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The release of KaOS 2022.04 has been announced, a rolling release distribution aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest KDE releases and applications using Qt. Notable distribution-specific design features include a vertical panel placed on the right side of the screen. The distribution is developed with a nod to Arch Linux but supports its own independent repository with over 1500 packages, and […]
Richard Hughes, the creator of the PackageKit project and an active contributor to GNOME development, has announced the release of fwupd 1.8.0, which offers a background process for managing firmware updates and the fwupdmgr utility for managing firmware, checking for new versions, and downloading firmware. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2.1 license. At the same time, the LVFS project has reached the milestone of […]
The developers of the Ubuntu Unity project, which maintains an unofficial edition of Ubuntu Linux with the Unity desktop, have released Unity 7.6.0, marking the first significant release in 6 years after Canonical ceased development of the shell. The Unity 7 shell is based on the GTK library and is optimized for efficient vertical space use on widescreen laptops. The code is distributed under […]
A security issue has been identified in the NPM package repository that allows a package owner to add any user as a maintainer without the user's consent and without informing them of the action taken. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that once a third-party user is added as a maintainer, the original package author can remove themselves from the maintainer list, leaving the third-party user as the sole person […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of the Redox 0.7 operating system has been published, developed using the Rust language and a microkernel concept. The project developments are distributed under the MIT license. For testing Redox OS, installation and Live images are provided, sized at 75 MB. The builds are formed for the x86_64 architecture and are available for systems with UEFI and BIOS. In preparing the new release, primary attention […]
The release of the Lakka 4.2 distribution has taken place, allowing computers, set-top boxes, or single-board computers to be transformed into a full-fledged gaming console for running retro games. The project is a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally designed for creating home theaters. Lakka builds are created for i386, x86_64 platforms (Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD GPUs), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, Odroid C1/C1+/XU3/XU4, etc. […]
The release of the Sculpt 22.04 operating system has been announced, based on Genode OS Framework technologies, developing a general-purpose operating system that can be used by regular users for everyday tasks. The project's source code is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A LiveUSB image is available for download, sized at 28 MB. It supports operation on systems with Intel processors and graphics subsystems […]
Mozilla has released an update to the Common Voice voice data sets, which include pronunciation examples from approximately 200,000 individuals. The data is published as public domain (CC0). The provided sets can be used in machine learning systems to build speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to the previous update, the volume of speech material in the collection has increased by 10% — from 18.2 to 20.2 […]
The release of the Redis 7.0 database management system, classified as a NoSQL system, has been published. Redis provides functions for storing data in a key/value format, enhanced by support for structured data formats such as lists, hashes, and sets, as well as the ability to execute server-side handler scripts in the Lua language. The project code is distributed under the BSD license. Additional modules offering extended capabilities for enterprises […]
The release of Archinstall 2.4 has been announced, which has been included as an option in the Arch Linux installation ISO images since April 2021. Archinstall operates in console mode and can be used as an alternative to the default manual installation mode of the distribution. A separate graphical installer implementation is being developed, but it is not included in the Arch Linux installation images and has been further […]
Issues regarding the maintenance of the new NTFS file system implementation, opened by Paragon Software and included in the Linux kernel 5.15, have been noted on the Linux kernel developer mailing list. One of the conditions for including the new NTFS code in the kernel was ensuring further maintenance of the code as part of the kernel, but since November 24 of last year, any activity in the development of the open […]
Security researchers from Microsoft have discovered two vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-29799, CVE-2022-29800) in the networkd-dispatcher service, code-named Nimbuspwn, which allow an unprivileged user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. The issue has been fixed in the networkd-dispatcher 2.2 release. There is currently no information about the release of updates from the distributions (Debian, RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, Arch Linux). Networkd-dispatcher is used in many Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, […]