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Developer M A Muqtadir, involved in the design of Ubuntu Yaru and the Vanilla OS distribution, has presented initial results of his experiment to recreate the Unity user interface using modern components of the GNOME stack and the Wayland protocol. The demonstrated prototype is built on the Wayfire compositing manager, which utilizes Wayland and allows for creating resource-friendly user interfaces with 3D effects […]
Google has released version 148 of the Chrome web browser. Simultaneously, a stable release of the free project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in that it uses Google logos, has a crash notification system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), automatic update installation, always-on sandbox isolation, delivery of keys to Google APIs, and passing RLZ parameters […]
Stéphane Graber, leader of the Linux Containers project and former technical lead of the LXD project, has announced the release of Incus 7.0 LTS, a fork of the LXD container and virtual machine management system, created by the community after the original project was taken under Canonical's wing and the license was changed. The project code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. An online demonstration is available for familiarization. Incus 7.0 LTS will […]
On April 30, a minor update for the text editor CudaText was released. The editor is written in Free Pascal, supports extensions in Python, and has several features borrowed from Sublime Text. The project's wiki (freepascal.org) outlines the advantages, disadvantages, and features of the project in comparison to Sublime Text and VSCode. In this version: the rule for strikethrough text in the Markdown lexer has been fixed; corrections made […]
On April 28 and May 5, versions 2.3 and 2.3.1 of the Unix-like operating system ToaruOS were released. This system was built from scratch and comes with its own kernel, bootloader, standard C library, package manager, user space components, and a graphical interface featuring a composite window manager. Initially, the project developed at the University of Illinois as a research endeavor focused on creating new composite graphical interfaces, but then […]
The release of the home library cataloging software MyLibrary 5.0 has taken place. The program's code is written in C++ and is available (GitHub, GitFlic) under the GPLv3 license. The user interface is implemented using the Qt6 library. The program is adapted to run on Linux and Windows operating systems. Arch Linux users can find a build script for the ready-to-use package in AUR. For Windows users, […]
Jarred Sumner, the creator and lead developer of the Bun server JavaScript platform, has created a Git branch to start rewriting Bun from Zig to Rust. The rewriting is being conducted with the assistance of the AI assistant Claude, for which a separate porting guide has been formulated. According to Jarred, this is just an experiment and not an official port, and there is a high likelihood that the project will not progress beyond the experimental stage […]
A massive failure occurred in the functionality of the 'DE' domain zone used in Germany. Issues arose due to a misconfiguration of DNSSEC for the root zone 'DE' made by DENIC, the organization responsible for the top-level domain 'DE'. From May 5, 10:30 PM to May 6, 1:30 AM (MSK), attempts to resolve domains in the 'DE' zone through DNS servers using DNSSEC for data validation were unsuccessful […]
The release of the home library cataloging software MyLibrary 5.0 has taken place. The program's code is written in C++ and is available (GitHub, GitFlic) under the GPLv3 license. The user interface is implemented using the Qt6 library. The program is adapted to run on Linux and Windows operating systems. Arch Linux users can find a build script for the ready-to-use package in AUR. For Windows users, […]
Node.js 26.0.0 has been released, a platform for executing network applications in JavaScript. Node.js 26.0 is classified as a long-term support (LTS) version, but this status will only be assigned in October after stabilization. Support for Node.js 26.x will continue until May 2029. The previous LTS version, Node.js 24.x, will be supported until April 30, 2028, and the version before that […]
PHP developers have notified OSI (Open Source Initiative) of the voluntary withdrawal of PHP License 3.01. It has been stated that after several years of work, the PHP toolkit code has been fully transitioned to the BSD-3 license, and there is no longer any code under the old PHP License 3.01. The text of the new PHP License version has replaced […]
The release of ToaruOS 2.3, a Unix-like operating system built from scratch with its own kernel, bootloader, standard C library, package manager, user space components, and a graphical interface with a composited window manager, has been published. Initially, the project was developed at the University of Illinois as a research effort in creating new composited graphical interfaces, but then transformed into a standalone operating system. The code of the project […]
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