The release of Rocky Linux 9.6 has been introduced, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS. The distribution is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.6 and CentOS 9 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will continue until May 31, 2032. Installation ISO images of Rocky Linux have been prepared for […]
Matthew Miller, the leader of the Fedora project, has published the Fedora development strategy outlining goals and objectives for the next three years. The project will focus on the following areas: Tools for people with disabilities. Work is planned to improve the accessibility of documentation, applications developed by the project, and package building tools for this category of users. Community resilience: mentorship development; […]
The results of testing the latest releases of Redis 8.0 and Valkey 8.1 have been presented, in which significant performance optimizations have been announced. In all conducted tests, the community-developed fork outperformed the original project, primarily due to the implementation in Valkey of a new mechanism for multithreaded input/output processing in asynchronous mode, provided to the project by Amazon. In the AWS Graviton4 testing environment c8g.2xlarge with 8 […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system version 7.1.10, noting 9 changes. In the additions for hosts and guest systems with Linux, initial support for Linux kernel 6.15 has been added. Issues with building modules for UEK8 (Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel) packages used in Oracle Linux 9 distributions have been resolved. In the additions for Linux-based host systems […]
The release of the mobile platform /e/OS 3.0 has been published, focusing on user data privacy. The platform was founded by Gaël Duval, the creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution. The project supports 221 smartphone models and prepares firmware builds for the most popular among them. Custom editions of devices based on OnePlus, Fairphone, Teracube, and Pixel have been prepared and distributed with pre-installed /e/OS firmware under the Murena […]
The OTA-9 Focal firmware (over-the-air) has been released, developed by the UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical stepped away from it. This is the eighth release of Ubuntu Touch, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04. The project is also working on an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, now renamed to Lomiri. The update for Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Focal includes […]
Meta* has released the IGL 1.1 (Intermediate Graphics Library) graphics library, providing a universal low-level API for GPU management. The IGL API encompasses typical GPU functionality and allows for the creation of cross-platform applications that can run on top of OpenGL, Metal, and Vulkan graphics APIs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows systems, as well as use WebGL for rendering in the Web […]
Oracle has released Oracle Linux 9.6, based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 and fully binary compatible with it. Unrestricted installation ISO images sized 13 GB and 1.3 GB are available for download, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. Oracle Linux 9 provides unlimited and free access to the yum repository with […]
The release of the anonymous network I2P 2.9.0 and the C++ client i2pd 2.57.0 has been announced. I2P is a multilayered anonymous distributed network that operates over the regular internet, actively using end-to-end encryption to ensure anonymity and isolation. The network is built in a P2P mode and is formed by the resources (bandwidth) provided by its users, which allows it to operate without centrally managed servers (communications within the network […]
The initiative to transform GNOME OS from a distribution for GNOME testers and developers into a general-purpose distribution suitable for everyday use by regular users has moved to a new stage. Nightly builds of GNOME OS have been announced for testing by developers and advanced users. The main goal of the testing is to refine the system when using GNOME OS on real hardware as the primary […]
The release of the pfSense CE 2.8.0 (Community Edition) distribution for creating firewalls and network gateways has been published. The distribution is based on the FreeBSD codebase utilizing the developments of the m0n0wall project and the pf packet filter. An ISO image has been prepared for the amd64 architecture. The distribution is managed through a web interface. A Captive […] can be used for allowing users to access wired and wireless networks.
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.9 has been released. Since the 10.8 version, 34 bug reports have been closed and 277 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The built-in Vkd3d package implementing Direct3D 12 has been updated to version 1.16, which now includes default support for DXIL (DirectX Intermediate Language) shaders and initial support for geometry shaders […]