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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.

Microsoft announced the most anticipated Windows update — users will have control over updates.

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Microsoft announced major changes to its operating system update distribution system. Pavan Davuluri, head of the Windows division, promised that in the future users will be able to pause the installation of patches "for as long as necessary." Computer owners will also be able to restart or turn off their devices without forced installation of updates. According to The Verge, this decision was made in response to years of criticism […]

Release of the standard C library Musl 1.2.6

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After two years of development, the release of the standard C library Musl 1.2.6 has been announced, providing an implementation of libc suitable for use on both stationary PCs and servers as well as mobile systems, combining full support for standards (like in Glibc) with a small size, low resource consumption, and high performance (similar to uClibc, dietlibc, and Android Bionic). Support for all mandatory […]

AlmaLinux has gained support for the RISC-V architecture.

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The developers of the AlmaLinux project, which is developing a distribution edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), have announced the addition of support for the RISC-V (RV64GC) architecture in the AlmaLinux Kitten 10 distribution. The AlmaLinux Kitten 10 edition is based on the package base of CentOS Stream 10, developed using a continuous package update model, and is used as the upstream for the AlmaLinux 10 branch. Builds of AlmaLinux Kitten 10 for […]

Release of Wine 11.5 and Wine-staging 11.5

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.5 has been published. Since the release of 11.4, 22 bug reports have been closed and 208 changes have been made. The most important changes include: support for compiling code in C++ has been added to the build system. The configure script now includes the ability to check for a compiler supporting C++17. Header files for C++ are now included, and […]

Wayland 1.25

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The stable release of Wayland 1.25 is now available. The main changes concern documentation, development convenience, and minor protocol extensions. Changes include: documentation in text format has been converted from DocBook to mdBook; fully documented: the XML dialect of Wayland (how to write protocols); content update model (how clients send buffers); color management. A new attribute 'frozen' has been added for interfaces with multiple parent interfaces; a new request […]

Fedora Asahi Remix 43 has been released, a distribution for Apple ARM chips

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The Fedora Asahi Remix 43 distribution has been released, intended for installation on Mac computers equipped with ARM chips developed by Apple. Fedora Asahi Remix 43 is based on the package base of Fedora Linux 43 and features the Calamares installer. Initially, the Asahi Linux distribution was developed based on Arch Linux, but in 2023 it was transitioned to the Fedora package base, allowing efforts to be focused on […]

ReactOS ensures compatibility with proprietary video drivers

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The ReactOS project has reported significant progress in achieving compatibility with proprietary video drivers. Thanks to a series of fixes and the implementation of the KMDF (Kernel-Mode Driver Framework) and WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) subsystems, support for around 90% of GPU drivers for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has been realized. Prior to these changes, launching many proprietary drivers either resulted in crashes or unstable operation. […]

Google has launched a public code review system for the Linux kernel

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Roman Gushchin from the Linux kernel development team at Google announced the availability of a new code review system powered by artificial intelligence. It is already being used internally at Google to identify issues, and is now publicly available, covering all messages sent to the Linux kernel mailing list. Roman reports that Sasiko has managed to detect about 53% of errors on […]

The Linux Foundation will distribute $12.5 million to maintain the security of open-source software.

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The Linux Foundation has announced a grant allocation of $12.5 million to assist in the maintenance of significant open projects and the development of solutions to enhance security. The funds for the grants have been provided by companies such as Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The distribution of funds will be handled by the Alpha-Omega project and the OpenSSF organization, established under the auspices of […]

The decentralized co-development platform Radicle 1.7 has been released

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The release of version 1.7 of the P2P platform Radicle has been published, aimed at creating a decentralized collaborative development and code storage service similar to GitHub and GitLab, but not tied to specific servers, censorship-resistant, and utilizing the resources of P2P network participants. The platform supports standard features of developer social interaction, such as issues, patches, and code reviews. The project's code is written in […]

"Web only, edge to edge": Vivaldi browser learns to hide its interface

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The latest version of the Vivaldi browser includes an interesting feature — in the settings, you can choose to automatically hide part of the interface elements and only see the content of the active web page. Hidden elements reappear when the mouse pointer hovers near the edge of the screen. Similarly, in Windows, you can hide the taskbar to free up additional space. The idea behind this feature is not new, but it has been implemented in browsers […]

The release of Vivaldi 7.9 for desktops has occurred

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Today, the release of the Norwegian browser Vivaldi 7.9 for desktops took place. This time, the developers introduced the following new features: Automatic interface hiding. This feature allows you to automatically hide all interface elements while browsing pages, including the tab bar, address bar, sidebar, and status bar, both individually and all at once. This feature can also be used in full-screen viewing mode. […]

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