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The postmarketOS project has introduced builds based on systemd.

Developers of the postmarketOS project, which develops a Linux distribution for smartphones based on the Alpine Linux package base, the standard C library Musl, and the BusyBox utility set, have announced the availability of the system manager systemd. As a result of a year-long effort to implement support for systemd, a prototype build has been prepared and is available for testing, in which systemd replaces the OpenRC initialization system […]

FreeBSD 13.3 release

After 11 months of development, FreeBSD 13.3 has been released. Installation images have been created for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, builds are prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments like Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant. The FreeBSD 13.x branch is being developed in parallel with the FreeBSD 14 branch, which is expected to release in autumn […]

openSUSE Tumbleweed has added the ability to use systemd-boot instead of GRUB

The developers of the openSUSE project have announced the integration of systemd-boot support into the openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution, which employs a rolling release model. Compared to the traditional GRUB bootloader, switching to systemd-boot will enable faster boot times and enhance the security of the boot process. Currently, systemd-boot support is implemented as an option, while the traditional bootloader remains the default […]

Firefox 123.0.1 update

A corrective release of Firefox 123.0.1 is now available, which includes the following fixes: Resolved the issue of inaccessible system dictionaries on the Linux platform when installing Firefox from a Flatpak package. Established the display of the language icon in the address bar, indicating the language into which the built-in translator has translated the page. Fixed the problem of incorrect rendering of colored conical gradients in Canvas2D on the Windows platform. […]

Atomic Cloud: AWS has acquired a gigawatt data center campus powered by a nuclear power plant.

Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired a data center campus being built near the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania (USA) from Talen Energy Corporation. According to Datacenter Dynamics, Talen announced the sale of the campus to a "large cloud provider" just last week. An investor presentation revealed that this refers to AWS. The Cumulus Data campus covers more than 485 acres […]

Pacman 6.1.0

The package manager for the Arch Linux distribution has been updated. This version includes significant improvements that simplify operations and enhance security when working with packages. New features include support for a package caching server; enhancements to the sysroot option; OpenSSL support; and expanded support for package building and repository management. Source: linux.org.ru

Opus audio codec 1.5 is available

After nearly a year of development, the Xiph.Org organization, which develops free video and audio codecs, has released the audio codec Opus 1.5, which provides high-quality encoding and minimal latency both for compressing high-bitrate streaming audio and for compressing voice in bandwidth-limited VoIP applications. Reference implementations of the encoder and decoder are distributed under the BSD license. Complete specifications […]

Release of Arti 1.2, the official implementation of Tor in Rust

The Tor network developers have released version 1.2.0 of the Arti project, which is evolving the Tor client written in Rust. The 1.x branch is marked as suitable for regular users and ensures the same level of privacy, usability, and stability as the main implementation in C. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses. Unlike the C implementation, which initially […]

The readiness of panthor, the open driver for the 10th generation Mali GPUs, has been announced.

Collabora has announced the readiness of the open driver panthor, developed for the tenth generation of Mali GPUs (G310, G510, G710), which uses the CSF (Command Stream Frontend) technology to offload some driver functions to the firmware to reduce CPU load and offers a new model for organizing GPU workloads. The DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver panthor has been accepted into the drm-misc branch […]

The NixBSD project is developing a version of NixOS with a FreeBSD kernel.

The NixBSD project has been introduced, developing an unofficial branch of the NixOS distribution which utilizes a FreeBSD kernel instead of the Linux kernel. For software installation, it employs the Nix package manager, which stores the results of package builds in subdirectories within /nix/store and allows the use of multiple versions of a single application. System settings are configured through a single configuration file. There is also an option for quick system rollback to […]

Cloudflare has opened the source code for Pingora, a toolkit for building network services.

Cloudflare has announced the open-source release of the Pingora framework, designed for developing secure, high-performance network services and programmable network systems in Rust. The framework is well-tested and already in use within high-load systems — a proxy built on its basis has been operational for over a year in the Cloudflare content delivery network instead of nginx, handling more than 40 million requests […]

AMD was unable to implement HDMI 2.1 in open drivers due to HDMI Forum requirements.

The HDMI Forum, responsible for developing specifications and test sets related to the HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) data transmission interface, has not allowed AMD to implement support for the HDMI 2.1 specification in open drivers. It has been noted that currently creating open implementations of HDMI 2.1 is impossible without violating HDMI Forum's licensing requirements. Changes to implement HDMI 2.1 support were developed […]

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