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After more than five years since the last release, the Slackware 15.0 distribution has been published. The project has been in development since 1993 and is the oldest of the existing distributions. An installable image (3.5 GB) is available for i586 and x86_64 architectures. A Live version (4.3 GB) is also available for those who wish to explore the distribution without installation.
After six months of development, the release of the GNU C Library (glibc) 2.35 has been published, fully adhering to the requirements of ISO C11 and POSIX.1-2017 standards. The new release includes fixes from 66 developers. Notable improvements implemented in glibc 2.35 include: Added support for the locale 'C.UTF-8', which includes sorting rules for all Unicode codes, but limited in usage to save space […]
Developers of the Raspberry Pi project have announced the beginning of the formation of 64-bit builds of the Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) distribution, based on the Debian 11 package base and optimized for Raspberry Pi boards. Until now, the distribution only provided unified 32-bit builds for all boards. From now on, boards with processors based on the ARMv8-A architecture, such as Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (SoC […]
GitHub has announced the inclusion of mandatory two-factor authentication for 100 NPM packages in the repositories, which are included as dependencies in the largest number of packages. Maintainers of these packages will now be able to perform repository operations requiring authentication only after enabling two-factor authentication, which requires login confirmation using one-time passwords (TOTP) generated by applications such as Authy, Google Authenticator, and FreeOTP. In the near […]
DeepMind, known for its developments in artificial intelligence and neural networks capable of playing computer and board games at a human level, has introduced the AlphaCode project, which advances a machine learning system for code generation, capable of participating in programming competitions on the Codeforces platform and demonstrating an average performance. A key feature of the development is its ability to generate code […]
The Document Foundation has released the LibreOffice 7.3 office suite. Ready-to-install packages have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. A total of 147 developers participated in the release preparation, of which 98 are volunteers. 69% of the changes were made by employees from companies overseeing the project, such as Collabora, Red Hat, and Allotropia, while 31% of the changes were contributed by independent enthusiasts. The release of LibreOffice […]
Google has released version 98 of its web browser Chrome. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is also available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by its use of Google logos, a system for sending notifications in case of crashes, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, and the passing of RLZ parameters during searches. The next release, Chrome 99, is scheduled for March 1.
After a year and a half of development, the stable release of the composite server Weston 10.0 has been published, advancing technologies that support full compatibility with the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other desktop environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for utilizing Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, and televisions.
NVIDIA has introduced the first stable release of the new branch of its proprietary driver, NVIDIA 510.39.01. At the same time, an update for the stable branch NVIDIA 470.103.1 has also been made available. The driver is compatible with Linux (ARM64, x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64), and Solaris (x86_64). Key innovations include: support for the Vulkan 1.3 graphics API has been added. The VDPAU driver now supports accelerated video decoding in AV1 format. A new background process, nvidia-powerd, has been implemented.
After two years of development, the release of the full-screen console window manager (terminal multiplexer) GNU screen 4.9.0 has been published, allowing one physical terminal to interact with multiple applications, each assigned separate virtual terminals that remain active across different user connection sessions. Among the changes: an escape sequence ‘%e’ has been added to display the used encoding in the hardstatus line. On the OpenBSD platform, it now works...
The fully free Linux distribution Trisquel 10.0 has been released, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and aimed at use in small businesses, educational institutions, and home users. Trisquel is personally endorsed by Richard Stallman, officially recognized by the Free Software Foundation as completely free, and is listed among the recommended distributions by the foundation. Installation images are available for download, sized […]
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University (Israel), Lille University (France), and the University of Adelaide (Australia) have developed a new technique for user device identification by determining GPU operating parameters in web browsers. The method, called "Drawn Apart", is based on using WebGL to obtain a GPU performance profile, significantly enhancing the accuracy of passive tracking methods that operate without cookies and without saving […]