Developers of the LXQt desktop environment have announced 100% readiness for Wayland. Changes have been made to the LXQt codebase to transition PCManFM-Qt to using the layer-shell-qt component, enabling the desktop to function in Wayland-based environments without additional hacks that work around compatibility with certain composite managers like LabWC. As it stands, LXQt does not […]
Bruce Perens, one of the authors of the Open Source definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has introduced the first draft of a new license, 'Post-Open Zero-Cost', aimed at addressing the accumulated issues related to the interaction between open-source developers and commercial companies in the context of receiving fair return from commercial use of the code. The license reflects the possibility of imposing additional conditions […]
Laura Chambers, recently confirmed as the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, announced the appointment of developers to implement the tab grouping feature in Firefox. The work on adding tab grouping support has been given high priority. This decision was made after yet another user attempted to draw attention to Mozilla's significant resource expenditures […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.4 — has occurred. Since the release of 9.3, 25 bug reports have been closed and 321 changes have been made. The most significant changes include further development of the winewayland.drv driver, allowing Wine to be used in Wayland-based environments without the need for XWayland and X11 components. The new version includes initial support for OpenGL. Basic […]
As reported by the US Space Command, on January 8, 2014, a meteorite identified as the first interstellar object to reach Earth fell in the ocean near Papua New Guinea. This object later became the focus of interest for a group of scientists from the Galileo project searching for extraterrestrial technologies. They believed that the fallen body was likely an alien probe, traces of […]
The K-D Lab Association has released the source code of the game engine qdEngine, designed for creating quests. The entire code, except for third-party libraries, is published under the GPLv3 license. The engine supports Windows 10 and can be tested with resources from the game 'The Adventures of the Brave Soldier Schweik'. Based on the published engine, the following games were created: Brothers Pilots 3D. The Case of Garden Pests […]
After nearly a year of development, the release of the new stable branch of the Postfix mail server — 3.9.0 — has been announced. At the same time, the support for the Postfix 3.5 branch, released in early 2020, has been discontinued. Postfix is one of the few projects that combine high security, reliability, and performance, achieved through a thoughtful architecture and a strict coding policy […]
The company "Rostelecom" announced its technical readiness to commence commercial operations of the second phase of the new Trans-Eurasian Fiber-Optic Communication Line (TEA NEXT), which stretches 765 km between Saint Petersburg and Moscow. According to the press release, the high potential of the line allowed the company to utilize two fibers of the high-performance line for its own needs at this stage. TEA NEXT will extend from the western to the eastern […]
The release of the Linux distribution Zorin OS 17.1, based on the Ubuntu 22.04 package base, has been announced. The target audience for the distribution is beginner users accustomed to working on Windows. To manage the design, the distribution offers a special configurator that allows the desktop to resemble various versions of Windows and macOS, and includes a selection of applications similar to those familiar to Windows users. The size […]
Testing of the first beta release of the openSUSE Leap 15.6 distribution has begun. This release is based on the core package set that is shared with the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 6 distribution and also includes some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. A universal DVD image is available for download, sized at 4.3 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x). The openSUSE Leap 15.6 release is expected on June 12, 2024. […]
In the next LTS version of the Ubuntu distribution 24.04, developers will remove standard GNOME games from the package set, such as Aisleriot Solitaire, Mahjong, Mines, and Sudoku. The decision is explained by the fact that these games "have ceased to demonstrate what Ubuntu and the Linux community as a whole can offer gamers." Additionally, removing these games will help reduce the ISO image size of the distribution by 65 MB. Nevertheless, during […]
The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), responsible for the technical development of the distribution, made a decision on March 5 to remove support for the X11 session from the default installation of Fedora 41. Now, only Wayland will remain as the default. X11 support is still available from the repositories as the gnome-session-xsession package. The main reason for the discontinuation of X11 support in Fedora is the transition of the X.Org server to […]