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Release of the Deepin 20.2 distribution kit, developing its own graphical environment

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The Deepin 20.2 distribution was released, based on the Debian package base, but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and about 40 user applications, including the DMusic music player, DMovie video player, DTalk messaging system, installer and installation center for Deepin Software programs Center. The project was founded by a group of developers from China, but has transformed into an international project. Distribution […]

The test release of the Rocky Linux distribution, which replaces CentOS, has been postponed until the end of April

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The developers of the Rocky Linux project, aimed at creating a new free build of RHEL capable of taking the place of the classic CentOS, published a March report in which they announced the postponement of the first test release of the distribution, previously scheduled for March 30, to April 31. The start time for testing the Anaconda installer, which was planned to be published on February 28, has not yet been determined. Of the work already completed, preparation [...]

Google is developing a new Bluetooth stack for Android, written in Rust

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The repository with the Android platform source code contains a version of the Gabeldorsh (GD) Bluetooth stack, rewritten in the Rust language. There are no details about the project yet, only assembly instructions are available. Android's Binder interprocess communication mechanism has also been rewritten in Rust. It is noteworthy that in parallel, another Bluetooth stack is being developed for the Fuchsia OS, for the development of which the Rust language is also used. More […]

systemd system manager release 248

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After four months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 248 is presented. The new release provides support for images for expanding system directories, the /etc/veritytab configuration file, the systemd-cryptenroll utility, unlocking LUKS2 using TPM2 chips and FIDO2 tokens, running units in an isolated IPC identifier space, BATMAN protocol for mesh networks, nftables backend for systemd-nspawn. Systemd-oomd has been stabilized. Main changes: The concept […]

Libreboot Author Defends Richard Stallman

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Leah Rowe, founder of the Libreboot distribution and a well-known minority rights activist, despite past conflicts with the Free Software Foundation and Stallman, publicly defended Richard Stallman from recent attacks. Leah Rowe believes that the witch hunt is being orchestrated by people who are ideologically opposed to free software, and is aimed not only at Stallman himself, but […]

The Deputy Director and CTO leave the SPO Fund

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Two more employees announced their departure from the Open Source Foundation: John Hsieh, deputy director, and Ruben Rodriguez, technical director. John joined the foundation in 2016 and previously held leadership positions in nonprofit organizations focused on social welfare and social justice issues. Ruben, who gained fame as the founder of the Trisquel distribution, was accepted […]

Release of the GTK 4.2 graphics toolkit

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After three months of development, the release of a multi-platform toolkit for creating a graphical user interface - GTK 4.2.0 - was presented. GTK 4 is being developed as part of a new development process that attempts to provide application developers with a stable and supported API for several years that can be used without the fear of having to rewrite applications every six months due to API changes in the next GTK branch. […]

First stable release of AlmaLinux, a fork of CentOS 8

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The first stable release of the AlmaLinux distribution took place, created in response to the premature winding down of support for CentOS 8 by Red Hat (the release of updates for CentOS 8 was decided to stop at the end of 2021, and not in 2029, as users assumed). The project was founded by CloudLinux, which provided resources and developers, and transferred under the wing of a separate non-profit organization AlmaLinux OS […]

Release of Nitrux 1.3.9 distribution with NX Desktop

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The release of the Nitrux 1.3.9 distribution, built on the Debian package base, KDE technologies and the OpenRC initialization system, has been published. The distribution develops its own desktop, NX Desktop, which is an add-on to the KDE Plasma user environment. To install additional applications, a system of self-contained AppImages packages and its own NX Software Center are being promoted. The boot images are 4.6 GB in size […]

SeaMonkey Integrated Internet Application Suite 2.53.7 Released

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The SeaMonkey 2.53.7 set of Internet applications has been released, which combines a web browser, an email client, a news feed aggregation system (RSS / Atom) and a WYSIWYG html page editor Composer within one product. The Chatzilla IRC client, the DOM Inspector web development toolkit, and the Lightning calendar scheduler are offered as preinstalled add-ons. The new release carries over fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is […]

Parrot 4.11 distribution release with a selection of security checkers

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A release of the Parrot 4.11 distribution is available, based on the Debian Testing package base and including a selection of tools for checking the security of systems, conducting forensic analysis and reverse engineering. Several iso images with the MATE environment (full 4.3 GB and reduced 1.9 GB), with the KDE desktop (2 GB) and with the Xfce desktop (1.7 GB) are offered for download. Parrot distribution […]

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