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The Serpent OS distribution has entered the alpha testing stage.

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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.

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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 release of the 4MLinux 47.0 distribution.

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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 […]

RSS Guard 4.8.0 and 4.8.1

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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 […]

The release of the free classic adventure game emulator ScummVM 2.9.0.

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After a year of development, the free cross-platform interpreter for classic adventures, ScummVM 2.9.0, has been released, which replaces executable files for games and allows many classic games to be run on platforms for which they were not originally intended. The project code is distributed under the GPLv3+ license. More than 340 adventures are supported, including games from LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, Revolution Software, Cyan, and Sierra, […]

postmarketOS 24.12 has been released, a Linux distribution for smartphones and mobile devices

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After 6 months of development, the project postmarketOS 24.12 has been released, advancing the Linux distribution for mobile devices, based on the Alpine Linux package base, the standard C library Musl, and the BusyBox utility set. The project's goal is to provide a Linux distribution for smartphones and tablets that is independent of the official firmware support lifecycle and not tied to typical solutions of the main industry players. Builds […]

The release of the Siduction 2024.1 distribution.

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The release of Siduction 2024.1 has been announced, a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on the Debian Sid (unstable) package base. Siduction split off from the Aptosid project in 2011 due to the desire to provide fresh versions of KDE from the experimental Qt-KDE repository. Aptosid, in turn, split from the Sidux distribution in 2010 due to developer conflicts. Builds based on KDE are available for download (3.5 […

Stellarium 24.4

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After three months of development, version 24.4 of the popular free planetarium Stellarium has been released. Written in C++ using the Qt framework (supporting versions 5 and 6) and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license. Major changes include: Improved rendering of deep space objects. Enhanced telescope control plugin; transitioning to use the INDI library v2.1.1. Updated sky cultures. Updated location list. Updated […

Release of the CachyOS 241221 distribution, featuring a kernel with additional optimizations.

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The release of the CachyOS 241221 distribution has been published, based on the Arch Linux package base and utilizing a continuous update delivery model. The distribution is notable for including optimizations to improve performance and providing the ability to install various desktop environments. In addition to the default KDE-based environment, GNOME, Xfce, i3WM, Wayfire, LXQT, OpenBox, Cinnamon, Cosmic, UKUI, LXDE, Mate, Budgie, Qtile, Hyprland are also available for installation […

The share of expenses by the Linux Foundation for kernel development decreased to 2.3% in 2024.

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The Linux Foundation has published its annual report. Over the year, the organization earned $292.2 million (compared to $263.6 million last year), but spent $299.7 million (compared to $269 million last year). The expenses for the development of the Linux kernel amounted to $6.8 million, which is one million dollars less than last year and $1.4 million less than the year before […

The FLAC compression format is officially established in RFC 9639.

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The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), responsible for the development of internet protocols and architecture, has finalized the RFC for the free audio codec FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), developed by the Xiph.Org community. The specification associated with the format has been published under RFC 9639. The RFC has been designated as a 'Proposed Standard' and describes the current state of the FLAC compression format, with the explicit addition of support for 32-bit audio […]

Changes to the Linux kernel 6.12 have led to issues with zRAM in some distributions

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Users of systems utilizing the zRAM mechanism for compressed swap storage in memory have encountered a boot failure after upgrading the Linux kernel to version 6.12. The issue appears in Gentoo, Void, and other distributions that support zRAM and offer packages with the new kernel versions. The failure is due to a change in kernel 6.12 that adds the ability to configure algorithms […]

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