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The promotion of the Nova driver for NVIDIA GPUs in the Linux kernel has begun.

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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 […]

Release of the free publishing package Scribus 1.7.0

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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. […]

Linux loses its maintainer for wireless network drivers.

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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 […]

GNOME has switched to using the Adwaita Sans font by default.

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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 is developing the capability to run graphical Linux applications in Android 16.

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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 […]

Worker 5.2.0 and 5.2.1

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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 […]

PyPI now allows packages to be moved to the archive

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The Python Package Index (PyPI) has introduced support for marking projects as archived. Maintainers can now archive a project to inform users that it will no longer receive updates. This will enable users to make more informed decisions about which packages their software depends on, especially regarding the security of the dependency chain […]

OpenVox is now available, a fork of the Puppet configuration management system

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The first release of the OpenVox project has been introduced, which develops a fork of the Puppet configuration automation system, allowing for administration automation across a group of servers and organizing centralized execution of tasks such as user management, package installation, and configuration updates. It is noted that the first release OpenVox 8.11 is equivalent to the similar version of Puppet and can be used as a transparent replacement. The project code is written in Ruby and […]

Thunderbird transitions to monthly significant release cycles

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The developers of the Thunderbird email client have announced a change in their model for producing significant releases. Instead of the current scheme, where a significant release is made once a year and based on the ESR branches of Firefox, starting March 2025, significant releases will be published monthly and based on the releases of Firefox with regular maintenance duration. Since October last year, Thunderbird […]

The twenty-seventh alpha version of the open game 0 A.D. is now available.

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After two and a half years of development, the twenty-seventh alpha release of the free game 0 A.D., featuring real-time strategy reminiscent of the Age of Empires series, has been presented. Like all previous releases, the new version is marked 'alpha', but the developers have decided to break from this tradition, and the next update will be labeled '0 A.D. Release 28'. The alpha version tag […]

The PyPI catalog has implemented the ability to mark projects as archived.

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The developers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository have announced the option to assign archived status to projects, which prohibits any updates from being published. The archive project page displays a warning that the maintainer will no longer be releasing new updates. For users, this label may signal not to use the given package, as no further […]

The Linux kernel has surpassed 40 million lines of code.

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The number of lines in the Linux kernel has crossed the milestone of 40 million, with the last 20 million accumulated over the past 10 years (since 2015). Proof from the terminal where this number was recorded. Let’s congratulate the developers on this anniversary! %) Source: linux.org.ru

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