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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

A corrective release of Firefox 147.0.1 is now available, featuring three fixes: The 'Compression Dictionary Transport' mechanism added in release 147 has been temporarily disabled due to issues.

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The non-commercial certificate authority Let’s Encrypt, managed by the community and providing certificates free of charge to everyone, has begun issuing free certificates for IP addresses and also provided the option to obtain TLS certificates with a lifespan limited to 160 hours (6 days). On May 13, they intend to add support for optional issuance of certificates valid for 45 days. According to the previously announced plan, by February 10, 2027, the maximum […]

Alpha release of GNOME 50 with the removal of X11 support

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The first alpha release of the GNOME 50 desktop environment has been presented. The release is scheduled for March 18, 2026. For testing the alpha version of GNOME 50, an ISO image (3 GB) based on the GNOME OS distribution has been created. A key change in the alpha version of GNOME 50 is the removal of the code for supporting the X11 protocol from the GNOME Shell user interface and the Mutter compositing server. In the GDM display manager […]

OpenBSD has implemented support for running under Apple Hypervisor.

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Changes have been added to the OpenBSD-current codebase, which will serve as the basis for the OpenBSD 7.9 release in the spring, to support operation as a guest system in virtualization environments based on Apple Hypervisor. OpenBSD builds for the arm64 architecture can be used in virtual machines on macOS on hardware with Apple Silicon ARM chips. The changes are related to ensuring functionality in the virtio driver viogpu […]

Debian 14 plans to cease the provision of GTK2.

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The Debian maintainers responsible for the GNOME packages plan not to include the GTK2 toolkit in the upcoming Debian 14 distribution, which is expected to be released in the summer of 2027. The GTK project developers ceased support for GTK2 over five years ago, and maintaining the abandoned GTK2 in the main repository has become problematic. Distributions that have already stopped providing GTK2 include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE […]

Release of Tails 7.4 Distribution

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The release of the specialized distribution Tails 7.4 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been announced, developed as part of the Tor project. The distribution is based on the Debian 13 package base, comes with the GNOME 48 desktop, and is designed for anonymous internet access using Tor tools. By default, all connections except for traffic through the Tor network are blocked by a packet filter. User settings are preserved […]

Update of the Debian Libre 13.3 build, delivered without non-free components.

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The Debian Libre 13.3 build has been formed, offering variants of bootable images of Debian 13.3, stripped of non-free components, such as firmware blobs. The project is managed by Simon Josefsson, who maintains 170 packages in Debian. According to a resolution passed in 2022, the official Debian ISO images now include both free firmware from the main repository and proprietary firmware […]

Release of Hangover 11.0, a package for running Windows applications on ARM64 systems

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The release of the Hangover 11.0 toolkit has been published, allowing 64- and 32-bit Windows applications compiled for x86 (i386), x86_64, and ARM32 architectures to run in ARM64 (Aarch64) based environments. A version of Hangover for the RISC-V architecture is in development. The project's developments are distributed under the LGPL 2.1 license. Hangover significantly outperforms configurations where Wine runs entirely in […]

Release of the GNU GRUB 2.14 boot manager

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After two years of development, a stable release of the modular multi-platform boot manager GNU GRUB 2.14 (GRand Unified Bootloader) has been presented. GRUB supports a wide range of platforms, including standard PCs with BIOS, IEEE-1275 platforms (hardware based on PowerPC/Sparc64), EFI systems, systems with RISC-V, Loongson, Itanium, ARM, ARM64, LoongArch, and ARCS (SGI) processors, and devices using the open CoreBoot package. The project's code is written in […]

The decentralized collaborative development platform Radicle 1.6 has been released

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The release of the P2P platform Radicle 1.6 has been published, aimed at creating a decentralized service for collaborative code development and storage, similar to GitHub and GitLab, but not tied to specific servers, censorship-resistant, and utilizing the resources of P2P network participants. The platform supports standard elements of developer social interaction, such as issues, patches, and code reviews. The project's developments are written in […]

Release of Linux Mint 22.3 distribution

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The release of the Linux Mint 22.3 distribution has been presented, continuing the development of the branch based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The distribution is fully compatible with Ubuntu but significantly differs in its approach to organizing the user interface and the selection of default applications. The Linux Mint developers provide a desktop environment that aligns with classic desktop organization principles, which is more familiar to users who do not accept new methods […]

Toolkit for removing unnecessary functionality from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox

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The Just the Browser project has been introduced, preparing tools for cleaning browsers of excessive functionality not directly related to web navigation. The project provides scripts for configuring Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox, disabling associated features that often annoy users, such as interaction with AI services, integration with third-party products, telemetry sending, and […]

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