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Mozilla has launched an APT repository for nightly builds of Firefox

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Developers at Mozilla have announced the creation of an official repository with deb packages that allow the installation of nightly builds of Firefox on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other Debian-like distributions. The formed packages are compatible with traditional Firefox builds for Debian and Ubuntu offered for download in '.tar.bz2' archives. Using the APT repository enables the use of the built-in capabilities of the distributions for package installation and updates. […]

The release of GhostBSD 23.10.1.

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The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 23.10.1 has been published, based on FreeBSD 13-STABLE and offering the MATE desktop environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS file system. It supports both live mode operation and installation on a hard drive (using its own installer ginstall, written in Python). Boot images have been created for the x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB). In the new version: Expanded […]

Linux Kernel 6.6 Release

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After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 6.6. Among the most notable changes are: a new task scheduler EEVDF; a shadow stack mechanism for protection against exploits; fs-verity support in OverlayFS; implementation of quotas and xattr in tmpfs; preparation for online fsck in XFS; enhanced tracking of 'GPL-only' symbol exports; network socket support in io_uring; memory randomization in kmalloc(); […]

The release of the Ubuntu Sway Remix 23.10 distribution.

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The release of the Ubuntu Sway Remix 23.10 distribution is now available, providing a pre-configured and ready-to-use desktop based on the Sway tiling window manager. This distribution is an unofficial edition of Ubuntu 23.10, created with both experienced GNU/Linux users and newcomers in mind, allowing them to try a tiling window manager environment without the need for extensive configuration. Builds are prepared for download for […]

Major update for Telegram: new responses, customizable link previews, and personal colors.

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Telegram has released an update for the Telegram messenger, version 10.2, which includes a number of new features and enhancements, such as 'Replies 2', flexible link settings, personal colors, and much more. The 'Replies 2' feature will allow quoting a specific part of a conversation partner's message in responses, which will be highlighted when transitioning from the reply. Responses can also be sent in other chats, and when clicking on the quoted text […]

Snoop Project v1.3.9

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Open-source software. The main functionality of Snoop Project is to track 'username' in public data, along with various OSINT plugins. Snoop Project is registered in the domestic software registry of Russia under code 26.30.11.16: Software that provides execution of established actions during operational-search activities: No. 7012 order dated 07.10.2020 No. 515. Snoop Project was developed based on research work in the field of scraping […]

Release of Wine 8.19

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An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 8.19, has been made. Since the release of version 8.18, 44 bug reports have been closed and 225 changes made. The most important changes include: The Wine Mono engine with .NET platform implementation has been updated to release 8.1.0. The development of the winewayland.drv driver has continued, allowing the use of Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol without using XWayland and […]

The release schedule for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and its codename has been approved.

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Canonical has announced the code name for Ubuntu 24.04 — Noble Numbat. The release schedule is as follows: February 29, 2024 – Feature Freeze; March 21, 2024 – User Interface Freeze; April 4, 2024 – Ubuntu 24.04 Beta; April 11, 2024 – Kernel Freeze; April 25, 2024 – Ubuntu 24.04 LTS regular release; August 2024 — Ubuntu […]

Canoeboot has been released, a variant of the Libreboot distribution that meets the requirements of the Free Software Foundation.

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Leah Rowe, the lead developer and founder of the Libreboot distribution, has introduced the first release of the Canoeboot project, developed alongside Libreboot and positioned as a fully free version of Libreboot that meets the Free Software Foundation's requirements for fully free distributions. Earlier, the project was published under the name 'unofficial GNU Boot', but after receiving a complaint from the creators of GNU Boot, it was initially renamed to […]

Support for non-canonical builds will be discontinued in the Crate repository

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Rust language developers have announced the discontinuation of support for non-canonical uploads in the crate.io repository, which use normalized package names with replaced underscores and hyphens, effective November 20, 2023. The reason cited for this change is to enhance reliability and optimize performance. Until now, it hasn’t mattered whether an underscore or hyphen was specified in the name during upload — […]

KDE has implemented support for Wayland extensions for color management.

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The codebase that shapes the user environment release of KDE Plasma 6 has added support for extensions of the Wayland protocol, which manage color in the KWin compositing server. In the KDE Plasma 6 session based on Wayland, the ability to separately manage color for each screen has been implemented. Users can now assign their ICC profiles to each screen, and in applications using […]

The domestic mobile platform RED OS M, built on the Android codebase from the AOSP repository

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The Russian company RED SOFT, known for developing the RHEL-based distribution RED OS and the database Rед База Данных (a version of the open-source database Firebird), has registered the operating system RED OS M in the Russian software registry, aimed at use on mobile devices and stationary systems with touch screens. RED OS M is built from the source code of the Android platform, available at […]

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