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Google has released version 152 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which forms the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by using Google logos, having a crash notification system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, constant Sandbox isolation, providing keys to Google API, and transmitting RLZ parameters […]
The Document Foundation has released version 26.8 of the LibreOffice suite. Ready-to-install packages are available for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. Notable changes include: Different background colors for the top panel (Notebookbars) in different modules (Writer, Calc, Draw, and Impress). Category tabs have been added in the tabbed tool splitting mode. The ability to switch between tabs has been added in […]
The first public release of the Multikernel Linux project (mklinux-v7.0-mk2), which is developing a variant of the Linux kernel enhanced with the ability to run multiple independent kernel instances on a single physical computer without using a hypervisor and virtualization, has been presented. Each kernel instance has direct access to hardware resources and can be used to run separate isolated system environments. The first release is based on Linux kernel 7.0 and contains […]
The release of the Armbian Linux distribution 26.8 is now available, providing a compact system environment for single-board computers powered by ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures, supporting various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale/NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. To create builds […]
System76, the developer of the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released the COSMIC desktop environment version 1.7.0. Packages for COSMIC 1.7.0 are available in the Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution and are expected soon in Fedora, NixOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries) licenses. COSMIC is evolving as a universal […]
A corrective release of Firefox 154.0.1 is available, introducing six fixes: Issues causing slow access to saved passwords have been resolved, and unnecessary prompts for entering the master password to unlock the password store have been eliminated. A bug that prevented address auto-fill on certain websites has been fixed. An issue causing HTTP connection setup failures with local network devices without prior […]
On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced in the comp.os.minix newsgroup the creation of a working prototype of the new operating system Linux, marking the completion of the porting of bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40. The first public release of the Linux kernel was presented on September 17. Kernel 0.0.1 was 62 KB in compressed form and contained […]
After two years of development, the release of the user distribution Vanilla OS 3, based on the Debian package base, has been published, going beyond a standard rebuild. The operating environment in Vanilla OS is mounted in read-only mode and updated atomically, while applications run in separate containers using a layer based on Distrobox tools. An unmodified GNOME is offered as the user environment, […]
The release of the Exim 4.100 mail server has been published, which includes accumulated fixes and adds new features. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. Key changes: Added 'psl' and 'regdom' options for searching the PSL (Public Suffix List) and the database of registered domain names. PSL includes a list for identifying standard subdomains assigned to different […]
Work on the mathematical formal verification of the reliability and security of the seL4 microkernel on AArch64 architecture systems has been completed. The verification involves a mathematical proof of seL4's correctness, which confirms its full compliance with specifications set out in formal language. The reliability proof allows the use of seL4 in critical systems based on ARM64 processors, which require a higher level of security and […]
A new version of the PorteuX 2.8 distribution, based on Slackware and inspired by the Slax and Porteus projects, has been released. Notable features of PorteuX include preconfigured environments based on desktop environments such as Cinnamon, COSMIC, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce, inclusion of hardware acceleration for multimedia file processing on Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA GPUs, and the ability to boot in Live mode in 3 […]
The RDPClient for the KolibriOS operating system, written in assembly language, has been published. The cross-compilation toolchain used was Kos-32 based on GCC-5.4.0. A statically linked BearSSL library was employed to implement an encrypted channel. Given the limitations of KolibriOS and its toolchain, development was carried out in C with direct calls to system calls. An AI assistant, Claude, was used during development. Implemented features include dynamic resizing […]