Mesa 26.0 open-source graphics stack is now available for download with new features and improvements across all supported drivers. Here's what's new!
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The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) is a Debian-based live DVD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The product ships with several Internet applications, including web browser, IRC client, mail client and instant messenger, all pre-configured with security in mind and with all traffic anonymised. To achieve this, Incognito uses the Tor network to make Internet traffic very hard to trace.
Google Chrome web browser released new 145 version yesterday for Linux, Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and Android users.
The new version added support decoding JPEG-XL (.jxl) image format by using jxl-rs, a memory-safe pure Rust written decoder, instead of libjxl.
The JPEG-XL decoding is disabled by default. User can go to chrome://flags page then search and enable the feature.
And chromium can be built with enable-jxl-image-format and enable_jxl_decoder flags for the feature support.
Besides the new image format support, other changes in Chrome 145 are mostly for web developers.
It introduced Origin object in the Origin API that encapsulates the origin concept and provides comparison, serialization, parsing methods.
It also introduced Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) feature, allowing websites to bind authentication sessions with cryptographic key pairs associated with the user’s device. This improves the security by making it significantly harder for others to steal session cookies.
As well, it added the column-wrap and column-height properties support from Multi-column Layout Module Level 2, allow to set a height for the row of columns and the overflow columns to appear as a new row.
This version also improved online payments by introducing Browser Bound Keys feature that binds cryptographic keys to a specific browser instance to Secure Payment Confirmation (SPC).
Chrome on Android now accurately reports the browser window’s position and size using window.screenX, window.screenY, window.outerWidth, and window.outerHeight.
Other changes in Chrome 145 include:
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< text-justify property to control what type of justification applied to textfocusvisible parameter for HTMLElement.focus() method.letter-spacing and word-spacing CSS properties.border-radius.onanimationcancel event handler to GlobalEventHandlers.For more about this browser release, see the official release note.
Google Chrome is available to download in Google website via the link below:
For Linux, besides the official .deb/.rpm packages, there’s also a community maintained Flatpak package that runs in sandbox environment. And, here’s a step by step guide shows how to install them in Ubuntu.
OpenVPN 2.7 is now available for download with support for the new upstream DCO Linux kernel module, mbedTLS 4 support, and more. Here's what's new!
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IPFire DBL (Domain Blocklist) launches as a comprehensive, community-driven domain blocking solution that gives you control over what gets blocked in your network.
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Parrot 7.1 ethical hacking and penetration testing distro is now available for download with new and updated tools. Here's what's new!
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Tiny Core Linux is a 16 MB graphical Linux desktop. It is based on a recent Linux kernel, BusyBox, Tiny X, Fltk, and Flwm. The core runs entirely in memory and boots very quickly. The user has complete control over which applications and/or additional hardware to have supported, be it for a desktop, a nettop, an appliance or server; selectable from the project's online repository.
Obarun is an Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the S6 init software in place of systemd. It provides a live disc featuring the JWM graphical interface. Utilities, such as pacopts, are included for working with Arch's repositories, including the Arch User Repository (AUR).
MythTV 36.0 open-source media center software capable of recording TV, playing DVDs, and viewing photos is now available for download as a major update with new features and improvements.
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Volumio (formerly RaspyFi) is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed and fine-tuned exclusively for music playback. It runs on a variety of devices, typically small and cheap computers like the Raspberry Pi, but also on low-power personal computers, notebooks or thin clients. It aims to fully integrate Music Player Daemon, an open-source music player server, into the current Debian releases and to optimise it for Audiophile-quality music playback. Volumio also makes it simple to play music library directly from a USB storage device or from any network-attached storage and it also enables users to listen to web-based radio stations from Spotify, Last.fm and SoundCloud.
Bluestar Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that is based on Arch Linux. The Bluestar distribution features up to date packages, a full range of desktop and multimedia software in the default installation and a live desktop DVD.
DESERT OS Linux is a Ukrainian desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and featuring the Xfce desktop. It supports Pacstall, a package manager inspired by Arch's AUR and capable of creating native Ubuntu DEB packages from source and binary packages, git repositories, AppImage apps, release artifacts and non-Ubuntu DEB packages. The distribution also offers out-of-the box support for Flatpak packages.
Oreon is a desktop-oriented live Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, attempting to combine the stability and security of an enterprise Linux distribution with user-friendly features for desktop and laptop users. Its main features include GNOME desktop with a custom Oreon theme, ten years of support, and access to thousands of packages from Red Hat and Oreon-specific repositories.
In this guide, you’ll learn five practical commands for discovering quick information about any binary command: its purpose, location, and
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GNU Binutils 2.46 is now available for download with support for AMD Zen6 processors, support for generating the SFrame Version 3 format, and more. Here's what's new!
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