The eighth correction update for Debian 12 has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. This release includes 68 updates addressing stability issues and 50 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 12.8 include updates to the latest stable versions of systemd, clamav, dpdk, galera-4, intel-microcode, openssl, and wireshark. For […]
Andreas Huettel from the Gentoo Linux Release Engineering team has announced the beginning of the creation of experimental Gentoo disk images in QCOW2 format, allowing for a fully functional system environment bootable in virtual machines. The images are planned to be updated weekly, which will allow them to be used for assessing the current state of the distribution. Previously, the project […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.21 has been published. Since the release of 9.20, 16 bug reports have been closed and 230 changes have been made. The most important changes include: Continued implementation of support for network sessions in the DirectPlay API. Header files have been modified to ensure compilation of C++ code. Fixes related to input-output (I/O) operation completion have been made during […]
The release of the ratarmount program version 1.0.0 has taken place, allowing users to work with archives in various formats as if they were a regular file system. It supports working with RAR and ZIP formats, as well as TAR archives compressed with bzip2, gzip, xz, and zstd. Data is extracted as needed without unpacking the entire archive in advance. The utility's code is written in Python using the […]
A Chrome extension has been developed that allows users to comment on and discuss job vacancies on well-known Russian job search websites. The extension does not require account creation or logging into the job vacancy site. It does not collect any identifying information. All the extension knows about users is the URL of the viewed vacancy. Currently, the following sites are supported: career.habr.com hh.ru rabota.ru […]
After six months of development, the UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical stepped back, has introduced the OTA-6 Focal firmware (over-the-air). This is the sixth release of Ubuntu Touch, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, now renamed Lomiri. The Ubuntu update […]
The Khronos Consortium, responsible for developing graphics standards, has recognized the full compatibility of the open-source RADV driver developed by the Mesa project with the Vulkan 1.3 specification. The driver successfully passed all tests from the CTS (Khronos Conformance Test Suite) and is included in the list of certified drivers. Obtaining certification allows for official claims of compliance with graphics standards and the use of associated trademarks […]
After 7 years since the last significant update, the GSmartControl 2.0 project release has been shaped, which develops a graphical interface for the smartmontools toolkit that allows monitoring the health of drives supporting S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology). It supports PATA and SATA disks, NVMe drives, USB converters, and some RAID controllers. The project's code is written in C using the GTK library and is distributed under […]
BlackBerry QNX has granted the opportunity for free use of the real-time microkernel operating system QNX for non-commercial purposes. It was also announced that the development of system images of QNX 8.0 for Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 platforms has begun. Commenting on the return of the QNX project to publishing its source code, the manager responsible for developer relations noted that the company is moving towards greater […]
After nearly 3 years of development, GSmartControl 2.0.0 has been released – a graphical utility for monitoring the health of HDDs and SSDs using S.M.A.R.T. technology. Key innovations: support for NVMe drives; support for reading smartctl output in JSON format; support for pre-release versions of the smartctl utility; code translation to modern C++ standards; migration of the build system to CMake instead of autotools; the project is fully licensed […]
The release of the open-source PaaS platform Cozystack 0.18.0, built on Kubernetes, has been announced. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform installs directly on servers and covers all aspects of infrastructure preparation for providing managed services. Cozystack enables the deployment and provision of Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
The release of the Lima 1.0 toolkit has been announced, initially developed as a layer similar to WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) for running Linux applications on macOS (LInux-on-MAc), but has since evolved into a universal toolkit for running Linux virtual machines across various operating systems. Currently, Lima can be used on macOS, Linux, Windows, and BSD systems. The key goal of the project is to provide a simple way to […]