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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 […]
Mozilla announced the addition of a built-in ad blocker to Firefox for iOS. This new feature allows users to block ads and tracking code before they load. Unlike the adblock-rust component integrated into the desktop version of Firefox, Firefox for iOS utilizes Content Blocker technology provided by Apple's WebKit engine. To enable the blocker, […]
Representatives of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) mentioned in their presentation at the MiniDebConf conference plans to migrate from RHEL to Debian 13 more than 2200 industrial and embedded computers used to control the accelerator complex, which includes the Large Hadron Collider and several independent experimental facilities. It is specifically stated that the migration will not affect data centers […]
The Document Foundation has published download statistics for LibreOffice 26.8. It reports that in the first week, LibreOffice 26.8 was downloaded 1.031 million times from the official download page on the project's website (the statistics do not include distribution users using LibreOffice from the standard repositories). Compared to the competing Apache OpenOffice project, Apache OpenOffice 4.1.16, released last year, […]
The main nginx 1.31.5 branch has been released, continuing to develop new features. The parallel stable 1.30.x branch only includes changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. The main 1.31.x branch will later be converted into the stable 1.32 branch. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. In the new release: Added […]
The attackers were able to spoof elements of Softaculous's infrastructure by inserting a fake route via BGP, which redirected traffic from the subnet containing Softaculous servers to a server controlled by the attackers. The attack, among other things, redirected requests to the company's client website, billing system, and Virtualizor software update distribution servers, which were then used to distribute malware […]
After more than two years of development, the WinBtrfs 1.10 project has been released, developing a driver for use with the Btrfs file system on the platform WindowsWinBtrfs is not based on the Btrfs kernel code. Linux, and is an alternative implementation created from scratch. It supports work with Windows XP and newer releases. The driver is included with the ReactOS operating system and can be used […]