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Another discussion between Linus Torvalds and Kent Overstreet, the author of Bcachefs, concluded with Linus expressing his willingness to exclude the Bcachefs code from the Linux 6.17 kernel. Linus accepted changes to Bcachefs into the 6.16 kernel, which became the subject of further dissatisfaction with Kent's actions. Linus wrote: I believe our paths will diverge in the 6.17 merge window. You […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.11 has been published. Since the release of 10.10, 25 bug reports have been closed and 292 changes have been made. The most significant changes include preparation for adding support for the NTSync driver introduced in the Linux kernel 6.14, which implements the character device /dev/ntsync and a set of synchronization primitives used in the Windows NT kernel. The implementation of such […]
The release of the general-purpose programming language Rust 1.88, originally based on the Mozilla project but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit Rust Foundation, has been announced. The language focuses on safe memory management and provides means for achieving high task parallelism, while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and support of the standard library). […]
The Cosmoe GUI library has been introduced, supporting operation in Linux environments based on Wayland. Cosmoe allows the creation of graphical interface programs in C++, using an API styled after the class library of the BeOS operating system for interface design. The library enables Linux programs that utilize the BeOS API to run directly. The project code is distributed under the MIT license. Cosmoe offers a set of classes […]
Canonical has published its financial report for 2024, revealing that last year's revenue amounted to $291 million. In comparison, 2023 saw $251 million, 2022 had $205 million, and 2013 reported $84 million. The company's gross profit for 2024 was $258.3 million (compared to $218.5 million in 2023) […]
The Eclipse community has introduced the Jakarta EE 11 platform. Jakarta EE succeeded Java EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition) after the specifications, TCK, and reference implementation development processes were transferred to the Eclipse Foundation, a non-profit organization. The platform continued to evolve under its new name, as Oracle handed over only the technologies and project management, but did not transfer the rights […]
The release of the specialized Tails 6.17 distribution (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), developed as part of the Tor project, has been announced. The distribution is based on the Debian 12 package base, comes with the GNOME 43 desktop, and is designed for anonymous internet access using Tor tools. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by default by a packet filter. User data […]
Oracle has released the second beta of the VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization system. The release is expected this summer. Builds with the second beta of VirtualBox 7.2 have been prepared for RHEL 8/9/10, Fedora 36/40, openSUSE 15.6, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04/24.04/24.10, Debian 11/12, macOS, and Windows. The project's code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. The main changes compared to the first beta version include: On systems using Windows […]
The release of Deepin 25, which develops its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and around 40 user applications, including the Deepin Music player, Deepin Movie video player, installer, and Deepin Store software center, has been announced. The project was started by a group of developers in China but has transformed into an international project and supports the Russian language. The distribution repository includes over 8000 […]
Oracle has released Oracle Linux 10, built on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and fully binary compatible with it. Unrestricted installation ISO images of sizes 8.5 GB and 1.1 GB are offered for download, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. Oracle Linux 10 provides unlimited and free access to the yum repository with […]
The ISC consortium has released version 3.0 of the DHCP server Kea, which replaces the classic ISC DHCP. Kea 3.0 is noted as the first release that will have a long-term support (LTS) cycle — updates will be provided for three years. New significant stable releases are planned to be formed every six months instead of annually. The source code of the project is distributed under the license […]
The release of the mmc-utils 1.0 utility set, designed for low-level configuration of MMC, eMMC, and SD memory cards from user space, has been published. This release is noted as the first official release (the project has been in development since 2012). The code is written in C and distributed under the GPLv2 license. The utilities can be used to read the CSD registers (card parameters), CID (card identifier), and SCR (configuration […]