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In Ubuntu 21.10, it has been decided to discontinue the theme that combines dark headers, a light background, and light controls. Users will be offered a fully light version of the Yaru theme as the default, with the option to switch to a fully dark version (dark headers, dark background, and dark controls). This decision is explained by the lack of ability in GTK3 and GTK4 to define different colors […]
The Linux Terminal Service Manager (LTSM) project has prepared a set of programs for organizing desktop access based on terminal sessions (currently using the VNC protocol). The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. It includes: LTSM_connector (VNC and RDP handler), LTSM_service (receives commands from LTSM_connector, launches login and user sessions based on Xvfb), LTSM_helper (graphical interface […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds released Linux kernel 5.13. Among the most notable changes are: the EROFS filesystem, initial support for Apple M1 chips, the 'misc' cgroup controller, the discontinuation of /dev/kmem support, support for new Intel and AMD GPUs, the ability to directly call kernel functions from BPF programs, kernel stack randomization for each system call, the ability to build with Clang with CFI protection […]
Veracode has published the results of a study on security issues caused by embedding open libraries in applications (instead of dynamic linking, many companies simply copy the needed libraries into their projects). As a result of scanning 86,000 repositories and surveying about two thousand developers, it was found that 79% of the third-party libraries incorporated into the code of projects are never updated afterward. At the same time, […]
The release of the decentralized file system IPFS 0.9 (InterPlanetary File System) has been announced, forming a global versioned file storage deployed as a P2P network made up of participant systems. IPFS combines ideas previously implemented in systems such as Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS, and the Web, resembling a single 'swarm' of BitTorrent (peers involved in sharing) that exchanges Git objects. IPFS features content-based addressing, and […]
Valve has released version 6.3-5 of the Proton project, which is based on the Wine project’s developments and aims to facilitate the running of gaming applications on Linux that were created for Windows and listed in the Steam catalog. The project’s developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows users to directly launch gaming applications provided solely for Windows in the Linux version of the Steam client. The package includes DirectX implementation […]
Western Digital has urgently recommended that users disconnect their WD My Book Live and My Book Live Duo storage devices from the internet due to numerous reports of complete data deletion from the drives. Currently, it is known that an unknown piece of malware is remotely triggering a factory reset of the devices, erasing all saved content […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2021-3600) has been identified in the eBPF subsystem, which allows the execution of handlers within the Linux kernel in a special JIT virtual machine, permitting a local unprivileged user to execute their code at the Linux kernel level. The issue is caused by improper truncation of 32-bit registers during 'div' and 'mod' operations, which may lead to reading and writing data outside the allocated memory area. […]
Google has announced changes to its plans regarding the phasing out of third-party cookies in Chrome that are set when visiting sites different from the current page's domain. Such cookies are used to track user movements between websites in advertising network codes, social media widgets, and web analytics systems. Initially, support for third-party cookies in Chrome was scheduled to be discontinued by 2022, but now […]
Introducing Linux4yourself or 'Linux for Yourself' — the first release of a self-sufficient Russian-language branch of Linux From Scratch — a guide for creating a Linux system using only the source texts of the necessary software. All project source texts are hosted on GitHub under the MIT license. Users can choose to use a multilib system, EFI support, and a small set of additional software to ensure a comfortable […]
Several packages, including code for hidden cryptocurrency mining, were found in the PyPI (Python Package Index) directory. Issues were present in the packages maratlib, maratlib1, matplatlib-plus, mllearnlib, mplatlib, and learninglib, with names similar to popular libraries (matplotlib), designed so that users might make mistakes when typing and not notice the differences (typosquatting). The packages were uploaded in April under the account […]
After a year of development, SUSE has released the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 distribution. Based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Manager, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing have been formed. The distribution can be downloaded and used for free, but access to updates and patches is limited to a 60-day […]