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New editions of manuals have been released Linux From Scratch 11.1 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11.1 (BLFS), as well as LFS and BLFS editions with the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch, instructions are provided on how to create a basic Linux-systems using only the source code of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch supplements LFS instructions with assembly information […]
The Free Software Foundation has announced the appointment of Zoë Kooyman as executive director, which was left vacant by the departure of John Sullivan, who had held the position since 2011. Zoya joined the Foundation in 2019 and served as a project manager. It is noted that Zoya has experience in managing international projects and organizing events. […]
Updates to the OpenWrt distribution 19.07.9 and 21.02.2 have been published, aimed at use in various network devices such as routers, switches and access points. OpenWrt supports many different platforms and architectures and has a build system that allows for simple and convenient cross-compilation, including various components in the build, which makes it easy to create ready-made firmware or […]
After two and a half years since the last release, the Hyperbola GNU project has been released.Linux-libre 0.4, which is included in the Free Software Foundation's list of completely free distributions. Hyperbola is based on stabilized slices of the Arch package base. Linux with transfer from Debian Some patches to improve stability and security. Hyperbola builds are generated for the i686 and x86_64 (1.1 GB) architectures. The project […]
The release is presented Linux- the Armbian 22.02 distribution, which provides a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, and Samsung Exynos processors. Package databases are used to create builds. Debian And […]
In distribution AlmaLinux 8.5, previously released for x86_64 and ARM/AArch64 systems, now supports the PowerPC architecture (ppc64l). Three ISO images are available for download: bootable (770 MB), minimal (1.8 GB), and full (9 GB). The distribution is fully binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise. Linux 8.5 and can be used as a transparent replacement CentOS 8. The changes boil down to rebranding, […]
The release of a decentralized platform for organizing video hosting and video broadcasting PeerTube 4.1 took place. PeerTube offers a vendor-neutral alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo, using a content distribution network based on P2P communications and linking visitors' browsers together. The project's developments are distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Key innovations: Improved performance of the built-in video player on mobile devices. When you touch the center, […]
The release of the CoreBoot 4.16 project has been published, within the framework of which a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS is being developed. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. 170 developers took part in the creation of the new version, who prepared 1770 changes. Key innovations: Added support for 33 motherboards, 22 of which are used on devices with Chrome OS or on Google servers. Among not […]
Three years after the last release, the MPlayer 1.5 multimedia player was released, which ensures compatibility with the latest version of the FFmpeg 5.0 multimedia package. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. The changes in the new version boil down to the integration of improvements added over the past three years to FFmpeg (the codebase is synchronized with the FFmpeg master branch). A copy of the new FFmpeg is included in […]
The release of SQLite 3.38, a lightweight DBMS designed as a plug-in library, has been published. The SQLite code is distributed as a public domain, i.e. may be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley and Bloomberg. Main changes: Added support for operators -> […]
Corrective updates to the collaborative development platform GitLab 14.8.2, 14.7.4 and 14.6.5 eliminate a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-0735) that allows an unauthorized user to extract registration tokens in the GitLab Runner, which is used to call handlers when building project code in a continuous integration system. No details are provided yet, only that the problem is caused by information leakage when using Quick commands […]
The release of the GNUnet 0.16 framework, designed for building secure decentralized P2P networks, has been presented. Networks created using GNUnet do not have a single point of failure and are able to guarantee the inviolability of users' private information, including eliminating possible abuse by intelligence services and administrators with access to network nodes. GNUnet supports the creation of P2P networks over TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, Bluetooth and WLAN, […]