1)FreeBSD Puts An End To 32 Bit CPU Support (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Y5D_Az2AY)
2) FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability and Takes Care of Some Kernel Panics
3) FreeBSD Journal – 2024/01-02 – 10 Years in Publication.
4) NetBSD 10.0 RC5 Available
“Chimera comes with a novel userland setup based on FreeBSD core tools (replacing coreutils and related projects like findutils, diffutils, sed or grep; read our FAQ for details about why).
The FreeBSD tools were chosen for their high quality code and solid feature set. However, Chimera does not aim to replicate the FreeBSD experience on Linux in general, instead having its own choices and workflows.
The LLVM/Clang suite provides the system toolchain (clang, lld) as well as runtime parts (compiler-rt, libunwind, libc++). The C library is provided by musl, patched to use LLVM’s (also used e.g. in Android and Fuchsia) Scudo allocator for performance as well as security.
This means Chimera is not a GNU/Linux system, as it utilizes neither GNU utilities, nor GNU libc, nor GNU toolchain. However, the project is not anti-GNU/GPL, and its userland choice is primarily technical. Users are generally free to use whichever software they like.”
“The freenginx.org project. The goal of the project is to keep nginx development free from arbitrary corporate actions.”
https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2024-February/K5IC6VYO2PB7N4HRP2FUQIBIBCGP4WAU.html
Major advantage the memory safety that Rust offers.
Alacritty is a terminal emulator written in Rust.
After using it for a couple hours it is definitely faster and more responsive than Konsole!
Currently using Nord theme.
My toml configuration file looks like this:
> cat ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml
#theme = "Nord"
[shell]
program = "/bin/zsh"
[window]
dimensions = {columns = 80, lines = 15}
[font]
size = 18.0
[font.bold]
family = "monospace"
style = "Bold"
[font.bold_italic]
family = "monospace"
style = "Bold Italic"
[font.italic]
family = "monospace"
style = "Italic"
[font.normal]
family = "monospace"
style = "Regular"
[colors.bright]
black = "#4C566A"
blue = "#81A1C1"
cyan = "#8FBCBB"
green = "#A3BE8C"
magenta = "#B48EAD"
red = "#BF616A"
white = "#ECEFF4"
yellow = "#EBCB8B"
[colors.normal]
black = "#3B4252"
blue = "#81A1C1"
cyan = "#88C0D0"
green = "#A3BE8C"
magenta = "#B48EAD"
red = "#BF616A"
white = "#E5E9F0"
yellow = "#EBCB8B"
[colors.primary]
background = "#2E3440"
foreground = "#D8DEE9"
[cursor]
style = "Beam"
[env]
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8"
TERM = "alacritty"Rather than starting with 18.0 stable, the first version will be 18.1, following the gcc version handling.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-N-1-Stable-Versioning
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/4532617ae420056bf32f6403dde07fb99d276a49
According to their website, the reason is the administrative workload and the pressure, high expectations from the community to continue maintaining and developing the add-on, even if the dev is tired or burned out.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don’t-you-accept-donations%3F
So after this 1988 vulnerability and multiple privilege escalation problems, the list of security advisories continues with more issues of X.Org X server prior to 21.1.9 and Xwayland prior to 23.2.2
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-October/003430.html
Brave, a browser focused on privacy installed a VPN service in Windows clients without even asking to do so. This behavior dates back to 2022 but is limited to the Windows version.
It’s possible to remove these services manually or another is to uninstall Brave and reinstall it without admin rights so that the program can’t install additional services.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925192/brave-browser-vpn-windows-11
FOSSCOMM (Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting) is the annual nationwide meeting of Greek FOSS communities and this year takes place in Heraklion, Greece on Oct 21 – Oct 22.
For a complete conference schedule visit https://2023.fosscomm.gr/
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