The release of the Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" distribution has been published, which is classified as an intermediate release, updates for which are formed within 9 months (support will be provided until January 2024). Install images are created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, UbuntuKylin (China Edition), Ubuntu Unity, Edubuntu, and Ubuntu Cinnamon. Major changes: […]
The release of the mobile platform /e/OS 1.10, aimed at preserving the confidentiality of user data, has been introduced. The platform was founded by Gaël Duval, creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution. The project provides firmware for many popular smartphone models, and under the Murena One, Murena Fairphone 3+/4 and Murena Galaxy S9 brands, offers editions of OnePlus One, Fairphone 3+/4 and Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphones with […]
Amazon has introduced the aws-lc-rs cryptographic library, which is intended for use in Rust applications and is API-compatible with the ring Rust library. The project code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 and ISC licenses. The library supports Linux (x86, x86-64, aarch64) and macOS (x86-64) platforms. The implementation of cryptographic operations in aws-lc-rs is based on the AWS-LC library (AWS libcrypto) written […]
The developers of the GIMP graphics editor announced the successful completion of tasks related to the transition of the codebase to use the GTK3 library instead of GTK2, as well as the use of the new CSS-like style definition system used in GTK3. All changes needed to build with GTK3 are included in the main GIMP branch. The transition to GTK3 is also marked as a work done in terms of preparing the […]
The release of the QEMU 8.0 project is presented. As an emulator, QEMU allows you to run a program built for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, run an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In the virtualization mode in QEMU, the performance of code execution in an isolated environment is close to a hardware system due to the direct execution of instructions on the CPU and […]
The release of Tails 5.12 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), a specialized distribution kit based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous access to the network, has been released. Anonymous exit to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by default by the packet filter. Encryption is used to store user data in the save user data between runs mode. […]
Nightly builds of Firefox, which will form the basis of the release of Firefox 6 on June 114, have a setting to automatically close pop-up dialogs shown on sites to confirm that identifiers can be stored in Cookies in accordance with the requirements for the protection of personal data in the European Union (GDPR) . Since these pop-up banners are distracting, block content and […]
The release of Node.js 20.0, a platform for executing network applications in JavaScript, has taken place. Node.js 20.0 has been assigned to the long support branch, but this status will not be assigned until October, after stabilization. Node.js 20.x will be supported until April 30, 2026. Maintenance of the previous Node.js 18.x LTS branch will last until April 2025, and the […]
Oracle has published a corrective release of the virtualization system VirtualBox 7.0.8, which notes 21 fixes. At the same time, an update to the previous branch of VirtualBox 6.1.44 was formed with 4 changes, including improved detection of systemd usage, support for the Linux 6.3 kernel, and a fix for vboxvide build issues with kernels from RHEL 8.7, 9.1 and 9.2. Major changes in VirtualBox 7.0.8: Provided […]
Fedora Linux 38 distribution released. Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition and Live builds are prepared for download, delivered in the form of spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, Phosh, LXQt, Budgie and Sway. Assemblies are generated for x86_64, Power64 and ARM64 (AArch64) architectures. Publishing Fedora Silverblue builds […]
A RedPajama collaborative project is presented to create open machine learning models and accompanying training inputs that can be used to build intelligent assistants that compete with commercial products such as ChatGPT. It is expected that the availability of open source data and large language models will remove the constraints of independent machine learning research teams and make it easier to […]
Valve has published the release of the Proton 8.0 project, which is based on the Wine project codebase and aims to run gaming applications built for Windows and featured in the Steam catalog on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes the implementation […]
