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Bruce Perens has published a draft version of the Post-Open license.

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Bruce Perens, one of the authors of the Open Source definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has introduced the first draft of a new license, 'Post-Open Zero-Cost', aimed at addressing the accumulated issues related to the interaction between open-source developers and commercial companies in the context of receiving fair return from commercial use of the code. The license reflects the possibility of imposing additional conditions […]

Firefox will introduce tab grouping.

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Laura Chambers, recently confirmed as the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, announced the appointment of developers to implement the tab grouping feature in Firefox. The work on adding tab grouping support has been given high priority. This decision was made after yet another user attempted to draw attention to Mozilla's significant resource expenditures […]

Wine 9.4, Wine Staging 9.4, and GE-Proton9-1 have been released.

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.4 — has occurred. Since the release of 9.3, 25 bug reports have been closed and 321 changes have been made. The most significant changes include further development of the winewayland.drv driver, allowing Wine to be used in Wayland-based environments without the need for XWayland and X11 components. The new version includes initial support for OpenGL. Basic […]

The expedition to search for extraterrestrial technologies failed due to an error in the meteorite landing location.

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As reported by the US Space Command, on January 8, 2014, a meteorite identified as the first interstellar object to reach Earth fell in the ocean near Papua New Guinea. This object later became the focus of interest for a group of scientists from the Galileo project searching for extraterrestrial technologies. They believed that the fallen body was likely an alien probe, traces of […]

The K-D Lab Association has opened the source code of the game engine qdEngine.

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The K-D Lab Association has released the source code of the game engine qdEngine, designed for creating quests. The entire code, except for third-party libraries, is published under the GPLv3 license. The engine supports Windows 10 and can be tested with resources from the game 'The Adventures of the Brave Soldier Schweik'. Based on the published engine, the following games were created: Brothers Pilots 3D. The Case of Garden Pests […]

The Postfix 3.9.0 mail server has been released

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After nearly a year of development, the release of the new stable branch of the Postfix mail server — 3.9.0 — has been announced. At the same time, the support for the Postfix 3.5 branch, released in early 2020, has been discontinued. Postfix is one of the few projects that combine high security, reliability, and performance, achieved through a thoughtful architecture and a strict coding policy […]

The second phase of the Trans-Eurasian Fiber Optic Line TEA NEXT is ready for commercial operation

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The company "Rostelecom" announced its technical readiness to commence commercial operations of the second phase of the new Trans-Eurasian Fiber-Optic Communication Line (TEA NEXT), which stretches 765 km between Saint Petersburg and Moscow. According to the press release, the high potential of the line allowed the company to utilize two fibers of the high-performance line for its own needs at this stage. TEA NEXT will extend from the western to the eastern […]

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 […]

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