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We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.23.0

While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp...

Rusija preizkusila odklop od mednarodnega interneta

• Matej Huš :: 10. dec 2024 ob 19:23
• Omrežja / internet

Slo-Tech - Minuli konec tedna je Rusija izvedla še en eksperiment, s katerim so preverjali pripravljenost na uvedbo državnega interneta, ki ne bi bil povezan s svetovnim medmrežjem. Preizkus so izvedli na območju pokrajin Čečenija, Dagestan in Ingušetija, kjer so od pozne sobote do nedelje zvečer opazili prekinitve mednarodnih povezav. Regulator Roskomnadzor je eksperiment označil kot "preveritev sposobnosti za izklop dostopa do tujega interneta na izbranem območju". Več na Slo-Techu.

Sekvenciranje genomov virusov v Wuhanu ni odkrilo sorodnikov SARS-CoV-2

• Matej Huš :: 10. dec 2024 ob 19:22
• Znanost in tehnologija

Slo-Tech - Priznana kitajska virologinja Shi Zhengli, ki v Inštitutu za virologijo v Wuhanu raziskuje viruse v netopirjih, je predstavila rezultate genetskega sekvenciranja celotnega genoma 56 novih betakoronavirusov in nekaj delnih sekvenc. Virusi, ki so bili zbrani v letih 2004-2021, ne izkazujejo večje sorodnosti s SARS-CoV-1 ali SARS-CoV-2. S tem Shi Zhengli zavrača nepotrjene teorije, da bi lahko povzročitelj covida pobegnil z Inštituta. Ta teorija je vzniknila kmalu po izbruhu pandemije, raziskovalci pa je niso nikoli potrdili, indici pa nakazovali, da je možnost majhna. Shi Zhengli je ves čas ponavljala, da v laboratoriju niso bili nikoli proučevali SARS-CoV-2. Zato je tudi sekvencirala vse zbrane viruse in razkrila rezultate. Več na Slo-Techu.

Sora je tu

• Matej Huš :: 10. dec 2024 ob 19:21
• Znanost in tehnologija

Slo-Tech - Skoraj leto dni po napovedih in prvih beta verzijah za preizkuševalce je OpenAI predstavil orodje za ustvarjanje videoposnetkov iz besednih opisov. Sora je veliki model, ki kot vhodne podatke jemlje besedilo, fotografije ali posnetke, nato pa iz njih ustvari videoposnetke. Te so lahko različnih formatov, dimenzij in dolžin, kar je pogojeno tudi z naročniškim paketom, ki ga sklene uporabnik. Ob tem poudarjajo, da je nova različica precej hitrejša od februarske, zato so ji nadeli delovno ime Sora Turbo. Na voljo je kot samostojno orodje (sora.com), ki pa terja naročnino na ChatGPT Plus ali Pro. Več na Slo-Techu.

A new version of the Cinnamon desktop environment has been tagged for release – a sure-fire sign that the Linux Mint 22.1 beta is on the way

BrianFagioli writes: Linux Mint has reclaimed its position as the top-ranked Linux distribution on DistroWatch, dethroning MX Linux. The latest page hit rankings, which reflect the popularity of distributions among DistroWatch users, place Linux Mint in first place with 2,412 hits per day. MX Linux, previously the reigning champ, now sits in second with 2,280 hits.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Fedora Project Leader (FPL) Matthew Miller writes that he will soon be hanging up the FPL hat:

Stay tuned for a job posting from Red Hat, and details about all that. I'm hoping we can hire someone awesome early in 2025, and make the official handover on the release of auspiciously-numbered Fedora Linux 42.

I'm not going to leave Fedora, though. As I said above, although it might not always feel like it from the outside, Red Hat support for Fedora is stronger than ever, and I plan on helping that grow even more. I'm stepping into a full-time management role in the Community Linux Engineering organization, so Fedora will still be part of my day job, just in a different way.

In a session at Open Source Summit Europe (OSSEU) back in September, Alex Bucknall gave an overview of a camera "trap"—a device to capture images in a non-intrusive way—that he helped develop which is being used to monitor seagrass. He works for the Arribada Initiative, which is a non-profit organization focused on creating open-source technology for studying wildlife and ecosystems. The camera system uses the Zephyr realtime operating system (RTOS) on an open platform that is designed to be inexpensive and usable for multiple applications.

Last week I wrote about Linux patches cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel builds for x86_64 CPUs. The new iteration of those patches were sent out today, including the addition of a patch adding the CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE Kconfig tunable for enabling "-march=native" kernel builds to cater your optimized kernel compilation for the CPU on which you are building the kernel...

Currently the Linux kernel's "perf" performance monitoring subsystem has a limit on 2,048 CPU cores for its CPU map that is set by the MAX_NR_CPUS value. But that's becoming not enough in today's high core count era that patches are looking to raise it to a 4,096 CPU core limit by default...

For those wanting to run Coreboot or Coreboot-derived firmware on a modern desktop motherboard with good performance and features, the main contender currently is 3mdeb's Dasharo downstream that can be flashed on the MSI PRO Z790-P/Z790-P motherboards for using with Intel Core Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors. Firmware consulting firm 3mdeb today published a new Dasharo firmware update for the MSI PRO Z790-P WIFI motherboard...

Version 1.0.0 of the GNU Shepherd service manager has been released after a mere 21 years of development.

This 1.0.0 release is published today because we think Shepherd has become a solid tool, meeting user experience standards one has come to expect since systemd changed the game of free init systems and service managers alike. It's also a major milestone for Guix, which has been relying on the Shepherd from a time when doing so counted as dogfooding.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (postgresql:15, postgresql:16, and ruby:3.1), Debian (jinja2), Fedora (python-multipart, python-python-multipart, python3.12, retsnoop, rust-rbspy, rust-rustls, and zabbix), Oracle (kernel, libsoup, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, redis:7, and ruby:3.1), SUSE (nodejs18, pam, qt6-webengine, and radare2), and Ubuntu (dogtag-pki, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, ofono, rabbitmq-server, and webkit2gtk).

From redhat.com