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Fedora 38 plans to support generic kernel images

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The Fedora 38 release proposes to implement the first step of migrating to the upgraded boot process previously proposed by Lennart Pottering to provide a full verified boot that covers all steps from firmware to userspace, not just kernel and bootloader. The proposal has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical part of the development of the Fedora distribution. Components for […]

GnuPG 2.4.0 release

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After five years of development, the release of the GnuPG 2.4.0 toolkit (GNU Privacy Guard), compatible with the OpenPGP (RFC-4880) and S / MIME standards, and providing utilities for data encryption, electronic signatures, key management and access to public repositories keys. GnuPG 2.4.0 is positioned as the first release of a new stable branch that incorporates changes accumulated during pre-release […]

Release of the Tails 5.8 distribution, switched to Wayland

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The release of Tails 5.8 (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. […]

Linux Mint 21.1 distribution release

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The release of the Linux Mint 21.1 distribution is presented, which continues the development of the branch based on the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS package base. The distribution is fully compatible with Ubuntu, but differs significantly in the approach to organizing the user interface and the selection of applications used by default. The developers of Linux Mint provide a desktop environment that follows the classic canons of desktop organization, which is more familiar to users who do not accept the new […]

MyLibrary 1.0 home library cataloger

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Home library cataloger MyLibrary 1.0 has been released. The program code is written in the C++ programming language and is available (GitHub, GitFlic) under the GPLv3 license. The graphical user interface is implemented using the GTK4 library. The program is adapted to work in operating systems of the Linux and Windows families. For Arch Linux users, a ready-made package is available in the AUR. MyLibrary catalogs book files in […]

EndeavorOS distribution release 22.12

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The release of the EndeavorOS 22.12 project is available, which replaced the Antergos distribution, the development of which was discontinued in May 2019 due to the lack of free time for the remaining maintainers to maintain the project at the proper level. The size of the installation image is 1.9 GB (x86_64, the assembly for ARM is being developed separately). Endeavor OS allows the user to easily install Arch Linux with […]

GNU Guix 1.4 package manager and distribution based on it available

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The GNU Guix 1.4 package manager and the GNU/Linux distribution based on it have been released. Images for installation on USB Flash (814 MB) and use in virtualization systems (1.1 GB) have been generated for download. It supports i686, x86_64, Power9, armv7 and aarch64 architectures. The distribution kit allows installation both as a standalone OS in virtualization systems, in […]

GCC includes support for the Modula-2 programming language

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The m2 frontend and the libgm2 library have been adopted into the main structure of GCC, allowing the use of standard GCC tools for building programs in the Modula-2 programming language. It supports building code that conforms to the PIM2, PIM3, and PIM4 dialects, as well as the accepted ISO standard for that language. The changes are included in the GCC 13 branch, which is expected to be released in May 2023. Modula-2 was developed in 1978 […]

Release of VKD3D-Proton 2.8, fork of Vkd3d with Direct3D 12 implementation

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Valve has published the release of VKD3D-Proton 2.8, a fork from the vkd3d codebase designed to improve Direct3D 12 support in the Proton game launcher. VKD3D-Proton supports Proton-specific changes, optimizations, and improvements to better run Windows games based on Direct3D 12, which are not yet mainstreamed into vkd3d. Of the differences, the orientation of […]

Overture Maps project established to disseminate open map data

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The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the Overture Maps Foundation, a non-profit association aimed at creating a neutral and company-independent platform for the joint development of tools and a unified storage scheme for map data, as well as maintaining a collection of open maps that can be used in your own map services. The founding members of the project included Amazon Web Services […]

PostmarketOS 22.12, Linux distribution for smartphones and mobile devices introduced

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The release of the postmarketOS 22.12 project has been published, which develops a Linux distribution for smartphones based on the Alpine Linux package base, the Musl standard C library and the BusyBox utility set. The goal of the project is to provide a Linux distribution for smartphones that does not depend on the official firmware support life cycle and is not tied to standard solutions of the main industry players that set the development vector. Assemblies prepared for PINE64 PinePhone, […]

SystemRescue 9.06 distribution release

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The release of SystemRescue 9.06 is available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux, designed for system recovery after a failure. Xfce is used as the graphical environment. The iso image size is 748 MB (amd64, i686). Changes in the new version: The boot image includes a program for testing RAM MemTest86+ 6.00, which supports work on systems with UEFI and can be called from the bootloader menu […]

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