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Mozilla has released version 0.4 of the Firefox add-on Firefox Translations (previously developed under the name Bergamot Translate), which implements a self-sufficient machine translation system that operates within the browser without relying on external services. The bergamot-translator engine, developed under the Bergamot initiative by Mozilla along with researchers from several universities in the UK, Estonia, and […]
After five years of development, the Libreboot 20210522 distribution release has been presented. This is the second release within the GNU project and is currently classified as 'testing,' as it requires further stabilization and testing. Libreboot fosters a fully free fork of the CoreBoot project, providing a clean, binary-free alternative to proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware, which are responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals […]
The release of the Nyxt web browser 2.0.0 has been published, aimed at advanced users who are offered virtually unlimited options for configuring and altering the behavior of any aspect of the browsing experience. Conceptually, Nyxt resembles Emacs and Vim, and instead of a ready-made set of configurations, it allows users to change the very logic of operation using the Lisp language. Users can redefine or reconfigure any classes, methods, variables […]
The first release of the Floppinux distribution has been introduced, in which an attempt was made to create a minimalist distribution that fits on a 3.5-inch floppy disk, using the latest versions of system components such as the Linux kernel 5.13.0-rc2 and the busybox 1.33.1 utility set. The prepared boot image is 1.44MiB, with the kernel occupying 632KiB and user space components taking up 552KiB. For user applications, there is […]
The lightweight Live distribution AntiX 19.4 has been released, based on the Debian package base and aimed at installation on outdated hardware. The release is based on Debian 10 (Buster) but comes without the system manager systemd and with eudev instead of udev. For initialization, runit or sysvinit can be used as an option. The default user environment is formed using a window manager […]
After more than a year of development, the Lakka 3.0 release has been published, allowing computers, set-top boxes, or single-board computers to be transformed into full-fledged gaming consoles for running retro games. The project is a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally designed for creating home theaters. Lakka builds are produced for i386, x86_64 (Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD GPUs), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Cubieboard, Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, […]
The open implementation of WinAPI from the experimental branch — Wine 6.9 has been released. Since the release of version 6.8, 25 bug reports have been closed and 310 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the WPCAP library has been converted to the PE executable file format. Print spooling now supports sheet formats. In the C runtime, the transfer of mathematical function implementations from the library code continues […]
Red Hat has released the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 distribution. Installation builds have been prepared for x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le, and Aarch64 architectures, but are only available for download to registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal. The source code of the rpm packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is distributed through the CentOS Git repository. The 8.x branch will be supported at least until 2029 […]
Martin Schleiss tried to compare various open projects in terms of code complexity and understanding how the code works and what actions it performs. For example, a project becomes more challenging to comprehend with the application of complex abstractions, such as distributed component interactions over a network, or when using a large number of nested modules and classes. As a metric to assess the potential […]
A detailed guide has been published on tuning the Linux environment to achieve maximum performance in processing HTTP requests. The proposed methods enhanced the performance of the JSON handler based on the libreactor library in the Amazon EC2 environment (4 vCPU) from 224 thousand API requests per second with default settings of Amazon Linux 2 with kernel 4.14 to 1.2 million requests per second after optimization […]
A new release of the Wayward custom shell 0.8.3 is available, based on the composite server Weston and the Wayland protocol. The shell is notable for its low memory consumption (50-70 MB RAM), high speed, and use of only four dependencies (weston/wayland, ttf-droid/adwaita-icon-theme, gtk3, and sudo). It provides a bottom panel that supports auto-hiding and includes an application menu, shortcuts for quick application access, task icons, and a clock […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2021-30465) has been discovered in the container launching toolkit runc, used in Docker and Kubernetes, allowing access from within a container to the host environment's main file system. By manipulating symbolic links, an apparently harmless container configuration can be prepared, leading to bind-mounting external file systems inside the container. The issue has been addressed in runc update 1.0.0-rc95. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker […]