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The 1.0.0 release of the multimedia server PipeWire has been published, marking its first stable release and the maturity of the project. In terms of API and ABI, version 1.0 is backward compatible with the 0.3 branch. PipeWire is positioned as a server to replace the PulseAudio sound server and differs from it by adding tools for handling video streams, allowing for audio processing with minimal latency and […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of the OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 distribution has been announced. The project is being developed by the community following the transfer of project management from Mandriva S.A. to the non-profit organization 'OpenMandriva Association'. Live images are available for download for the x86_64 architecture with KDE (full 3.0 GB, minimal 2.5 GB, and optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper, and EPYC processors), GNOME, and […]
The latest version of the Radix cross Linux distribution 1.9.226 is now available, built using the Radix.pro custom build system that simplifies the creation of distributions for embedded systems. The distribution builds are available for devices based on RISC-V, ARM/ARM64, MIPS, and x86/x86_64 architectures. The boot images, prepared according to the instructions in the Platform Download section, contain a local package repository, so installation does not require an internet connection […]
The firmware to support NVIDIA graphics cards is included in the Linux kernel branch 6.7. This solution will allow nouveau developers not to worry about reclocking for new graphics cards (starting from the 20xx (NV160 family (Turing) series) to the latest 40xx (Ada Lovelace)). By default, this feature will only be enabled for 40xx series graphics cards. If you want to try it […]
The Document Foundation has announced the synchronization of the LibreOffice Viewer Android app with the current LibreOffice codebase and its availability in the Google Play store. Due to the lack of support, LibreOffice Viewer was removed from Google Play in 2020 and remained stagnant for a long time. It is anticipated that the return of LibreOffice Viewer to Google Play will make the package accessible to a wider […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 8.21 has occurred. Since the release of version 8.20, 29 bug reports have been closed and 321 changes have been made. The most significant changes include further development of functionality aimed at enabling the use of Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol without relying on XWayland and X11 components. The driver winewayland.drv has added support for the graphics API […]
GitGuardian researchers published the results of an analysis of confidential data forgotten by developers in code hosted in the Python package repository PyPI (Python Package Index). After examining more than 9.5 million files and 5 million package releases related to 450 thousand projects, 56,866 instances of data leakage were identified. Considering only unique data without duplication across different releases, the number of detected leaks […]
The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.1 has been announced, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of serving as a replacement for products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation ISO image is 1.2 GB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully ready virtual […]
After eight months of development, the release of OpenSSL library 3.2.0 has been finalized, implementing SSL/TLS protocols and various encryption algorithms. Support for OpenSSL 3.2 will continue until November 23, 2025. Support for earlier branches OpenSSL 3.1 and 3.0 LTS will last until March 2025 and September 2026, respectively. Support for branch 1.1.1 ended in September this year. The project's code […]
The developers of the openSUSE distribution announced the completion of the application acceptance stage for the logo contest and moved on to voting, which anyone can participate in. The voting will last until December 10 and will allow the selection of new logos for the entire openSUSE project and for the distributions being developed within it: Tumbleweed, Leap, Slowroll, and Kalpa. A total of 36 logos were submitted for the contest […]
A new version of the free system manager systemd has been released. Changes that break backward compatibility: Mounting a separate /usr/ partition is now supported only at the initramfs stage. Support for System V init scripts and cgroups v1 will be removed in one of the upcoming releases. The options SuspendMode=, HibernateState=, and HybridSleepState= from the [Sleep] section in systemd-sleep.conf have been declared deprecated and do not affect system behavior. […]
The release of the integrated development environment Qt Creator 12.0 has been published, designed for creating cross-platform applications using the Qt library. It supports both classic C++ programming and the use of the QML language, where JavaScript is used to define scripts and the structure and parameters of interface elements are specified using CSS-like blocks. Ready-made builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. In […]
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