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In the codebase for the scheduled release of Firefox 131 on October 1, support for the Text Fragments mechanism is enabled by default, allowing the creation of external links to navigate to specific positions in the text on a page without adding anchors. <a name> and without relying on element IDs. The position is determined using the built-in functionality within the link [...].
The release of 4MLinux 46.0 is now available, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of other projects and utilizes a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be used not only as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks but also as a recovery system and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and [...])
Two and a half years after the last significant release, the full-screen console window manager (terminal multiplexer) GNU screen 5.0.0 has been released, allowing users to organize a multi-window interface in the console using a single physical terminal to work with multiple applications, each assigned its own virtual terminal, which remains active across different user sessions. Among the changes: The authentication mechanism has been rewritten. To enable authentication and [...]
Fooyin is an audio player created in Qt6 in the style of Foobar2000. Currently, it is natively available only on Linux. The player is licensed under GNU GPL 3. Fooyin offers a wide range of customization options for managing and playing your music collection. It can be extended with plugins and the FooScript language. Sound playback is supported by FFmpeg along with several output options, [...]
Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn reported the migration of the majority of its servers, virtual machines, and containers from CentOS to the Azure Linux distribution. In addition to addressing the issue of the discontinued support for the CentOS 7 branch during the migration, security improvements to the infrastructure, cost reductions, enhanced flexibility in configuration, and simplification of the deployment of new capabilities based on [...].
Microsoft has announced the transfer of the Mono project, which develops an alternative implementation of the .NET platform, to the WineHQ organization, which develops an open implementation of the Win32 API. Microsoft obtained the Mono project after acquiring Xamarin in 2016. The Mono platform was intended to develop tools for mobile application development in C# using .NET technologies, but […]
After 11 months of development, the release of VeraCrypt 1.26.14 has been published, which develops a fork of the TrueCrypt disk encryption system that has ceased to exist. VeraCrypt is notable for replacing the RIPEMD-160 algorithm used in TrueCrypt with SHA-512 and SHA-256, increasing the number of hashing iterations, simplifying the build process for Linux and macOS, and addressing problems identified during the TrueCrypt source audit. The code developed by VeraCrypt […]
The developers of the instant messaging client Pidgin, which supports networks like Jabber/XMPP, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr, have announced the detection of malicious code in the ss-otr (ScreenShareOTR) plugin, present in the community-developed plugin directory. The plugin was uploaded to the directory on July 6, distributed only in binary form, and added functionality to Pidgin […]
After more than 4 years of development, the release of the free Calligra 4.0 office suite has been published. It was created in 2010 as a result of the restructuring of the KOffice project. The office suite is built on KDE technologies and applies a unified system of embedded objects for all its applications. The components responsible for functionality and user interface are separated, allowing the creation of both lightweight mobile […]
Theo de Raadt announced that the OpenBSD project has reached a milestone where the entire codebase imported in 1995 has been modified—there are no original files left unchanged or not deleted. The last unmodified component was the quiz game, which recently replaced the knowledge check related to Greece with […]
Google has released version 128 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, the stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which forms the basis of Chrome, is also available. Chrome differs from Chromium by the use of Google logos, a crash notification system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, always-on Sandbox isolation, provision of keys for Google API, and transmission of […]
Creating a monolithic kernel in 1991 was a fundamental mistake. Thank your lucky stars that you're not my student: I wouldn't give a high grade for such a design. Professor Andrew Tanenbaum. Original message in the mailing list: I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, […]