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The classic desktop environment CDE (Common Desktop Environment) has been added to the OpenBSD ports collection. CDE was developed in the early 1990s through the collaborative efforts of companies such as Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu, and Hitachi, and has been supplied for many years as the default graphical environment for Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Digital UNIX, and UnixWare. In 2012, the code […]
Christian Schaller, head of the Fedora Desktop Team and the desktop systems development group at Red Hat, published the results of an assessment on the suitability of using large language models in the development process of graphical applications for Linux. As part of the experiment, he used the AI assistant Claude to translate the outdated graphical application Xtraceroute to current technologies. The Xtraceroute application visualizes the path of network packets […]
Collabora has announced the implementation of support for the Vulkan 1.4 graphics API in the PanVK Vulkan driver for ARM GPU devices based on the V10 architecture, such as Mali-G610 and Mali-G310. The changes are included in the Mesa codebase and will be offered to users in the upcoming Mesa 25.2 release, which is currently in release candidate status. The current stable release, Mesa 25.1, features PanVK […]
Canonical has dismissed Till Kamppeter, the leader of the OpenPrinting project, which develops components for printing in Linux and has been maintaining the CUPS printing server since 2021 after Apple lost interest in the project. Till is a co-founder of OpenPrinting and has been involved with the project since its inception in 2001. A […]
After six months of development, the release of the GNU C Library 2.42 (glibc) has been published, which fully complies with the standards of ISO C23 and POSIX.1-2024. The new release involved 70 developers. Among the improvements implemented in Glibc 2.42, it's worth noting: The pthread_create function has added support for lightweight guard pages for stack protection, which can be accessed […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 6.16. Among the most notable changes are: a driver for accelerating OpenVPN, a Kexec HandOver mechanism, default inclusion of five-level memory page tables for x86, removal of the DCCP protocol, a zloop block driver, the ability to send core dumps via UNIX socket, support for atomic writes in XFS, offload processing of audio for USB devices, optimizations in Ext4, virtual […]
The release of the SVT-AV1 3.1.0 library (Scalable Video Technology AV1) has been announced, featuring implementations of both the encoder and decoder for the AV1 video encoding format, utilizing the hardware parallelization extensions available in x86_64 and ARM processors for acceleration. The project was created by Intel in partnership with Netflix to achieve a performance level suitable for on-the-fly video transcoding and applications in […]
The release of the Slackel 8.0 distribution, built on the foundations of the Slackware and Salix projects, has been published and is fully compatible with the repositories provided in them. A key difference of Slackel is the use of a continuously updated Slackware-Current branch. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. The size of the boot image, capable of operating in Live mode, is 3.6 GB (i386 and x86_64). The new release is synchronized with the Slackware Current branch […]
To be included in the future kernel 6.17, optimizations and new features enhancing Btrfs performance have been proposed: Experimental support for large memory page folios. It is expected that this change will reduce overhead and improve the performance of several operations. Currently, the feature is technically ready for widespread use but has not undergone sufficient testing to declare it stable. Caching requests to […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 6.18 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been announced, developed as part of the Tor project. This distribution is based on the Debian 12 package base, comes with the GNOME 43 desktop, and is intended for anonymous web access using the Tor tools. By default, all connections except traffic through the Tor network are blocked by a packet filter. When saving user data […]
Administrators of the Python package repository PyPI (Python Package Index) have removed the block after it was discovered that 1,500 projects were created not by malicious users, but by a security team at VK, which owns the inbox.ru domain. Their goal was to prevent potential attacks on external libraries used within VK. VK representatives have apologized and assured that this will not happen again […]
The author of WiX, an open tool for creating installation packages for Windows, is developing a Maintenance Fee initiative to address the funding problem for maintaining open projects. The Maintenance Fee initiative allows for a small monthly fee (suggested at $10) to support the financial sustainability of projects, without compromising their openness or relying on funding models like Open Core, which imply […]