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Release of a minimalistic set of system utilities Toybox 0.8.7

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The release of the Toybox 0.8.7 system utilities set has been published, as well as BusyBox designed as a single executable file and optimized for minimal consumption of system resources. The project is being developed by former maintainer BusyBox and distributed under the 0BSD license. The main purpose of Toybox is to enable manufacturers to use a minimalistic set of standard utilities without opening the source code of modified components. According to the capabilities of Toybox, […]

Wine 7.8 release

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An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.8 - took place. Since the release of version 7.8, 37 bug reports have been closed and 470 changes have been made. The most important changes: X11 and OSS (Open Sound System) drivers have been moved to use the PE (Portable Executable) executable file format instead of ELF. The sound drivers provide support for WoW64 (64-bit Windows-on-Windows), layers for […]

Free Software Developers Conference to be held in Pereslavl-Zalessky

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On May 19-22, 2022, the joint conference “Open Software: from Training to Development” will be held in Pereslavl-Zalessky, its program has been published. The conference combines the traditional events of OSSDEVCONF and OSEDUCONF for the second time due to the unfavorable epidemiological situation in the winter. Representatives of the educational community and free software developers from Russia and other countries will take part in it. The main goal is […]

Release of new stable branch Tor 0.4.7

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The release of the Tor 0.4.7.7 toolkit, used to organize the operation of the anonymous Tor network, has been presented. Tor version 0.4.7.7 is recognized as the first stable release of the 0.4.7 branch, which has been in development for the past ten months. The 0.4.7 branch will be maintained as part of the regular maintenance cycle - updates will be discontinued after 9 months or 3 months after the release of the 0.4.8.x branch. The main changes in the new […]

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

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