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The release of the Manjaro Linux 20.1 distribution has been announced, built on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users. The distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatic hardware detection, and installation of the necessary drivers. Manjaro is available in live builds with graphical environments KDE (2.9 GB), GNOME (2.6 GB), and Xfce (2.6 GB). With […]
The release of the new stable branch WebKitGTK 2.30.0 has been announced, the port of the WebKit browser engine for the GTK platform. WebKitGTK allows you to leverage all the capabilities of WebKit through a GNOME-oriented programming interface based on GObject and can be used to integrate web content processing tools into any applications, from specialized HTML/CSS parsers to creating fully functional web browsers. Notable projects using WebKitGTK include Midori […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.17 has been announced. Since the release of version 5.16, 17 bug reports have been closed, and 267 changes have been made. The most important changes: Initial implementation of the NDIS network driver has been proposed. The ADVAPI32 library has been converted to the PE format. Work on restructuring console support has continued. Bug reports related to the operation of games and applications have been closed: […]
The release of the Deepin 20 distribution has been announced, based on the Debian package base, while developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and around 30 user applications, including the music player DMusic, video player DMovie, messaging system DTalk, and the installer and program center Deepin Software Center. The project is founded by a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project. The distribution […]
Mozilla has introduced new features for promoting add-ons in the AMO directory (addons.mozilla.org). In a pilot mode from the end of September to the end of November, the program for manual review and assessment of add-ons will be expanded. Since Mozilla does not have the resources to manually review all add-ons, they have launched the Promoted Add-ons program, which allows for expedited review on a paid basis. During […]
Microsoft has announced an extension of the functionality of the WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux), which enables the execution of Linux executable files on Windows. Starting with the Windows Insiders build 20211, WSL2 has added support for mounting file systems from physical disks. A ‘wsl --mount’ command has been proposed, which can also be used to mount a partition with the FS into WSL, not […]
A little over a year ago, I decided to create a web panel for my needs that would allow exporting webpage positions and other statistics from Google Search Console for easy analysis. Now I think it's time to share the tool with the OpenSource community to receive feedback and improve the program. Main features: Allows loading all available statistics on impressions, […]
On September 9, the long beta testing phase concluded, and the final build of the flight simulator X-Plane 11.50 was released. The main innovation in this version is the port of the rendering engine from OpenGL to Vulkan, which significantly increases performance and frame rates under normal conditions (i.e., not just in benchmarks). X-Plane is a cross-platform flight simulator (GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, as well as Android and iOS) […]
The release of the Thunderbird 78.2.2 email client is now available, which introduces support for rearranging email recipients via Drag&Drop. The chat feature has removed Twitter support, which was inoperable. The built-in OpenPGP implementation has improved failure handling during key imports, established online key searching, and addressed decryption issues when using certain HTTP proxies. Proper handling of vCard 2.1 attachments has been ensured. […]
Seventeen new participants have joined the initiative to increase predictability in open source software licensing, agreeing to apply more lenient revocation conditions for their open projects, allowing time to address identified violations. The total number of companies that have signed the agreement has exceeded 60. New participants signing the GPL Cooperation Commitment include NetApp, Salesforce, Seagate Technology, Ericsson, Fujitsu Limited, Indeed, Infosys, Lenovo, […]
An update has been prepared for the OpenWrt 19.07.4 distribution, designed for use in various networking devices such as routers and access points. OpenWrt supports a wide range of different platforms and architectures and features a build system that simplifies cross-compilation, allowing various components to be included in the build, which makes it easy to create firmware or disk images tailored to specific tasks with […]
The Ubuntu*Pack 20.04 distribution is now available for free download, presented in the form of 13 independent systems with various interfaces, including Budgie, Cinnamon, GNOME, GNOME Classic, GNOME Flashback, KDE (Kubuntu), LXqt (Lubuntu), MATE, Unity, and Xfce (Xubuntu), as well as two new interfaces: DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) and Like Win (Windows 10 style interface). The distributions are based on […]