The fifth release of the Orbitiny Desktop Environment has been published, created from scratch using the Qt framework. The project aims to combine innovative ideas not previously seen in user environments with traditional elements such as panels, menus, and icon placements on the desktop. Currently, the work is focused on launching in environments based on the X server, but in the future it will not […]
The release of the I2P Anonymous Network 2.10.0 and C++ Client i2pd 2.58.0 has been presented. I2P is a multilayered anonymous distributed network that operates over the regular internet, actively using end-to-end encryption to guarantee anonymity and isolation. The network is built in a P2P mode and is formed by the resources (bandwidth) provided by the users of the network, allowing it to function without centralized servers (communications within the network […]
The first alpha release of FreeBSD 15.0 has been prepared. Installation builds have been created for amd64, powerpc64le, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. The release is scheduled for December 2. Upgrading to the 15.0-ALPHA1 branch from previous releases using the freebsd-update utility has not yet been implemented. Starting from the FreeBSD 15 branch, the support time for significant branches after the formation of the first release (15.0) has been reduced from 5 to 4 years, and […]
Dmitry Brant from Wikimedia has introduced a port of the ftape driver for modern Linux kernels. The driver ceased updating in 2000 and was removed from kernel 2.6.20 in 2006 due to issues on multi-core systems. To restore the capability to compile and run the driver in distributions with modern Linux kernels, it needed to be reworked considering […]
The release of FreeType 2.14.0 has been announced, a modular font engine providing a unified API for standardizing the processing and rendering of font data in various vector and raster formats. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD-like FreeType license. Among the changes: The TrueType instruction interpreter has been optimized, now loading glyphs 15% faster. The processing of variable fonts has been accelerated. On modern 64-bit […]
The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 25.8 has been published, providing a compact system environment for single-board computers based on ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures, supporting various models including Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard with processors from Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos. To build the assemblies […]
The release of the uutils coreutils 0.2.0 project (Rust Coreutils), which develops an alternative implementation of the GNU Coreutils package written in Rust, has been published. The coreutils package includes more than a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The project aims to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, among other things capable of running on Windows, Redox […]
The KDE project has introduced the first alpha release of its own KDE Linux distribution, which is positioned as a reference implementation of a Linux distribution for the desktop and KDE applications, optimally integrated with KDE technologies and developed directly by KDE developers without intermediaries. System images (5 GB) are available for installation to create bootable USB drives that operate in Live mode. The distribution is based on the Arch Linux package base but is designed […]
The first corrective update for Debian 13 has been formed, which includes package updates released in the month since the new branch launch and addresses shortcomings in the installer. The release contains 72 updates that resolve stability issues and 16 updates that fix vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 13.1 include updates to the latest stable versions of the dpdk, galera packages, […]
Researchers from GitGuardian uncovered a massive attack on GitHub users, gaining control over 327 accounts and injecting a malicious handler into 817 repositories through GitHub Actions. The attack resulted in the leakage of 3,325 secrets used in continuous integration systems, transmitted via environment variables, including access tokens for PyPI, GitHub, NPM, DockerHub, and […]
The Wine codebase, from which version 10.15 will be released in a week, now includes support for the ntsync driver, which significantly boosts the performance of Windows games running through Wine. The driver has been part of the Linux kernel since version 6.14 and implements the symbolic device /dev/ntsync and a set of synchronization primitives used in the Windows NT kernel. A substantial performance increase is achieved […]
Mozilla has announced that support for 32-bit Linux systems will end with the Firefox 145 release, scheduled for November 11, 2025. It has been noted that maintaining Firefox on 32-bit platforms is becoming increasingly complex and unreliable, especially as support for 32-bit builds has already been dropped in most Linux distributions. Users of 32-bit Linux distributions are encouraged to switch to 64-bit operating systems. For […]