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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
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: […]
The VPN provider Mullvad, which is developing the Mullvad Browser and providing infrastructure for the Mozilla VPN service, has introduced the GotaTun project that implements the WireGuard VPN protocol, written in Rust and operating in user space. The project's code is distributed under the BSD license. Mullvad has already utilized GotaTun in the VPN client for the Android platform and plans to transition its applications to it next year.
The release of OpenWrt version 24.10.5 has been announced, developed for networking devices such as routers, switches, and access points. OpenWrt supports 2849 devices and offers a build system that simplifies cross-compilation and creation of custom builds. Such builds allow for ready-made firmware with the desired set of pre-installed packages, optimized for specific tasks. Ready-made builds have been published for 39 target platforms. Major changes in […]
The release of Lanemu P2P VPN 0.13.1 has occurred — an implementation of a decentralized virtual private network operating on a Peer-To-Peer principle, whereby participants are connected to each other rather than through a central server. Network participants can locate each other through BitTorrent trackers or BitTorrent DHT, or via other network participants (peer exchange). The application is a free and open source alternative to Hamachi VPN, written […]
NVIDIA has released the proprietary driver NVIDIA 590.48.01 (the first stable release of the new branch 590.48). The driver is available for Linux (ARM64, x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64), and Solaris (x86_64). NVIDIA 590.x is the twelfth stable branch following NVIDIA's opening of components operating at the kernel level. The source texts for the kernel modules nvidia.ko, nvidia-drm.ko (Direct Rendering Manager), nvidia-modeset.ko, and nvidia-uvm.ko (Unified Video Memory) […]
The company 'Open Mobile Platform', which develops the Aurora OS (a fork of the Sailfish platform), has announced the opening of the source code for the Aurora Embedder library and updates to the Flutter SDK toolkit, intended for application development for the Aurora OS. The Aurora Embedder, responsible for integrating the Flutter framework with the Aurora OS, was previously developed as a closed product and was distributed only in the form of ready-made Flutter builds for the OS […]
After three months of development, the system manager systemd 259 is now available. Key changes include support for the Musl standard library, the command "run0 —empower" for executing privileged actions without changing UID, dynamic loading of third-party libraries required by libsystemd, and ignoring configuration files by adding ".ignore" to the name. Among the changes in the new release: Partial support for the Musl standard C library has been added, enabled by setting […]