Steven Deobald announced his resignation from the position of Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, which oversees the development of the GNOME desktop environment. Steven took office four months ago, and at a recent board meeting, it was decided that he was not suitable for the role of Executive Director, despite achievements such as creating a new donation platform and working on policies […]
After one and a half years of development, the release of the spam filtering platform SpamAssassin 4.0.2 has been published. Decisions on blocking in SpamAssassin are made comprehensively. Initially, the message is checked using various methods, such as contextual analysis, DNSBL blacklists and whitelists, trained Bayesian classifiers, known spam signatures, and sender authentication via SPF and DKIM. The results of these checks accumulate a weight coefficient that […]
The release of the Niri 25.08 composite server has been published, implementing a mosaic (tiling) layout method in the style of the GNOME extension PaperWM, where windows are grouped into an infinitely scrollable ribbon on the screen. Opening a new window leads to the ribbon expanding, while previously added windows do not change size. The project is based on using the Wayland protocol but allows running X11 applications through the DDX server Xwayland. […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.14 — has been published. Since the release of 10.13, 19 bug reports have been closed, and 264 changes have been made. Key changes include: Added implementation of the ping utility for IPv6. The continuous integration infrastructure of Gitlab has been migrated to Debian release 13. The Wine Mono engine has been updated to version 10.2.0. Wine Mono is a distribution of the Framework […]
Linus Torvalds has changed the support status of bcachefs in the Linux kernel to "externally maintained". The note on this change indicates that the decision was made after lengthy discussions, both public and private. Essentially, the new status implies a halt to accepting changes for Bcachefs while keeping this filesystem in a frozen state within the main kernel. Before this, Kent Overstreet […]
New builds of FreedomBox Trixie have been released, translated to the Debian 13 package base. The project is developing a system for easily deploying personal servers that ensure user data protection and allow for the quick deployment of standard services on personal equipment for personal use. All project developments are available through Debian repositories. The installation image is built for the x86_64 architecture (building assemblies […]
The release of the MODICIA 6.12.41 distribution, based on the Debian package base and offering a collection of applications for musicians, designers, and video creators, has been published. The user environment is built using the Cinnamon desktop environment. The project maintains an application catalog containing about 1000 packages. The size of the ISO image, which can be run in live mode, is 4.7 GB (x86_64). The distribution has been in development since 1998 and is notable for including […]
VK has released a version of the MAX messenger for the Linux platform. Builds are available in RPM (79 MB) and DEB (92 MB) packages, as well as in the form of a self-contained image in AppImage format (114 MB), which can be run without installation on the system. The Linux version is built on the Electron platform, using the Chromium browser engine. Required dependencies are loaded […]
The openSUSE project developers have introduced the Agama 17 installer, developed to replace the classic installation interface of SUSE and openSUSE, and noteworthy for separating the user interface from the internal components of YaST. Agama supports the use of various front-ends, such as a front-end for managing installations via a web interface. The installer component code is distributed under the GPLv2 license and is written in Ruby, Rust, and JavaScript/TypeScript. The new […]
After a year of development, the composite server Wayfire 0.10 has been released, utilizing Wayland and enabling the creation of resource-friendly user interfaces with 3D effects reminiscent of 3D plugins for Compiz (screen switching via a 3D cube, spatial window layout, morphing while working with windows, etc.). Wayfire supports extending functionality through plugins and offers a flexible customization system. The project's code is written in […]
Red Hat has released the second beta version of the RPM 6.0 package manager, which will be utilized in the fall release of the Fedora Linux 43 distribution. The project is used in distributions such as RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, Rosa Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, and Tizen. The RPM code is distributed under GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. Version 5 of RPM has been skipped to avoid overlaps with […]
Developers of the GNU MP (GMP) library, which provides functions for performing arithmetic operations with arbitrary precision, have warned users about an incident involving repeated failures of AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture during testing of the library. It is believed that the damage to the processors was caused by overheating during intensive execution of GMP functions. Until a complete analysis is finished […]