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Release of Lakka 4.1, a distribution for creating game consoles

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The distribution kit Lakka 4.1 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. […]

Wine 7.6 release and Wine staging 7.6

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An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.6 - took place. Since the release of version 7.5, 17 bug reports have been closed and 311 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Wine Mono engine with the implementation of the .NET platform has been updated to release 7.2. Work continued on converting graphics drivers to use the PE (Portable Executable) executable file format instead of ELF. Added […]

Release of OpenSSH 9.0 with transfer of scp to the SFTP protocol

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The release of OpenSSH 9.0, an open implementation of a client and server for working using the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols, has been presented. In the new version, the scp utility has been switched by default to use SFTP instead of the outdated SCP/RCP protocol. SFTP uses more predictable name handling methods and does not use shell processing of glob patterns in file names on the other host's side, creating […]

Court decision on the illegality of removing additional conditions to the AGPL license

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The Open Source Initiative (OSI), which reviews licenses for compliance with Open Source criteria, has published an analysis of the court's decision in a case against PureThink related to the violation of intellectual property of Neo4j Inc. Let us recall that PureThink created a fork of the Neo4j project, which was initially supplied under the AGPLv3 license, but then split into a free Community edition and a commercial version of Neo4 […]

Release of standard C libraries Musl 1.2.3 and PicoLibc 1.7.6

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The release of the standard C library Musl 1.2.3 is presented, providing an implementation of libc, which is suitable for use on both desktop PCs and servers, and on mobile systems, combining full support for standards (as in Glibc) with a small size, low resource consumption and high performance (as in uClibc, dietlibc and Android Bionic). There is support for all required C99 and POSIX interfaces […]

Release of gzip utility 1.12

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A set of utilities for data compression gzip 1.12 has been released. The new version eliminates a vulnerability in the zgrep utility, which allows, when processing a specially formatted file name that includes two or more newlines, to overwrite arbitrary files on the system, to the extent that current access rights allow. The problem has been appearing since version 1.3.10, released in 2007. Among other changes […]

Rust programming language 1.60 release

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The release of the Rust 1.60 general-purpose programming language, founded by the Mozilla project, but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation, has been published. The language focuses on memory safety and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). […]

Release of the SELKS 7.0 distribution aimed at creating intrusion detection systems

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Stamus Networks has published the release of a specialized distribution kit, SELKS 7.0, designed for deploying systems for detecting and preventing network intrusions, as well as responding to identified threats and monitoring network security. Users are provided with a complete network security management solution that can be used immediately after downloading. The distribution supports working in Live mode and running in virtualization environments or containers. […]

First release of the atomically upgradable carbonOS distribution

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The first release of carbonOS, a custom Linux distribution, is presented, built using the atomic system layout model, in which the base environment is delivered as a single whole, not broken into separate packages. Additional applications are installed in Flatpak format and run in isolated containers. The installation image size is 1.7 GB. The project's developments are distributed under the MIT license. The contents of the base system are mounted in […]

Release of the GNU Shepherd 0.9 init system

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Two years after the formation of the last significant release, the service manager GNU Shepherd 0.9 (formerly dmd) was published, which is being developed by the developers of the GNU Guix System distribution as an alternative to the SysV-init initialization system that supports dependencies. Shepherd's control daemon and utilities are written in Guile (an implementation of the Scheme language), which is also used to define startup settings and […]

Release of Zulip 5 messaging platform

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The release of Zulip 5, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers, suitable for organizing communication between employees and development teams, took place. The project was originally developed by Zulip and opened after its takeover by Dropbox under an Apache 2.0 license. The server side code is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and […]

Release of the TeX distribution TeX Live 2022

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The release of the TeX Live 2022 distribution kit, created in 1996 based on the teTeX project, has been prepared. TeX Live is the easiest way to deploy a scientific documentation infrastructure, regardless of the operating system you are using. An assembly (4 GB) of TeX Live 2021 has been generated for download, which contains a working Live environment, a complete set of installation files for various operating systems, a copy of the CTAN repository […]

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