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The lead developer of Gothic Remake talked about the differences between the remake and the original "Gothic"

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Reinhard Pollice, head of Alkimia Interactive, discussed the team's approach to creating the remake of the iconic fantasy role-playing game "Gothic" by Piranha Bytes in an interview with PC Gamer. According to Pollice, during the early stages of development for Gothic Remake, various ideas were considered, such as adding a mini-map, character editor, and mini-games to populate the world (card and fishing), but they decided against […]

The release of the composite server Niri on April 26, utilizing Wayland

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After three months of development, the release of the composite server Niri 26.04 has been published, implementing a tiling method in the style of the GNOME extension PaperWM, where windows are grouped into an infinitely scrollable ribbon on the screen. Opening a new window causes the ribbon to expand, while previously added windows do not change size. The project is based on using the Wayland protocol but allows running X11 applications […]

Niri 26.04

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A new version of Niri v26.04 has been released—a scroll-tiling compositor for Wayland that arranges windows in columns on an infinite strip to the right, with opening a new window not altering the sizes of already opened ones. Niri is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPL3 license. In February, the repository on GitHub surpassed 20,000 stars. The main feature of the release, which was highly requested, is support for […]

Microsoft is considering moving Azure Linux to a Fedora package base

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Conan Kudo, a member of the technical committee for the Fedora project, mentioned during a recent online meeting of the ELN (Enterprise Linux Next) group that Microsoft intends to transition the Azure Linux distribution partially to the Fedora Linux package base. To achieve higher performance in Azure Linux, builds for the x86_64-v3 architecture are required, and Microsoft developers aimed to create […]

Release of the CachyOS 260426 distribution

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The release of the CachyOS 260426 distribution, based on the Arch Linux package base and utilizing a continuous delivery model for updates, has been announced. It is popular among gaming enthusiasts. According to ProtonDB, CachyOS is the most popular Linux distribution used by gamers, with a market share of 21.1%. This distribution is notable for its performance optimizations and the ability to install various desktop environments. In addition to the base […]

Release D7VK 1.8, implementing Direct3D 3-7 on top of the Vulkan API

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The release of the D7VK project 1.8 has been published, which develops the implementation of the Direct3D 3, 5, 6, and 7 graphics APIs proposed by Microsoft in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. D7VK operates through the translation of calls into the Vulkan API and allows retro games tied to Direct3D 3, 5, 6, and 7 to run on Linux via Wine. The project code is written […]

The first results of the Launchpad service modernization

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Canonical has announced an initiative to modernize the Launchpad service, used in the development of Ubuntu for collaborative code work, bug tracking, change reviews, building, and package hosting. The first to be rid of the outdated interface are summary pages with information about Ubuntu releases. For example, on the Ubuntu 26.04 page, one can track known issues and the progress of bug fixes, and obtain information about […]

Update of the text recognition program dpScreenOCR 1.5.1

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The release of the dpScreenOCR 1.5.1 program for optical character recognition, utilizing Tesseract, has taken place. dpScreenOCR allows users to capture any area of the screen using a global hotkey and mouse, from which text will be recognized. Depending on user choice, the program can copy the recognized text to the clipboard, add it to history, or send it to an external program. Ready builds have been created for Linux […]

Tails 7.7

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On April 23, 2026, the Tails project announced the release of a new version of its privacy-focused Linux distribution – Tails 7.7. Key changes: Detection of obsolete Secure Boot certificates: Microsoft has begun replacing Secure Boot certificates issued back in 2011. Their validity expires in June 2026. The new version of Tails implements a notification system to warn users […]

113 vulnerabilities have been identified in Rust Coreutils. cp, mv, and rm from GNU Coreutils have returned in Ubuntu 26.04.

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Canonical has published preliminary results of an independent security audit of the uutils coreutils (Rust Coreutils) toolkit, written in Rust and partially used in Ubuntu instead of the GNU Coreutils package. The audit was conducted by Zellic, a company experienced in vulnerability analysis in Rust projects. During the review, 113 security issues were identified. The report is already available […]

Release of GNU Coreutils 9.11

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The stable version of the GNU Coreutils 9.11 package of basic system utilities is now available, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls. Key innovations: Support for multi-byte characters has been implemented in the cut, nl, unexpand, and expand utilities. The cut utility has added options "-w", "-F", and "-O" for compatibility […]

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

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On April 23, a new version of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS was released, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon,” which can be downloaded and installed from the official website ubuntu.com. "Resolute Raccoon is based on improvements aimed at enhancing resilience, which were introduced in the interim releases, including full disk encryption with TPM support, improved permission request support for applications, and Livepatch updates […]

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