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Microsoft has announced the inclusion of AlmaLinux among the Linux distributions officially recommended for use in Azure cloud environments. The announcement also mentioned that over 60% of client systems in Azure use Linux in their environments (the 50% mark was surpassed in 2018). In addition to AlmaLinux, the list of approved distributions includes Ubuntu, Debian, Flatcar Container Linux, Oracle […]
The release of Fedora Linux 41 has been unveiled. Products prepared for download include Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and live builds provided as spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, Phosh, Miracle, LXQt, Budgie, and Sway. Builds are available for x86_64, Power64, and ARM64 (AArch64) architectures. […]
On October 27, the developers of the Trinity desktop environment, which continues the development of KDE3 and Qt3 as a separate fork TQt, announced the release of the maintenance update number 14.1.3. Trinity DE (TDE) is positioned as a free graphical environment with low system requirements and extensive customization options. Alongside the desktop environment, a comprehensive set of applications based on the TQt library is included. […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 132 has occurred, along with updates to previous long-term support branches — 115.17.0 and 128.4.0. The Firefox 133 branch has entered beta testing, with its release scheduled for November 26. Key innovations in Firefox 132 include enhanced tracking protection (ETP) in strict mode and the opening of pages in private mode […]
The Flock project has been introduced, creating a fork of the Flutter user interface framework, which is developed by Google under a BSD license. The fork was initiated by Matt Carroll, a former Google employee who was part of the Flutter development team. The fork's creation is attributed to the insufficient resources that Google invests in the project. The core development team is being expanded […]
The developers of the Raspberry Pi project have introduced a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution 2024-10-22 (Raspbian), based on the Debian 12 package base and the Linux 6.6 kernel. Approximately 35,000 packages are available in the repository. Three builds are prepared for download — a minimal version (438 MB) for server systems, a basic desktop version (1.1 GB), and a full version with an additional set of applications (2.9 […]
The Open Source Initiative (OSI), which verifies licenses for compliance with Open Source criteria, has approved the Open Source AI Definition v1.0 (OSAID) document, which outlines the definition of open AI. An AI system can be considered open if it meets the following criteria: Ability to be used for any purpose without requiring separate permission; Ability to study the workings of the system and inspect its components; […]
A patch with a redesigned implementation of the CRC32C checksum algorithm has been proposed for inclusion in the future Linux kernel 6.13 branch. The code implementation of CRC32C has been reduced by approximately 10 times (from 4546 to 418 bytes). When the retpoline protection against Spectre-class attacks is disabled, the performance increase with the new implementation reaches 11.8% on AMD Zen 2 processors, 6.4% — […]
Alma Linux has decided to clone CentOS Stream 10 and has introduced a derived distribution codenamed Kitten 10. Installation builds of the distribution have been created for the x86_64, x86_64_v2, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. Some differences between Kitten and CentOS Stream 10/RHEL 10 include: The decision to return Firefox and Thunderbird builds to the official repositories, from which they can be installed without using Flatpak; Provides […]
A minor release of the distribution 'Alt Workstation K 10.4' (p10 Aronia branch) has been released. This version runs on x86_64 architecture processors, is built on the 6.1 LTS kernel, and includes KDE Frameworks 5.116. Download the release image. New features: The weather forecast widget based on Yandex data supports operation through a proxy server. An online database of debugging information has been connected to the application crash report dialog. […]
A corrective release of the TileOS 1.2 "T-Rex" distribution is available, built on the Debian package base and featuring a desktop that uses tile window managers. TileOS aims to achieve the same goals as the Ubuntu Sway Remix distribution (developed by the same author), offering a ready-to-use interface that requires no additional configuration and is designed for both experienced Linux users and newcomers, […]
The developers of the Gentoo project have announced the implementation of support for the DTrace 2.0 toolkit in the distribution for dynamic tracing of the kernel and user-space applications, as well as for monitoring system behavior and diagnosing issues in real time with minimal performance impact. A key feature of the DTrace 2.0 branch is its use of the eBPF subsystem and built-in kernel tracing mechanisms, not […]