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VK has released a version of the MAX messenger for the Linux platform. Builds are available in RPM (79 MB) and DEB (92 MB) packages, as well as in the form of a self-contained image in AppImage format (114 MB), which can be run without installation on the system. The Linux version is built on the Electron platform, using the Chromium browser engine. Required dependencies are loaded […]
The openSUSE project developers have introduced the Agama 17 installer, developed to replace the classic installation interface of SUSE and openSUSE, and noteworthy for separating the user interface from the internal components of YaST. Agama supports the use of various front-ends, such as a front-end for managing installations via a web interface. The installer component code is distributed under the GPLv2 license and is written in Ruby, Rust, and JavaScript/TypeScript. The new […]
After a year of development, the composite server Wayfire 0.10 has been released, utilizing Wayland and enabling the creation of resource-friendly user interfaces with 3D effects reminiscent of 3D plugins for Compiz (screen switching via a 3D cube, spatial window layout, morphing while working with windows, etc.). Wayfire supports extending functionality through plugins and offers a flexible customization system. The project's code is written in […]
Red Hat has released the second beta version of the RPM 6.0 package manager, which will be utilized in the fall release of the Fedora Linux 43 distribution. The project is used in distributions such as RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, ALT Linux, Rosa Linux, OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, and Tizen. The RPM code is distributed under GPLv2 and LGPLv2 licenses. Version 5 of RPM has been skipped to avoid overlaps with […]
Developers of the GNU MP (GMP) library, which provides functions for performing arithmetic operations with arbitrary precision, have warned users about an incident involving repeated failures of AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture during testing of the library. It is believed that the damage to the processors was caused by overheating during intensive execution of GMP functions. Until a complete analysis is finished […]
A corrective release of Firefox 142.0.1 is available, addressing several issues: Fixed a crash that occurred when launching in KDE Plasma with modified window decoration settings ("Colours and themes" -> "Window decorations"). Resolved issues when moving multiple tabs that led to unresponsive buttons on the toolbar or visual artifacts. Dragging is now functioning properly when the tab bar is arranged horizontally […]
The free PaaS platform Cozystack 0.35 is now available, built on Kubernetes. The project aims to provide a ready-to-use platform for hosting providers and a framework for creating private and public clouds. The platform is installed directly on servers and covers all aspects of infrastructure preparation for delivering managed services. Cozystack enables the launching and provision of Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
The QEMU project release 10.1.0 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows the execution of programs compiled for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, running an application for ARM on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, QEMU's code execution performance in an isolated environment is close to that of physical systems due to direct instruction execution on the CPU and utilization of […]
The desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 25.02 has been released, based on FreeBSD 14 and offering builds with custom environments such as MATE, Xfce, and Gershwin. The ZFS file system is used by default in GhostBSD. Both Live mode operation and installation on a hard drive are supported (using a proprietary installer ginstall, written in Python). Boot images have been created for the x86_64 architecture (3.7 […]
In the daily updated experimental builds of Ubuntu, reflecting the development of the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release, the sudo-rs project, written in Rust, is now used by default instead of the sudo utility. The decision to adopt sudo-rs in Ubuntu was made in May, but it was unclear until recently whether developers would implement the necessary missing features in sudo-rs before Ubuntu 25.10 transitioned to the […]
The release of the traffic analysis and network intrusion detection system Zeek 8.0.0 has been published, previously known as Bro. Zeek is a traffic analysis platform primarily focused on monitoring security-related events, though not limited to that application. The system's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. The platform offers modules for analysis and […]
On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced in the comp.os.minix newsgroup the creation of a working prototype of the new operating system Linux, marking the completion of the porting of bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40. The first public release of the Linux kernel was presented on September 17. Kernel 0.0.1 was 62 KB in compressed form and contained […]