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Sway 1.10

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After a year of development, a major version of the Wayland compositor and tiling window manager Sway 1.10 has been released. New capabilities following the transition to Wlroots 0.18: the rendering code has been rewritten using the new scene graph API from Wlroots, enhancing performance; a recovery mechanism after GPU resets has been implemented; a command for applying ICC profiles to specific outputs has been added. New protocols: support for the tearing-control-v1 protocol has been added […]

Intel NPU driver for Linux is now available in the Snap Store

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Canonical has released the official Intel NPU driver for Linux in the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU driver in Snap format consolidates various components, including firmware, user-space driver, and compiler, along with an application for driver verification and the compiler. In other words, the driver includes everything needed to utilize AI inference accelerators embedded in the latest […]

X.Org Server 21.1.14 update addressing a vulnerability

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Corrective releases of X.Org Server 21.1.14 and the device-dependent X (DDX) component xwayland 24.1.4 have been published, providing the execution of X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. The new versions address a vulnerability (CVE-2024-9632) that can be exploited to escalate privileges in systems where the X server runs with root rights, as well as for remote code execution in configurations […]

AlmaLinux has become the 7th Linux distribution recommended by Microsoft for Azure

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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 […]

Fedora Linux 41 Release

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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. […]

Trinity R14.1.3

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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. […]

Firefox 132 Release

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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 was founded as a fork of the Flutter framework.

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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 new version of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution has transitioned to Wayland

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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 OSI organization has developed criteria for the openness of AI systems.

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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; […]

The implementation of the CRC32C algorithm is optimized in the Linux kernel

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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 releases Kitten 10 based on CentOS Stream

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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 […]

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