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After two years since the last update, the release of the classic industrial desktop environment CDE 2.5.3 (Common Desktop Environment) has been presented. CDE was created in the early 1990s through the collaborative efforts of Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu, and Hitachi, and for many years was the standard graphical environment for Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Digital UNIX, and UnixWare. […]
The release of Rocky Linux 10.1, a free build that progresses from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and aims to fill the gap left by classic CentOS, is now available. This distribution is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can serve as a replacement for RHEL 10.1 and CentOS 10 Stream. Support for Rocky Linux 10 will last until 2035. Installation ISO images of Rocky Linux are prepared for the architectures […]
The Raspberry Pi Project has released a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS distribution 2025-11-24 (Raspbian). This distribution is based on the Debian 13 package base and contains around 35,000 packages in the repository. The desktop environment is based on the labwc compositing server, which utilizes the wlroots library from the Sway project. Three builds have been prepared for download: a reduced (494MB) version for server systems, with a basic desktop […]
Oracle has released Oracle Linux 9.7, built on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7 package base and fully binary compatible with it. For unrestricted download, installation ISO images sized 13 GB and 1.3 GB are available, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. Oracle Linux 9 has unlimited and free access to the yum repository with […]
NTC IT ROSA has released the ROSA Fresh 13.1 distribution, built on the rosa 13 platform. This distribution is freely distributed and developed with community involvement. The release is aimed at a wide range of users and will serve as the basis for the corporate distribution ROSA Chrome 13. Builds with KDE (4 GB) and GNOME (4 GB) desktop environments for the x86_64 architecture are available for download. In the repository […]
A second attack on packages in the NPM repository has been confirmed, conducted using a modified self-replicating worm Shai-Hulud, which injects malware into dependencies. As a result of the attack, malicious releases of 605 packages were published, totaling more than 100 million downloads. To carry out the attack, the perpetrators phished the account credentials of the maintainer of one of the popular packages used as a dependency […]
The GrapheneOS project, which develops an alternative open-source firmware based on Android aimed at enhancing security and ensuring privacy, is facing threats of prosecution from law enforcement in France due to their inability to analyze the contents of smartphones belonging to arrested criminals. In a statement released by representatives of GrapheneOS, they reported receiving threats from French law enforcement, warning of server seizures and the arrest of developers if the project refuses to cooperate […]
The release of AlmaLinux 10.1, synchronized with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and containing all changes proposed in this release, has been announced. Installation images have been prepared for x86_64_v3, x86_64_v2, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of bootable (927 MB), minimal (1.4 GB), and full images (8.3 GB). Live builds with GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce will be created later, and […]
The release of the Memtest86+ 8.0 program for testing RAM is now available. The program is not tied to operating systems and can be run directly from the BIOS/UEFI firmware or from a bootloader to perform a full check of the RAM. If issues are detected, the built-in Memtest86+ bad memory address map can be used in the Linux kernel to exclude problematic areas using the memmap option. […]
The Blender Foundation has released version 5.0 of the free 3D modeling software Blender, suitable for addressing various tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Ready builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The LTS branches Blender 4.2 and 4.5 continue to be supported, […]
The release of the wayland-protocols package 1.46 has been published, which contains a set of protocols and extensions that complement the core Wayland protocol and provide the necessary capabilities for building composite servers and user environments. In the new version: An experimental protocol xx-input-method has been added, allowing applications to implement text input methods for composite servers and generate the entered text, which can be used, for example, for creating virtual keyboards and IME layers […]
The release of the Startwine-Launcher 412 application has been published, developed to run programs and games built for the Windows platform on Linux systems. The main goal of the StartWine-Launcher development was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes for beginners — sets of libraries and dependencies required for Windows applications to run on Linux. The StartWine-Launcher code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is based on […]