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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-14558) has been discovered in the rtsold background process and the rtsol utility used in FreeBSD, which allows remote code execution with root privileges by sending a specially crafted packet with an IPv6 router advertisement. RA messages (Router Advertisement), which exploit this vulnerability, are not routed and should be discarded by routers. To carry out the attack, the attacker must have the ability to send a specially crafted packet from a system, […]
The release of the 86Box 5.3 project has been announced, which develops an emulator for systems based on the x86 architecture, allowing the execution of old operating systems and applications, including those used in the early 1980s on IBM PC 5150 and IBM PS/2 computers. It supports accurate low-level emulation of systems, from 8086 processors to Intel Celeron Mendocino. The project's code is written in […]
After two years of development, the release of the Qubes 4.3.0 operating system has been announced. It implements the idea of using a hypervisor for strict isolation of applications and OS components (each class of applications and system services runs in separate virtual machines). A system with 16 GB of RAM (minimum — 6 GB) and a 64-bit Intel or AMD CPU with VT-x support is recommended for operation, […]
Barry Kauler, the founder of the Puppy Linux project, has released the EasyOS 7.1 distribution, combining Puppy Linux technologies with the use of container isolation to run system components. The distribution is managed through a set of graphical configurators developed by the project. Source: opennet.ru
The release of the GDB 17.1 debugger has been announced (the first release of the 17.x series, the 17.0 branch was used for development). GDB supports source-level debugging for a wide range of programming languages (Ada, C, C++, D, Fortran, Go, Objective-C, Modula-2, Pascal, Rust, etc.) on various hardware (i386, amd64, ARM, Power, Sparc, RISC-V, LoongArch, etc.) and software platforms (GNU/Linux, *BSD, […]
An update has been released for the Chimera Linux distribution, notable for its use of the Linux kernel combined with FreeBSD utilities, the dinit system manager, and the Musl standard C library. The build is compiled with Clang. Live boot images have been created for the x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64, riscv64, and ppc64 architectures in variants with GNOME (1.8 GB), KDE (2.5 GB), and a minimal environment (1 GB). The project is aimed at […]
Developers of the Arch Linux distribution have announced the replacement of packages with proprietary NVIDIA drivers "nvidia", "nvidia-dkms", and "nvidia-lts" with the packages "nvidia-open", "nvidia-open-dkms", and "nvidia-lts-open", which utilize open-source kernel modules from NVIDIA. This decision is due to the fact that NVIDIA drivers version 590.x only support GPUs starting from the Turing microarchitecture (RTX 20xx and GTX 1650 series), making it pointless to maintain official […]
The release of CoreBoot 25.12 has been published, developing a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project's code is released under the GPLv2 license. This new version includes 680 changes, prepared with the participation of 110 developers. Major changes include support for the following motherboards: ASRock Z77 Extreme4, ASUS PRIME H610I-PLUS D4, Lenovo ThinkPad: T470s, T580, Siemens MC EHL: MC EHL6, Star Labs Starfighter: […]