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 […]
The FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical side of the Fedora Linux distribution development, approved the removal of the gnome-session-xsession package, which is responsible for launching GNOME sessions based on the X server. This change is planned for the Fedora 41 release, which will be built in the fall of this year. Only Wayland will remain as the default session supported in Fedora Workstation 41, but packages for organizing the work of […]
The 'waste' heat from Microsoft's new data center being built in Denmark will be used to heat up to 6,000 homes. Datacenter Dynamics reports that the data center is being constructed in the municipality of Høje-Taastrup, located 25 km from Copenhagen—this is one of three facilities being built for the Azure zone announced back in 2020. It is expected to start operating in the fall of this year. Two more […]
On March 5, developers of postmarketOS, a Linux distribution for smartphones based on Alpine Linux, announced the addition of support for the system manager systemd instead of the previously used OpenRC. Support for the old initialization system will be maintained at least as long as it is used in the original Alpine Linux. Additionally, when building images, the option to choose the initialization system has been added. The reason for this […]
Developers of the Linux Mint distribution announced the development of a new application called Jargonaut, which attempts to create a simple chat implementation based on the IRC protocol but is not an IRC client in the traditional sense. Jargonaut provides a straightforward interface for users to communicate in chat, abstracted from IRC. The project code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. For […]
Microsoft has renamed the CBL-Mariner distribution to Azure Linux. Previously, the name Azure Linux was used for a specialized build installed in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), while the general platform for building distributions was developed under the CBL-Mariner (Common Base Linux Mariner) name. A few days ago, Microsoft renamed the CBL-Mariner repository to azurelinux, changed the names of utilities, and replaced mentions of CBL-Mariner in the documentation with […]
According to Statcounter, which tracks market share of web browsers, operating systems, search engines, and more, the share of Linux OS on PCs has reached record levels, exceeding 4%. While this may seem small at first glance, it actually represents tens of millions of users worldwide. Notably, the service separately considers data from ChromeOS, which is also built on Linux. It is worth mentioning that […]