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Enthusiasts have successfully booted the Linux 5.18 kernel on Apple iPad tablets powered by ARM A7 and A8 chips. Currently, the work is limited to adapting Linux for iPad Air, iPad Air 2, and some iPad mini devices, but there are no fundamental issues in applying these developments to other devices running on Apple A7 and A8 chips.
The release of the Linux distribution Armbian 22.05 has been published, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers based on ARM processors, including models such as Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard, based on processors from Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos. The builds are formed using Debian package bases.
The NGINX Unit application server 1.27.0 has been released, which develops a solution for running web applications in various programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js, and Java). Multiple applications in different programming languages can run simultaneously under NGINX Unit, with their launch parameters being dynamically adjustable without the need to edit configuration files or restart the server. The code is written in such a way that...
Mozilla has released a toolkit for self-sufficient machine translation from one language to another, operating on the user's local system without referring to external services. The project is developed under the Bergamot initiative in collaboration with researchers from several universities in the UK, Estonia, and the Czech Republic, with financial support from the European Union. The developments are released under the MPL 2.0 license. The project includes the bergamot-translator engine, tools...
The Distrobox 1.3 toolkit has been released, allowing for the quick installation and launch of any Linux distribution in a container while ensuring its integration with the main system. The project code is written in Shell and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. It is implemented as an extension of the Docker or Podman tools, and it is designed to simplify the user experience and the integration setup of the running environment with the rest of the system. […]
The release of FerretDB 0.3 has been published, enabling the replacement of the document-oriented database MongoDB with PostgreSQL without requiring code changes in applications. FerretDB operates as a proxy server, translating MongoDB requests into SQL queries for PostgreSQL, which allows PostgreSQL to be used as the actual storage. The code is written in Go and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The need for migration may arise due to […]
Jonas Dreßler from the GNOME project has published a report on the state of adapting the GNOME Shell interface for smartphones. The work was funded by a grant from the German Ministry of Education as part of support for socially significant software projects. It is noted that the adaptation for smartphones is facilitated by a certain foundation for working on small touch screens included in the latest releases of GNOME. For instance, there is […]
The release of the Deepin 20.6 distribution has been published, based on the Debian 10 package base, but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and about 40 user applications, including the music player DMusic, video player DMovie, messaging system DTalk, and the Deepin Software Center installer and software installation center. The project was initiated by a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project. […]
The release of the nftables 1.0.3 packet filter has been published, unifying the filtering interfaces for IPv4, IPv6, ARP, and network bridges (aiming to replace iptables, ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables). Required changes for the operation of the nftables 1.0.3 release are included in the Linux kernel 5.18. The nftables package includes user-space components of the packet filter, while the […]
The NPM repository has implemented mandatory two-factor authentication for accounts maintaining the 500 most popular NPM packages. The criterion for popularity was the number of dependent packages. Maintainers of the listed packages will be able to carry out related repository operations only after enabling two-factor authentication, which requires login confirmation using one-time passwords (TOTP) generated by applications such as […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 101 has occurred. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch — 91.10.0 has been created. The Firefox 102 branch has transitioned to beta testing, with a release scheduled for June 28. The main innovations in Firefox 101 include: Experimental support for the third version of the Chrome manifest, which defines the capabilities and resources available for extensions built using the WebExtensions API, has been implemented.
The first release of the Dragonfly in-memory data caching system is available, supporting Memcached and Redis protocols while allowing queries with significantly higher performance and lower memory consumption. The system manipulates data in key/value format and can be used as a lightweight solution to accelerate the operation of high-load websites, caching slow requests to the database and intermediate data.