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Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9, the first distribution based on it was EuroLinux 8.9, which this time was ahead of Alma Linux. The list of changes is similar to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9. The management's position on participation in OpenELA, as well as regarding binary compatibility with RHEL, remains unknown. Source: linux.org.ru
The release of Rocky Linux 9.3 has been announced, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS. The distribution is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.3 and CentOS 9 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will continue until May 31, 2032. Installation ISO images of Rocky Linux are prepared for […]
After two and a half years since the publication of the 13.0 branch, the release of FreeBSD 14.0 has been formed. Installation images have been prepared for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, builds for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant have been prepared. The FreeBSD 14 branch will be the last with […]
Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9, Rocky Linux 9.3 has been launched. This distribution has been released ahead of Alma Linux, Euro Linux, and Oracle Linux with UEK R7. The founder of the distribution is George Kutzner, one of the founders of CentOS, who is also the founder of CtrlIQ. CtrlIQ is a member of the OpenELA clone association. The distribution is fully binary compatible with RHEL […]
After the release of Red Hat Enterprise 9.3, the release of the previous version Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 has been prepared. Rocky Linux has not yet released version 9.3. RHEL 8 will be supported without an extended phase until 2029, while support for CentOS Stream will end in 2024. Users are advised to either upgrade to CentOS Stream 9 or switch to […]
The Fedora 40 release proposes to include isolation settings for systemd services that are enabled by default, as well as for services with critical applications such as PostgreSQL, Apache httpd, Nginx, and MariaDB. This change is expected to significantly enhance the security of the distribution in its default configuration and provide the ability to block unknown vulnerabilities in system services. The proposal has not yet been reviewed by the committee […]
The Khronos consortium, which develops graphics standards, has recognized the full compatibility of the open NVK driver for NVIDIA graphics cards with the Vulkan 1.0 specification. The driver successfully passed all tests from the CTS (Kronos Conformance Test Suite) and is included in the list of certified drivers. Certification has been achieved for NVIDIA GPUs based on the Turing microarchitecture (TITAN RTX, GeForce RTX 2060/2070/2080, GeForce GTX 1660, Quadro […]
Developers of the Cuarzo OS project have released the first version of the Louvre library, providing components for developing composite servers based on the Wayland protocol. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The library takes care of all low-level operations, including managing graphics buffers, interacting with input subsystems and graphics APIs in Linux, and also offers ready-made implementations […]
The Common Desktop Environment version 2.5.2 has been released. This is primarily a bug-fix release. The Common Desktop Environment is a desktop environment based on Motif, mainly used in proprietary UNIX operating systems, OpenVMS. CDE was developed by The Open Group in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Novell, and Sun Microsystems and is based on HP's VUE. On August 6, 2012, the source […]
The Distrobox 1.6 toolkit has been released, allowing for the quick installation and launch of any Linux distribution in a container and ensuring its integration with the main system. The project code is written in Shell and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project provides an extension over Docker, Podman, or Lilipod and is distinguished by maximum simplification of the operation and integration of the launched environment with the rest of the system. To create an environment with […]
The OpenBSD project has released version 7.3 of the OpenIKED project, which develops the implementation of the IKEv2 protocol. Originally, IKEv2 components were an indivisible part of the OpenBSD IPsec stack but were later separated into a portable package that can now be used in other operating systems. OpenIKED has been tested on FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS, and various Linux distributions, including Arch, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu. The code is written […]
After five years of development, a new release of EdytorNC, a CNC program editor, is now available. In addition to syntax highlighting, the editor includes several plugins for comfortable G-code work. This release is notable for the addition of new tools. Four programs are now available: EditorNC – the editor itself. SerialPortFileServer – a small utility for exchanging programs with the machine via the serial port. FTPserver (new) – […]