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A new release of the APT 2.9.20 (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit has been published. The 2.9.x branch is experimental and is used for developing features for the upcoming stable version APT 3.0, which will be integrated into Debian Testing after stabilization and will be included in the next major Debian release, as well as added to the Ubuntu package repository. Changes since the last announcement: APT 2.9.16: […]
Hello, LOR! The beta version of the quite interesting distribution Chimera Linux has been released. Unlike other distributions, Chimera is distinguished by the absence of GNU utilities and libraries and the use of code from BSD systems. It is built using LLVM and musl with the mimalloc allocator from Microsoft. Dinit serves as the initialization system. The default desktop environment is GNOME. The package manager for the distribution is APK (from […]
The release of the IvorySQL 4.0 project has been published, developing an edition of PostgreSQL that ensures compatibility with applications designed for Oracle DBMS. IvorySQL claims to work as a transparent replacement for the latest version of PostgreSQL, differing primarily by the addition of the 'compatible_db' setting, which includes compatibility mode with Oracle. The code is written in C and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. […]
The release of the free PaaS platform Cozystack 0.21.0, built on Kubernetes, is now available. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform installs directly on servers and covers all aspects of infrastructure preparation for providing managed services. Cozystack allows for running and providing Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
The developers of the Bottles program, which offers an interface to simplify the installation, configuration, and running of Windows applications on Linux, have published information about the development of the Bottles Next initiative, aimed at a complete revamp of the project's architecture and codebase. It is noted that the existing monolithic application written in Python with a GTK interface does not allow for many ideas to be implemented, such as macOS support, limits capabilities, and leads to […]
After a year of development, the release of the Arcan 0.7 desktop engine has been published, which combines a display server, multimedia framework, and game engine for processing 3D graphics. Arcan can be used to create various graphical systems – from user interfaces for embedded applications to standalone desktop environments. Among other things, the three-dimensional workspace Safespaces for virtual reality systems is built on Arcan and […]
The ALT Workstation 11.0 alpha version for p11 (Salvia) is available. Download the x86_64 AArch64 image. Innovations The image is built on kernels 6.12 and 6.6 (only on AArch64). It uses the GNOME 47.2 desktop environment, libadwaita 1.4.2, GTK4 4.16.7. Package selection during installation occurs before disk partitioning. Installation groups have been revamped. Source: linux.org.ru
The release of the Ghostty 1.0.0 terminal emulator has been announced, utilizing GPU acceleration for rendering content. The project is developed by Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of projects such as Vagrant and Terraform. The author of Ghostty aims to embody three qualities in the new terminal emulator — high performance, extensive functionality, and an interface that looks native to each supported platform. The project code is written […]
The first alpha release of the SerpentOS distribution has been introduced, featuring its own package manager moss and an atomic update model. The developers present Serpent OS as the next step in the evolution of Linux distributions. The project is being developed by the original team behind the Solus distribution, which includes Ikey Doherty — the creator of Solus, and Joshua Strobl — a key developer of the desktop environment […]
The first testing release of the FixBrowser web browser has been published, designed for low resource consumption and privacy. The browser is developed from scratch and fundamentally does not support JavaScript execution, yet it allows the use of websites relying on JavaScript. The code is written in C and FixScript, and is distributed under the ZLIB license. Ready builds have been created for Linux (GTK2) and Windows. Plans are in place for […]
The 4MLinux 47.0 release is now available, a minimalist user distribution that is not a derivative of other projects and utilizes 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 from failures and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB […]
On December 19 and 20, releases 4.8.0 and 4.8.1 of the cross-platform RSS client, podcast player, and Gemini protocol client RSS Guard were made, written in C++ using the Qt framework (version 5 or 6) and distributed under the GPL 3.0 license. Change log: Added support for the Gemini protocol and gemtext markup format. Added the ability to pause feed retrieval. Links to […]