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In response to the reckless promotion of telemetry by Muse Group, which acquired the intellectual property and trademarks associated with Audacity, the Sartox Free Software organization has commenced the development of a fork of the audio editor Audacity, stripped of any code related to data collection and telemetry transmission. In addition to removing the dubious code that makes network calls (sending telemetry and reports on […]
Virtuozzo, a company developing server software for virtualization based on open projects, has published the release of Virtuozzo Linux 8.4, built by repackaging the source texts of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4. The distribution is fully binary compatible and functionally identical to RHEL 8.4, and can be used as a transparent replacement for RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 solutions. Available for download […]
Miguel Ojeda, the author of the Rust-for-Linux project, has proposed for consideration by the Linux kernel developers an updated version of the components for developing device drivers in Rust. Rust support is regarded as experimental but is already approved for inclusion in the linux-next branch. The new version addresses the comments raised during the discussion of the first version of the patches. Linus Torvalds has already joined the discussion and […]
The release of the reference implementation of the Yggdrasil 0.4 protocol has been published, allowing the deployment of a separate decentralized private IPv6 network over the common global network, utilizing end-to-end encryption for privacy protection. Any existing applications that support IPv6 can be used over the Yggdrasil network. The implementation is written in Go and distributed under the LGPLv3 license. Support is provided for Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and […]
The release of the postmarketOS 21.06 project has been presented, developing a Linux distribution for smartphones based on Alpine Linux, Musl, and BusyBox. The goal of the project is to provide a way to use a Linux distribution on a smartphone that is independent of the support lifecycle of official firmware and not tied to the typical solutions from the industry's major players that dictate the direction of development. Builds have been prepared for PINE64 PinePhone, Purism Librem 5 […]
Kudelski Security, a company specializing in security audits, has published the Oramfs file system with the implementation of ORAM (Oblivious Random Access Machine) technology, which masks the nature of data access patterns. The project offers a FUSE module for Linux that implements a file system layer that prevents tracking the structure of read and write operations. The Oramfs code is written in Rust and is distributed under the […]
The experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 6.12 has been released. Since the release of version 6.11, 42 bug reports have been closed and 354 changes made. The most important changes include: The inclusion of two new themes "Blue" and "Classic Blue." An initial implementation of the NSI (Network Store Interface) service, which stores and transmits information about networks to other services has been proposed […]
The release of the OpenZFS 2.1 project has been published, continuing the implementation of the ZFS file system for Linux and FreeBSD. The project gained fame as "ZFS on Linux" and was previously limited to developing a module for the Linux kernel, but after the transfer of support to FreeBSD, it was recognized as the main implementation of OpenZFS and was relieved of the mention of Linux in its name. The functionality of OpenZFS has been verified with Linux kernels starting from 3.10 […]
Avast has published the results of an investigation into the compromise of the Mongolian certification authority MonPass's server, which led to the insertion of a backdoor into the application offered for client installation. The analysis revealed that the infrastructure was compromised through the hacking of one of MonPass's public web servers running on Windows. The identified server showed traces of eight different hacks, resulting in the installation of eight webshells […]
Google has released an update to the Lyra audio codec 0.0.2, optimized for achieving the best quality voice transmission over very slow communication channels. The codec was opened in early April but was initially tied to a proprietary mathematical library. The version 0.0.2 addresses this issue and an open replacement called sparse_matmul has been created for the specified library, which is distributed just like the codec itself […]
The Linux-Hardware.org project, based on telemetry data collected over a year, has determined that the rare releases of the most popular Linux distributions, and consequently the use of outdated kernels, causes hardware compatibility issues for 13% of new users. For example, most new Ubuntu users over the past year have been offered the Linux kernel 5.4 as part of release 20.04, which is currently outdated […]
The first significant release of the Venus project is available, which develops a reference implementation of software for creating nodes in the decentralized FileCoin storage system based on the IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) protocol. Version 1.0 is notable for completing a full code audit conducted by Least Authority, a company specializing in the security verification of decentralized systems and cryptocurrencies, known for developing the distributed file system Tahoe-LAFS. The Venus code is written […]