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The developers of the Raspberry Pi project have released the spring update of the Raspberry Pi OS 2022-04-04 (Raspbian), based on the Debian package base. Three builds are prepared for download — a minimal (297 MB) for server systems, a basic desktop version (837 MB), and a full version with an additional set of applications (2.2 GB). The distribution comes with the PIXEL desktop environment (a fork of LXDE). To install […]
The beta release of the Thunderbird 100 email client includes a client for the decentralized communication system Matrix, which is enabled by default. This implementation supports advanced features such as end-to-end encryption, sending invitations, delayed loading of participants, and editing sent messages. Other changes in Thunderbird 100 include adding an option to select all messages in the context menu for editing emails. […]
The release of Lakka 4.1 has taken place, allowing computers, set-top boxes, or single-board computers to be turned into full-fledged gaming consoles for running retro games. This project is a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally designed for creating home theaters. Lakka builds are available for i386, x86_64 (Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD GPU), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, Odroid C1/C1+/XU3/XU4, etc. […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.6 — has occurred. Since the release of version 7.5, 17 bug reports have been closed and 311 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: The Wine Mono engine with .NET platform implementation has been updated to version 7.2. Work continues on transitioning graphic drivers to use the PE (Portable Executable) file format instead of ELF. Added […]
The release of OpenSSH 9.0 has been announced, an open implementation of a client and server for working with SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. In this new version, the scp utility has been switched by default to use SFTP instead of the outdated SCP/RCP protocol. SFTP employs more predictable methods for handling names and does not use shell glob pattern handling for filenames on the other host, which creates […]
The release of the standard C library Musl 1.2.3 has been announced, providing an implementation of libc suitable for use on both desktop PCs and servers as well as mobile systems, combining full support for standards (like in Glibc) with a small size, low resource consumption, and high performance (like in uClibc, dietlibc, and Android Bionic). It supports all mandatory C99 and POSIX interfaces […]
The release of the data compression utility set gzip 1.12 has taken place. The new version fixes a vulnerability in the zgrep utility that allows, when processing a specially formatted filename containing two or more newline characters, to overwrite arbitrary files in the system, depending on the current access rights. The issue has been present since version 1.3.10, released in 2007. Other changes include […]
Stamus Networks has released a specialized distribution SELKS 7.0, designed for deploying intrusion detection and prevention systems, as well as responding to identified threats and monitoring network security. Users are provided with a fully ready-to-use solution for managing network security, which can be utilized immediately after download. The distribution supports operation in Live mode and can run in virtualization environments or containers. […]
The first release of the custom Linux distribution carbonOS has been introduced, built using an atomic system assembly model, where the base environment is provided as a whole, not divided into separate packages. Additional applications are installed in Flatpak format and run in isolated containers. The size of the installation image is 1.7 GB. The project's developments are distributed under the MIT license. The contents of the base system are mounted in read-only mode […]
After two years since the last significant release, the GNU Shepherd 0.9 service manager (formerly dmd) has been published. It is developed by the developers of the GNU Guix System as an alternative to the SysV-init initialization system, which supports dependencies. The managing daemon and Shepherd utilities are written in Guile (one of the implementations of the Scheme language), which is also used for defining settings and launch parameters […]
The release of Zulip 5 has taken place, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for facilitating communication among employees and developer groups. The project was originally developed by Zulip and was open-sourced after being acquired by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server-side code is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and […]
The release of the TeX Live 2022 distribution has been prepared, created in 1996 based on the teTeX project. TeX Live is the easiest way to deploy an infrastructure for preparing scientific documentation, regardless of the operating system used. A package (4 GB) of TeX Live 2021 has been formed for download, which contains a working Live environment, a complete set of installation files for various operating systems, and a copy of the CTAN repository […]