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Project for porting the pledge isolation mechanism for Linux

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The author of the standard C library Cosmopolitan and the Redbean platform has announced the implementation of the pledge() isolation mechanism for Linux. Originally developed by the OpenBSD project, pledge allows selectively prohibiting applications from making unnecessary system calls (a sort of whitelist of system calls is created for the application while all other calls are denied). Unlike the access restriction mechanisms available in Linux, such as […]

The Chrome OS Flex operating system is ready for installation on any hardware.

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Google has announced the readiness of the Chrome OS Flex operating system for widespread use. Chrome OS Flex is a standalone variant of Chrome OS designed for use on standard computers, not just on devices originally shipped with Chrome OS, like Chromebooks, Chromebases, and Chromeboxes. The main use cases for Chrome OS Flex include upgrading existing […]

Release of Tor Browser 11.5

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After 8 months of development, a significant release of the specialized Tor Browser 11.5 has been presented, continuing the functionality development based on the ESR branch of Firefox 91. The browser focuses on providing anonymity, security, and privacy, with all traffic routed only through the Tor network. It is impossible to connect directly via the current system's standard network connection, which prevents tracking the user's real IP address (in the case of […]

Release of the Rocky Linux 9.0 distribution, developed by the founder of CentOS.

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The release of Rocky Linux 9.0 has occurred, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL capable of taking the place of traditional CentOS. The release is marked as ready for production deployments. The distribution is fully binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9 and CentOS 9 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will be provided until May 31 […]

Google has released a Rocky Linux build optimized for Google Cloud.

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Google has released a build of the Rocky Linux distribution, positioned as an official solution for users who utilized CentOS 8 in Google Cloud but faced the need to migrate to another distribution due to the early termination of CentOS 8 support by Red Hat. Two system images are prepared for download: a standard one and one specifically optimized for maximum network performance […]

Builds with the LXQt 1.1 user environment have been prepared for Lubuntu 22.04.

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The developers of the Lubuntu distribution have announced the publication of the Lubuntu Backports PPA repository, offering packages for installation in Lubuntu/Ubuntu 22.04 of the latest release of the LXQt 1.1 user environment. The initial builds of Lubuntu 22.04 come with the outdated LXQt 0.17 branch, released in April 2021. The Lubuntu Backports repository is currently in beta testing and was created similarly to the repository with fresh versions of the desktop […]

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 […]

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