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Release of Zorin OS 17.1, a distribution for users accustomed to Windows or macOS

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The release of the Linux distribution Zorin OS 17.1, based on the Ubuntu 22.04 package base, has been announced. The target audience for the distribution is beginner users accustomed to working on Windows. To manage the design, the distribution offers a special configurator that allows the desktop to resemble various versions of Windows and macOS, and includes a selection of applications similar to those familiar to Windows users. The size […]

Beta release of the openSUSE Leap 15.6 distribution

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Testing of the first beta release of the openSUSE Leap 15.6 distribution has begun. This release is based on the core package set that is shared with the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 6 distribution and also includes some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. A universal DVD image is available for download, sized at 4.3 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x). The openSUSE Leap 15.6 release is expected on June 12, 2024. […]

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will not include standard GNOME games.

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In the next LTS version of the Ubuntu distribution 24.04, developers will remove standard GNOME games from the package set, such as Aisleriot Solitaire, Mahjong, Mines, and Sudoku. The decision is explained by the fact that these games "have ceased to demonstrate what Ubuntu and the Linux community as a whole can offer gamers." Additionally, removing these games will help reduce the ISO image size of the distribution by 65 MB. Nevertheless, during […]

In Fedora 41, the X11 session is planned to be removed from the core component set.

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The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), responsible for the technical development of the distribution, made a decision on March 5 to remove support for the X11 session from the default installation of Fedora 41. Now, only Wayland will remain as the default. X11 support is still available from the repositories as the gnome-session-xsession package. The main reason for the discontinuation of X11 support in Fedora is the transition of the X.Org server to […]

Fedora 41 is set to remove the X11 session for GNOME from its base distribution.

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The FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical side of the Fedora Linux distribution development, approved the removal of the gnome-session-xsession package, which is responsible for launching GNOME sessions based on the X server. This change is planned for the Fedora 41 release, which will be built in the fall of this year. Only Wayland will remain as the default session supported in Fedora Workstation 41, but packages for organizing the work of […]

Microsoft will warm 6,000 Danish homes with heat from its new data center.

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The 'waste' heat from Microsoft's new data center being built in Denmark will be used to heat up to 6,000 homes. Datacenter Dynamics reports that the data center is being constructed in the municipality of Høje-Taastrup, located 25 km from Copenhagen—this is one of three facilities being built for the Azure zone announced back in 2020. It is expected to start operating in the fall of this year. Two more […]

Support for systemd has been added to postmarketOS

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On March 5, developers of postmarketOS, a Linux distribution for smartphones based on Alpine Linux, announced the addition of support for the system manager systemd instead of the previously used OpenRC. Support for the old initialization system will be maintained at least as long as it is used in the original Alpine Linux. Additionally, when building images, the option to choose the initialization system has been added. The reason for this […]

Linux Mint is developing a new chat application after discontinuing the IRC client XChat

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Developers of the Linux Mint distribution announced the development of a new application called Jargonaut, which attempts to create a simple chat implementation based on the IRC protocol but is not an IRC client in the traditional sense. Jargonaut provides a straightforward interface for users to communicate in chat, abstracted from IRC. The project code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. For […]

Microsoft has renamed the CBL-Mariner distribution to Azure Linux and released Azure Sphere OS 24.03

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Microsoft has renamed the CBL-Mariner distribution to Azure Linux. Previously, the name Azure Linux was used for a specialized build installed in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), while the general platform for building distributions was developed under the CBL-Mariner (Common Base Linux Mariner) name. A few days ago, Microsoft renamed the CBL-Mariner repository to azurelinux, changed the names of utilities, and replaced mentions of CBL-Mariner in the documentation with […]

The share of PCs running Linux has exceeded a record 4%.

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According to Statcounter, which tracks market share of web browsers, operating systems, search engines, and more, the share of Linux OS on PCs has reached record levels, exceeding 4%. While this may seem small at first glance, it actually represents tens of millions of users worldwide. Notably, the service separately considers data from ChromeOS, which is also built on Linux. It is worth mentioning that […]

OpenSUSE has introduced experimental support for systemd-boot instead of GRUB.

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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is introducing support for the systemd-boot loader as an alternative to GNU GRUB (currently as an option). According to the developers' official version, the switch to Systemd-Boot will enhance boot speed and strengthen the security of the boot process. The developers also anticipate that moving to systemd-boot will simplify and improve the efficiency of full disk encryption, as well as ease working with snapshots in […]

CBL-Mariner Linux is changing its name.

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Information about the release of CBL-Mariner 2.0.20240301 (CBL-Mariner, Common Base Linux, a Linux distribution for Microsoft's internal infrastructure) is now redirected to the Microsoft/AzureLinux project on GitHub. The CBL-Mariner repository has been renamed to 'AzureLinux', and other references to CBL-Mariner have also been rebranded under Azure Linux. P.S. Do not confuse AzureLinux (formerly CBL-Mariner) with the Microsoft Azure Sphere Linux OS — […]

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