The second distribution released after Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 and Euro Linux 8.9 is unexpectedly Rocky Linux. The list of changes is similar to the list of changes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9. The founder of the distribution is Georg Kucher, one of the founders of CentOS, who also co-founded CtrlIQ. CtrlIQ is a member of the OpenELA clone association. The distribution is fully binary compatible with RHEL […]
After 11 months of development, the release of the free Xen hypervisor 4.18 has been published. Companies such as Amazon, Arm, Bitdefender, Citrix, EPAM Systems, and AMD participated in the development of the new release. Updates for the Xen 4.18 branch will continue until May 16, 2025, and vulnerability fixes will be published until November 16, 2026. Key changes in Xen 4.18: Initial […]
The release of the EndeavourOS 23.11 project 'Galileo' has been announced, succeeding the Antergos distribution, which was discontinued in May 2019 due to the remaining maintainers' lack of free time to support the project at the required level. The size of the installation image is 2.4 GB (x86_64; a separate build for ARM is in development). Endeavour OS allows users to install Arch Linux without unnecessary complications […]
The release of Owncast 0.1.2, which develops a server for video streaming (one broadcasts — many watch) and audience chat, has been published. The server runs on the user's hardware and, unlike services such as Twitch, Facebook Live, and YouTube Live, allows complete control over the broadcasting process and setting your own chat rules. Management and interaction with users is carried out […]
Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9, the first distribution based on it was EuroLinux 8.9, which this time was ahead of Alma Linux. The list of changes is similar to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9. The management's position on participation in OpenELA, as well as regarding binary compatibility with RHEL, remains unknown. Source: linux.org.ru
The release of Rocky Linux 9.3 has been announced, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS. The distribution is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.3 and CentOS 9 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will continue until May 31, 2032. Installation ISO images of Rocky Linux are prepared for […]
After two and a half years since the publication of the 13.0 branch, the release of FreeBSD 14.0 has been formed. Installation images have been prepared for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, builds for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant have been prepared. The FreeBSD 14 branch will be the last with […]
Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9, Rocky Linux 9.3 has been launched. This distribution has been released ahead of Alma Linux, Euro Linux, and Oracle Linux with UEK R7. The founder of the distribution is George Kutzner, one of the founders of CentOS, who is also the founder of CtrlIQ. CtrlIQ is a member of the OpenELA clone association. The distribution is fully binary compatible with RHEL […]
After the release of Red Hat Enterprise 9.3, the release of the previous version Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 has been prepared. Rocky Linux has not yet released version 9.3. RHEL 8 will be supported without an extended phase until 2029, while support for CentOS Stream will end in 2024. Users are advised to either upgrade to CentOS Stream 9 or switch to […]
The Fedora 40 release proposes to include isolation settings for systemd services that are enabled by default, as well as for services with critical applications such as PostgreSQL, Apache httpd, Nginx, and MariaDB. This change is expected to significantly enhance the security of the distribution in its default configuration and provide the ability to block unknown vulnerabilities in system services. The proposal has not yet been reviewed by the committee […]
The Khronos consortium, which develops graphics standards, has recognized the full compatibility of the open NVK driver for NVIDIA graphics cards with the Vulkan 1.0 specification. The driver successfully passed all tests from the CTS (Kronos Conformance Test Suite) and is included in the list of certified drivers. Certification has been achieved for NVIDIA GPUs based on the Turing microarchitecture (TITAN RTX, GeForce RTX 2060/2070/2080, GeForce GTX 1660, Quadro […]
Developers of the Cuarzo OS project have released the first version of the Louvre library, providing components for developing composite servers based on the Wayland protocol. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The library takes care of all low-level operations, including managing graphics buffers, interacting with input subsystems and graphics APIs in Linux, and also offers ready-made implementations […]