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Wayland driver for Wine adds support for Vulkan and multi-monitor configurations

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Collabora has introduced an improved version of the Wayland driver, which allows you to run applications using GDI and OpenGL/DirectX through Wine directly in a Wayland-based environment, without using the XWayland layer and getting rid of Wine’s binding to the X11 protocol. Discussions continue with the Wine developers regarding the inclusion of Wayland support in the Wine Staging branch with subsequent transfer to the main Wine composition. In the new […]

Mir 2.4 display server release

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The release of the Mir 2.2 display server is presented, the development of which continues by Canonical, despite the refusal to develop the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, allowing it to run in […]

KDE Plasma Desktop Release 5.22

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A release of the KDE Plasma 5.22 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. Key improvements: Implemented […]

Second open GNU/Linux competition for children and teenagers

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The Children and Youth Center for Technical Creativity and Information Technologies of the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg has opened registration for the second open competition for children and teenagers on GNU/Linux. Participants will be offered theoretical questions and practical tasks of varying degrees of complexity. Age of participants: 10-17 years. Registration is open until June 11, 2021. Participation is free. All participants will receive diplomas. The competition will be held in 2 stages: [...]

LG has published a system for checking compliance with open licenses

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LG has opened the Fosslight toolkit under the AGPLv3 license, designed to automate the processes associated with monitoring compliance with open license requirements when developing software that uses third-party open source components. In addition to checking licenses, Fosslight can also monitor for security issues due to dependency vulnerabilities or give you the ability to create your own plugins to analyze any information of interest. Including […]

Fedora 35 plans to switch to yescrypt for password hashing

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For implementation in Fedora 35, a transition to using the yescrypt password hashing scheme is planned. The change has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical part of the development of the Fedora distribution. If the change is approved, starting with Fedora 35, passwords for new users in /etc/shadow will be hashed using yescrypt by default. Support for old hashes created […]

IceWM 2.4 window manager release

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The lightweight window manager IceWM 2.4 is now available. IceWM provides full control through keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, the taskbar and application menus. The window manager is configured through a fairly simple configuration file, it is possible to use themes. Built-in applets are available for monitoring CPU, memory, traffic. Separately, several third-party GUIs are being developed for customization, desktop implementations, and editors […]

Mozilla has created a platform for discussing ideas and suggestions

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Mozilla has launched ideas.mozilla.org, a service for discussing ideas and proposals for developing existing projects, conducting experiments and creating new products. On the site you can find out what Mozilla developers are currently working on, what problems they are trying to solve and what changes can be expected. At the same time, ideas for making improvements can be expressed not only by Mozilla employees, but […]

vsftpd 3.0.4 release

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Six years after the last update, a new release of the secure and high-performance vsftpd 3.0.4 FTP server is available, which introduces the following changes: Added support for matching hostnames within TLS connections using the SNI TLS extension. For binding and hostnames, the ssl_sni_hostname setting is proposed. Added support for TLS ALPN, but with the rejection of any TLS ALPN sessions not […]

Git 2.32 source control release

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After three months of development, the release of the distributed source control system Git 2.32 has been published. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems that provides flexible non-linear development tools based on branching and merging branches. To ensure the integrity of the history and resistance to changes "backdating", implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used, […]

Regolith 1.6 desktop release

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The release of the desktop Regolith 1.6, developed by the developers of the Linux distribution of the same name, is available. Regolith is based on GNOME session management technologies and the i3 window manager. The developments of the project are distributed under the GPLv3 license. PPA repositories for Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 21.04 have been prepared for download. The project is positioned as a modern desktop environment, developed for faster execution of typical actions due to […]

Release of GNU Poke Binary Data Editor 1.3

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The release of GNU Poke 1.3, a toolkit for working with binary data structures, has been published. GNU Poke consists of an interactive environment and a language for describing and parsing data structures, making it possible to automatically encode and decode data in various formats. The program can be useful for debugging and testing projects such as linkers, assemblers and compression utilities […]

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