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The eighth release of the starter kits on the Ninth Alt platform is ready. These images are suitable for experienced users who prefer to define the application package list independently and configure the system (up to creating their own derivatives) to start working with a stable repository. They are distributed as composite works under the GPLv2+ license. Options include a basic system and one of the desktop environments […]
Russian Railways is transitioning part of its infrastructure to the Astra Linux platform. A total of 22,000 licenses for the distribution have already been purchased — 5,000 licenses will be used for migrating the automated workplaces of employees, while the rest will be for building a virtual infrastructure for workplaces. The migration to Astra Linux will begin this month. The implementation of Astra Linux into the infrastructure of Russian Railways will be handled by JSC […]
Following GitHub and Bitbucket, developers of the GitLab collaborative development platform have announced the discontinuation of the use of the word "master" for main branches, in favor of the word "main". The term "master" has recently been deemed politically incorrect, as it alludes to slavery and is perceived by some members of the community as offensive. The change will be made both in the GitLab.com service and after updating the GitLab platform for […]
Igor Pavlov has released the official console version of 7-zip for Linux alongside the release of version 21.01 for Windows, due to the p7zip project not seeing updates for five years. The official version of 7-zip for Linux is similar to p7zip but is not a copy. No details are provided about the differences between the projects. The program is released in versions for x86, x86-64, ARM and […]
A patch release of Firefox 86.0.1 is available, which includes several fixes: A crash at startup occurring in various Linux distributions has been resolved. This issue was caused by an incorrect memory size check in the code for loading ICC color profiles, written in Rust. A problem causing Firefox to hang after macOS wakes from sleep on systems with Apple M1 processors has been fixed. An error has been resolved, […]
The release of Samba 4.14.0 has been presented, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a full implementation of the domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows 2000 implementation and capable of servicing all Microsoft supported versions of Windows clients, including Windows 10. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides file server, print service, and identity server (winbind) implementations. Key changes […]
Matthew Miller, the leader of the Fedora project, has initiated a proposal to separate the name of the community from the Fedora distribution. The name Fedora is suggested for use for the entire project and its associated community, while the distribution is planned to be called Fedora Linux. The reason for the renaming is that the Fedora project is not limited to just one distribution and also develops the EPEL repository for RHEL/CentOS, documentation, […]
Last night (around midnight European time) a fire broke out in OVH's data center in Strasbourg, destroying most of the equipment (out of four OVH data centers in Strasbourg, the SBG2 data center was completely destroyed, 4 out of 12 rooms in the SBG1 data center were burned, and SBG3 and SBG4 data centers were powered down). Fire and rescue services cut off power to all buildings and only by morning the fire […]
Red Hat and Google, in collaboration with Purdue University, have founded the Sigstore project, aimed at creating tools and services for software verification using digital signatures and maintaining a public log for authenticity verification (transparency log). The project will develop under the auspices of the non-profit organization Linux Foundation. The proposed project will improve the security of distribution channels for software and protect against […]
Corrective releases of the distributed version control system Git 2.30.2, 2.17.6, 2.18.5, 2.19.6, 2.20.5, 2.21.4, 2.22.5, 2.23.4, 2.24.4, 2.25.5, 2.26.3, 2.27.1, 2.28.1, and 2.29.3 have been published, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2021-21300) that allows for remote code execution when cloning an intruder's repository using the 'git clone' command. All Git releases from version 2.15 are vulnerable. The issue manifests when […]
Sylvestre Ledru, known for his work on building Debian GNU/Linux using the Clang compiler, reported the successful conduct of an experiment using an alternative set of coreutils rewritten in Rust. The coreutils include utilities such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. For the first phase of integration […]
A group of researchers from several American, Israeli, and Australian universities has developed three working web browser attacks to extract information about the contents of the processor cache. One method works in browsers without JavaScript, while the other two bypass existing defenses against side-channel attacks, including those employed in the Tor browser and DeterFox. The code to demonstrate the attacks, […]