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Release of the ReactOS operating system 0.4.13

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After six months of development, the release of the ReactOS 0.4.13 operating system has been presented, aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers. The operating system is in the 'alpha' development stage. An installation ISO image (126 MB) and a Live build (in a zip archive of 95 MB) are available for download. The project code is distributed under GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. Key changes: Significant work has been done to fix bugs and […]

Release of Wine 5.6 and Wine Staging 5.6

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An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.6 — has taken place. Since the release of version 5.5, 38 bug reports have been closed and 458 changes have been made. The most important changes include: New Media Foundation framework calls have been implemented; Active Directory support has been improved, and issues with compiling wldap32 on systems without LDAP support installed have been resolved; Conversion of modules to PE format has been continued; Improvements have been made to […]

Release of ReactOS 0.4.13

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A new release of ReactOS 0.4.13 has been introduced — an operating system aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers. Key changes include: Synchronization with the Wine Staging codebase. Updated versions of Btrfs 1.4, ACPICA 20190816, UniATA 0.47a, mbedTLS 2.7.11, and libpng 1.6.37. Enhancements have been made to the new USB stack, providing support for input devices (HID) and USB drives. Optimization of the FreeLoader bootloader has reduced the startup time […]

IPIP IPsec VPN tunnel between a Linux machine and Mikrotik through the provider's NAT

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Linux: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-91-generic x86_64) Eth0 1.1.1.1/32 external IP ipip-ipsec0 192.168.0.1/30 will be our Miktoik tunnel: CCR 1009, RouterOS 6.46.5 Eth0 10.0.0.2/30 internal IP from the provider. The external IP provider's NAT is dynamic. ipip-ipsec0 192.168.0.2/30 will be our IPsec tunnel, which will be raised on the Linux machine using racoon. I won't describe the details, there is a good article by […]

Updates for Jitsi Meet Electron, OpenVidu, and BigBlueButton video conferencing systems

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New releases of several open platforms for organizing video conferences have been published: The release of the Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0 client for holding video conferences, which represents a standalone application version of Jitsi Meet. Features of the application include local storage of video conference settings, a built-in update delivery system, remote control tools, and a mode for staying on top of other windows. Among the new features of version 2.0 is the ability to provide […]

Release of FreeRDP 2.0, an open-source implementation of the RDP protocol

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After seven years of development, the release of the FreeRDP 2.0 project has taken place, offering a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) developed based on Microsoft specifications. The project provides a library for integrating RDP support into third-party applications and a client that can be used for remote connections to Windows desktops. The project's code is distributed under the Apache license […]

Release of FreeRDP 2.0.0

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FreeRDP — a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license, is a fork of rdesktop. The most significant changes in release 2.0.0 include: Numerous security fixes. Transition to the use of sha256 instead of sha1 for certificate fingerprints. Added the first version of RDP proxy. Refactoring of smartcard code has been performed, including improved input validation. A new […]

Basic capabilities of LXD — container management in Linux

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LXD — this is the next-generation container management system, as stated by the source. It offers a user interface similar to virtual machines but uses Linux containers instead. The core of LXD is a privileged daemon (a service running with root privileges) that provides a REST API via a local Unix socket, as well as over the network if appropriately configured. Clients like […]

Exploring the VoIP engine Mediastreamer2. Part 6

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The material of the article is taken from my Zen channel. Transmitting audio signals over RTP stream In the previous article, we assembled a remote control scheme from a generator and detector of tone signals that operate within a single program. In this article, we will learn to use the RTP protocol (RFC 3550 — RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications) for receiving/transmitting audio signals over an Ethernet network. The protocol […]

Fitting Windows Server on a low-powered VPS with Windows Server Core

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Due to the resource-hungry nature of Windows systems, lightweight Linux distributions like Mint, Colibri OS, Debian, or Ubuntu dominate in the VPS environment, being devoid of the unnecessary, bulky desktop environment for our tasks. As they say, only console, only hardcore! And indeed, this is no exaggeration: Debian can start with 256 MB of RAM and a single core clocked at 1 GHz, […]

Beware, ARM? New 64-bit cores from Synopsys ARC will triple performance

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Few people know that the ARC processor architecture is one of the most widely used architectures alongside ARM, MIPS, and x86. Developed in the 1980s, the ARC architecture is applied in various microcontrollers for a wide range of high-tech products, with approximately 1.5 billion devices produced each year based on ARC. Recently, Synopsys announced a new generation of 32-bit and 64-bit processor […]

Release of the TeX distribution TeX Live 2020

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The release of the TeX Live 2020 distribution, created in 1996 based on the teTeX project, has been prepared. TeX Live is the easiest way to deploy an infrastructure for preparing scientific documentation, regardless of the operating system in use. A DVD build (3.5 GB) of TeX Live 2020 has been created for download, which contains a working live environment, a complete set of installation files for various operating systems, and a copy of the CTAN repository […]

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