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On October 24, a developer conference in Perl will take place in Moscow.

On Saturday, October 24, an annual meeting of developers using the Perl programming language will take place in Moscow. The conference will feature presentations on GUI development with Tcl::Tk, using Perl as part of an AI service orchestration aggregator, a custom language with a compiler, and the first tiling window manager written in Perl. The event will also provide an opportunity to discuss current issues, network in person, and exchange […]

The ROSA Fresh 13.3 distribution has been released.

The RTC IT ROSA has released the ROSA Fresh 13.3 distribution, built on the rosa 13 platform. The distribution is freely available and developed with community involvement. The release is aimed at a wide range of users. Available for download are builds with KDE 6 desktop (4 GB), KDE 5 (4 GB), LXQt (3 GB), and GNOME (4 GB), as well as server builds […]

Release of the Mold 3.0 linker, developed by the LLVM lld team.

The release of the Mold 3.0 linker has been announced, which can be used as a faster transparent replacement for the GNU linker on Linux systems. The project is developed by Rui Ueyama, the author of the LLVM lld linker. A key feature of Mold is its very high speed of linking object files, significantly outpacing the GNU gold and LLVM lld linkers (linking in Mold is performed at a speed just twice slower than […

The source code of the Orion browser for Linux and Windows has been announced.

The developers of the Kagi search engine have announced their decision to open the source code of the Orion browser editor for Linux and Windows platforms. Details of the future development model and licensing for the specified platforms are expected to be published within 30 days. There is a possibility of transferring the code to the care of one of the non-profit organizations. The revision of the code publishing policy was prompted by the winding down of the Orion development […

Theo de Raadt proposed changes to restrict access to the filesystem through the openat function.

Theo de Raadt has proposed the inclusion of a new mechanism in OpenBSD to reduce the attack surface, implemented through the enhanced capabilities of the openat system call. Patches with the implementation of additional flags for openat and open, which limit the ability to traverse to parent directories via "/.." and access by absolute paths, have been prepared for the kernel, libc, and some applications from the base system. The changes are still […]

The Rocky Linux project has announced OpenCourant, a fork of OpenRadioss.

The non-profit organization Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, which oversees the development of the Rocky Linux distribution, has announced the creation of the OpenCourant project, which will continue the development of the open code base of the OpenRadioss platform after its transformation into a proprietary product. The project's code will continue to evolve under the APGLv3 license with the support of the community and under the management of a non-profit foundation independent of individual vendors. To participate in the work on the fork […]

Government agencies in the Netherlands and France are implementing solutions based on NixOS.

The Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations of the Netherlands is developing the DAWO (Digital Autonomous Work Environment for the Government) project, aimed at creating a sovereign work environment for government institutions, promoted to eliminate dependence on foreign technology corporations. The Linux distribution NixOS has been selected as the operating system for workstations. Three state IT companies — DICTU, SSC-ICT, and DUO-ICT — are involved in the project development. […]

An environment has been created that allows for building C++ applications for Windows, Linux, and macOS in the browser.

A group of enthusiasts has created the Xenolith SDK, allowing you to build full desktop applications directly in the browser. The system enables cross-compilation of graphical applications from any supported system to any other. One of the supported systems is WebAssembly, so applications can be built for the browser and built in the browser for any other platform. The project's source code is written in C++ and is available under […]

The Pop!_OS and COSMIC projects have prohibited changes made through AI.

System76 has added to the pull request acceptance rules for the COSMIC desktop environment and in the participation agreement for the Linux distribution Pop!_OS requirements that prohibit the submission of content generated using AI tools in changes or issue messages. The ban applies to code, comments, and text descriptions. Initially, the rules mentioned the acceptability of using AI for research purposes […]

Update of Qubes OS 4.3.2, which uses virtualization for application isolation.

The release of the Qubes operating system 4.3.2 is available, implementing 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 support for VT-x with EPT/AMD-v with RVI is recommended for operation […]

Release Rust 1.99.0. Microsoft has classified Rust as one of the primary languages.

The release of the Rust programming language 1.99 has been published, originally based on the Mozilla project but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on safe memory handling and provides means to achieve high parallelism in task execution while doing without garbage collection and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintaining the standard library). Methods of operation […]

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