Google has introduced the first beta version of the open mobile platform Android 16. To evaluate the platform's new capabilities, a beta testing program has been proposed. Firmware builds have been prepared for Pixel 6/6a/6 Pro, Pixel 7/7a/7 Pro, Pixel 8/8a/8 Pro, Pixel 9/9 Pro/9 Pro XL/9 Pro Fold, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Tablet. The preliminary release was formed three months earlier than […
Canonical has published the results of evaluating performance changes when rebuilding packages with profile-guided optimization (PGO), which allows for generating more optimized code based on the analysis of program execution characteristics. It was concluded that enabling PGO optimization reduced CPU load by 5-7% and sped up build time. In […
Qualys has identified three vulnerabilities in the needrestart utility, which is designed to restart background processes after updating libraries used by those processes. Starting from Ubuntu 21.04, the needrestart utility is included in the base environment of Ubuntu Server, where it runs with root privileges at the end of each transaction of the APT package manager, scans running processes, and restarts those associated […
The developers of the Arch Linux distribution have announced their decision to relicense all source code of components used to build packages, such as PKGBUILD files, ".install", and ".desktop", under the 0BSD license, which can be considered analogous to public domain status. Previously, the source code of package build scripts in Arch Linux was distributed without a license, leading to uncertainty and allowing for different […
The release of Rocky Linux 9.5 has been announced, aimed at creating a free RHEL build capable of taking the place of traditional CentOS. The distribution is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.5 and CentOS 9 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will be maintained until May 31, 2032. Installation iso images of Rocky Linux have been prepared for […]
Android Authority has received information about Google's intention to replace the Chrome OS platform with a new implementation based on the Android platform. Reports of plans to incorporate certain components of Android into Chrome OS, such as the kernel and system libraries, were made in June, but according to new information, the plans are more extensive than just utilizing parts of Android in Chrome OS […]
The Latin American Free Software Foundation has released a fully free version of the Linux 6.12 kernel — Linux-libre 6.12-gnu, stripped of firmware and driver elements containing non-free components or code sections restricted by the manufacturer. Furthermore, Linux-libre disables kernel functionality for loading external non-free components not included with the kernel and removes references to using non-free components from […]
The AlmaLinux 9.5 distribution is now available, synchronized with the new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 and containing all the changes proposed in this release. Installation images have been prepared for x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in bootable (1 GB), minimal (2 GB), and full (10 GB) formats. Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce will be created later […]
Thirteen years after the release of the 1.3 branch, the lightweight cross-platform graphical toolkit FLTK 1.4.0 (Fast Light Toolkit) has been released. FLTK is written in C++ and is distributed under the LGPLv2 license. The FLTK 1.4 branch is marked as backward compatible with 1.3.x releases, meaning that no code changes are required when transitioning to FLTK 1.4, but it is necessary […]
The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 24.10.1 has been announced, based on FreeBSD 14-STABLE and offering the MATE desktop environment. Additionally, unofficial builds with Xfce are created by the community. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS file system. It supports both Live mode operation and installation on a hard drive (using its own installer ginstall, written in Python). Boot images are prepared for the architecture […]
Significant changes: The Linux-RT patchset for building real-time systems has been officially integrated into the kernel codebase alongside the latest changes to the printk() function. The ability to dynamically load third-party CPU schedulers as BPF programs has been added. The ring buffer now allows records to be preserved across reboots. The kernel can now work with devices where the block size exceeds the memory page size. The system […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released kernel version 6.12. Among the most notable changes are: the capability to enable Realtime mode, sched_ext for creating CPU schedulers via eBPF, QR code output during fault conditions, Device Memory TCP mechanism, SCHED_DEADLINE server resource reservation mechanism, improvements to the EEVDF task scheduler, and the IPE module for defining integrity policies. A total of 14,607 […]