The fourth experimental release of the Pidgin 3.0 (2.93) instant messaging client has been announced. This release is marked as having the quality level of a preliminary alpha version and is not intended for everyday use. Builds are provided in Flatpak format (currently only the source archive is available). The Pidgin 3 branch has been under development since 2011, after being discussed for three years at the conceptual and idea level. […]
A corrective release of Firefox 143.0.3 is now available, addressing several issues: The timing of pinned tab activation has been adjusted to work correctly when dragging a tab with the mouse to the start of the tab bar. The drag-and-drop behavior for pinning has been aligned with the operation for dragging tab groups. A problem preventing some add-ons from being updated through the Add-ons Manager has been resolved. A regression that caused some features to break has been fixed.
The firmware Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 has been released, developed by the UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after Canonical stepped away from it. This is the first release of Ubuntu Touch based on the package base of Ubuntu 24.04. The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, which has been renamed Lomiri. The Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 update will be available soon.
The MiniOS Flux 5.1 distribution has been released, which runs directly from a USB drive. MiniOS Flux is a minimalist edition featuring the Fluxbox window manager, inspired by the Slax distribution. It employs a modular architecture that allows for creating specialized configurations to adapt the system for specific tasks. The release is available in the form of compact images based on various versions of Debian that support amd64 and i386 architectures: Debian 10.
Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the OSI (Open Source Initiative) and a key figure in the open source movement, spoke about codes of conduct: I'm going to do something that I think I have never done before, which is to use all my authority as someone who opened and established the rules of open source. After ten years of drama and controversy, I feel it's time to address this issue.
The moderation team responsible for maintaining order in the forums and repositories of the NixOS project announced that they are resigning in protest against the actions of the Steering Committee (SC), which interferes with the work of moderators and attempts to influence the decisions made. The committee's actions are viewed by moderators as an abuse of power, and since the project's rules do not regulate such situations, […]
Olivier Cochard-Labbé, the creator of the FreeNAS distribution, has announced the release of the specialized BSD Router Project 2.0 (BSDRP), notable for updating its codebase to the in-development branch of FreeBSD 16. This distribution is designed for creating compact software routers that support routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP, and PIM. Management is conducted via a command line interface that resembles Cisco IOS. The distribution […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux Kernel 6.17. Among the most notable changes are: enhanced Btrfs performance, the system calls file_getattr() and file_setattr(), unification of single-processor and multi-processor configurations in the task scheduler, the DAMON_STAT module for memory access statistics, support for live patches on ARM64 systems, core dump transmission via AF_UNIX socket, and limiting SCHED_EXT through cgroup, as well as simplified protection settings […]
The release of CoreBoot 25.09 has been published, developing a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version includes 684 changes prepared with the participation of 110 developers. Key changes: Support has been added for motherboards: ASROCK SPC741D8-2L2T/BCM, GIGABYTE GA_H81M_D2W, HP 260 G1 DM, HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/MT, HP ProDesk 600 G1 SFF. Intel […]
The release of KaOS 2025.09 has been published, a distribution with a continuous update model, aimed at providing a desktop based on fresh KDE releases and applications using Qt. Notable design features include a vertical panel on the right side of the screen. The distribution evolves looking towards Arch Linux but supports its own independent repository containing over 1500 packages, as well as offering […]
Sameer Samat, Google's president of ecosystem development related to Android, spoke at the Qualcomm summit about the work on merging the Android and Chrome OS platforms, the results of which will reach users in 2026. Android will remain the primary platform, with its capabilities expanded for use on laptops and PCs. The results of this project […]
System76 has announced the readiness of the beta version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust. At the same time, the first beta release of the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution, shipped with COSMIC, has been introduced. Initially, the first stable release of COSMIC was planned for the first quarter of 2025, but the development has been delayed, and more than a year after the publication of the first alpha version, the project has only reached the beta version. Beta version testing […]