On September 22, the release of version 24.3 of the popular free planetarium Stellarium took place, visualizing a realistic night sky as if viewed with the naked eye or through binoculars or a telescope. Key changes include: the ability to batch draw asteroid and comet markers has been added; small circles have been introduced as additional markers for small bodies; multi-threaded calculations of the positions of Solar System bodies have been added; […]
Tidelift has published the results of a survey of over 400 maintainers of open projects. The most interesting findings include: 60% of open project maintainers do not receive payment for their project maintenance work, with 14% of them considering this work a hobby and not interested in getting paid, while 44% would not mind receiving funding. 24% […]
In September 2024, a critical vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-8767 (rated 9.9 by CVSS) was discovered, affecting Acronis Backup plugins on cPanel, WHM, Plesk, and DirectAdmin platforms running on Linux. The issue lies in excessive privileges, allowing attackers to remotely disclose and modify confidential data, as well as perform unauthorized operations. The vulnerability affects plugin builds up to 619 (cPanel), 555 (Plesk) […]
In 2024, a group of enthusiasts successfully booted Linux on the world's first microprocessor — the Intel 4004, released in 1971. This 4-bit processor, operating at a frequency of 740 kHz and capable of 60,000 operations per second, formed the basis of an experiment demonstrating the impressive progress in computing technology. The booting process of Linux took over 8 days, which is quite understandable given the limitations […]
Geeqie - an image manager and viewer. It supports various multimedia formats, slide shows, editing, viewing archives, extracting metadata including GPS location of the shot, and is extendable with scripts. Changelog: plugin to set the mtime file equal to Exif.Image.DateTime; autocomplete for the Bash command line; option to hide the window decoration; improvements in display search and execution list; option to search by Exif tags in the search window; inclusion of buttons […]
The Bun platform, developed as an alternative to Node.js and designed for isolated execution of applications written in JavaScript, JSX, and TypeScript, has implemented an experimental feature for compiling and executing handlers written in C. Previously, calling low-level code required either creating N-API add-ons or compiling the code to WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), which complicated development and imposed certain limitations. […]
The release of the Wolvic Chromium 1.0 browser has been announced, which replaces the Mozilla Gecko engine and Firefox technologies with the Chromium engine. The Wolvic browser (formerly Firefox Reality) is designed for use in augmented and virtual reality systems, providing a 3D interface for navigating websites using a 3D headset. In addition to traditional flat pages, it allows web developers to utilize the WebXR, WebAR, and WebVR APIs […]
Google has released version 129 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source Chromium project, which underlies Chrome, is also available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by incorporating Google logos, a crash reporting system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update system, always-enabled Sandbox isolation, the delivery of keys to Google APIs, and transmission when […]
Mozilla has updated the Common Voice voice data sets, which include pronunciation samples from over 200,000 individuals. The data is published as public domain (CC0). The proposed sets can be used in machine learning systems to build speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to the previous update, the amount of speech material in the collection has increased from 31,800 to 32,600 hours of speech, from […]
The CRIU 4.0 (Checkpoint and Restore In Userspace) toolkit has been released, designed for saving and restoring processes in user space. The toolkit allows the state of one or a group of processes to be saved and then resumed from the saved position, including after a system reboot or on another server without breaking established network connections. The project code is written in […]
Oracle has updated the UEK-next kernel package (Next Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel) to the Linux kernel 6.10 branch. In the Oracle Linux distribution, the UEK 7 kernel, based on the Linux 5.15 kernel, is used by default instead of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel, while the UEK-next branch is being developed as a continuously updated option for developers, allowing access […]
After six months of development, the release of the GNOME 47 desktop environment has been announced. For a quick assessment of GNOME 47's capabilities, specialized Live builds based on openSUSE and an installation image prepared under the GNOME OS initiative are offered. GNOME 47 is also already included in the experimental builds of Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41. The new release features support for accent color customization, […]