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The Wi-Fi Alliance has officially begun certifying devices that support Wi-Fi 7, the next generation of wireless network standards. Having this certification means that devices can fully and according to protocol specifications interact with each other. Official support for Wi-Fi 7 will appear on smartphones, laptops, routers, and other equipment in 2024, offering a significant speed increase compared to Wi-Fi […]
Vivaldi Technologies has announced the release of the new version of the Vivaldi 6.5 browser for Android. This release expands synchronization features — notably, the entire browsing history is now synchronized, allowing users to continue surfing the web on any device with the Vivaldi browser installed. Previously, only the history of entered addresses was synchronized. The new version of the browser also implements […]
The release of Chrome OS 120, based on the Linux kernel, upstart system manager, ebuild/portage build tools, open components, and the Chrome 120 web browser, is now available. The user environment of Chrome OS is limited to the web browser, and instead of standard applications, web applications are used; however, Chrome OS includes a fully multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The source code is distributed under […]
The release of the Solus 4.5 Linux distribution has been published, which is not based on packages from other distributions and develops its own installer, package manager, and configurator. Previously, the Budgie desktop was part of the distribution, but it has now been separated into an independent project. The next branch, Solus 5, will be developed using technologies from the SerpentOS distribution. The project’s code contributions are distributed under the GPLv2 license, and development uses […]
Rafael Sadowski has announced the availability of the KDE Plasma 5.27 user environment for installation in OpenBSD-current, the formation of pre-installation packages kde-plasma and kde-plasma-extra, and the intention to support KDE Plasma in the spring release of OpenBSD 7.5. After the end of KDE4 support in OpenBSD, the ability to use the new desktop branch KDE Plasma 5 was not transferred. […]
GSC Game World, the developer of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series, has successfully blocked the GitHub repository of the open project OpenXRay, which reproduces the game engine for the first parts of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The project was founded after the source codes of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. engine were leaked and aims to fix all original issues and introduce new features such as support for 64-bit platforms, Linux, and OpenGL. The licensing […]
On January 8, 2024, a new version of the open-source real-time operating system Embox was released. Changes include: Improved support for the AARCH64 architecture. Improved support for the RISC-V architecture. Added support for the STM32F103 Blue Pill board. Added support for the Vostok Uno-VN035 board. The Mybuild language has been enhanced with the @NoCode annotation. The device subsystem has been improved. Flash device support has been overhauled. The logging subsystem has been redesigned. STM32 support has been enhanced. […]
The release of Gaphor 2.23 has occurred. Gaphor is a cross-platform application within the GNOME Circle for modeling UML, SysML, RAAML, and C4 diagrams. The application is designed with a focus on ease of use and feature richness. Gaphor can be used for quick visualization of various system aspects as well as for creating complex and sophisticated models. In the new version: […]
The release of the Memtest86+ 7.0 memory testing program is now available. The program is not tied to an operating system and can be launched directly from the BIOS/UEFI firmware or from a boot loader for a complete memory check. In case of identifying issues, the fault map generated in Memtest86+ can be used in the Linux kernel to exclude problematic areas using the memmap option. […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 6.7. Among the most notable changes: integration of the Bcachefs file system, discontinuation of Itanium architecture support, Nouvea support for GSP-R firmware, support for TLS encryption in NVMe-TCP, the ability to use exceptions in BPF, support for futex in io_uring, optimization of the scheduler's performance (Fair Queuing), support for the TCP-AO (TCP Authentication Option) extension, and the ability to […]
Public clouds are very popular, but they do not always meet the goals and objectives of the company. At the same time, traditional server infrastructure is costly to maintain, cumbersome to configure, and not always secure — largely due to the fragmentation of software and hardware architectures rooted in the distant past. The company Oxide Computer has announced that it has developed […]
The release of the dynamically managed firewall firewalld 2.1 has been formed, implemented as a wrapper over the packet filtering tools nftables and iptables. Firewalld runs as a background process, allowing dynamic modification of packet filter rules through D-Bus, without the need to reload the filter rules or interrupt established connections. The project is already in use in many Linux distributions, including RHEL 7+, Fedora 18+ [...]
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