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After nearly two years since the last significant branch was formed, the stable release of the OpenMediaVault 8.0 distribution has been published, allowing for rapid deployment of network-attached storage (NAS). The OpenMediaVault project was founded in 2009 following a split among developers of the FreeNAS distribution, resulting in the classic FreeNAS based on FreeBSD and a fork, whose developers set […]
After four months of development, release 0.3 of the Wayback project has been published, enabling the launch of desktop environments tied to the X11 protocol using components based on Wayland. Wayback is a slimmed-down Wayland compositor server that supports only the necessary features for running a fullscreen X11 session using Xwayland. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project was created by the developers of the […]
Researchers from CodeRabbit analyzed 470 pull requests (350 generated by AI, 150 manually written) in open projects on GitHub and concluded that AI-generated changes contain 1.7 times more significant defects and 1.4 times more critical issues than manually written code. On average, AI-generated pull requests […]
French mathematician Fabrice Bellard, founder of projects such as QEMU, FFmpeg, BPG, QuickJS, TinyGL, and TinyCC, has released a new JavaScript engine for embedded systems — Micro QuickJS, capable of compiling and executing JavaScript programs with only 10 KB of RAM. Together with the C library, the engine occupies approximately 100 KB of persistent memory. It is possible to compile JavaScript to bytecode and run it separately […]
After 6 months of development, the postmarketOS 25.12 release has been presented, which develops a Linux distribution for mobile devices based on the Alpine Linux package base, the standard C library Musl, and the BusyBox utility set. The goal of the project is to provide a Linux distribution for smartphones and tablets that is independent of the support lifecycle of official firmware and not tied to typical solutions from the industry's major players. Builds […]
The release of the elementary OS 8.1 distribution has been presented, marketed as a fast, open-source, and privacy-focused alternative to Windows and macOS. The project emphasizes quality design aimed at creating a user-friendly system that consumes minimal resources and offers high boot speed. Users are provided with their own Pantheon desktop environment. Bootable ISO images (3.1 GB) are prepared for download, […]
Galen Hunt, Managing Director of Microsoft Azure Sphere and former head of the operating systems development group at Microsoft Research, has introduced a research project to create tools that combine AI with traditional algorithms to automate the rewriting of Microsoft's largest code bases in Rust. The goal of the project is to completely eliminate C and C++ from Microsoft's code bases […]
After five years of development, the release of Lua 5.5 is available, a fast and compact scripting programming language that has become widely used as an embedded language for configuration definition and extension writing. The Lua interpreter's code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. Lua combines a simple procedural syntax with the ability to describe data through the use of associative arrays and extensibility […]
The developers of the Debian project have announced the status of an official port for the distribution's edition for systems based on the LoongArch (loong64) architecture. Packages for LoongArch are available for installation from the Debian Sid (Unstable) repository. The LoongArch instruction set architecture is utilized in processors from Loongson and implements a RISC ISA similar to MIPS and RISC-V. In the initial phase of the integration of the new port from the package […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2025-14558) has been discovered in the rtsold background process and the rtsol utility used in FreeBSD, which allows remote code execution with root privileges by sending a specially crafted packet with an IPv6 router advertisement. RA messages (Router Advertisement), which exploit this vulnerability, are not routed and should be discarded by routers. To carry out the attack, the attacker must have the ability to send a specially crafted packet from a system, […]
The release of the 86Box 5.3 project has been announced, which develops an emulator for systems based on the x86 architecture, allowing the execution of old operating systems and applications, including those used in the early 1980s on IBM PC 5150 and IBM PS/2 computers. It supports accurate low-level emulation of systems, from 8086 processors to Intel Celeron Mendocino. The project's code is written in […]
After two years of development, the release of the Qubes 4.3.0 operating system has been announced. It implements the idea of using a hypervisor for strict isolation of applications and OS components (each class of applications and system services runs in separate virtual machines). A system with 16 GB of RAM (minimum — 6 GB) and a 64-bit Intel or AMD CPU with VT-x support is recommended for operation, […]