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Release of Pop!_OS 24.04 distributed with the COSMIC desktop environment

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System76, a company specializing in manufacturing laptops, PCs, and servers shipped with Linux, has published a release of the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution. Pop!_OS is based on the Ubuntu 24.04 package base and comes with its own COSMIC desktop environment. The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. ISO images are created for x86_64 architectures (2.9 GB + a separate build for systems with NVIDIA GPU) and ARM64 […]

Release of the open-source virtual reality platform Monado 25.1.0

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The release of the Monado 25.1.0 project has been announced, which develops an open implementation of the OpenXR standard. The OpenXR standard is prepared by the Khronos consortium and defines a universal API for creating virtual and augmented reality applications, as well as a set of layers for hardware interaction. Monado provides a runtime that fully complies with OpenXR requirements and can be used to facilitate virtual and augmented reality on smartphones, tablets, […]

Ubuntu MATE 26.04 and Ubuntu Unity 26.04 will not be designated as LTS.

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The technical committee responsible for the release of Ubuntu has decided to exclude Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Unity from the list of Ubuntu 26.04 editions that will receive long-term support (LTS). In the spring release 26.04, the additional editions that will receive LTS status are Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Ubuntu Cinnamon (Kubuntu is absent from the list, but […]

Release WSL 2.7.0, a layer for running Linux on Windows

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Microsoft has published an update for WSL 2.7.0 (Windows Subsystem for Linux), which allows running Linux applications on Windows. Version 2.7.0 is the second major release following the opening under the MIT license of the command-line utilities, background processes for Linux environments, and services for running the virtual machine used in WSL. Prior to this, the code of WSL components related to the Linux kernel and […]

The first stable release of the COSMIC desktop environment.

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After three years of development, the release of the COSMIC 1.0.0 desktop environment, written in Rust, has been published. To evaluate COSMIC 1.0, test ISO images of the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution (3.5 GB) are provided. In the near future, packages with COSMIC 1.0 for Fedora, NixOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Serpent OS, Redox, and CachyOS are expected. COSMIC is evolving as a universal project, not tied to […]

Release of Cinnamon Desktop 6.6

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After a year of development, the release of the Cinnamon 6.6 desktop environment has been formed, within which the community of Linux Mint developers is working on a fork of the GNOME Shell interface, Nautilus file manager, and Mutter window manager, aimed at providing a classic GNOME 2 style environment with support for effective interaction elements from GNOME Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components […]

The maintainers of the libxml2 library have changed.

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Nick Wellnhofer has removed himself from the list of maintainers of the libxml2 library and has officially stepped down. Initially, Nick announced his resignation from the maintainer position in September, but until now, the intent was only verbal. Following Nick's departure, Daniel Garcia Moreno (a SUSE employee and participant […] expressed a desire to take over the maintenance role.

Release of nginx 1.29.4 with support for ECH and communication with backends via HTTP/2.0.

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The release of the main branch of nginx 1.29.4 has been published, continuing the development of new features. The parallel stable branch 1.28.x only receives changes related to the correction of serious bugs and vulnerabilities. In the future, a stable branch 1.30 will be formed based on the main branch 1.29.x. The project's code is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. In the new release: […]

According to Pornhub statistics, the share of Linux increased by 22.4% over the year, reaching 6.3%.

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Pornhub, ranked 21st among the most popular websites in the world, has published its report for 2025. According to the disclosed statistics, the share of Linux among desktop operating system users increased over the year from 5.1% to 6.2%, resulting in an annual growth of Linux users by 22.4%. In comparison, the share of Linux users on Wikipedia is 5.5% (up from 4.2% a year ago), in the catalog […]

Support for Rust has been moved from experimental to core features of the Linux kernel.

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During the ongoing Maintainers Summit conference, there was a discussion about the results of an experiment to add Rust language support for developing components in the Linux kernel. The attendees acknowledged the experiment as successful and decided to move Rust support into the category of core kernel components, lifting its experimental status. Three years ago, the ability to develop drivers and modules in the language [...

Release of Firefox 146

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The release of web browser Firefox 146 has occurred, and updates for previous long-term support branches—140.6.0 and 115.31.0—have been formed. The Firefox 147 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for January 14. Key features in Firefox 146 (1, 2, 3): A "Split View" mode has been added for side-by-side viewing of two tabs in one window. The mode [...

IBM acquires Confluent, developer of Apache Kafka

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IBM has reached an agreement to acquire Confluent, a company developing streaming data solutions based on the open-source Apache Kafka platform. Confluent was founded in 2014 by the creators of the Apache Kafka platform and achieved a market capitalization of $10 billion after its IPO in 2021. The deal amount with IBM will be $11 billion ($31 per [...

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