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A new version of MiniOS 4 has been released, a lightweight and modular Linux distribution designed for use on removable media. MiniOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution for removable drives, characterized by its modularity and flexibility. It allows users to easily customize the system to their needs and use it on various devices. MiniOS supports the XFCE desktop environment and is actively developed with […]
The Window Maker Live 12.8 distribution has been released, offering a desktop environment based on the Window Maker 0.96 window manager with a NEXTSTEP-style interface. It includes components from GNUstep, organized into a separate GNUstep Apps submenu. Some applications have been rebuilt using GNUstep libraries, for example, the text editor Emacs 29.4 is built with them. An email client is provided for managing email […]
The developers of the Arch Linux distribution have announced that they have received an investment of €562,000 from the STF (Sovereign Tech Fund), established in Germany to stimulate the development of open digital infrastructure and ecosystems with open source. The fund is backed by resources provided by the German Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection and is overseen by the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovations SPRIND. The funds are allocated for […]
Version 4.0.0 of MiniOS is available, a lightweight modular live Linux distribution designed for use on removable USB drives. The key feature of MiniOS is its modular architecture, allowing for the creation of specialized configurations by excluding unnecessary components and adding needed ones, tailored to specific tasks. It is based on the Debian 12 package base, with the default graphical environment based on Xfce. Among the changes in […]
The system manager GNU Shepherd 1.0.0 (formerly dmd) has been introduced, combining the capabilities of an initialization system with tools for managing system services. It is noted that the designation of version 1.0 after 21 years of development marks the project’s readiness and its compliance with the functional requirements of modern initialization systems and service managers. The project is being developed by the developers of the GNU Guix System as an alternative to the initialization system […]
The Apache Software Foundation has taken under its wing the Cloudberry project, which develops a fork of the distributed database Greenplum, which after VMware's acquisition by Broadcom was turned into a closed product. The Cloudberry project was created by the original developers of Greenplum and is based on the latest version of Greenplum with open source code. After the fork, the project was adapted for use with the latest releases of PostgreSQL and enhanced […]
A group of developers from the Haiku OS has prepared and published the first public port of the Mozilla Firefox browser. Joint efforts during the porting process led to changes in both the core system and other used ports, such as the Wayland layer for Haiku, developed by x512. Due to a lack of response from Mozilla, which prohibits the use of its trademarks […]
The Let’s Encrypt non-profit certificate authority, community-controlled and offering certificates free of charge to anyone, has decided to discontinue support for the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP), used for checking certificate revocation. Instead of OCSP, it is recommended to use Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL), published by Let’s Encrypt starting in 2022. On May 7, 2025, Let’s Encrypt […]
System76, the company behind the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has introduced the fourth alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment, written in Rust (not to be confused with the old COSMIC, which was based on GNOME Shell). ISO images with the latest version of COSMIC have been made available for testing, built on top of the alpha builds for the upcoming Pop!_OS 24.04 release for systems with NVIDIA (3 GB) and Intel/AMD (2.6 GB) GPUs. Also […]
Critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-54143) have been identified in the ASU (Attended SysUpgrade) toolkit developed by the OpenWrt project, which could compromise build artifacts distributed via the sysupgrade.openwrt.org service or third-party ASU servers, enabling attackers to install modified firmware images on user systems that use the "attended upgrade" mode through the web interface selector.openwrt.org or the command-line attended.sysupgrade tool. An attacker needs only to send […]
Microsoft has released an update for Azure Linux distribution 3.0.20241203. This distribution is being developed as a universal base platform for Linux environments used in cloud infrastructure, edge systems, and various Microsoft services. The project's proprietary developments are distributed under the MIT license. Package builds are created for aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. The installation image size is 750 MB. Among the changes in the new version: The iptables packet filter has been transitioned […]
The release of Manjaro Linux 24.2 has been published, built on the Arch Linux base and targeted at beginner users. This distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection, and installation of the necessary drivers for operation. Manjaro is available as live images with graphical environments KDE (3.9 GB), GNOME (3.8 GB), and Xfce (3.5 GB), built […]
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