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Alpha testing of the Debian 13 installer has begun

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The first alpha release of the installer for the upcoming significant Debian releaseā€”'Trixie'ā€”has been presented. The Debian 13 release is expected in the summer of 2025. Key changes: Support for the RISC-V architecture (riscv64) has been added. Support for the mipsel architecture has been discontinuedā€”the port for this architecture has been removed from the repositories. Mipsel was one of the oldest supported Debian ports, older than only the i386 processor port. The installer build for […]

Pre-release of the Pidgin 3.0 messenger

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The first experimental release of the Pidgin 3.0 (2.90) instant messaging client has been published, allowing simultaneous operation in multiple networks with different protocols and switching between chats using tabs. Plugins can be used to extend functionality and add support for new protocols. Builds will be prepared in Flatpak format (currently, only the source archive is available). The second test release of Pidgin […]

Stretchly 1.17

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Stretchly is a cross-platform application that reminds users from time to time to take a break while working on their computer. It is written in JavaScript (Electron) and distributed under the terms of the Simplified BSD-2 License. Features include the configuration of mini and long breaks, intervals between breaks; postponing breaks, as well as restricting them; complete skipping of breaks, and a strict mode that prohibits skipping; displaying useful tips or ideas […]

Collisions in Shortened Commit Identifiers in the Linux Kernel

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Kees Cook, former head system administrator of kernel.org and leader of the Ubuntu Security Team, demonstrated the ability to create a commit whose shortened identifier matches a commit previously added to the Linux kernel. The experiment was conducted as a confirmation of the feasibility of transitioning to 16-character shortened commit identifiers in the Linux kernel, which had been discussed in the kernel developers' mailing list but was not approved by Linus […]

The mobile platform LineageOS 22, based on Android 15, has been released

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The release of the mobile platform LineageOS 22.1, based on the Android 15 codebase, has been presented. It is noted that the LineageOS 22 branch has achieved parity in functionality and stability with branch 21 and has been recognized as ready for the first release. Builds have been prepared for 132 device models (23 more devices than in LineageOS 21). LineageOS can also be run in the Android Emulator […]

Amarok 3.2 "Punkadiddle"

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On December 29, 2024, the next version of the Amarok audio player from the KDE project was released. This version added support for builds with Qt6 (although the use of Qt5 is still recommended), filtering collections by missing/empty tags, as well as default display of the track context applet. Several bugs have been fixed. Source: linux.org.ru

Cloudflare has open-sourced h3i, a utility for testing HTTP/3

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Cloudflare has announced the release of the open-source h3i toolkit, which includes a command-line utility and a library for low-level testing and debugging of HTTP/3 server implementations. The utility can be used to evaluate the behavior of HTTP/3 servers, determine compliance with specification requirements, and test responses to edge cases. The utility's code is written in Rust and is licensed under the BSD license. […]

The beta release of the Chimera distribution, combining the Linux kernel with the FreeBSD environment.

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After three years of development and a year and a half since the first alpha version was released, the Chimera Linux distribution has entered the beta testing phase. This distribution is notable for its use of the Linux kernel combined with utilities from FreeBSD, the dinit system manager, and the Musl standard C library. The build is handled by the Clang compiler. The project is founded by Nina Kolesa from Igalia, who is involved […]

termbox2 2.5.0

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On December 28, after more than two years of hiatus, version 2.5.0 of the TUI creation library termbox2, written in C and distributed under the MIT license, was released. Compared to the original termbox, the simple API and lack of dependencies apart from libc have been preserved, but new features include: stricter error checking; more efficient parsing of escape sequences; optional support for 32-bit color; improved Unicode grapheme support; […]

xxHash 0.8.3

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After more than a year of development, version 0.8.3 of the xxHash library has been released, implementing high-performance non-cryptographic hash algorithms. The library and command-line utility are written in C and distributed under the BSD 2 license. What's new: A bug in the XXH3_128bits_withSecretandSeed() function has been fixed, which caused incorrect results in some cases. An optimized implementation for LoongArch SX has been added. Now, the xxhsum command-line utility automatically detects and […]

Ghostty 1.0 šŸ‘»

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Recently, the first version of Ghostty was released, one of the fastest terminal emulators available. Reddit and many related channels on YouTube have already dubbed it the best. The project has garnered over 15k ā­ on GitHub in a short time. Features: Multi-platform. Written in the increasingly popular programming language Zig. Utilizes a native UI (requires GTK 4 on Linux) and GPU acceleration. […]

Toolkit for creating patches for firmware of TI CC13XX and CC26XX chips with BLE support

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At the conference, a presentation was made detailing the reverse engineering of the firmware and command system of TI SimpleLink chips (CC13XX and CC26XX) with BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) support, which enabled the implementation of an FM receiver. An analog transmitter may not be feasible since the chips are strictly digital. The chips utilize DSP, and the main ARM Cortex core controls the radio core (RF Core) Arm Cortex-M0, which provides […]

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