The release of CoreBoot 4.14 has been presented, as part of which a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS is being developed. A total of 215 developers participated in creating the new version, preparing 3660 changes. Key innovations include: initial support for AMD Cezanne APU and a general code reorganization to support AMD SoC. The standard code type for AMD SoC has been unified, allowing for improvements in the code […].
In the developing Proton project, a revamped user interface will be offered in Firefox 89, scheduled for release on June 1. This includes another radical change that disrupts the usual workflow with the browser. As part of the redesign, the '...' (Page Actions) menu embedded in the address bar has been removed, which previously allowed users to bookmark pages, send links to Pocket, pin tabs, and perform […].
The OpenPOWER Foundation has announced a new project called LibreBMC, aimed at creating a fully open BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) for servers used in data centers. LibreBMC will develop as a collaborative project, with companies like Google, IBM, Antmicro, Yadro, and Raptor Computing Systems already joining the initiative. The BMC is a specialized controller installed in servers that has its own […].
After more than a year of development, the release of DragonFlyBSD 6.0 has been published. This operating system features a hybrid kernel and was created in 2003 for the alternative development of the FreeBSD 4.x branch. Notable features of DragonFly BSD include a distributed versioned file system called HAMMER, support for booting 'virtual' kernel instances as user processes, and the capability of caching file system data and metadata on SSDs, considering contextual variant symbolic […].
The Ubuntu RescuePack 21.05 build is available for download, enabling a complete antivirus check to detect and remove various malware and computer viruses from the system without launching the main operating system. Using an external boot disk prevents malware from countering the neutralization and recovery of an infected system. This build can be viewed as a Linux alternative to disks such as Dr.Web LiveDisk and Kaspersky […]
The developers of the Illumos project, which continues the development of the OpenSolaris kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and basic set of system utilities, have decided to discontinue support for the 64-bit SPARC architecture. The only supported architecture for Illumos left is x86_64 (support for 32-bit x86 systems was stopped in 2018). If enthusiasts are available, it may be possible to implement more modern architectures in Illumos […]
PuTTY 0.75 has been released, a client for SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, and SUPDUP protocols, featuring a built-in terminal emulator and supporting operation in Unix-like systems and Windows. The project's source code is available under the MIT license. Key changes: Pageant now allows the loading of a file with SSH-2 private keys, prompting for a password during first use rather than at startup […]
The Armbian 21.05 Linux distribution has been released, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including models like Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, and Samsung Exynos processors. The builds are based on Debian 10 and Ubuntu package repositories […]
After three months of development, the release of the libmdbx 0.10.0 (MDBX) library took place, featuring a high-performance, compact key-value embedded database. The libmdbx code is distributed under the OpenLDAP Public License. Libmdbx is a significant overhaul of the LMDB database and, according to the developers, surpasses its predecessor in reliability, feature set, and performance. It is claimed that libmdbx is up to 20% faster than LMDB in CRUD […]
New releases of the GNUstep framework packages have become available, designed for developing cross-platform graphical and server applications using an API similar to Apple Cocoa interfaces. In addition to libraries implementing AppKit and components of the Foundation framework, the project also develops tools for interface design with Gorm and the ProjectCenter development environment, aimed at creating portable equivalents of InterfaceBuilder, ProjectBuilder, and Xcode. The main […]
The developers of postmarketOS, a smartphone distribution based on Alpine Linux, Musl, and BusyBox, have implemented a user interface for smartwatches, drawing on the work of the AsteroidOS project. Initially, the postmarketOS distribution was developed for smartphones and offered the ability to use different user interfaces, including KDE Plasma Mobile, Phosh, and Sxmo. Enthusiasts have been developing ports of postmarketOS for smartwatches for several years […]
The release of the Linux distribution Bottlerocket 1.1.0 is now available, developed with the involvement of Amazon to efficiently and securely launch isolated containers. The tools and management components of the distribution are written in Rust and are licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0. Bottlerocket supports deployment in Amazon ECS and AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters, as well as the creation of custom builds and editions allowing for the use of various […]