Author: ProHoster

China intends to transfer state institutions and state-owned enterprises to Linux and PCs of local manufacturers

According to Bloomberg, China intends to stop using computers and operating systems of foreign companies in government agencies and state-owned enterprises within two years. It is expected that the initiative will require the replacement of at least 50 million computers of foreign brands, which are ordered to be replaced with equipment from Chinese manufacturers. According to preliminary data, the regulation will not apply to difficult-to-replace components such as processors. […]

deb-get utility published, offering apt-get-like for third-party packages

Martin Wimpress, co-founder of Ubuntu MATE and a member of the MATE Core Team, has published the deb-get utility, which offers apt-get-like functionality for working with deb packages distributed through third-party repositories or available for direct download from sites projects. Deb-get provides typical package management commands such as update, upgrade, show, install, remove and search, but […]

Release of the GCC 12 compiler suite

After a year of development, the free compiler suite GCC 12.1 has been released, the first significant release in the new GCC 12.x branch. In accordance with the new release numbering scheme, version 12.0 was used in the development process, and shortly before the release of GCC 12.1, the GCC 13.0 branch had already branched off, on the basis of which the next major release, GCC 13.1, would be formed. On May 23, the project […]

Apple releases macOS 12.3 kernel and system components code

Apple has published the source code for the low-level system components of the macOS 12.3 (Monterey) operating system that use free software, including Darwin components and other non-GUI components, programs, and libraries. A total of 177 source packages have been published. This includes the XNU kernel code, the source code of which is published in the form of code snippets, […]

Nextcloud Hub 24 Collaboration Platform Available

The release of the Nextcloud Hub 24 platform has been presented, providing a self-sufficient solution for organizing collaboration between enterprise employees and teams developing various projects. At the same time, the underlying cloud platform Nextcloud Hub was published, Nextcloud 24, which allows you to deploy cloud storage with support for synchronization and data exchange, providing the ability to view and edit data from any device anywhere in the network (with […]

Wine-wayland 7.7 release

The release of the Wine-wayland 7.7 project has been published, developing a set of patches and the winewayland.drv driver, allowing the use of Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol, without the use of XWayland and X11 components. Provides the ability to run games and applications that use the Vulkan and Direct3D 9/11/12 graphics API. Direct3D support is implemented using the DXVK layer, which translates calls to the Vulkan API. The set also includes patches […]

Kubernetes 1.24 Release, Isolated Container Cluster Management System

The release of the Kubernetes 1.24 container orchestration platform is available, which allows you to manage a cluster of isolated containers as a whole and provides mechanisms for deploying, maintaining and scaling applications running in containers. The project was originally created by Google, but then transferred to an independent site supervised by the Linux Foundation. The platform is positioned as a universal solution developed by the community, not tied to individual […]

Chrome is testing a built-in screenshot editor

Google has added a built-in image editor (chrome://image-editor/) to the test builds of Chrome Canary that will form the basis for the release of Chrome 103, which can be called to edit screenshots of pages. The editor provides functions such as cropping, selecting an area, painting with a brush, choosing a color, adding text labels, and displaying common shapes and primitives such as lines, rectangles, circles, and arrows. To enable […]

GitHub Moves to Mandatory Two-Factor Authentication

GitHub has announced its decision to require all GitHub.com code development users to use two-factor authentication (2023FA) by the end of 2. According to GitHub, attackers gaining access to repositories as a result of account takeover is one of the most dangerous threats, since in the event of a successful attack, hidden changes can be substituted […]

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.12 release

After seven months of development and eight years since the last significant release, a corrective release of the office suite Apache OpenOffice 4.1.12 was formed, which proposed 10 fixes. Ready-made packages are prepared for Linux, Windows and macOS. Among the changes in the new release: The problem with setting the maximum zoom (600%) in preview mode when specifying a negative […]

A distribution kit for creating network storages OpenMediaVault 6 is available

After two years since the formation of the last significant branch, a stable release of the OpenMediaVault 6 distribution has been published, which allows you to quickly deploy network storage (NAS, Network-Attached Storage). The OpenMediaVault project was founded in 2009 after a split in the camp of the developers of the FreeNAS distribution, as a result of which, along with the classic FreeNAS based on FreeBSD, a branch was created, the developers of which set themselves the goal of […]

Release of Proxmox VE 7.2, a distribution kit for organizing the work of virtual servers

The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.2 has been published, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of acting as a replacement for products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation iso image is 994 MB. Proxmox VE provides the tools to deploy a complete virtualization […]