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The GNOME Calendar developer accused Linux Mint of ignoring the issue with the outdated package.

One of the developers of GNOME Calendar (Hari Rana) publicly raised a conflict with the maintaining package in the Linux Mint distribution. The conflict arises from the fact that Linux Mint ships a package with a modified, outdated version of GNOME Calendar. Despite the specific changes, the application is provided under the name GNOME Calendar, leading users to believe they are using the original project. In […]

Collabora has introduced Holo Core, an Arch Linux port for the AArch64 architecture.

Collabora has introduced the Holo Core project, in collaboration with Valve, which has prepared a customized edition of the Arch Linux distribution for the AArch64 platform. Holo Core is designed for use with SteamOS on the Steam Frame device, combining a personal computer, 3D headset, and two 3D controllers. The development of Holo Core was necessary as the Arch Linux distribution underlying SteamOS is only available for the architecture […]

Release of Whonix 18.2, a distribution for anonymous communications

The release of Whonix 18.2 has taken place, aimed at providing guaranteed anonymity, security, and private information protection. This distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizes Tor for anonymity. The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. Virtual machine images are prepared for download in ova format for VirtualBox (2.6 GB with LXQt and 1.5 GB console) and qcow2 for the hypervisor [...]

The X-server Frame and the CHasm desktop, both written in assembly language, have been introduced.

The Frame project is developing a new X-server, entirely written in NASM assembly for the x86_64 architecture and designed to run on Linux without external dependencies. Interaction with the Linux kernel, including DRM/KMS and evdev interfaces, is done directly through system calls, without using libraries such as libc, Mesa, and FreeType. The Frame code is released as public domain. Development is ongoing with involvement [...]

Wayland 1.26 is now available.

After four months of development, a stable release of the Wayland protocol, inter-process communication mechanism, and libraries version 1.26 has been announced. The 1.26 branch is backward compatible at the API and ABI level with the 1.x releases and mainly includes bug fixes and minor protocol updates. Project deliverables are distributed under the MIT license. The reference compositor server Weston provides code and working examples for using Wayland […]

OpenBSD has discontinued support for the Loongson hardware platform due to a regression in Clang.

Support for the Loongson platform has been removed from OpenBSD, which was added in 2010 for MIPS-compatible Chinese processors Loongson 2E and 2F. The reason for its removal is attributed to build issues for the mips64el platform in new versions of the Clang compiler. Following an attempt to self-compile clang 22 (building clang 22 code using the clang 22 compiler), crashes began to occur that did not […]

An alternative extended version of PuTTY that supports file sessions.

An alternative build of the SSH client PuTTY 0.84 has been released, enhanced with features ported from the KiTTY fork, which was discontinued three years ago. The transfer of functionality from KiTTY to the current PuTTY codebase was almost entirely accomplished with ChatGPT/Codex. The changes primarily pertain to the interface and usability, without interfering with the core logic of PuTTY. Among the most notable changes: Session storage […]

FSearch 0.3

On July 12th, version 0.3 of FSearch was released — a utility for quick file searching, modeled after Everything for Windows. The project is written in C and GTK3, and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2.0 license. FSearch features: instant results as you type; advanced search syntax; support for pattern and regular expression searches; filter support: search only for files, […]

Perl 5.44

After a year of development, the release of a new stable branch of the Perl programming language — 5.44 — has been announced. In preparing the new release, approximately 270,000 lines of code were changed (excluding documentation and automatically generated code — 110,000), with changes affecting 860 files, and 71 developers participated in the development. The 5.44 branch was released in accordance with the fixed proposal established thirteen years ago […]

Linus Torvalds supported the use of AI tools in kernel development.

Linus Torvalds commented on attempts to discuss banning the use of AI tools in Linux kernel development. The official stance is that the Linux kernel, as a project, does not oppose the use of AI. AI is viewed as a tool that simplifies coding, just like any other tools. The use of AI is a personal choice for each developer, and the main factor in accepting changes is the quality of the code, […]

Regression in Linux kernel 7.0 significantly reducing the performance of applications utilizing AMD ROCm.

Engineers from Canonical have warned about regressions in the upcoming update of package version 7.0.0-28.28, which will be delivered to Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 users. The regression manifests when using the amdgpu driver and leads to a significant drop in performance for some applications utilizing the AMD ROCm stack. For instance, due to the regression, the execution time of the Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) model using ComfyUI […]

Release of the OPNsense 26.7 distribution for building firewalls

The release of the OPNsense 26.7 distribution for creating firewalls has been published. This project separated from pfSense in 2015 with the goal of developing a fully open distribution that could provide functionalities at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not being controlled by a single company and is developed with direct community involvement and […]

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