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The Mobian 13.0 release has been announced, developing the Debian GNU/Linux edition for smartphones and tablets. Builds with custom shells based on GNOME and KDE technologies are available — Phosh and KDE Plasma Mobile. The project is developed within the Debian infrastructure and, where possible, is based on standard packages from Debian repositories, as well as a small number of additional packages. Ready-made builds […]
The seventh release of the Orbitiny Desktop environment, built from scratch using the Qt framework, has been published. The project aims to combine some innovative ideas not previously seen in user environments with traditional elements such as panels, menus, and icon placements on the desktop. The current focus is on running in X-server-based environments, but in the future […]
Details have emerged about vulnerabilities in GitHub Actions handlers, automatically triggered upon submitting pull requests to the Nixpkgs package repository used in the NixOS distribution and its ecosystem associated with the Nix package manager. The vulnerability allowed an outsider to extract a token that provided read and write access to the source code of all packages hosted in Nixpkgs. This token enabled direct modifications to […]
After 7 months of development, the release of the Zorin OS 18 Linux distribution, based on the Ubuntu 24.04 package base, has been published. The target audience for this distribution are beginner users accustomed to working in Windows. To manage the appearance, the distribution offers a special configurator that allows the desktop to resemble various versions of Windows and macOS, along with a selection of programs similar to those that […]
The release of the ravynOS 0.6 project has been published, which develops an operating system based on FreeBSD aimed at achieving compatibility with macOS applications and providing a user interface styled like macOS. The project’s developments are distributed under the BSD license. The size of the bootable ISO image is 760 MB (x86_64). The project aims to achieve compatibility with macOS applications at the source code and executable […]
The GNOME project has stopped developing, maintaining, and supporting the extension 'org.gnome.Platform.i386.Compat', used in GNOME Flatpak Runtime to ensure compatibility with 32-bit applications. The extension provided 32-bit versions of GTK and GNOME libraries used to deliver 32-bit applications in flatpak packages suitable for installation in 64-bit distributions that have discontinued the supply of 32-bit libraries (multilib). GNOME Flatpak Runtime is now available only for architectures […]
The release of web browser Firefox 144 has occurred, and updates to previous long-term support branches—140.4.0 and 115.29.0—have been formed. The Firefox 145 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for November 11. Key innovations in Firefox 144 (1, 2, 3): A new profile management system has been activated for all users. In profile form, users can create completely independent […]
Two years after the last release, an alternative build of the Linux Mint distribution has been published — Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 (LMDE), which is based on the Debian package base (the classic Linux Mint is built on the Ubuntu package base). The distribution is available as installation ISO images (3 GB) with the Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment. LMDE is aimed at technically proficient users and offers more […]
The technical committee that makes final decisions on controversial technical issues in the Debian project has approved a change to the systemd package that alters its behavior when dealing with the /var/lock directory. Starting from version 258, the system manager systemd has restricted write access to the /var/lock directory only to users with root privileges, while the Debian technical committee has approved leaving […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 7.1 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), developed as part of the Tor project, has been presented. The distribution is based on the Debian 13 package base, comes with the GNOME 48 desktop, and is designed for anonymous browsing using Tor tools. By default, all connections except for traffic through the Tor network are blocked by a packet filter. When saving user […]
A group of researchers from four American universities has developed a Pixnapping attack technique (CVE-2025-48561) that allows unprivileged Android applications, which do not request additional permissions, to determine the content displayed on other applications' screens. As an example of practical application, the technique was demonstrated by identifying two-factor authentication codes displayed by the Google Authenticator app. The attack was also shown to be applicable for extracting confidential data displayed on the screen […]
The Qt Company has released the Qt 6.10 framework, continuing efforts to stabilize and enhance the functionality of the Qt 6 branch. Qt 6.10 provides support for Windows 10+, macOS 13+, Linux (Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, openSUSE 15.6, SUSE 15 SP6, RHEL 8.10/9.4, Debian 11.6), iOS 16+, Android 9+(API 23+), webOS, WebAssembly, INTEGRITY, VxWorks, FreeRTOS, and QNX. The source […]