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The release of the window manager IceWM 3.6.0

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The release of the lightweight window manager IceWM 3.6.0 is now available. IceWM offers full control through keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, task panels, and application menus, and tabs can be used to group windows. The window manager is configured through a fairly simple configuration file, and theme customization is possible. Window grouping in the form of tabs is supported. Built-in applets for monitoring CPU, memory, and traffic are available. […]

Release of Python library for scientific computing NumPy 2.0.0

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The release of the Python library for scientific computing, NumPy 2.0.0, which focuses on working with multidimensional arrays and matrices, is now available. It also provides a large collection of functions implementing various algorithms related to matrix operations. NumPy is one of the most in-demand libraries used for scientific calculations. The project's code is written in Python, with optimizations in C, and is distributed […]

Fedora 41 plans to add AI tools and expand support for NVIDIA GPUs.

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Christian Schaller, head of the Fedora Desktop Team and the desktop systems development group at Red Hat, discussed some features planned for inclusion in the upcoming release of Fedora Workstation: The toolkit Instructlab is planned to be included, which enables quick installation of the large language model Granite, open-sourced by IBM under the Apache 2.0 license, which covers 7 billion parameters and […]

Wine 9.11 Release

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.11, has been made. Since the release of 9.10, 27 bug reports have been closed and 251 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Support for exception handling on ARM platforms has been added to the msvcrt library for C++. Improvements to DPI Awareness mode have continued for better display of applications on high-density screens, […]

Distribution releases for creating firewalls IPFire 2.29 Core 186 and NethSecurity 8.0.

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A release of the distribution for creating routers and firewalls, IPFire 2.29 Core 186, has been published. IPFire features a simple installation process and an intuitive web interface filled with informative graphs for configuration. The size of the installation ISO image is 421 MB (x86_64, AArch64). The system is modular: in addition to basic packet filtering and traffic management functions, modules are available for IPFire to implement prevention systems […]

SELKS 10 is available, a distribution for creating intrusion detection systems

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Stamus Networks has announced the release of the specialized distribution SELKS 10, designed for deploying intrusion detection and prevention systems, as well as organizing responses to identified threats and monitoring network security. It provides users with a fully ready-to-use network security management solution that can be utilized immediately after download. The distribution supports operation in Live mode and launching in virtualization environments or […]

Rust 1.79 has been released. A consortium has been created for developing highly reliable systems in Rust.

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The release of the general-purpose programming language Rust 1.79 has been published, originally based on the Mozilla project, but now developed under the aegis of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language is focused on safe memory handling and provides means for achieving high task parallelism while avoiding the use of garbage collectors and a runtime (the runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). […]

Release of web browser Chrome 126 with integrated OCR engine

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Google has released version 126 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, the presence of a notification system in case of crashes, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, permanent inclusion of Sandbox isolation, provision of keys for Google API, and transaction when […]

Google is transitioning ChromeOS to components of the Android platform.

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Google has announced that it is working on adapting the Chrome OS operating system to a version of the Linux kernel and the frameworks used in the Android platform. It is noted that the work on migrating the Chrome OS system environment to the components of the Android platform is at an early stage and will take a long time before the new system variant is suitable for end users. Of already […]

Valve has released Proton 9.0-2, a package for running Windows games on Linux

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Valve has released a new version of the Proton 9.0-2 project, based on the Wine project's codebase and aimed at enabling the launch of games developed for Windows in Linux, which are presented in the Steam catalog. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows direct launching of Windows-only games in the Linux Steam client. The package includes the implementation of […]

Release of boot firmware Libreboot 20240612 and Canoeboot 20240612

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A release of the open-source boot firmware Libreboot 20240612 is available. The project builds upon the existing Coreboot assembly, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware responsible for initiating the CPU, memory, peripheral devices, and other hardware components, minimizing binary inserts. Libreboot aims to create a system environment that can do without proprietary software as much as possible, not only at the operating system level […]

800 new packages have been added to the Linux patent protection program

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The Open Invention Network (OIN), aimed at protecting the Linux ecosystem from patent claims, has announced an expansion of the list of packages covered by the patent non-assertion agreement and the provision for the free use of certain patented technologies. The list of components in distributions that fall under the definition of a Linux system (“Linux System”), covered by the agreement among OIN participants, has been expanded to include […]

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