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Collabora will revive the development of Libsurvive for tracking movements in VR environments.

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Collabora has announced the continuation of the development of the libsurvive toolkit, which advances the open implementation of the Lighthouse motion tracking technology for virtual reality systems. The project had been in a state of stagnation since 2022. After several years of inactivity, the original maintainers of libsurvive decided to completely step away from development and transferred the rights to the GitHub project to Collabora. Two new […] have been appointed to oversee further development of the project.

Release of the OPNsense 25.1 firewall distribution

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The release of the OPNsense 25.1 distribution for creating firewalls has been published. This project, which split from pfSense in 2015, aims to develop a fully open distribution that can provide functionality on par with commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, this project is positioned as not controlled by a single company and is developed with the direct involvement of the community and […]

Ubuntu is transitioning to use Matrix for developer communication.

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Starting March 1, the Ubuntu project will officially adopt Matrix as its platform for developer communication. The previously used IRC communication channels have been classified as deprecated. In a poll conducted among developers working at Canonical, 10 participants voted in favor of the transition to Matrix, 1 voted against it, and 6 requested a public discussion. A discussion on the feasibility of migrating to […]

Release of the KaOS 2025.01 distribution.

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The release of KaOS 2025.01 has been published, a distribution with a continuous update model aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest KDE releases and applications that use Qt. Among its distinctive design features is a vertical panel positioned on the right side of the screen. The distribution is developed with consideration for Arch Linux but supports its own independent repository, containing over 1500 packages, and also offers […]

Release of the instant messaging client Pidgin 2.14.14

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The release of the Pidgin 2.14.14 instant messaging client has been announced, which supports networks such as XMPP, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, and Novell GroupWise. The graphical interface of Pidgin is built using the GTK library and supports tabs, a unified address book, and the ability to work simultaneously across different networks. Plugins can be used to extend functionality and add support for new protocols; for example, there is […]

The Linux kernel has reached 40 million lines of code.

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The Linux kernel has reached the milestone of 40 million lines of source code. Of the 40 million lines, 24 million pertain to driver code (for instance, the driver code for AMD GPUs accounts for about 5 million lines), while 4.4 million are specific to various hardware architectures (approximately 500 thousand lines are used to support the x86 architecture). From July 2024, the size of the kernel […]

Release of the Glibc 2.41 System Library

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After six months of development, the release of the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.41 has been published, fully complying with the ISO C11 and POSIX.1-2017 standards. This new release involved 79 developers. Notable improvements in Glibc 2.41 include: new functions sched_setattr and sched_getattr added for the Linux platform, which allow setting/reading task scheduler parameters. In […]

Release of the filtering proxy Privoxy 4.0.0

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After 22 years since the formation of the 3.0 branch in 2002, the release of the Privoxy 4.0.0 proxy server has occurred, aimed at creating personal web content filters. With Privoxy, users can cut out advertising inserts, discard tracking cookies, remove pop-up dialogs, block external JavaScript code, and make necessary arbitrary changes to web pages. Privoxy supports installation on local systems of individual […]

Thunderbird 134.0

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On January 27, 2025, a new version of the email client Thunderbird 134.0 was released. This update is available for testing and includes a number of new features and fixes. The main innovation is the implementation of a notification system for real-time alerts on the desktop in Thunderbird. Fixes: Corrected the display of notification messages in dark mode. Resolved inconsistencies […]

New Desktop Environment — Orbitiny (LQDE)

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A fundamentally new desktop environment, Orbitiny, has been introduced, developed from scratch using the Qt framework. This project aims to combine innovative ideas not previously seen in other DE/WM with classic elements such as taskbars, menus, and desktop icons. The Orbitiny project includes a set of custom utilities and applications such as a file manager, notification system, […]

Hyprland 0.47

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Hyprland is a Wayland compositor, a dynamic tiling window manager written in C++ and based on Aquamarine (up to version 0.42.0, it was based on wlroots). The developers also mentioned the release of hyprutils 0.50. Critical changes: master:always_center_master has been replaced with a more flexible master:slave_count_for_center_master (no primary/secondary!). In the new version: Experimental support for HDR and color management has been added. Fixed corner rounding for windows. In settings […]

Release of Hyprland 0.47, a composite server based on Wayland

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The Hyprland 0.47 composite server, using the Wayland protocol, has been introduced. The project focuses on a tiling window layout but also supports classic free placement of windows, grouping windows in tab form, pseudo-tiling mode, and full-screen expansion of windows. It provides opportunities for creating visually appealing interfaces: gradients in window frames, background blur, animation effects, and shadows. Functionality can be expanded with […]

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