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The Fedora Project has severed ties with the Free Software Foundation and opposed Stallman.

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The Fedora Project Board has published a statement regarding Richard Stallman's return to the board of the Free Software Foundation. The statement emphasizes that Fedora advocates building an inclusive, open, and friendly community that does not tolerate harassment, bullying, or any other forms of abusive behavior in communications. Furthermore, the Fedora Board is stunned that the Free Software Foundation allowed Stallman to return with […]

Beta release of Ubuntu 21.04

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The beta release of Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" has been introduced, following which a full package freeze was implemented and the developers moved on to final testing and bug fixing. The release is scheduled for April 22. Ready test 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: As […]

Valve has released Proton 6.3, a package for running Windows games on Linux.

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Valve has released Proton 6.3-1, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the running of gaming applications created for Windows on Linux, available in the Steam catalog. The project advancements are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows gaming applications that are only available for Windows to be launched directly in the Linux Steam client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX […]

An installer has been added to the installation images of Arch Linux.

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The developers of the Arch Linux distribution announced the integration of the Archinstall installer into the installation ISO images, which can be used instead of manual installation. Archinstall operates in console mode and is offered as an option to automate the installation. By default, as before, the manual mode is suggested, which involves using a step-by-step installation guide. The announcement of the installer integration was made on April 1, but this is not […]

Release of the mobile platform LineageOS 18 based on Android 11

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The developers of the LineageOS project, which succeeded CyanogenMod following the discontinuation of the project by Cyanogen Inc, have released LineageOS 18.1, based on the Android 11 platform. The 18.1 release was created skipping 18.0 due to the peculiarities of tag assignments in the repository. It is noted that the LineageOS 18 branch has reached parity in functionality and stability with branch 17 and is considered ready for transition to […]

Release of the Deepin 20.2 distribution, developing its own graphical environment.

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The release of the Deepin 20.2 distribution has taken place, based on the Debian package base but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and about 40 user applications, including the music player DMusic, video player DMovie, messaging system DTalk, installer, and software center Deepin Software Center. The project is based by a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project. The distribution […]

Google is developing a new Bluetooth stack for Android, written in Rust.

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A variant of the Gabeldorsh (GD) Bluetooth stack, rewritten in Rust, has been placed in the repository with the source code of the Android platform. Details about the project are currently unavailable, with only the build instructions provided. The Android-based inter-process communication mechanism Binder has also been rewritten in Rust. Notably, another Bluetooth stack is being developed for the Fuchsia OS, also using Rust for development. More […]

Release of system manager systemd 248

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After four months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 248 has been presented. The new release provides support for images to expand system directories, the configuration file /etc/veritytab, the systemd-cryptenroll utility, LUKS2 unlocking using TPM2 chips and FIDO2 tokens, running units in an isolated IPC namespace, the B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol for mesh networks, and the nftables backend for systemd-nspawn. systemd-oomd has been stabilized. Key changes: The concept of […]

The author of Libreboot defended Richard Stallman

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Leah Rowe, the founder of the Libreboot distribution and a well-known advocate for minority rights, despite past conflicts with the FSF and Stallman, has publicly defended Richard Stallman against recent attacks. Leah Rowe believes the witch hunt is orchestrated by those ideologically opposed to free software and is aimed not only at Stallman but also at […]

Release of the GTK 4.2 graphical toolkit

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After three months of development, the release of the multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces — GTK 4.2.0 — has been announced. GTK 4 is developed within a new development process that aims to provide application developers with a stable API that can be supported for several years, so they do not have to worry about rewriting their applications due to API changes every six months in another GTK branch. […]

The first stable release of AlmaLinux, a fork of CentOS 8

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The first stable release of the AlmaLinux distribution has been made, created in response to the premature discontinuation of support for CentOS 8 by Red Hat (the release of updates for CentOS 8 is set to be stopped at the end of 2021, not in 2029 as users had expected). The project is based on CloudLinux, which provided resources and developers, and has been transferred to a separate non-profit organization AlmaLinux OS […]

Release of the integrated suite of internet applications SeaMonkey 2.53.7

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The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.7 internet application suite has occurred, integrating a web browser, email client, news feed aggregation system (RSS/Atom), and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor called Composer into one product. Pre-installed extensions include the IRC client Chatzilla, a set of web developer tools DOM Inspector, and the calendar/planner Lightning. This new release includes fixes and updates from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]

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