Author: Yuri Gagarin

The linus-next kernel branch has been introduced for testing in continuous integration mode.

Sasha Levin from Google, who is involved with LTS branches of the Linux kernel and is a member of the advisory board of the Linux Foundation, announced the creation of a new Linux kernel branch - 'linus-next'. This branch, similar to 'linux-next', is intended for testing changes proposed for inclusion in the main composition of the upcoming Linux kernel branch, but it focuses on changes that are ready […]

The ONLYOFFICE office suite 8.2 is now available.

The release of ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer 8.2 has been published, featuring a server for the ONLYOFFICE online editors and collaboration tools. The editors can be used to work with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The project’s code is distributed under the free AGPLv3 license. Simultaneously, the release of ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors 8.2 has been formulated, built on a unified codebase with the online editors. The desktop editors are designed as desktop applications, […]

Release of iwd 3.0, a package for connecting to Wi-Fi in Linux

The release of the Wi-Fi daemon iwd 3.0 (iNet Wireless Daemon) has become available, developed by Intel as an alternative to the wpa_supplicant toolkit for connecting Linux systems to wireless networks. iwd can be used independently or act as a backend for network configurators like NetworkManager and ConnMan. The project is suitable for use on embedded devices and is optimized for minimal memory consumption […]

Release of web browser Chrome 130

Google has released version 130 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable version of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by using Google logos, having a crash notification system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update system, always enabling Sandbox isolation, providing keys for Google API, and transferring when […]

Ubuntu Linux has turned 20 years old!

On this bright day (October 20, 2004), a cool guy named Mark Shuttleworth thought that while there were a vast number of Linux distributions in the world, none worked as they should. None could be offered to users as a replacement for Windows, which had dominated the desktop operating system market. This had to be addressed […]

The Ubuntu Linux distribution has turned 20 years old

Twenty years ago, on October 20, 2004, the first version of the Ubuntu 4.10 distribution, 'Warty Warthog', was released. The project was founded by Mark Shuttleworth, a millionaire from South Africa, who had participated in the development of Debian and was inspired by the idea of creating a user-friendly desktop distribution with a predictable fixed development cycle. Several developers from the Debian project were involved in the work, some […]

Release of the F-Stack network stack 1.24, running in user space

The F-Stack 1.24 network stack has been released, which is a version of the FreeBSD network stack running in user space and utilizing the DPDK framework for maximum performance. The project was created by Tencent, the largest telecommunications company in China, and is used in its products and services. The code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. It supports operation in Linux and FreeBSD. F-Stack […]

Release of Wine 9.20 and Wine Staging 9.20

An experimental release of the open Win32 API implementation — Wine 9.20 has been published. Since the release of 9.19, 15 bug reports have been closed and 198 changes made. The most important changes include: the inclusion of the Capstone library, enabling disassembly in WineDbg. Support for the X8L8V8U8, A2W10V10U10, A8P8, V16U16, and Q16W16V16U16 formats has been implemented in D3DX9. The continuous integration system based on […]

Release of the SKUF Network Boot system 28.0

A fresh version of the SKUF Network Boot system 28.0 has been released. The SKUF Network Boot system allows Arch Linux to be booted on a computer connected to the network via Ethernet, using a USB drive (minimum 150 MB) or a SAMBA server (without using PXE technology). Change log: Removed the optionality of the loop kernel module. Sync with the upstream version of mkinitcpio PKGBUILD. Updated the update_remote_systems.sh script. Source: linux.org.ru

Release of Rust 1.82. New browser on Rust. Using Rust in Volvo

The release of the general-purpose programming language Rust 1.82 has been published, which was initiated by the Mozilla project but is now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on safe memory management and provides tools for achieving high parallelism in task execution, while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (the runtime is limited to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). […]

Microsoft has opened the source code of the OpenVMM hypervisor and the OpenHCL paravirtualization platform.

Microsoft has announced the release of the source code for the paravirtualization layer OpenHCL and the OpenVMM virtual machine monitor, specifically developed for the operation of OpenHCL. The OpenVMM and OpenHCL code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT license. OpenVMM refers to level two hypervisors operating in the same protection ring as the operating system kernel, similar to those […]

Release of the mobile platform /e/OS 2.4

The release of the mobile platform /e/OS 2.4, focused on user data privacy, is now available. The platform is developed by Gaël Duval, the creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution. The project provides firmware for many popular smartphone models and offers smartphones under the Murena One, Murena 2, Murena Fairphone 4/5, Murena Teracube 2e, and Murena Pixel 5/7 brands, as well as editions for OnePlus, Fairphone, Teracube, and Pixel […]

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