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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Release of XLibre XServer 25.1.0, a fork of X.Org Server

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After six months of development, release 25.1.0 of the XLibre project, which is a fork of X.Org Server, has been published. The first release of the XLibre XServer 25.1.0 branch is positioned as beta-quality and is intended for testing and identifying any potential issues. Following this, two more beta versions are planned to be released, after which the branch will be declared stable in release 25.1.3. The project is led by Enrico Weigelt, who ranks first in […]

The award ceremony for the best open science projects of 2025 took place in France.

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The Open Science Awards ceremony took place at Paris-Saclay University, honoring achievements in open science in France. The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research presented awards in three categories: free software, open data, and dissertations demonstrating open science principles. A total of 8 laureates were recognized among open data, 3 free software projects, and 8 […]

Release of the Alt Workstation K 11.2 distribution

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An update for the Linux distribution 'Alt Workstation K 11.2' is now available, offering a KDE desktop environment suitable for office and home use. The build is prepared for the x86_64 architecture and is based on the ALT platform 11. An installation ISO image (8.8 GB) and a separate Live build (5.4 GB) have been prepared for download. The downloaded version can be freely used only by individuals, in […]

A distribution for creating network storage OpenMediaVault 8.0 is available.

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After nearly two years since the last significant branch was formed, the stable release of the OpenMediaVault 8.0 distribution has been published, allowing for rapid deployment of network-attached storage (NAS). The OpenMediaVault project was founded in 2009 following a split among developers of the FreeNAS distribution, resulting in the classic FreeNAS based on FreeBSD and a fork, whose developers set […]

Release of Wayback 0.3, a layer for running X11 desktops using Wayland components.

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After four months of development, release 0.3 of the Wayback project has been published, enabling the launch of desktop environments tied to the X11 protocol using components based on Wayland. Wayback is a slimmed-down Wayland compositor server that supports only the necessary features for running a fullscreen X11 session using Xwayland. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project was created by the developers of the […]

Comparison of error numbers in code written by humans and AI

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Researchers from CodeRabbit analyzed 470 pull requests (350 generated by AI, 150 manually written) in open projects on GitHub and concluded that AI-generated changes contain 1.7 times more significant defects and 1.4 times more critical issues than manually written code. On average, AI-generated pull requests […]

The founder of QEMU and FFmpeg published the Micro QuickJS JavaScript engine.

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French mathematician Fabrice Bellard, founder of projects such as QEMU, FFmpeg, BPG, QuickJS, TinyGL, and TinyCC, has released a new JavaScript engine for embedded systems — Micro QuickJS, capable of compiling and executing JavaScript programs with only 10 KB of RAM. Together with the C library, the engine occupies approximately 100 KB of persistent memory. It is possible to compile JavaScript to bytecode and run it separately […]

French mathematician Fabrice Bellard, the founder of projects like QEMU, FFmpeg, BPG, QuickJS, TinyGL, and TinyCC, has published a new JavaScript engine for embedded systems — Micro QuickJS.

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After 6 months of development, the postmarketOS 25.12 release has been presented, which develops a Linux distribution for mobile devices based on the Alpine Linux package base, the standard C library Musl, and the BusyBox utility set. The goal of the project is to provide a Linux distribution for smartphones and tablets that is independent of the support lifecycle of official firmware and not tied to typical solutions from the industry's major players. Builds […]

Release of elementary OS 8.1 distribution

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The release of the elementary OS 8.1 distribution has been presented, marketed as a fast, open-source, and privacy-focused alternative to Windows and macOS. The project emphasizes quality design aimed at creating a user-friendly system that consumes minimal resources and offers high boot speed. Users are provided with their own Pantheon desktop environment. Bootable ISO images (3.1 GB) are prepared for download, […]

The Microsoft project for using AI to translate the codebase from C/C++ to Rust.

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Galen Hunt, Managing Director of Microsoft Azure Sphere and former head of the operating systems development group at Microsoft Research, has introduced a research project to create tools that combine AI with traditional algorithms to automate the rewriting of Microsoft's largest code bases in Rust. The goal of the project is to completely eliminate C and C++ from Microsoft's code bases […]

The Lua programming language 5.5 is now available

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After five years of development, the release of Lua 5.5 is available, a fast and compact scripting programming language that has become widely used as an embedded language for configuration definition and extension writing. The Lua interpreter's code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. Lua combines a simple procedural syntax with the ability to describe data through the use of associative arrays and extensibility […]

Official support for the LoongArch architecture has been implemented in Debian.

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The developers of the Debian project have announced the status of an official port for the distribution's edition for systems based on the LoongArch (loong64) architecture. Packages for LoongArch are available for installation from the Debian Sid (Unstable) repository. The LoongArch instruction set architecture is utilized in processors from Loongson and implements a RISC ISA similar to MIPS and RISC-V. In the initial phase of the integration of the new port from the package […]

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