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The release of the lightweight distro MX Linux 25, created through the collaboration of communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects, has been published. This release is based on a Debian package base with enhancements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution uses the sysVinit initialization system and custom tools for configuring and deploying the system. 64-bit builds (x86_64) are available for download […]
The release of project uutils coreutils 0.4.0 (Rust Coreutils) has been published, developing an analog to the GNU Coreutils package, written in Rust. The coreutils package includes over a hundred utilities, including sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. The project's goal is to create a cross-platform alternative implementation of Coreutils, capable of running on platforms like Windows, Redox […]
The release of the smolBSD toolkit has been published, allowing the creation of specialized minimalist NetBSD builds that include only the necessary set of system components and a fast-booting netbsd-MICROVM kernel. One of the uses of smolBSD is to create trimmed system environments (micro VMs) for running individual server applications in virtual machines. The size of the created base environment is about 10 MB. Launching a service in a new virtual machine using such […]
The composite server Hyprland 0.52, which utilizes the Wayland protocol, is now available. The project is focused on a tiling window layout but also supports classic free placement of windows, grouping windows in tab form, a pseudomosaic mode, and full-screen window expansion. The code is written in C++ and released under the BSD license. It offers capabilities for creating visually appealing interfaces: gradients in window borders, blurring […]
Stéphane Graber, the leader of the Linux Containers project, one of the creators of the LXC toolkit, a member of the Ubuntu technical advisory board, and a participant in the teams responsible for Ubuntu releases, has introduced a new Linux distribution called IncusOS. IncusOS provides an atomically updatable system image for server creation, with centralized management via the Incus toolkit (a fork of LXD). The distribution is being developed under the auspices of the Linux […]
Google has released the Magika 1.0 toolkit, designed to determine content types based on the analysis of the data present in a file. Magika can accurately identify the programming languages used in the content, compression methods, installation packages, executable code, markup types, audio, video, document, and image formats. The associated toolkit and ready-to-use machine learning model are distributed under the Apache […]
The team responsible for preparing Fedora Linux releases has announced the final stage of migrating the project from its own Pagure platform to a new collaborative development system based on the Forgejo project. In late September, a development service called Fedora Forge was launched in test mode on Forgejo for code management and issue tracking. On November 18, […]
The release of the mobile platform /e/OS 3.2, which focuses on user data privacy, has been presented. The platform is based on Gaël Duval, the creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution. The project supports 253 smartphone models and creates firmware builds for the most popular ones. Custom editions of devices are prepared based on OnePlus, Fairphone, Teracube, and Pixel smartphones, distributed with the pre-installed /e/OS firmware under the Murena brand […]
After two years of development, the UDisks 2.11.0 package has been released, including a system background process, libraries, and tools for organizing access to and management of disks, storage devices, and related technologies. UDisks provides a D-Bus API for working with disk partitions, configuring MD RAID, managing block devices via loop mounting, manipulating file systems, and more. Additionally […]
The release of the dynamically managed firewall firewalld 2.4.0 has been created, implemented as a wrapper over the nftables and iptables packet filters. Firewalld runs as a background process, allowing dynamic changes to packet filter rules via D-Bus, without needing to reload the filter rules and without disrupting established connections. The project is already used in many Linux distributions, including RHEL 7+, Fedora 18+ […]
SUSE has released the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 distribution. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 branch was formed seven years after the release of SUSE 15. SUSE 16 packages have already been used as the basis for the community-supported distribution openSUSE Leap 16. The distribution can be downloaded and used for free, but access to updates and patches is limited to a 60-day trial […]
Google has decided to remove components for supporting the XML transformation language XSLT from the Chromium browser engine. The reason cited is to reduce the attack surface by discontinuing the use of the libxslt library. According to Google, supporting XSLT 1.0 poses unjustified security risks as vulnerabilities are periodically discovered in the libxslt library (for example, CVE-2025-7425 and CVE-2022-22834) and it has issues […]