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The release of the free cross-platform UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 7.0 has been announced. This marks the 51st release of the project, which will celebrate its 26th anniversary on October 18. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 following a conflict with the NetBSD developers, resulting in Theo losing access to the NetBSD CVS repository. After this, Theo de […]
The release of Chrome OS 94, based on the Linux kernel, upstart system manager, ebuild/portage build tools, open components, and web browser Chrome 94, has been published. The user environment of Chrome OS is limited to the web browser, utilizing web applications instead of standard programs. However, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The Chrome OS 94 build […]
Microsoft has ported the Sysmon system activity monitoring service to the Linux platform. The eBPF subsystem, which allows for running handlers at the operating system kernel level, is used for monitoring Linux operations. Additionally, the SysinternalsEBPF library is being developed, incorporating functions useful for creating BPF handlers for monitoring events in the system. The toolkit's code is open under the MIT license, while the BPF programs are licensed under GPLv2. In […]
The release of Devuan 4.0 "Chimaera", a fork of Debian GNU/Linux that comes without the system manager systemd, has been announced. The new branch is notable for transitioning to the Debian 11 "Bullseye" package base. Live builds and installation ISO images have been prepared for AMD64, i386, armel, armhf, arm64, and ppc64el architectures. Approximately 400 Debian packages have been modified within the project to eliminate dependencies on […]
The release of the Ubuntu 21.10 'Impish Indri' distribution is now available, which is classified as an interim release with updates being provided for 9 months (support will continue until July 2022). Installation images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and UbuntuKylin (the edition for China). Key changes include: Transition to using GTK4 […]
The openSUSE project has announced its intention to create additional intermediate respin builds, in addition to the builds published annually during the release cycle. Respin builds will include all package updates accumulated for the current release of openSUSE Leap, which will help reduce the amount of data downloaded from the network needed to bring a freshly installed distribution up to date. ISO images of the intermediate respin builds are planned to be published […]
The release of LanguageTool 5.5 has occurred, a free software for checking grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style. The program is available as an extension for LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice, as well as an independent console and graphical application, and a web server. Additionally, an interactive form for checking grammar and spelling is available on languagetool.org. The program is also available as an extension for […]
The release of the Qbs build tool 1.20 has been announced. This is the seventh release since the Qt Company stepped away from developing the project, prepared by a community committed to continuing the development of Qbs. Qbs requires Qt among its dependencies for building, although Qbs itself is designed to organize the building of any projects. Qbs utilizes a simplified version of QML to define project build scripts, allowing […]
The release of Dear PyGui 1.0.0 (DPG) has been announced, a cross-platform toolkit for developing graphical user interfaces in Python. The most significant feature of the project is the use of multithreading and offloading operations to the GPU for faster rendering. A key goal of the 1.0.0 release is to stabilize the API. Breaking changes will now be proposed in a separate 'experimental' module. To ensure high performance, the core […]
The release of project BK 3.12.2110.8960 is now available, developing an emulator for the 16-bit home computers BK-0010-01, BK-0011, and BK-0011M that were produced in the 1980s, compatible with the instruction set of PDP-11, SM EVM, and DVK computers. The emulator is written in C++ and is distributed as source code. The overall license for the code is not explicitly defined, but LGPL is mentioned in some files, and […]
After nearly a year of development, the gaming platform Lutris 0.5.9 has been released, providing tools to simplify the installation, configuration, and management of games on Linux. The project code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project supports a catalog for quick search and installation of gaming applications, allowing users to launch games on Linux with one click through a unified interface, without worrying about […]
The author of mitmproxy, a tool for analyzing HTTP/HTTPS traffic, has noticed a fork of their project appearing in the Python package catalog PyPI (Python Package Index). The fork was distributed under a similar name mitmproxy2 and a non-existent version 8.0.1 (the current release of mitmproxy is 7.0.4), hoping that unsuspecting users would perceive the package as a new edition of the main project (type-squatting) and would want to try the new version. […]