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The release of 4MLinux 48.0 is now available, a minimalist user distribution that is not a derivative of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on the JWM window manager. 4MLinux can be used both as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, as well as a system for recovery after failures and a platform for running mini-servers. Live images are prepared for download […]
The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.44 has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that complement the base Wayland protocol and provide the necessary capabilities for building composite servers and user environments. In Wayland-Protocols 1.44, a new protocol, color-representation-v1, has been introduced to define the color representation of a Wayland surface. Using the new protocol, clients can transmit metadata required to determine transparency, color model, sub-sampling, and quantization range, […]
The release of the free UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 7.7 has been presented. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the NetBSD developers, which resulted in Theo being denied access to the NetBSD CVS repository. After that, Theo de Raadt and a group of like-minded individuals created a new open-source project based on the source tree of NetBSD […]
The University of California, Berkeley has published the Berkeley Humanoid Lite project, which is a culmination of research and experiments in creating easy-to-manufacture humanoid robots. The robot is built using open-source software and evolves in accordance with the Open Hardware concept. Its hardware is composed of standard components available for sale and parts made using a 3D printer. Models of the machine have been released […]
System76, the developer of the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released the seventh alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust (not to be confused with the old COSMIC, which was based on GNOME Shell). ISO images with the latest version of COSMIC have been provided for testing, built on top of the alpha builds for the upcoming release of Pop!_OS 24.04 for systems with NVIDIA (3.3 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.9 GB) GPUs. Also […]
The MinC project (MinC Is Not Cygwin) is developing a minimalist core (which occupies 285Kb) and a toolset based on MinGW, allowing the rebuild and execution of standard OpenBSD utilities in Windows, similar to how the Cygwin package allows the use of GNU utilities in Windows. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the BSD license. It supports operation in versions of Windows starting […]
After a year of development, the release of the free GCC 15.1 compiler suite has been published, the first significant release in the new GCC 15.x branch. According to the version numbering scheme, version 15.0 was used during development, and shortly before the release of GCC 15.1, the GCC 16.0 branch was already forked, which will form the basis for the next significant release, GCC 16.1. Key changes: When compiling […]
Microsoft has made a change in the binary builds of the Microsoft C/C++ Extension (ms-vscode.cpptools) that blocks operation in forks of the open-source code editor VS Code (Visual Studio Code). The extension is proprietary and is used to add C/C++ language support to VS Code. After updating to version 1.24.5, users of the VS Codium and Cursor editors, based on VS Code, encountered […]
The APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) registrar has announced a milestone of 50% IPv6 adoption in the Asia-Pacific region. This mark has been reached 25 years after the start of IPv6 implementation by APNIC. The degree of IPv6 adoption by other registrars is as follows: ARIN (North America) – 52%, LACNIC (Latin America) – 39%, RIPE (Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia) – 28%, AFRINIC (Africa) – […]
The first version of the Archify script is now available, allowing users to switch to Arch Linux from other distributions while preserving users, the contents of the /home directory, and mount points. Archify is a fork of the TurboArch script, enhancing its functionality. The script provides the following configuration options for the new system: preserving users or adding a single root user with a specified password; installing desktop environments or window managers, video drivers, and […]
The release of the libmdbx 0.13.6 (MDBX) library has been announced, featuring a high-performance compact embedded key-value database. The libmdbx code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. All current operating systems and architectures are supported, including the Russian Elbrus 2000. A comprehensive API for C++ is available for libmdbx, along with community-supported bindings for languages such as Rust, Haskell, Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Go, Nim, […]
Researchers from ARMO have demonstrated the ability to create rootkits that do not use specific system calls to perform typical operations like reading/writing files and receiving commands from an external server. Instead of system calls for network and file operations, it is proposed to use the asynchronous I/O interface io_uring, supported since Linux kernel 5.1. The essence of the method is that instead of separate […]