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The release of the Alt Server 10.1 distribution has taken place, built on the ALT 10 platform (branch p10 Aronia). The distribution is provided under a License Agreement that allows free use by individuals, but legal entities are only permitted to test it, and must purchase a commercial license or enter into a written licensing agreement for use. Installation images are prepared for x86_64, AArch64 architectures and […]
The development of openSUSE Leap 15.5 has entered the beta testing phase. The release is based on a core set of packages that are identical to those in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 5 distribution and also includes some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. A universal DVD image, sized at 4.3 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x), is available for download. The release of openSUSE Leap 15.4 is expected in early June […]
Peter Ammon, the leader of the Fish interactive shell development team, has published a plan to translate the project’s development to Rust. The shell is planned to be incrementally translated from C++ to Rust, module by module, rather than being completely rewritten from scratch. According to the Fish developers, using Rust will address multithreading issues and provide a more modern and effective error-detection toolkit […]
The release of GDB 13.1 has been announced (the first release in the 13.x series; branch 13.0 was used for development). GDB supports source-level debugging for a wide range of programming languages (Ada, C, C++, D, Fortran, Go, Objective-C, Modula-2, Pascal, Rust, etc.) on various hardware (i386, amd64, ARM, Power, Sparc, RISC-V, etc.) and software platforms (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Unix, […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 6.2. Among the most notable changes: acceptance of code under the Copyleft-Next license has been allowed, RAID5/6 implementation in Btrfs has been improved, the integration of Rust support has continued, overheads in protecting against Retbleed attacks have been reduced, and the ability to regulate memory consumption during reverse writing has been added; a PLB (Protective Load Balancing) mechanism for TCP has also been introduced […]
The release of Parrot 5.2, based on the Debian 11 package base and including a suite of tools for system security testing, forensic analysis, and reverse engineering, is now available. Several ISO images with a MATE environment are offered for download, intended for everyday use, security testing, installation on Raspberry Pi 4 boards, and creating specialized setups for use in cloud environments […]
The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.0.3 has been announced, designed for quick disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 334 MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizes code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast. Booting is possible from […]
Intel has opened the source code of OpenCL CPU RT (OpenCL CPU RunTime), an implementation of the OpenCL standard designed for executing OpenCL kernels on a central processor. The OpenCL standard defines an API and language extensions in C for organizing cross-platform parallel computations. The implementation contains 718,996 lines of code distributed across 2,750 files. The code is adapted for integration with LLVM and will be offered for inclusion in […]
AMD has announced the availability of the source code for the updated implementation of the FSR 2.2 (FidelityFX Super Resolution) supersampling technology, employing spatial scaling algorithms and detail reconstruction to reduce image quality loss when upscaling and converting to higher resolutions. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the MIT license. In addition to the basic API for C++, the project provides […]
Debian developers have announced that Debian 12 has entered the soft freeze phase for its package base, during which the acceptance of new source packages is halted and the ability to reintroduce previously removed packages is closed. A hard freeze is scheduled for March 12, 2023, before the release, during which the process of transferring key packages and packages without autopkgtests from unstable to testing will be completely halted […]
The release of the open platform webOS Open Source Edition 2.20 has been announced, which can be used on various portable devices, boards, and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The reference hardware platform is considered to be the Raspberry Pi 4 boards. The platform is developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, and the development is overseen by the community, adhering to a collaborative development model. The webOS platform was originally developed by […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI—Wine 8.2—has taken place. Since the release of version 8.1, 22 bug reports have been closed, and 285 changes have been made. The most significant changes include the addition of system call thunk converters for the WPCAP library in WoW64, which is the layer for running 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows. Debug information in WoW64 mode has been improved. Support for the video codec […]