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The OpenMandriva project has released OpenMandriva ROME 23.03, a distribution edition that uses a continuous delivery model (rolling releases). This edition allows users to access new package versions developed for the OpenMandriva Lx 5 branch without waiting for a traditional distribution release. ISO images sized 1.7-2.9 GB with KDE, GNOME, and LXQt desktops, supporting Live mode booting, have been prepared for download. An additional […]
The main branch release of nginx 1.23.4 has been formed, continuing the development of new capabilities. In the simultaneously supported stable branch 1.22.x, only changes related to fixing critical bugs and vulnerabilities are made. A stable branch 1.24 will later be formed based on the main branch 1.23.x. Among the changes: The TLSv1.3 protocol is enabled by default. A warning output is provided in case of overriding settings […]
After a year of development, the Live distribution Finnix 125 has been released, coinciding with the 23rd anniversary of the project. The distribution is based on the Debian package base and supports only console operations but includes a good selection of utilities for administrative needs. It includes 601 packages with various utilities. The ISO image size is 489 MB. In the new version: The package base is synchronized with Debian repositories. […]
NTC IT ROSA has released a corrective release of the freely available and community-developed distribution ROSA Fresh 12.4, built on the rosa2021.1 platform. Builds for the x86_64 platform have been prepared for free download, with KDE Plasma 5, LXQt, GNOME, Xfce, and without a GUI options. Users with the ROSA Fresh R12 distribution already installed will receive the update automatically. […]
Members of the technical committee overseeing the development of Ubuntu have approved the inclusion of the Ubuntu Cinnamon distribution, which offers the Cinnamon desktop environment, among the official editions of Ubuntu. At this stage of integration with the Ubuntu infrastructure, the formation of test builds for Ubuntu Cinnamon has already begun, and work is underway to organize testing within the quality control system. If no serious issues are found, Ubuntu Cinnamon will be included in […]
After a year of development, the Porteus Kiosk 5.5.0 distribution has been released, based on Gentoo and designed for equipping standalone internet kiosks, demo stands, and self-service terminals. The bootable image of the distribution is 170 MB (x86_64). The base build includes only the minimal set of components necessary to launch a web browser (supporting Firefox and Chrome), which has limited capabilities to prevent unwanted activity […]
The release of Ventoy 1.0.90, a toolkit for creating bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems, has been published. This program is notable for enabling OS booting from unmodified ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI images without the need to unpack the image or reformat the drive. For instance, simply copying the desired set of ISO images onto a USB flash drive with the Ventoy bootloader will allow you to boot […]
Debian 9 (Stretch) repositories have been moved to archive.debian.org, and after that, the distribution will soon no longer be accessible through the main mirror network. The removal of Debian 9 from the main archive is scheduled for April 23. The release of Debian 9 was presented on June 18, 2017, and was officially supported until July 18, 2020, and in the LTS branch until June 30, 2022. As part of […]
The free personal finance management system GnuCash 5.0 has been released, providing tools for tracking income and expenses, managing bank accounts, handling information about stocks, deposits, and investments, and planning loans. GnuCash also allows for accounting for small businesses and balancing (debit/credit). It supports data import in QIF/OFX/HBCI formats and provides visual representation of information in graphs. […]
A small plugin called BlenderGPT has been prepared for the 3D modeling system, allowing content generation based on tasks defined in natural language. The command input interface is presented as an additional tab āGPT-4 Assistantā in the 3D View sidebar, where arbitrary instructions can be entered (for example, ācreate 100 cubes in random locationsā, ātake existing cubes and make them different sizesā) and […]
The nonprofit certificate authority Letās Encrypt, community-controlled and providing certificates free of charge to anyone interested, has announced the implementation of ARI (ACME Renewal Information) support within its infrastructure, which is an extension of the ACME protocol, allowing the client to receive information about the need to update certificates and recommending the optimal time for updates. The ARI specification is undergoing standardization by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) committee that develops protocols […]
The Wine project has released version 1.7 of the vkd3d package, implementing Direct3D 12 through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes the libvkd3d libraries for implementing Direct3D 12, libvkd3d-shader with a shader translator for models 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify porting Direct3D 12 applications, as well as a set of demonstration examples, including a port of glxgears […]