In the nightly builds of Firefox, which will be used to release Firefox 23 on August 104, an editing mode has been added to the built-in interface for viewing PDF documents, which offers features such as drawing custom marks and attaching comments. To enable the new mode, the pdfjs.annotationEditorMode parameter is proposed on the about:config page. Until now, Firefox's built-in capabilities […]
Within the framework of the xfwm4-wayland project, an independent enthusiast is developing a version of the xfwm4 window manager, adapted to use the Wayland protocol and translated to the Meson build system. Wayland support in xfwm4-wayland is provided through integration with the wlroots library, developed by the developers of the Sway user environment and providing basic functions for organizing the work of a composite manager based on Wayland. Xfwm4 is used in the Xfce user environment […]
Kaspersky Lab has received a US patent for methods for blocking unwanted advertising on computing devices related to intercepting DNS requests. It is not yet clear how Kaspersky Lab will use the received patent, and what danger it may pose to the free software community. Similar filtering methods have been known for a long time and are used, including in free software, for example, in the adblock and […]
The T2 SDE 21.6 meta-distribution has been released, providing an environment for creating your own distributions, cross-compiling and keeping package versions up to date. Distributions can be created based on Linux, Minix, Hurd, OpenDarwin, Haiku and OpenBSD. Popular distributions built on the T2 system include Puppy Linux. The project provides basic bootable iso images with a minimal graphical environment in […]
After a year of development, the Arcan 0.6.2 desktop engine has been released, which combines a display server, a multimedia framework and a game engine for processing 3D graphics. Arcan can be used to create a variety of graphical systems, from user interfaces for embedded applications to self-contained desktop environments. In particular, based on Arcan, the Safespaces three-dimensional desktop is being developed for virtual reality systems and […]
An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.13 - took place. Since the release of version 7.12, 16 bug reports have been closed and 226 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Gecko browser engine has been updated to version 2.47.3. The USB driver has been converted to use the PE (Portable Executable) executable file format instead of ELF. Improved theme support. Bug reports are closed, [...]
The author of the Cosmopolitan standard C library and the Redbean platform has announced the implementation of the pledge() isolation mechanism for Linux. Pledge was originally developed by the OpenBSD project and allows you to selectively prohibit applications from accessing unused system calls (a kind of white list of system calls is formed for the application, and other calls are prohibited). Unlike the mechanisms available in Linux to restrict access to system calls, such […]
Google has announced the readiness of the operating system Chrome OS Flex for widespread use. Chrome OS Flex is a standalone variant of Chrome OS designed to be used on regular computers, not just on native Chrome OS devices such as Chromebooks, Chromebases, and Chromeboxes. As the main areas of application for Chrome OS Flex, modernization has already […]
After 8 months of development, a significant release of the specialized browser Tor Browser 11.5 is presented, which continues the development of functionality based on the Firefox 91 ESR branch. The browser is focused on providing anonymity, security and privacy, all traffic is redirected only through the Tor network. It is impossible to contact directly through the regular network connection of the current system, which does not allow tracking the real IP of the user (in […]
The release of the Rocky Linux 9.0 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 and CentOS 9 Stream. The Rocky Linux 9 branch will be supported until May 31st […]
Google has published a build of the Rocky Linux distribution, which is positioned as an official solution for users who used CentOS 8 on Google Cloud, but were faced with the need to migrate to another distribution due to the early termination of maintenance of CentOS 8 by Red Hat. Two system images are prepared for booting: a regular one and a specially optimized one for maximum network performance […]
The Lubuntu distribution developers have announced the publication of the Lubuntu Backports PPA, which offers packages for installation in Lubuntu/Ubuntu 22.04 of the current release of the LXQt 1.1 user environment. Initial builds of Lubuntu 22.04 ship the deprecated LXQt 0.17 branch published in April 2021. The Lubuntu Backports repository is still in beta testing and is created by analogy with the repository with fresh versions of […]
