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The release of the command-line news feed reader Newsraft 0.30 has occurred, supporting RSS and Atom formats. Newsraft is designed to aggregate content from various blogs and platforms and view it through a single interface built on the ncurses library. The project is inspired by the Newsboat application but is an independent development, presented as a lightweight alternative. The aim of the project is to provide the most […]
The non-profit organization OpenSearch Software Foundation, controlled by the Linux Foundation, has released version 3.0 of the OpenSearch project, which develops a fork of the Elasticsearch data search, analysis, and storage platform and the Kibana web interface. Companies like Amazon, SAP, Uber, Aryn, Atlassian, Canonical, DigitalOcean, and NetAp are participating in the development of the fork. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The fork was created in 2021 as a […]
The developers of the Raspberry Pi project have introduced a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution 2025-05-06 (Raspbian), based on the Debian 12 package base and Linux kernel 6.12. Approximately 35,000 packages are available in the repository. The desktop environment is based on the composite server labwc, utilizing the wlroots library from the Sway project. Three builds have been prepared for download—a minimal build (494 MB) for server […]
The release of the OmniOS Community Edition r151054 distribution has been published, based on the developments of the Illumos project, which continues to advance the kernel, networking stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and a basic set of system utilities from OpenSolaris. OmniOS is notable for providing support for the bhyve and KVM hypervisors, the Crossbow virtual network stack, the ZFS file system, and the tools for launching lightweight Linux containers. The distribution can be used to build scalable web systems, virtualization […]
The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.2.1 has been published, designed for fast disk cloning, which copies only the used blocks. The tasks performed by this distribution are similar to the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 484MB (amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, udpcast in its operation. Booting from […]
The Hyprland 0.49 composite server is now available, utilizing the Wayland protocol. The project focuses on a tiling window layout but also supports traditional floating window arrangements, tabbed window grouping, a pseudo-tiling mode, and full-screen window expansion. It provides opportunities for creating visually appealing interfaces with window frame gradients, background blur, animation effects, and shadows. Features can be extended by connecting […]
The release of the lightweight distribution Puzzle 2502 has been published, offering a preconfigured and ready-to-use desktop environment LWDE (Lightweight Wayland Desktop Environment) based on the Labwc composite server. The distribution is built on the Arch Linux package base using its proprietary repository. The project may be useful for enthusiasts looking to create their environment to transition from LXDE to setups using Wayland. For downloading, prepare […]
Suspicious activity has been identified in the iVentoy toolkit, used for network booting and installing arbitrary operating systems. When booting Windows from the network, the toolkit performed a substitution in the system for the binary driver httpdisk.sys and installed its self-signed certificate into the system's root certificate store, which is used to attest to the driver with a digital signature. 31 out of 70 antivirus packages checked […]
After a year of development, the Nmap 7.96 network security scanner has been released, designed for conducting network audits and identifying active network services. The project code is provided under the NPSL (Nmap Public Source License), based on the GPLv2 license, which is supplemented by recommendations (not requirements) for using the program with OEM licensing and purchasing a commercial license if the manufacturer does not wish to open their product's source code […]
Canonical plans to use an alternative to the sudo utility by default in the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release, developed by the sudo-rs project and written in Rust. In March, a similar decision was made regarding the replacement of GNU Coreutils utilities with the uutils toolkit. Initiatives are being considered to replace zlib and ntpd with zlib-rs and ntpd-rs, as well as to involve Sequoia […]
Microsoft has announced the formation of official builds with Fedora Linux for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). At the end of April, similar builds began to be published for Arch Linux and AlmaLinux. Builds for Arch Linux are planned to be updated monthly, while for the others, updates will occur as new releases are made. Builds with Fedora, AlmaLinux, and Arch Linux are included […]
The release of Node.js 24.0.0 has taken place, a platform for running network applications in JavaScript. Node.js 24.0 is classified under the Long-Term Support branches, but this status will be assigned only in October, after stabilization is completed. Support for Node.js 24.x will continue until April 30, 2028. Maintenance for the previous LTS branch, Node.js 22.x, will last until April 2027, while the prior LTS branch […]