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The release of console utility neofetch 7.0.0 has taken place.

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The neofetch utility version 7.0.0 is now available. It is designed to create console screensavers that display information about the system, hardware, and software. By default, the program outputs the operating system logo, which can be replaced with an arbitrary image (for terminals that support image display) or an ASCII drawing. The utility supports about 150 operating systems, from Linux and Windows to Minix, AIX, and Haiku. The program is written in […]

PostgreSQL Anonymizer 0.6, an extension for data anonymization in the DBMS

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A new release of the PostgreSQL Anonymizer project is available, providing an add-on to the PostgreSQL database management system that addresses the challenge of hiding or replacing confidential data or information that constitutes a trade secret. Data can be anonymized on the fly based on specially defined rules and user lists whose query responses need to be anonymized. The code is distributed under the PostgreSQL license. For example, using this add-on, access can be provided […]

Release of the 4MLinux 32.0 distribution

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The release of 4MLinux 32.0 has been published, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be used not only as a live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks but also as a system for recovery after failures and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and […

Pinebook Pro: no longer a Chromebook

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Sometimes it seems that Chromebooks are primarily purchased to install Linux on them. Just a few articles on Habr: one, two, three, four, … Therefore, PINE Microsystems Inc. and the PINE64 community decided that the market lacks Pinebook Pro, which is specifically designed for using Linux/*BSD as the operating system. In […]

Substitute with NVMe on Linux

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Good day. I want to draw the community's attention to a characteristic feature of Linux when working with multiple NVMe SSDs in one system. This will be especially relevant for those who like to create software RAID arrays from NVMe. I hope the information provided below will help safeguard your data and prevent unfortunate errors. We are all accustomed to the following logic of Linux when […]

Announcement of the merger of FreeNAS and TrueNAS projects

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iXsystems has announced the unification of its products for the rapid deployment of Network-Attached Storage (NAS). The free distribution FreeNAS will be merged with the commercial project TrueNAS, which extends FreeNAS's capabilities for enterprises and is pre-installed on storage systems released by iXsystems. For historical reasons, FreeNAS and TrueNAS were developed, tested, and released separately despite the large amount of shared code. For […

Vulnerability in Timeshift that allows privilege escalation in the system

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A vulnerability (CVE-2020-10174) has been identified in the Timeshift application, allowing a local user to execute code with root privileges. Timeshift is a backup system that uses rsync with hard link installation or Btrfs snapshots to provide functionality similar to System Restore in Windows and Time Machine in macOS. The program is included in the repositories of many distributions and is used by default in PCLinuxOS […]

Using Variables in Azure DevOps Pipelines

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Continuing our overview of the wonderful tool for Windows development and beyond, Azure DevOps. This time, after struggling with environment variables, I decided to consolidate all my experiences into one article. From the fact that each runtime environment has a different syntax to the lack of a standard way to transfer variables from one pipeline stage to another. I should mention that the main […]

OVPN client on Grandstream phones

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Input data: 192.168.0.1/24 192.168.0.0 OpenVPN server: 192.168.0.1:1194 Protocol: TCP Using these settings, OVPN works: Note: works only with Blowfish encryption, without compression. Additional options in the Grandstream phone settings, don't forget about the route: client; dev tun; resolv-retry infinite; nobind; tls-client; auth SHA1; route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 Source: habr.com

Why might semi-synchronous replication be necessary?

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Hello everyone. This is Vladislav Rodin speaking. I currently teach courses on software architecture and high-load software architecture on the OTUS portal. In anticipation of the new course 'High Load Architect' starting soon, I decided to write a short original piece that I would like to share with you. Introduction Due to the fact that HDDs can only perform about 400-700 […]

Release of Zorin OS 15.2

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The release of Zorin OS 15.2, based on the Ubuntu 18.04.4 package base, has been announced. The target audience for the distribution is beginner users accustomed to working in Windows. To manage the appearance, the distribution offers a special configurator that allows users to give the desktop the look typical of various Windows versions, and it includes a selection of programs similar to those familiar to Windows users. The size of the bootable ISO image […]

Release of Memcached 1.6.0 with support for external storage

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A significant release of the in-memory caching data system Memcached 1.6.0 has occurred, operating with key/value format data and known for its ease of use. Memcached is typically used as a lightweight solution to speed up high-load websites by caching access to databases and intermediate data. The code is distributed under the BSD license. In the new version, the implementation of the "extstore" storage has been stabilized, which can now be assembled […]

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