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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.

Release of uutils 0.7, a variant of GNU Coreutils in Rust

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The release of the uutils coreutils 0.7.0 project (Rust Coreutils) has been published, which is developing an analogue of the GNU Coreutils package, written in Rust. The coreutils collection includes more than a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The goal of the project is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, capable of running on Windows platforms, Redox […]

PPSSPP 1.20.0

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PPSSPP is an open-source emulator for the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP). It runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, and mobile devices powered by Android and iOS. PPSSPP belongs to HLE (High Level Emulation) emulators and does not require the BIOS of the original console, as it uses HLE BIOS. Key improvements: enhanced UI; improved multiplayer support; fixed graphical issues […]

Wine 11.4

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Wine 11.4 has been released today — a software with open source code, an alternative and free implementation of the Windows API that allows running Windows games and applications on POSIX-compliant operating systems such as Linux, BSD, and macOS. Wine also forms the basis of Valve's Steam Play (Proton). Key changes: Reworked SAX reader in MSXML. Resampling optimizations in DirectSound. […]

Up to 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by hardware memory issues.

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Gabriele Svelto, an engineer at Mozilla, has published results from an analysis of Firefox crashes linked to memory bit distortions caused by hardware issues. Of the 470,000 crash reports from the last week, 25,000 identified potential bit distortion due to unstable memory chip operation as the cause. It was indicated that this […]

GTK 4.22

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Ahead of the GNOME 50 release, expected in less than two weeks, a new stable version of the GTK user interface library has been released. Key fixes in GTK 4.22: Drag-and-Drop (DnD) fixes: A regression where the ::leave signal for DropTarget widgets was no longer sent upon completion of the drop operation has been addressed (#8037, Matthias Clasen). Adjustments in demo applications: the demo programs now […]

Layouts of the updated Firefox interface, developed under the codename Nova.

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Mozilla is working on modernizing the Firefox interface as part of the Nova project. Several layouts of the new design are available to assess the key trends. The most noticeable change is the increased rounding of tab buttons and the address bar, as well as the grouping into distinct rounded blocks in the top area with the tab bar, navigation bar, sidebar, and content area of web pages […]

Release Wine 11.4

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.4 has been published. Since the release of 11.3, 17 bug reports have been closed and 211 changes made. The most important changes include the continued development of the msxml3 library (Microsoft® XML Core Services), required for the Adobe Cloud product installer to work, including Adobe Photoshop. Support for the SAX Reader API, implementing event-driven […]

Code rewriting using AI for relicensing open projects.

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Dan Blanchard, the developer of the chardet library for character encoding detection in Python, has released a new version of the library under a new license. Version 7.0 uses the MIT license instead of LGPL. The developer claims that the AI assistant Anthropic Claude, now listed among contributors, rewrote the library without using the original code, allowing him to replace the copyleft license with a permissive one. [ ... ]

Linux From Scratch 13 and Beyond Linux From Scratch 13 Released

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New releases of the Linux From Scratch 13.0 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 13.0 (BLFS) guides have been presented, structured solely as an edition with the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions on building a basic Linux system from scratch, using only the source texts of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements the LFS instructions with information on building and [ ... ]

Release of Rust 1.94. Experiments with Rust in the FreeBSD kernel. Turso DBMS and vcad CAD on Rust.

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The release of the Rust programming language 1.94 has been published, initially based on the Mozilla project but now developed under the auspices of the independent nonprofit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on safe memory management and provides means for achieving high task parallelism, all without relying on garbage collection and runtime (runtime is limited to basic initialization and maintaining the standard library). Working methods [ ... ]

Pizlix is a memory-safe GNU/Linux distribution.

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Pizlix has been introduced — an experimental operating system built on Linux From Scratch (LFS) 12.2. A key feature of the project is the userland build using the Fil-C compiler, which, according to the author, allows for the creation of the most memory-safe Linux-like distribution available today. The development of Pizlix has become possible due to a high degree of compatibility [ ... ]

Postfix mail server 3.11.0 has been released

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After a year of development, the release of the new stable branch of the Postfix mail server — 3.12.0 has been announced. At the same time, support for the Postfix 3.7 branch, released in early 2022, has been discontinued. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the EPL 2.0 (Eclipse Public License) and IPL 1.0 (IBM Public License). Postfix is one of the few […]

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