The release of the Trinity R14.0.12 desktop environment has been published, continuing the development of the KDE 3.5.x and Qt 3 codebase. Binary packages will soon be prepared for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE and other distributions. Among the features of Trinity are its own tools for managing screen parameters, a udev-based layer for working with equipment, a new interface for […]
Richard Hughes, creator of the PackageKit project and an active contributor to GNOME, announced the release of fwupd 1.8.0, which provides a background process for managing firmware updates and a utility called fwupdmgr for managing firmware, checking for new versions, and downloading firmware. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2.1 license. At the same time, it was announced that the LVFS project had reached the milestone […]
The developers of the Ubuntu Unity project, which develops an unofficial edition of Ubuntu Linux with the Unity desktop, have published the release of Unity 7.6.0, which marks the first significant release in 6 years since Canonical stopped developing the shell. The Unity 7 shell is based on the GTK library and is optimized for efficient use of vertical space on laptops with widescreen screens. The code is distributed under [...]
GitHub has made changes to the document defining the company's policy regarding trade sanctions and compliance with US export regulation requirements. The first change boils down to the inclusion of Russia and Belarus in the list of countries in which sales of the GitHub Enterprise Server product are not allowed. Previously, this list included Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria. The second change expands the restrictions, […]
Canonical has announced plans to expand the capabilities of Ubuntu as a platform for running gaming applications. It is noted that the development of the Wine and Proton projects, as well as the adaptation of the anti-cheat services BattlEye and Easy Anti-Cheat, already make it possible to run many games on Linux that are only available for Windows. After the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, the company intends to work closely to simplify access to […]
A security issue has been identified in the NPM package repository that allows the package owner to add any user as a maintainer without obtaining consent from that user and without being informed of the action taken. Compounding the problem, once a third party user is added as a maintainer, the original author of the package could remove himself from the list of maintainers, leaving the third party user as the only person […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of the Redox 0.7 operating system, developed using the Rust language and the microkernel concept, has been published. The project's developments are distributed under the free MIT license. For testing Redox OS, installation and Live images of 75 MB in size are offered. The assemblies are generated for the x86_64 architecture and are available for systems with UEFI and BIOS. When preparing a new issue, the main focus [...]
The Open Source Initiative (OSI), which checks licenses for compliance with Open Source criteria, announced a continuation of the story accusing the GNOME project of violating the 9,936,086 patent. At one time, the GNOME project did not agree to pay royalties and launched active efforts to collect facts that could indicate the insolvency of the patent. To stop such activities, Rothschild Patent […]
The distribution kit Lakka 4.2 has been released, allowing you to turn computers, set-top boxes or single-board computers into a full-fledged game console for running retro games. The project is a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally designed to create home theaters. Lakka builds are generated for i386, x86_64 (Intel, NVIDIA or AMD GPUs), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, Odroid C1/C1+/XU3/XU4, etc. platforms. […]
The release of the Sculpt 22.04 operating system has been introduced, within which, based on Genode OS Framework technologies, a general-purpose operating system is being developed that can be used by ordinary users to perform everyday tasks. The source code of the project is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A 28 MB LiveUSB image is offered for download. Supports operation on systems with Intel processors and graphics […]
Mozilla has released an update to its Common Voice datasets, which include pronunciation samples from nearly 200 people. The data is published as public domain (CC0). The proposed sets can be used in machine learning systems to build speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to the previous update, the volume of speech material in the collection increased by 10% - from 18.2 to 20.2 […]
The release of the Redis 7.0 DBMS, which belongs to the class of NoSQL systems, has been published. Redis provides functions for storing key/value data, enhanced by support for structured data formats such as lists, hashes, and sets, as well as the ability to run server-side script handlers in Lua. The project code is supplied under the BSD license. Additional modules that offer advanced capabilities for corporate […]
