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The moderators' team of the Rust community has announced their resignation in protest against the inability to influence the core team of Rust developers (Rust Core Team), which is accountable to no one in the community except itself. Under such conditions, the moderators' team, which includes Andrew Gallant, Andre Bogus, and Matthieu M., finds it impossible to adequately care for […]
After more than a year of development, the release of the updated distribution for mobile phones, NemoMobile version 0.7, has taken place. It utilizes developments from the Mer project but is based on the ManjaroArm project. The size of the system image for Pine Phone is 740 MB. All applications and services are open under GPL and BSD licenses and are available on GitHub. NemoMobile was initially planned as an open replacement for the […]
After three years of development, the first test release of the minimalist automated design system CadZinho has been published. The project is being developed by an enthusiast from Brazil and aims to provide a tool for creating simple two-dimensional technical drawings. The code is written in C with additions in Lua and is distributed under the MIT license. Output is generated using the SDL 2.0 library and the OpenGL 3.2 API. Builds […]
The release of the cross-platform open-source build script generator CMake 3.22 has been presented, serving as an alternative to Autotools and used in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS, and Blender. The CMake code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. CMake is notable for providing a simple scripting language, with functionality extension through modules, and a minimal number of dependencies (no binding to […]
The release of the Q4OS 4.7 distribution has been published, based on the Debian package base and featuring KDE Plasma 5 and Trinity desktops. The distribution is positioned as resource-friendly and offers a classic desktop layout. It includes several custom-developed applications, including 'Desktop profiler' for quick installation of themed software bundles, 'Setup utility' for installing third-party applications, […
The release of CoreBoot 4.15 has been published, which develops a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. A total of 219 developers contributed to the new version, preparing 2597 changes. Key innovations include support for 21 motherboards, including Asus motherboards based on the H61 chipset and 14 motherboards used in […]
Schleswig-Holstein, a region in northern Germany, plans to transition all government employees' computers, including teachers in schools, to open source software as part of an initiative to reduce dependency on a single supplier. In the first phase, by the end of 2026, they plan to replace MS Office with LibreOffice, and later switch from Windows to Linux. This migration will affect around 25,000 computers across various government agencies […]
Several recently discovered vulnerabilities: Three vulnerabilities in the open source CAD system LibreCAD and the libdxfrw library allow for controlled buffer overflow and the potential execution of arbitrary code when opening specially crafted files in DWG and DXF formats. The issues have only been addressed in the form of patches (CVE-2021-21898, CVE-2021-21899, CVE-2021-21900). A vulnerability (CVE-2021-41817) in the Date.parse method provided in the standard library […]
After a year of development, the release of the desktop engine Arcan 0.6.1 is now available, which combines a display server, multimedia framework, and gaming engine for processing 3D graphics. Arcan can be used to create various graphical systems, from user interfaces for embedded applications to standalone desktop environments. This includes the development of the three-dimensional desktop Safespaces for virtual reality systems and […]
Purism, the company behind the Librem 5 smartphone and a series of laptops, servers, and mini-PCs shipped with Linux and CoreBoot, has announced the release of the PureOS 10 distribution, built on the Debian package base and featuring only free applications, including one that comes with the GNU Linux-Libre kernel, stripped of proprietary binary firmware elements. PureOS has been recognized by the Free Software Foundation as fully […]
The Stratis 3.0 project release has been published, developed by Red Hat and the Fedora community to unify and simplify the tools for configuring and managing a pool of one or more local storage devices. Stratis offers features such as dynamic space allocation, snapshots, integrity assurance, and layer creation for caching. Stratis support is integrated into Fedora and RHEL distributions starting from […]
The nftables 1.0.1 packet filter release has been published, which unifies the packet filtering interfaces for IPv4, IPv6, ARP, and network bridges (aimed at replacing iptables, ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables). The necessary changes for nftables 1.0.1 have been included in the Linux kernel 5.16-rc1. The nftables package includes user-space packet filtering components, while at the kernel level […]