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The release of the T2 SDE 24.5 meta-distribution has taken place, providing an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compiling, and maintaining package versions up to date. Distributions can be built based on Linux, Minix, Hurd, OpenDarwin, Haiku, and OpenBSD. Among the popular distributions built on the T2 system is Puppy Linux. The project provides basic bootable ISO images with minimal graphical environments in various formats […]
A corrective release of Firefox 125.0.3 is available, addressing several issues: An error has been fixed that caused some users to periodically experience new tabs opening with the URL 'https://0.0.0.1' in the address bar after updating to Firefox 125. This effect was only observed on the Windows platform. An investigation showed that the tabs appeared when attempting to launch another instance of Firefox from the command line […]
The release of the free distribution OpenIndiana 2024.04 has been announced, succeeding the binary distribution OpenSolaris, whose development was halted by Oracle. OpenIndiana offers users a working environment built on a fresh slice of the Illumos project codebase. The development of OpenSolaris technologies continues in the Illumos project, where the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, and a basic set of user system utilities are being developed […]
The RISC OS Open community has presented the release of the RISC OS 5.30 operating system, optimized for creating embedded solutions on boards with ARM processors. This release is based on the source code of RISC OS, which was opened in 2018 by RISC OS Developments (ROD) under the Apache 2.0 license. RISC OS builds are available for Raspberry Pi, PineA64, BeagleBoard, Iyonix, PandaBoard, Wandboard, […]
The release of the EndeavourOS 24.04 project is here, succeeding the Antergos distribution, which was discontinued in May 2019 due to a lack of free time from the remaining maintainers to support the project adequately. The installation image size is 2.7 GB (x86_64). Endeavour OS allows users to install Arch Linux with the necessary desktop environment without unnecessary complexity, […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of the ncurses 6.5 library has been presented, designed for creating cross-platform interactive console user interfaces and supporting the emulation of the curses API from System V Release 4.0 (SVr4). The release of ncurses 6.5 is source-compatible with branches ncurses 5.x and 6.0, but extends the ABI. Among the popular applications built using ncurses are […]
A new version of the Min browser, 1.32, has been released, offering a minimalist interface built around address bar manipulations. The browser is created using the Electron platform, allowing for the creation of standalone applications based on the Chromium engine and Node.js platform. The Min interface is written in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Builds are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Min supports […]
The release of the Sculpt 24.04 project has been presented, developing an operating system based on Genode OS Framework technologies that can be used by regular users for everyday tasks. The source texts of the project are distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A 30 MB LiveUSB image is available for download. It supports operation on systems with Intel processors and graphics subsystems with VT-d and VT-x extensions enabled, and […]
The developers of the Servo browser engine, written in Rust, announced that the project has reached a level that successfully passes the Acid2 tests used to check web standards support in web browsers. The Acid2 tests were created in 2005 and assess basic capabilities of CSS and HTML4, as well as the correctness of PNG images with transparent backgrounds and data: URL schemes. Among recent changes in Servo […]
The latest version of the cross-platform browser Vivaldi introduces the following innovations: Memory Saver feature; it can be enabled in the 'Tabs' section of the browser settings: 'Reduce memory usage by automatically putting tabs that haven't been used in sleep mode. You can still manually put your workspace or group of tabs to sleep if you prefer to manage it yourself.' Built-in RSS aggregator automatically finds […]
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the return of net neutrality rules, which were repealed in 2018. Out of the five voting commission members, three voted in favor of reinstating rules that prohibit providers from paid prioritization, blocking access, and throttling speeds to legally distributed content and services. According to the adopted resolution, broadband access […]
The release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codenamed 'Noble Numbat', is a long-term support release that will be maintained for 12 years, including 5 years of public updates and another 7 years of updates for users of the Ubuntu Pro service. Along with Ubuntu, versions with other desktop environments (flavours), including Kubuntu, have been announced. […]