Author: Yuri Gagarin

Release of the GNU screen 5.0 console window manager

Two and a half years after the last significant release, the full-screen console window manager (terminal multiplexer) GNU screen 5.0.0 has been released, allowing users to organize a multi-window interface in the console using a single physical terminal to work with multiple applications, each assigned its own virtual terminal, which remains active across different user sessions. Among the changes: The authentication mechanism has been rewritten. To enable authentication and [...]

Fooyin 0.6.1

Fooyin is an audio player created in Qt6 in the style of Foobar2000. Currently, it is natively available only on Linux. The player is licensed under GNU GPL 3. Fooyin offers a wide range of customization options for managing and playing your music collection. It can be extended with plugins and the FooScript language. Sound playback is supported by FFmpeg along with several output options, [...]

LinkedIn switched from CentOS to Azure Linux

Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn reported the migration of the majority of its servers, virtual machines, and containers from CentOS to the Azure Linux distribution. In addition to addressing the issue of the discontinued support for the CentOS 7 branch during the migration, security improvements to the infrastructure, cost reductions, enhanced flexibility in configuration, and simplification of the deployment of new capabilities based on [...].

Microsoft has handed over the development of the Mono project to the Wine community.

Microsoft has announced the transfer of the Mono project, which develops an alternative implementation of the .NET platform, to the WineHQ organization, which develops an open implementation of the Win32 API. Microsoft obtained the Mono project after acquiring Xamarin in 2016. The Mono platform was intended to develop tools for mobile application development in C# using .NET technologies, but […]

Release of VeraCrypt 1.26.14 disk partition encryption system

After 11 months of development, the release of VeraCrypt 1.26.14 has been published, which develops a fork of the TrueCrypt disk encryption system that has ceased to exist. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the RIPEMD-160 algorithm used in TrueCrypt with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and addressing problems identified during the TrueCrypt source audit. The code developed by VeraCrypt […]

Malicious code has been identified in the ss-otr plugin for Pidgin.

The developers of the instant messaging client Pidgin, which supports networks like Jabber/XMPP, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr, have announced the detection of malicious code in the ss-otr (ScreenShareOTR) plugin, present in the community-developed plugin directory. The plugin was uploaded to the directory on July 6, distributed only in binary form, and added functionality to Pidgin […]

The release of the Calligra 4.0 office suite, developed by the KDE project

After more than 4 years of development, the release of the free Calligra 4.0 office suite has been published. It was created in 2010 as a result of the restructuring of the KOffice project. The office suite is built on KDE technologies and applies a unified system of embedded objects for all its applications. The components responsible for functionality and user interface are separated, allowing the creation of both lightweight mobile […]

Release of web browser Chrome 128

Google has released version 128 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, the stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which forms the basis of Chrome, is also available. Chrome differs from Chromium by the use of Google logos, a crash notification system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, always-on Sandbox isolation, provision of keys for Google API, and transmission of […]

Linux is 33 years old

Creating a monolithic kernel in 1991 was a fundamental mistake. Thank your lucky stars that you're not my student: I wouldn't give a high grade for such a design. Professor Andrew Tanenbaum. Original message in the mailing list: I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, […]

The composite server Wayfire 0.9 using Wayland has been released

After ten months of development, the release of the Wayfire 0.9 composite server, which uses Wayland and allows the creation of resource-friendly user interfaces with 3D effects similar to the 3D plugins of Compiz (screen switching via a 3D cube, spatial window layout, morphing with windows, etc.), has been presented. Wayfire supports extension through plugins and provides a flexible configuration system. The project's code is written in […]

Linus Torvalds has begun to regret approving the addition of Bcachefs to the Linux kernel.

During the discussion of another batch of changes proposed for inclusion in kernel 6.11-rc5 by Bcachefs author Kent Overstreet, Linus Torvalds mentioned that he is beginning to regret accepting the Bcachefs filesystem into the kernel. Torvalds' dissatisfaction stems from the fact that Overstreet is sending overly extensive fixes at the candidate release stage, which essentially do not […]

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