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Release of the Devuan 4.0 distribution, a fork of Debian without systemd

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Introduced the release of Devuan 4.0 "Chimaera", a fork of Debian GNU/Linux, supplied without the systemd system manager. The new branch is notable for its transition to the Debian 11 “Bullseye” package base. Live assemblies and installation iso images for AMD64, i386, armel, armhf, arm64 and ppc64el architectures have been prepared for download. The project has forked about 400 Debian packages and modified them to remove […]

Ubuntu 21.10 distribution release

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A release of the Ubuntu 21.10 “Impish Indri” distribution is available, which is classified as intermediate releases, updates for which are generated within 9 months (support will be provided until July 2022). Installation images are created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu and UbuntuKylin (Chinese edition). Major changes: The transition to using GTK4 […]

The openSUSE project announced the publication of intermediate builds

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The openSUSE project has announced its intention to create additional intermediate respin assemblies, in addition to the assemblies published once a year during the next release. Respin builds will include all package updates accumulated for the current release of openSUSE Leap, which will make it possible to reduce the amount of data downloaded over the network required to bring a freshly installed distribution up to date. ISO images with intermediate rebuilds of the distribution are planned to be published […]

KDE Plasma Desktop Release 5.23

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A release of the KDE Plasma 5.23 custom shell is available, built using the KDE Frameworks 5 platform and the Qt 5 library using OpenGL/OpenGL ES to speed up rendering. You can evaluate the performance of the new version through a Live build from the openSUSE project and builds from the KDE Neon User Edition project. Packages for various distributions can be found on this page. The release is dedicated to [...]

Release of LanguageTool 5.5, a grammar, spelling, punctuation and style corrector

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LanguageTool 5.5, free software for checking grammar, spelling, punctuation and style, has been released. The program is presented both as an extension for LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice, and as an independent console and graphical application, and a web server. In addition, languagetool.org has an interactive grammar and spelling checker. The program is available as an extension for [...]

The Open Source Security Enhancement Foundation receives $10 million in funding

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The Linux Foundation announced that it has allocated $10 million to the OpenSSF (Open Source Security Foundation), aimed at improving the security of open source software. Funds were received through contributions from OpenSSF founding companies, including Amazon, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Ericsson, Facebook, Fidelity, GitHub, Google, IBM, Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Oracle, Red Hat, Snyk and VMware . […]

Qbs 1.20 assembly tool release

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The Qbs 1.20 build tools release has been announced. This is the seventh release since the Qt Company left the development of the project, prepared by the community interested in continuing the development of Qbs. To build Qbs, Qt is required among the dependencies, although Qbs itself is designed to organize the assembly of any projects. Qbs uses a simplified version of QML to define project build scripts, allowing […]

The release of the toolkit for building the user interface DearPyGui 1.0.0

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Dear PyGui 1.0.0 (DPG), a cross-platform toolkit for GUI development in Python, has been released. The most important feature of the project is the use of multithreading and offloading operations to the GPU side to speed up rendering. A key goal of the 1.0.0 release is to stabilize the API. Compatibility-breaking changes will now be offered in a separate "experimental" module. To ensure high performance, the main [...]

Release BK 3.12.2110.8960, emulator BK-0010-01, BK-0011 and BK-0011M

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The release of the project BK 3.12.2110.8960 is available, which develops an emulator for the 80-bit household computers BK-16-0010, BK-01 and BK-0011M produced in the 0011s of the last century, compatible with the PDP-11 computers, SM computers and DVK. The emulator is written in C++ and distributed in source code. The general license for the code is not explicitly stated, but the LGPL is mentioned in some files, and […]

Release of the Lutris 0.5.9 platform for easier access to games from Linux

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After almost a year of development, the Lutris 0.5.9 gaming platform has been released, providing tools to simplify the installation, configuration and management of games on Linux. The project code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project supports a directory for quickly searching and installing gaming applications, allowing you to launch games on Linux with one click through a single interface, without worrying about […]

Removed malicious mitmproxy2 and mitmproxy-iframe packages from PyPI catalog

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The author of mitmproxy, a tool for analyzing HTTP/HTTPS traffic, drew attention to the appearance of a fork of his project in the PyPI (Python Package Index) directory of Python packages. The fork was distributed under the similar name mitmproxy2 and the non-existent version 8.0.1 (current release mitmproxy 7.0.4) with the expectation that inattentive users would perceive the package as a new edition of the main project (typesquatting) and would want to try the new version. […]

The RF Ministry of Digital Development has developed an open license

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In the git repository of the “NSUD Data Showcases” software package, developed by order of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, a license text entitled “State Open License, version 1.1” was found. According to the explanatory text, the rights to the license text belong to the Ministry of Digital Development. The license is dated June 25, 2021. In essence, the license is permissive and similar to the MIT license, but created […]

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