

Retbleed — a new attack on the speculative execution mechanism of Intel and AMD CPUs.

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A group of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich has discovered a new variant of an attack on the speculative execution mechanism of indirect branch prediction in CPUs, allowing the extraction of information from kernel memory or conducting an attack on the host system from virtual machines. The vulnerabilities have been code-named Retbleed (CVE-2022-29900, CVE-2022-29901) and are similar in nature to Spectre-v2 attacks. The difference lies in the organization of speculative execution […]

X.Org Server 21.1.4 update addressing vulnerabilities

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A corrective release of X.Org Server 21.1.4 is available, which addresses two vulnerabilities in the Xkb extension handlers that allow privilege escalation in the system if the X server is running with root privileges, or executing code on a remote system if session redirection via X11 is used over SSH. The vulnerabilities are caused by a lack of proper size checking in the ProcXkbSetGeometry request handlers (CVE-2022-2319) and […]

A memchr function implementation has been proposed for the Linux kernel that operates up to 4 times faster.

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A set of patches has been proposed for inclusion in the Linux kernel, featuring an optimized implementation of the memchr() function, which is used for searching for a character in an array. Unlike the older version that relied on byte-by-byte comparison, the proposed implementation is designed to fully utilize 64-bit and 32-bit CPU registers. Instead of bytes, comparisons are conducted using machine words, allowing multiple comparisons at once […]

Release of Network Security Toolkit 36

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After a year of development, the release of Live Distribution NST 36 (Network Security Toolkit) has been published, aimed at conducting network security analysis and monitoring its performance. The size of the bootable ISO image (x86_64) is 4.1 GB. A special repository has been prepared for Fedora Linux users, enabling them to install all the developments created as part of the NST project onto an already installed system. The distribution is based on Fedora 36 […]

Support for the Rust programming language has been approved in GCC

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The committee overseeing the development of the GCC compiler set (GCC Steering Committee) has approved the inclusion of a Rust language compiler implementation, prepared by the gccrs project, into the main GCC body. After integration, the standard GCC toolchain will be able to compile programs written in Rust without the need to install the rustc compiler built using LLVM technology. Developers of gccrs have been advised to start working with commands, […]

Release of the integrated suite of Internet applications SeaMonkey 2.53.13

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The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.13 internet application suite has taken place, which combines a web browser, email client, news feed aggregator (RSS/Atom), and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer within a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, the DOM Inspector web development toolset, and the Lightning calendar-scheduler. This new release includes fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]

Release of Libreboot 20220710, a fully free Coreboot distribution

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After seven months of development, the release of the Libreboot 20220710 free boot firmware has been published. This is the fourth release of the GNU project, presented as the first stable release (previous releases were marked as test versions, as they required further stabilization and testing). Libreboot develops a fully free branch from the CoreBoot project, providing a binary-free replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware, which are compliant with […]

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