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Holly 'Shaman' Million is stepping down as Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation after 9 months in the position.

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Today, the GNOME Foundation announces that Holly Million, also known as The Shaman Artist, is stepping down from her position as Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. Interim Executive Director Richard Littauer joined the Foundation this week. This arrangement ensures a smooth transition and continuity in the process of searching for a new Executive Director. Among Holly's achievements: a draft development plan for the upcoming […]

Release of ProteWine 1.0, a tool for running Windows applications on Linux

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The release of the ProteWine 1.0 tool has been published, designed to simplify the running of Windows applications in Linux-based environments, SteamDeck, and other portable consoles running Linux. ProteWine features a visual configurator that allows for the creation of Windows game ports to run on Linux using Wine and Proton packages. The tool is tied to the Steam client but only uses Steam Runtime 3 "Sniper" from it […]

GNOME Foundation's Executive Director Steps Down

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The GNOME Foundation, which oversees the development of the GNOME desktop environment, has announced a change in its Executive Director, who is responsible for managing and developing the GNOME Foundation as an organization, as well as interacting with the board of directors, the Advisory Board, and members of the organization. Since October of last year, the executive director position was held by Holly Million, who drew attention with her diverse […]

Release of NomadBSD 141 Distribution

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The release of the Live distribution NomadBSD 141R-20240711 has been announced, which is a FreeBSD edition adapted for use as a portable desktop bootable from a USB drive. The graphical environment is based on Xfce. DSBMD is used for mounting storage devices (supports file systems ISO-9660, FAT, NTFS, UFS, Ext2/3, Ext4, HFS+, exFAT, XFS, and Btrfs). The size of the boot image is 2.5 GB (i386, amd64). In the new release, the base environment […]

GNU nano 8.1 "The Day of the Bitter Cookie Pudding"

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On July 12, the release of version 8.1 "De dag van de bitterkoekjespudding" of the GNU nano text editor was announced. Change log: the idiom nano filename:linenumber is only understood when using the --colonparsing option (or set colonparsing); modern keybindings (with the --modernbindings or -/ option) are not activated if the name of the nano executable starts with 'e', as this contradicts the alternative Debian system; a new assignable […

The Panthor driver for Mali G610 GPU has ensured compatibility with OpenGL ES 3.1

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The Khronos consortium, which develops graphic standards, has recognized the full compatibility of the open driver Panthor with the OpenGL ES 3.1 specification. The driver successfully passed all tests from the CTS (Khronos Conformance Test Suite) and has been included in the list of certified drivers. Certification was completed for the Mali G610 GPU. The verification was performed on the Rock5b board (SoC RK3588) in a Wayland-based environment.

Release of Linux Kernel 6.10

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After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released kernel Linux 6.10. Notable changes include: the ntsync driver with synchronization primitives for Windows NT, DRM Panic components to implement a 'blue screen of death' equivalent, the termination of support for old Alpha CPUs, the ability to verify integrity in FUSE-based file systems, access restriction to ioctl through the Landlock mechanism, and a subsystem for profiling operations.

Release of Wine 9.13 and Wine staging 9.13

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.13 — has been published. Since the release of 9.12, 22 bug reports have been closed and 336 changes have been made. Key changes include: support for loading ODBC drivers compiled for Windows into databases has been added. Work continues to place data structures from the user32 library in shared memory. The rewriting of the engine used in the CMD.EXE command interpreter has also continued.

The Gemini neural network was caught scanning users' PDF files from Google Drive.

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The rapid development of neural networks has long raised concerns among experts regarding privacy when interacting with such algorithms. This week, there was further confirmation that these concerns are not unfounded. A user on the social media platform X, Kevin Bankster, pointed out that Google’s Gemini neural network automatically scans PDF files stored in Google Drive without obtaining […]

Rspamd 3.9 spam filtering system is available.

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The release of the spam filtering system Rspamd 3.9 has taken place, offering tools to evaluate messages based on various criteria, including rules, statistical methods, and blacklists, which are used to generate the final weight of messages for determining blocking decisions. Rspamd supports almost all the features implemented in SpamAssassin and includes several capabilities that allow for filtering mail at an average rate of 10 […]

Release of package manager Pacman 7.0

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The release of the package manager Pacman 7.0, used in the Arch Linux distribution, is now available. Key changes include: A new parameter DownloadUser added to the configuration, allowing privilege dropping during file download operations and saving the downloaded files in a temporary directory owned by the user specified in the directive. Isolation mechanisms in systems based on the Linux kernel prevent the process performing downloads from writing to […]

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