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The release of EndeavourOS 2020.09.20 is now available, taking over from the Antergos distribution, which was discontinued in May 2019 due to the remaining maintainers' lack of free time to support the project adequately. This distribution offers a simple installer for setting up a basic Arch Linux environment with Xfce desktop by default, along with the option to install one of 9 standard desktop types […]
The release of KaOS 2020.09 has been presented, a distribution with a continuous update model aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest releases of KDE and applications using Qt. The distribution develops with an eye on Arch Linux but maintains its own independent repository with about 1,500 packages and offers a range of its own graphical utilities. Builds are published for x86_64 systems (2.3 GB). In the new […]
Cisco announced the formation of a candidate for the release of the completely revamped Snort 3 intrusion prevention system, also known as the Snort++ project, which has been in development intermittently since 2005. A stable release is expected to be published within a month. The Snort 3 branch has completely rethought the product concept and redesigned its architecture. Key areas of development for Snort 3 include simplification […]
Today, there will be no complicated cases or convoluted SQL algorithms. Everything will be very straightforward, at the level of Captain Obvious — we will be viewing the event log sorted by time. That is, we have a table named events in the database, and it has a ts field — exactly the timestamp by which we want to display these records in an ordered manner: CREATE […]
MinIO is a great solution when you need to easily and simply set up object storage. Its straightforward configuration, compatibility with numerous platforms, and good performance have contributed to its popularity. Thus, we had no choice but to announce a month ago the compatibility of Veeam Backup & Replication with MinIO, including such an important feature as Immutability. In fact […]
Note: Adapting Kubernetes in GitLab is considered one of the two main factors contributing to the company's growth. However, until recently, the infrastructure of the online service GitLab.com was built on virtual machines, and only about a year ago did its migration to K8s begin, which is still not complete. We are pleased to present a translation of a recent article by a GitLab SRE engineer about how […]
Microsoft is actively promoting its new Edge browser, which is based on the Chromium engine. It is already available for many popular platforms aside from Windows, such as Android, macOS, and iOS. Now Microsoft has announced that a developer preview of the browser will also be released on Linux in October. The Edge version for Linux will have virtually no differences from the Windows version. It will include all […]
Canonical and Lenovo have announced the expansion of their program to pre-install Linux on ThinkPad and ThinkStation devices. 29 models of ThinkPad laptops and ThinkStation workstations will be available for purchase with Ubuntu 20.04 pre-installed. Previously, Lenovo began supplying Fedora on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 model and intended to ensure RHEL pre-installation, and has also engaged in […]
Radeon Open Compute is a free set of drivers, libraries, and utilities for implementing OpenCL and machine learning technologies for platforms based on AMD graphics cards. It is developed by AMD. The set includes the rock-dkms kernel module, HCC and HIP compilers, and the rocm-clang-ocl version, libraries to support OpenCL, as well as libraries and sample sets for implementing basic machine learning algorithms. In the new release: […]
A significant release of the specialized Tor Browser 10 has been formed, which transitions to the ESR branch of Firefox 78. The browser focuses on ensuring anonymity, security, and privacy, with all traffic redirected only through the Tor network. Direct access through the current system's standard network connection is impossible, which prevents tracking the user's actual IP address (in the event of a browser hack, attackers may gain access to […]
The release of Samba 4.13.0 has been presented, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a fully implemented domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows 2000 implementation and capable of servicing all supported Microsoft Windows client versions, including Windows 10. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides an implementation of a file server, print service, and identity server (winbind). Key changes […]
The Wine project has released the vkd3d 1.2 package, which implements Direct3D 12 working through the translation of calls to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes libvkd3d libraries implementing Direct3D 12, libvkd3d-shader with a translator for shader models 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify the porting of Direct3D 12 applications, as well as a set of demonstration samples, including the glxgears port […]