Author: ProHoster

Cisco has released a free antivirus package ClamAV 1.0.0

Cisco has unveiled a major new release of its free antivirus suite, ClamAV 1.0.0. The new branch is notable for the transition to the traditional numbering of releases “Major.Minor.Patch” (instead of 0.Version.Patch). The significant version change is also due to the introduction of changes to the libclamav library that break compatibility at the ABI level due to the removal of the CLAMAV_PUBLIC namespace, changing the type of arguments in the cl_strerror function and the inclusion of symbols in the namespace for […]

Composefs file system proposed for Linux

Alexander Larsson, the creator of Flatpak, working at Red Hat, presented a preliminary version of patches implementing the Composefs file system for the Linux kernel. The proposed file system resembles Squashfs and is also suitable for mounting images in read-only mode. The differences come down to Composefs' ability to effectively share the contents of multiple mounted disk images and its support for […]

Release of OpenRGB 0.8, a toolkit for controlling the RGB lighting of peripherals

After almost a year of development, a new release of OpenRGB 0.8, an open toolkit for controlling RGB lighting of peripheral devices, has been published. The package supports ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock and MSI motherboards with an RGB subsystem for case lighting, backlit memory modules from ASUS, Patriot, Corsair and HyperX, ASUS Aura/ROG, MSI GeForce, Sapphire Nitro and Gigabyte Aorus graphics cards, various controllers LED strips […]

Maui interface building framework and Maui Apps suite update

The developers of the Nitrux project presented new releases of components used to build an interface in the Maui DE user environment (Maui Shell). Maui DE consists of a set of Maui Apps, the Maui Shell and the MauiKit framework for building user interfaces, which offers ready-made templates for interface elements. The development also uses the Kirigami framework, which is developed by the KDE community and is an add-on […]

qBittorrent 4.5 release

A version of the torrent client qBittorrent 4.5 has been released, written using the Qt toolkit and developed as an open alternative to µTorrent, close to it in interface and functionality. Among the features of qBittorrent: an integrated search engine, the ability to subscribe to RSS, support for many BEP extensions, remote control via a web interface, sequential download mode in a given order, advanced settings for torrents, peers and trackers, […]

Release of the Rocky Linux 9.1 distribution developed by the founder of CentOS

The release of the Rocky Linux 9.1 distribution took place, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of the classic CentOS. The release is marked as ready for production implementation. The distribution is fully binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.1 and CentOS 9 Stream. The Rocky Linux 9 branch will be supported until May 31st […]

Episode XNUMX of the Pepper and Carrot Open Source Animated Comic

The fourth episode of the animation project based on the comic book “Pepper&Carrot” by French artist David Revoy has been released. The animation for the episode was created entirely on free software (Blender, Synfig, RenderChan, Krita), and all source files are distributed under a free CC BY-SA 4.0 license (the source texts of the third and fifth episodes were published at the same time). The online premiere of the episode took place simultaneously in three languages: Russian, English and […]

Linux environment for Apple M2 demonstrates KDE and GNOME with GPU-accelerated support

The developer of the open Linux driver for the Apple AGX GPU announced the implementation of support for Apple M2 chips and the successful launch of the KDE and GNOME user environments with full support for GPU acceleration on an Apple MacBook Air with an M2 chip. As an example of OpenGL support on the M2, we demonstrated the launch of the Xonotic game, simultaneously with the glmark2 and eglgears tests. When testing [...]

Wasmer 3.0, a toolkit for building WebAssembly-based applications, is available

The third major release of the Wasmer project is introduced, which develops a runtime for executing WebAssembly modules that can be used to create universal applications that can run on different operating systems, as well as to execute untrusted code in isolation. The project code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT license. The ability to run one application on different platforms is provided by compiling [...]

Release of Nuitka 1.2, a compiler for the Python language

A release of the Nuitka 1.2 project is available, which develops a compiler for translating Python scripts into a C representation, which can then be compiled into an executable file using libpython for maximum compatibility with CPython (using native CPython tools for managing objects). Provided full compatibility with current releases of Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 - 3.10. Compared with […]

Amazon Publishes Finch Linux Container Toolkit

Amazon has introduced Finch, an open source toolkit for building, publishing, and running Linux containers. The toolkit features a very simple installation process and the use of standard ready-made components for working with containers in the OCI (Open Container Initiative) format. The Finch code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The project is still at an early stage of development and only includes [...]

Release of zeronet-conservancy 0.7.8, platform for decentralized sites

The zeronet-conservancy 0.7.8 project has been released, continuing the development of the decentralized, censorship-resistant ZeroNet network, which uses Bitcoin addressing and verification mechanisms in combination with BitTorrent distributed delivery technologies to create sites. The content of sites is stored in a P2P network on visitors’ machines and is verified using the owner’s digital signature. The fork was created after the disappearance of the original developer ZeroNet and aims to maintain and […]