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System76, the company behind the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released the COSMIC 1.9.0 desktop environment. Packages for COSMIC 1.9.0 are available in the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution and are expected soon in Fedora, NixOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries) licenses. COSMIC is evolving as a versatile […]
Canonical has announced a shift to a unified 2-week cycle for preparing Linux kernel package updates, with a new update released each week. The development cycle for updates has been shortened due to the increased frequency of vulnerability discoveries in the Linux kernel. The new cycle for generating the next patch update for the kernel package will now be initiated weekly, without separating regular updates and […]
Qualcomm has announced the incorporation of changes into the mainline Linux kernel that provide support for devices with Snapdragon X2 chips, featuring Qualcomm Oryon CPUs (ranging from 6 to 18 cores depending on the model), an AI accelerator Hexagon (80 TOPS), and Adreno X2-90 GPUs. Among other things, a FastRPC driver for the Hexagon NPU will be prepared and support for new Adreno GPUs will be added to the Mesa drivers Freedreno, Turnip, and […]
Google has released version 154 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which forms the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in that it includes Google logos, has a crash reporting notification system, supports modules for playing protected video content (DRM), features automatic update installation, always-on Sandbox isolation, provides keys for Google APIs, and transmits RLZ parameters […]
The release of project git-bug 0.11.0 has been published, which develops a bug tracking system that stores information about issues and comments as objects in a Git repository. Similar to changes in the source code, the git-bug toolkit allows you to put information about tracked bugs into external repositories using the push operation, as well as retrieve data from the external repository to the local repository using the pull operation. The project code […]
The developers of the Peppermint OS Linux distribution, based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base and offering a user environment based on the Xfce desktop and Thunar file manager, announced the switch to using XLibre, a fork of the X.Org Server, by default. XLibre will be utilized in the next update of the PeppermintOS ISO images, for which experimental builds have been offered for testing prior to their release. In the foreseeable future, Peppermint OS plans to […]
The first release of the scan library (0.1.0) has been published, which parses text into values based on a template known at compile-time. The template or format is written as a C++ template argument and is transformed at compile time into a tagged deterministic finite automaton (TDFA), whose traversal is unfolded into code states at compile-time using C++ templates. The result of execution is […]
After three months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 262 is now available. The new version implements integration into the process of a minimal set of unit files, supports building with static linking, integrates with dm-clone for cloning block devices, adds a database of installed files in systemd-sysupdate, and provides cryptographic verification of systemd-report reports. Among the changes in this release: the executable file […]
The release of the NetBSD 10.2 operating system has been published, classified as a corrective update, and mainly includes fixes for issues and vulnerabilities identified since the release of NetBSD 10.1 in December 2024. The NetBSD 10 branch will be supported until the release of NetBSD 12.0. Installation images sized at 639 MB are prepared for download, available in builds for 57 system architectures and […]
Oracle has released Solaris 11.4 SRU 95 (Support Repository Update), which includes a series of significant changes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the suggested fixes in the update, simply run the command ‘pkg update’. Users can also take advantage of the free Solaris 11.4 CBE (Common Build Environment) edition, developed using a continuous release model for new […]
In the past, Google or Yandex would present a list of links, but now search engines are increasingly responding with direct answers. They gather information from several sources to provide a concise explanation, include links, and reduce the chances of clicks for website owners. Unpleasant? Indeed. For those who have invested years in traditional search engine optimization, this means adapting is necessary. But […]
The mail client Convey has been released, continuing the development of the Geary project, which has not seen new versions since May 2024. The most notable difference from Geary is the switch to GTK4 and libadwaita libraries. The code is written in Vala and is distributed under the LGPL license. Among the changes: A Microsoft Graph backend has been added for working with Outlook and Microsoft 365 accounts. […]