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Author: Erik Peterson

A ProHoster specialist with over seven years of experience in hosting, network infrastructure, and internet security. I participate in the development and maintenance of server solutions, VPN services, and client platforms. I specialize in stability, data protection, and service optimization for clients. I regularly monitor updates in industry standards and best practices.

Implementation of GOST cryptographic algorithms in the Java language.

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The crypto-gost library has been published, featuring the implementation of GOST cryptographic algorithms in Java without requiring additional dependencies. Unlike the GOST algorithm implementations from the Castle Bouncy Castle library, crypto-gost offers improved performance for the "Grasshopper" encryption algorithm, resolves specific security issues, and provides simple wrappers that do not require deep knowledge of cryptography. The code is provided under its own permissive license, allowing distribution, […]

Release of Fedora Linux 44 distribution

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The release of Fedora Linux 44 has been announced. Products prepared for download include Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, Fedora Server, Fedora IoT, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and Live images provided in the form of spins with user environments Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, Phosh, Miracle, LXQt, Budgie, Sway, and Cosmic. The builds are formed for […]

Release of the information systems development platform lsFusion 6.2.

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The release of the lsFusion 6.2 project is available, which develops a declarative platform for building business and web applications. The platform is suitable for developing corporate and accounting applications and can be used as an open and free alternative to the 1C platform. The code of the project is written in Java and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The standard ERP solution for small and medium businesses MyCompany, which uses lsFusion, is distributed under […]

Microsoft launches K2 — an emergency plan to rescue the reputation of Windows 11

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Previously, the president of Microsoft Windows, Pavan Davuluri, stated that the company has a large-scale strategy to restore user trust in Windows 11. This trust was lost due to the relentless integration of artificial intelligence features at the expense of core principles—performance and reliability. The initiative to eliminate these shortcomings has been internally named Windows K2, reported Windows Central, citing […]

AI integration is planned for Ubuntu.

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Jon Seager, Vice President of Engineering at Canonical and technical leader of the Ubuntu project, summarized plans for integrating large language model-based functionality into the distribution. In the first phase, Ubuntu developers intend to leverage AI models to enhance existing distribution capabilities, after which they will add separate AI features and workflows for users interested in utilizing AI. […]

MD4C 0.5.3

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On April 20, after more than a two-year hiatus, version 0.5.3 of the fast MD4C library ('Markdown for C') was released, designed for parsing Markdown format data and converting it to HTML. The specifications supported include Markdown CommonMark 0.31 and GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM). The package also includes a console utility md2html. The project is written in C without external dependencies […]

Release of StartWine-Launcher 421, a program for running Windows applications and games in Linux

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The release of the Startwine-Launcher 421 application has been published, developed for launching programs and games compiled for the Windows platform on Linux systems. The main goal of developing StartWine-Launcher was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes by beginners—sets of libraries and Windows dependencies required for running Windows applications on Linux. The StartWine-Launcher code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on […]

Linux kernel 7.1 has added support for Realtime mode for 32-bit ARM systems

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The Linux kernel 7.1, which is expected to be released in mid-June, includes changes that add the capability of using the real-time (PREEMPT_RT) mode on 32-bit ARM processors. Previously, PREEMPT_RT support was provided for x86 and x86-64 architectures, ARM64, RISC-V, and LoongArch. Currently, from the rt-linux project's patches that are not yet incorporated into the main kernel, the following remain: Recording […]

The lead developer of Gothic Remake talked about the differences between the remake and the original "Gothic"

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Reinhard Pollice, head of Alkimia Interactive, discussed the team's approach to creating the remake of the iconic fantasy role-playing game "Gothic" by Piranha Bytes in an interview with PC Gamer. According to Pollice, during the early stages of development for Gothic Remake, various ideas were considered, such as adding a mini-map, character editor, and mini-games to populate the world (card and fishing), but they decided against […]

The release of the composite server Niri on April 26, utilizing Wayland

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After three months of development, the release of the composite server Niri 26.04 has been published, implementing a tiling method in the style of the GNOME extension PaperWM, where windows are grouped into an infinitely scrollable ribbon on the screen. Opening a new window causes the ribbon to expand, while previously added windows do not change size. The project is based on using the Wayland protocol but allows running X11 applications […]

Niri 26.04

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A new version of Niri v26.04 has been released—a scroll-tiling compositor for Wayland that arranges windows in columns on an infinite strip to the right, with opening a new window not altering the sizes of already opened ones. Niri is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPL3 license. In February, the repository on GitHub surpassed 20,000 stars. The main feature of the release, which was highly requested, is support for […]

Microsoft is considering moving Azure Linux to a Fedora package base

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Conan Kudo, a member of the technical committee for the Fedora project, mentioned during a recent online meeting of the ELN (Enterprise Linux Next) group that Microsoft intends to transition the Azure Linux distribution partially to the Fedora Linux package base. To achieve higher performance in Azure Linux, builds for the x86_64-v3 architecture are required, and Microsoft developers aimed to create […]

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