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Canonical and Lenovo have announced the expansion of their program to pre-install Linux on ThinkPad and ThinkStation devices. 29 models of ThinkPad laptops and ThinkStation workstations will be available for purchase with Ubuntu 20.04 pre-installed. Previously, Lenovo began supplying Fedora on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 model and intended to ensure RHEL pre-installation, and has also engaged in […]
Radeon Open Compute is a free set of drivers, libraries, and utilities for implementing OpenCL and machine learning technologies for platforms based on AMD graphics cards. It is developed by AMD. The set includes the rock-dkms kernel module, HCC and HIP compilers, and the rocm-clang-ocl version, libraries to support OpenCL, as well as libraries and sample sets for implementing basic machine learning algorithms. In the new release: […]
A significant release of the specialized Tor Browser 10 has been formed, which transitions to the ESR branch of Firefox 78. The browser focuses on ensuring anonymity, security, and privacy, with all traffic redirected only through the Tor network. Direct access through the current system's standard network connection is impossible, which prevents tracking the user's actual IP address (in the event of a browser hack, attackers may gain access to […]
The release of Samba 4.13.0 has been presented, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a fully implemented domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows 2000 implementation and capable of servicing all supported Microsoft Windows client versions, including Windows 10. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides an implementation of a file server, print service, and identity server (winbind). Key changes […]
The Wine project has released the vkd3d 1.2 package, which implements Direct3D 12 working through the translation of calls to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes libvkd3d libraries implementing Direct3D 12, libvkd3d-shader with a translator for shader models 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify the porting of Direct3D 12 applications, as well as a set of demonstration samples, including the glxgears port […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 81 has taken place. Additionally, an update for the 78.3.0 long-term support branch has been created. The formation of updates for Firefox 68.x has been discontinued, and users of this branch will be offered an automatic update to version 78.3. The Firefox 82 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for October 20. Key innovations include a new print preview interface that is noteworthy […]
The release of the lightweight Linux distribution Puppy 9.5 (FossaPup) has been announced, aimed at functioning on outdated hardware. The bootable ISO image is 409 MB (x86_64). The distribution is built using the package base of Ubuntu 20.04 and its own build toolset Woof-CE, which allows the use of package bases from other distributions as a foundation. Utilizing binary packages from Ubuntu significantly reduces the time required for release preparation and testing, and […]
Firefox 81 is now available. In Linux, issues with DMABuf and hardware acceleration of video playback have been resolved, while macOS has implemented hardware acceleration for VP9 format video. On devices with Adreno 5xx GPUs (except 505 and 506), WebRender has been enabled. Support for multimedia keys (hardware playback control buttons on keyboards and headsets) is now active, even when the browser window is not in […]
The SeaMonkey 2.53.4 internet application suite has been released, which combines a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom feed aggregation system, and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer within a single product. The pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, a set of developer tools DOM Inspector, and the calendar-planner Lightning. The new release incorporates fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after it was abandoned by Canonical, has released the OTA-13 (over-the-air) firmware update for all officially supported smartphones and tablets that were equipped with Ubuntu-based firmware. The update has been prepared for smartphones including OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013, and Meizu […]
Oracle has announced the implementation of a continuous delivery model for Solaris, under which new features and fresh package versions will soon appear in the Solaris 11.4 branch as part of monthly updates, without the creation of a new significant release of Solaris 11.5. The proposed model, which implies delivering new functionality in frequently released minor versions, will accelerate the enhancement of […]
Public discussion has begun on the draft legal act to amend the Federal Law 'On Information, Information Technology and Information Protection,' developed by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media. The law proposes to introduce a ban on the use within the territory of the Russian Federation 'encryption protocols that allow masking the name (identifier) of a web page or site on the Internet, except in cases established by […]
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