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Firefox 157, scheduled for September 29th, will use the new user interface developed by the Nova project by default. To enable the new interface before Firefox 157 is released, you can set the "browser.nova.enabled" preference on the about:configs page. Key changes include: Rounded tab buttons and address bar fields. The tab bar, navigation bar, and [...]
David Heinemeier Hansson, the author of the Ruby on Rails web framework, announced a significant increase in funding for the Omacom Foundation, a non-profit organization created in late August to support the development of the Omarchy distribution. LinuxWithin two weeks of the organization's creation, various companies and individuals had donated nearly $7 million to the fund, in addition to the initial $8 million contribution. The total […]
DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.6 is now available. It supports the following composite servers: niri, Hyprland, Sway, MangoWC, labwc, Scroll, and Miracle WM. DankMaterialShell provides a unified set of components that can be combined to form a desktop, including a taskbar, virtual desktop switcher, an application navigation interface, and a configurator. The design follows the Material Design 3 concept. The code […]
Nitter and XCancel, services that provide an alternative interface for viewing messages from the social network X (Twitter) without registering an account, have resumed operation. The Nitter project repository, which developed a free (GPLv3) frontend for accessing X.com without requiring JavaScript, analytics, trackers, or third-party services, has been reactivated. Nitter's author has so far stated that the project has been reactivated […]
Gotcha 1.0, a self-hosted monitoring platform that integrates error tracking, distributed traces, metrics, profiles, logs, availability monitoring with public status pages, and host monitoring, has been released. The project is written in Go and licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Data ingestion is compatible with the Sentry SDK and OTLP protocols, and data is stored in PostgreSQL and ClickHouse. Minimum requirements are 2 vCPUs and 2 GB […]
Four and a half years after the last release, Patrick Volkerding announced the start of alpha testing for Slackware 16.0. The project has been in development since 1993 and is the oldest of the currently existing distributions. The distribution's distinctive features include a lack of complexity and a simple initialization system, making Slackware an interesting solution for learning Unix-like systems, experimenting, and getting to know […]
MicroPythonOS 0.18.0 is now available. It develops an operating system for microcontrollers such as the ESP32, written using the MicroPython toolkit. The operating system features a graphical interface designed with Android and iOS, and supports touchscreen or navigation buttons. MicroPythonOS's application areas include Internet of Things (IoT) devices, home automation systems, interactive panels, robots, and more.
GNOME developers are discussing the implementation of a new decision-making process based on publishing proposals in the form of RFCs (Request for Comments) and then co-approving them. GNOME Foundation members are invited to join the discussion and provide their comments by October 4th. The RFC-based model is planned to be used only in special cases, to resolve deadlocks, and to approve global changes to […]
Wine 11.17, an experimental release of the open source Win32 API implementation, has been released. Since the release of 11.16, 44 bug reports have been closed and 387 changes have been made. The most important changes include: Initial support for screen mode emulation has been added, allowing full-screen applications and games to run at their own virtual resolution, which is scaled based on the DPI of the monitor when actually rendered. For example, the old […]
The grml 2026.09 Live distribution has been released, offering a selection of programs for performing tasks common to system administrators, such as disaster recovery and incident response. The distribution is based on a package database. Debian GNU/Linux and celebrated its twentieth anniversary last year. The graphical environment is built using the Fluxbox window manager. The default command shell is Zsh. The full size […]
Amazon has begun testing its Amazon distribution service. Linux 2027 (AL2027), optimized for cloud environments and supporting integration with Amazon EC2 tools and advanced features. It uses the Fedora package base as a foundation. Linux. Builds are created for the x86_64 and ARM64 (Aarch64) architectures. Although primarily focused on AWS (Amazon Web Services), the distribution also comes in […]
The ntop project, which develops tools for capturing and analyzing traffic, has published a toolkit for deep packet inspection nDPI 6.0, which continues the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was founded after an unsuccessful attempt to push changes to the OpenDPI repository, which was left unmaintained. The nDPI code is written in C and is licensed under LGPLv3. The system allows you to determine the protocols used in the traffic […]