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A new version of the Ondsel Engineering Suite (ES) has been released — a three-dimensional CAD based on FreeCAD. The build is created on the current unstable branch of FreeCAD development. Some of the changes listed below have already been forwarded to upstream, while others are under consideration. What's new: Assembly workbench: new basic tool for model disassembly (exploded view), new experimental types of connections (rack and pinion, screw, gears, belt), […]
Red Hat has introduced the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) distribution, specifically designed for machine learning tasks and aimed at simplifying the creation of server solutions using large dialogue models. It includes a collection of machine learning tools and frameworks, as well as drivers for utilizing various hardware accelerators from AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA, along with components for […]
On May 6 and 7, the releases of versions 5.1 and 5.1.1 of the C++ library, and the console and GUI calculators Qalculate!, written in C++ and distributed under the GPL 2.0 license, took place. Changes in the library and console calculator include: support for solving equations containing the if() function; support for solving root(a, x)=b (requires a rational value for ln(a)/ln(b)); new functions: powertower() and multiples(); new units of measurement for solar […]
A new release of the operating system 9front has been introduced, published under the codename "DO NOT INSTALL" (named after a song released with it). Since 2011, the 9front project has been independently evolving as a fork of the distributed operating system Plan 9, separate from Bell Labs. Ready-made installation builds are available for i386, x86_64 architectures, and Raspberry Pi 1-4 platforms. The project's code is distributed under […]
The Fedora Asahi Remix 40 distribution has been introduced, designed for installation on Macs equipped with ARM chips developed by Apple. Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is based on the package base of Fedora Linux 40 and comes with the Calamares installer. This is the second release published following the project's transition from Arch to Fedora, which helped the Asahi Linux team focus on reverse engineering the hardware, […]
Developers of the Raspberry Pi project have introduced the Raspberry Pi Connect service, designed for remote desktop connection to the Raspberry Pi OS distribution via a web browser. The service can be used in Raspberry Pi OS environments for Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400, and Raspberry Pi 5 boards built on Debian 12 and transitioned to a graphical stack based on Wayland. […]
The GNOME Foundation has published its financial report for the 2023 fiscal year, covering the period from October 2022 to September 2023. The report also mentions key events during this period (releases of GNOME 44 and 45, appointment of a new director) and conferences held (GUADEC 2023 in Riga, GNOME Asia 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Linux App Summit in Brno). […]
Starting with version Windows 11 24H2, the BitLocker encryption feature will be enabled by default during a fresh installation or reinstallation of the operating system, even in the Windows 11 Home edition. This was reported by the German site Deskmodder. This fact may create some challenges for users, although they can be circumvented. Image source: MicrosoftSource: 3dnews.ru
Four years after the last update of the 8.x branch, the release of the NetBSD 8.3 operating system has been published, which completes the support cycle for the netbsd-8 branch. Thus, the NetBSD 8.x branch received updates for 6 years. The release is categorized as a corrective update and includes fixes for accumulated issues related to stability and security identified since the release of NetBSD 8.2 […]
The release of version 10.0.0 of the console file search utility fd, written in Rust and distributed under MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses, has occurred. Changes include the addition of the alias dir to directory when using the -t—type flag; support for the date format @%s in time filters has been added, similar to GNU date (seconds since the Unix epoch for —older/—newer); the .git directory is now not automatically ignored when using […]
The public is presented with the TunnelVision attack method, which allows, when having access to a local network or control over a wireless network, to redirect the victim's traffic to their host bypassing the VPN (instead of sending it through the VPN, the traffic will be sent unencrypted directly to the attacker's system). Any VPN clients that do not use isolated namespaces in the network subsystem are vulnerable to the issue […]
After more than a year of development, the release of the PortableGL 0.98 project has been prepared, which develops the software implementation of the OpenGL 3.x graphics API, entirely written in the C language (C99). Theoretically, PortableGL can be used in any applications that take a texture or framebuffer as input. The code is structured as a single header file and distributed under the MIT license. The project has defined such goals as […]