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Mozilla is working on a modernization of the Firefox interface as part of its Nova project. Several mockups of the new design are available, allowing you to evaluate the main trends. The most noticeable change is the increased rounding of the tab buttons and address bar, as well as the consolidation of the top area with the tab bar and navigation bar, the sidebar, the content area, and […]
Wine 11.4, an experimental release of the open source Win32 API, has been published. Since the release of 11.3, 17 bug reports have been closed and 211 changes have been made. The most important changes include: Continued development of the msxml3 (Microsoft® XML Core Services) library, which is required for the Adobe Cloud product installer, including Adobe Photoshop. msxml3 now supports the SAX Reader API, which implements event-based […]
Dan Blanchard, the developer of the chardet library for character encoding detection in Python, has released a new version of the library under a new license. Version 7.0 uses the MIT license instead of the LGPL. The developer claims that the AI assistant Anthropic Claude, now listed as a contributor, rewrote the library without using the original code, allowing him to replace the copyleft license with a permissive one. To […]
New editions of manuals have been released Linux From Scratch 13.0 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 13.0 (BLFS), formed only in the form of an edition with the system manager systemd. In Linux From Scratch, instructions are provided on how to create a basic Linux-systems using only the source code of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch supplements LFS instructions with assembly information and […]
The Rust programming language, version 1.94, was released. It was founded by the Mozilla project but is now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on memory safety and provides means for achieving high parallelism of task execution, while doing without the use of a garbage collector and runtime (the runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). The methods of work […]
Pizlix, an experimental operating system based on Linux From Scratch (LFS) 12.2. The key feature of the project is the userland assembly using the Fil-C compiler, which, according to the author, allows for the most memory-safe operation. Linux-like distribution available today. Pizlix's development was made possible by its high degree of compatibility […]
After a year of development, the new stable branch of the Postfix mail server, version 3.12.0, has been released. At the same time, support for Postfix 3.7, released in early 2022, has been discontinued. The project's code is written in C and is licensed under the EPL 2.0 (Eclipse Public License) and IPL 1.0 (IBM Public License). Postfix is one of the rare […]
After a year of development, OpenWrt 25.12.0, a significant release of the distribution designed for network devices such as routers, switches, and access points, has been released. OpenWrt supports over 2200 devices and offers a build system that simplifies cross-compilation and the creation of custom builds. These builds allow you to create ready-made firmware with the desired set of pre-installed packages, optimized for specific tasks. Ready-to-use builds have been published for 41 […]
PortableGL 0.100 is now available. It develops a software implementation of the OpenGL 3.x graphics API, written entirely in C. PortableGL can theoretically be used in any application that accepts a texture or framebuffer as input. The code is packaged as a single header file and is distributed under the MIT license. The project's stated goals include portability, compliance with the OpenGL API, simplicity […]
The T2 SDE 26.3 meta-distribution has been released, providing an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compiling, and maintaining package versions up-to-date. Popular distributions built on the T2 system include Puppy. LinuxThe project provides 10 ready-to-use bootable ISO images with a KDE-based graphical environment, compiled for the arm64, ia64, ppc64, ppc64le, riscv64, riscv64 rva23, and i686 architectures […]
For RP2350 owners, a free OS (available under GPLv3) with a rather nostalgic feel, based on FreeRTOS, has been released. It supports ELF binaries (compatible with M-OS applications) and the FAT32 file system. The target device for this OS is the FRANK family of RP2350-based boards. Source: linux.org.ru
Google announced the introduction of chips based on the OpenTitan open platform in Chromebooks. Chromebooks are the first commercially available devices equipped with OpenTitan. Google plans to begin deploying OpenTitan-based server systems in its data centers later this year. Nuvoton is organizing mass production of the chips. Work has also begun on a second version of the chip, which will enable […]