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The release of the GNU Binutils 2.44 utility suite has been published, which includes programs such as GNU linker, GNU assembler, nm, objdump, dlltool, readelf, size, strings, and strip. The project is also developing the debuginfod service for dynamic loading of debug symbols from an external server. In the new version: Support for extended instructions has been added in GNU assembler: x86_64: AVX10.2, SM4 AVX10.2, AMX-AVX512, […]
On January 23, after five months of development, the release of the 4.8.33 console file manager Midnight Commander, written in C and distributed under the GNU GPL 3 license, took place. The list of major changes: Starting with this release, the source code will utilize features of the C99 standard, requiring a compiler that supports this standard to build MC. The minimum required for […]
The Linux Foundation has published an analysis of the applicability of sanctions restrictions to open source, summarized the emerging risks, and provided recommendations for those overseeing open projects involving individuals affected by sanctions. The Linux Foundation continues to advocate for international collaboration and an open ecosystem for all, regardless of nationality, country of residence, political system, cultural values, and ideology. According to […]
On January 20, the release of 1.23 (in honor of Pirahna poodle from the Monkey Island game series) of the Clifm console file manager, written in C and distributed under the GNU GPL 2.0 license, took place. Clifm is a file manager with a text interface, but created not using TUI design principles like the excellent Midnight Commander and Ranger, but rather with […]
The GTK library developers announced the deprecation of the X11 protocol backend and their intention to discontinue support for X11 in the GTK 5 branch. Despite its deprecated status, support for X11 systems will be maintained in the GTK 4 branch. The desire to eliminate the X11 backend is explained by the halt in the development of the X11 protocol and issues with maintenance — the backend is supported by […]
The release of Regolith Desktop 3.2 has been published, developed by the creators of the same-name Linux distribution. Regolith is based on GNOME session management technologies, the i3 window manager, the Picom and Sway compositors, the i3bar panel, the rofication notification system, the i3status-rs status line, and the ilia application launcher interface. The project’s developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project is positioned as a modern desktop environment developed […]
Engineers from Red Hat have proposed the inclusion of the first set of patches implementing the Nova driver in the Linux kernel. The driver is intended for use with NVIDIA GPUs equipped with GSP firmware, which has been featured starting with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2000 series based on the Turing microarchitecture. In such GPUs, initialization and management operations are implemented in firmware and executed by a separate microcontroller […]
The release of the free document layout package Scribus 1.7.0 has been announced. The package provides tools for professional layout of printed materials, includes tools for PDF generation, and supports working with separate color profiles, CMYK, spot colors, and ICC. The program is written using the Qt toolkit and is released under the GPLv2+ license. Ready binary builds are prepared for Linux (AppImage), macOS, and Windows. […]
Kalle Valo, the only maintainer of wireless network drivers in Linux, has announced his departure from this position. Additionally, he is also leaving his roles as a co-maintainer for Qualcomm ATH12K, ATH11K, ATH10K drivers and the Atheros ATH Generic Utilities. Support for Qualcomm ATH12K, ATH11K, ATH10K, and Atheros ATH utilities will continue under Jeff Johnson […]
A change has been accepted into the codebase used for the upcoming GNOME 48 release, transitioning the desktop environment to use the Adwaita Sans font by default. Since 2010, the Cantarell font has been used in GNOME, but the need for a replacement arose due to stagnation in development and maintenance issues. The new font, Adwaita Sans, is based on the Inter font, specifically designed for use […]
Google has expanded the capabilities of the Terminal application, allowing it to launch a terminal emulator with access to a full Linux environment running in a virtual machine. During the development of the Android 16 branch, support for launching graphical applications built for Linux has been added to Terminal. The virtual machine for Linux applications has implemented hardware graphics acceleration tools. A compositor server, Weston, has been included to build the graphical environment […]
On January 11 and 22, after more than six months of development, versions 5.2.0 and 5.2.1 of the two-panel file manager Worker, written in C++ using its own GUI library (X11 only), were released under the GNU GPL 2 license. Worker offers a vast array of settings, both for appearance and functionality, which can be extended with the built-in interpreter […]