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GNU/Linux, BSD and More Leftovers
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Graphics Stack
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It's FOSS ☛ These Projects are Keeping X11 Dream Alive on Linux
The list covers desktops, X servers, and a Wayland-hosted X11 layer. Basically, projects that are resisting a Waylan-only GNU/Linux future.
By now, you must know that mainstream Linux desktop environments, and by extension, distributions, are moving away from X11.
If you don’t know what an X11 session is, it is a desktop session that uses the X Window System, typically through the X.Org Server (Xorg). The server handles graphical output and input communication between applications and the display, while other components manage windows and compositing.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Arcan ☛ A Farewell To Hubs
Those of you who have read the final sections to the article on Arcan: 10 Years of Online Obscurity know that I am anything but happy with the current state of computing affairs and its trajectory.
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BSD
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Undeadly ☛ dbupdate(8) added to -current
This should provide a smooth mechanism for dealing with the occasional change to timezone and CA databases, including urgent CA ones such as that necessitated by the recently-revealed Emudhra fiasco!
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Undeadly ☛ emulators/wine (re)entering OpenBSD ports
So if this falls within the things you are interested in or actually need, we would encourage you to read the entire emulators/wine thread and the later supplement on new port: emulators/wine-extras: scripts for winetricks and wine-steam to keep up to date on developments.
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Debian Family
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Tor ☛ New Release: Tails 7.15.1 | The Tor Project
On October 17, Mozilla blocked the certificates of eMudhra, a certificate authority that had its intermediate certificates compromised. Tor Browser 15.0.26 now blocks all eMudhra certificates as well.
Using one of the compromised intermediate certificates, an attacker could impersonate any website, even if the connection is secured with HTTPS.
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