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Ventoy 1.1.09 has been released, a tool for booting arbitrary systems from USB drives.

The release of the Ventoy 1.1.09 toolkit has been announced, designed for creating bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems. The program allows you to boot OS from unchanged ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI images without requiring image unpacking or media reformatting. You just need to copy the desired set of images to a USB Flash drive with the Ventoy bootloader, and it will facilitate the booting of the operating systems contained within the images. In […]

Release of uutils 0.5, a Rust implementation of GNU Coreutils

The release of the uutils coreutils 0.5.0 (Rust Coreutils) project has been announced, which develops an alternative 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 such as Windows, Redox […]

Vulnerability in the smb4k utility allowing root access to the system

Vulnerabilities have been found in the smb4k utility, used in KDE for discovering and mounting SMB shares, allowing for root access to the system. These issues have been addressed in the Smb4K 4.0.5 release. You can check the status of the new package version or the preparation of a fix in the following distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE/openSUSE, Gentoo, Arch, and FreeBSD. KAuth handlers are used in smb4k to perform privileged actions, which are initiated […]

17 out of 20 VPN services provide incorrect information about exit node countries.

An analysis of the accuracy of the claimed locations of exit nodes by VPN providers has been conducted. Of the 20 tested VPN providers, only 3 consistently provided correct information about the countries of exit nodes. 6 providers reported virtual (unverified during testing) or unmeasurable (countries from which no traffic was recorded) data about the country in more than 50% of cases, while 3 providers reported such data in 30% […]

The GNOME project has banned the use of AI for generating GNOME Shell extensions.

A new rule has been added to the GNOME Shell extension development guidelines, banning the publication of extensions generated using AI tools. The project will no longer accept extensions that show signs of AI usage for code generation, such as nonsensical code insertions, style inconsistencies, contrived API usage, and comments hinting at AI. The reason for the new requirements is the increased occurrence of […]

Release of the Mir display server 2.25

The release of the Mir 2.25 display server has been announced, which continues to be developed by Canonical, despite the discontinuation of the Unity shell and Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical's projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Mir provides a set of libraries for creating composite servers […]

NICE.OS — a minimalist distribution built from scratch and optimized for containers

The NICE.OS project develops an independent Linux distribution, built "from scratch" from source code, supporting its own package database without borrowing package build scripts from other distributions. The project develops its own tools, patch set, and build policy. An ISO image (603 MB) is available for download, aimed at installation on virtual machines (KVM, Proxmox, VMware, VirtualBox, etc.). The distribution is distributed […]

Rust 1.92 release. Rust projects for GUI, sandbox isolation, and firmware creation.

The release of the Rust programming language 1.92 has been published, originally developed by Mozilla, now managed under the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on safe memory usage and provides means for achieving high parallelism of task execution, while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is limited to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). The methods of working […]

First stable release of D7VK, a Direct3D 7 implementation over the Vulkan API

The release of the D7VK project 1.0 has been published, which develops an implementation of the Direct3D 7 graphics API proposed by Microsoft in 1999. D7VK works by translating calls to the Vulkan API and allows retro games tied to the Direct3D 7 API to run on Linux using Wine. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the Zlib license. As a foundation for […]

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

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

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.

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 […]

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