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The founder of QEMU and FFmpeg published the Micro QuickJS JavaScript engine.

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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 […]

French mathematician Fabrice Bellard, the founder of projects like QEMU, FFmpeg, BPG, QuickJS, TinyGL, and TinyCC, has published a new JavaScript engine for embedded systems — Micro QuickJS.

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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 […]

Release of elementary OS 8.1 distribution

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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, […]

The Microsoft project for using AI to translate the codebase from C/C++ to Rust.

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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 […]

The Lua programming language 5.5 is now available

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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 […]

Official support for the LoongArch architecture has been implemented in Debian.

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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 […]

Remote root vulnerability in the IPv6 autoconfiguration handler in FreeBSD.

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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, […]

Release of the 86Box 5.3 emulator.

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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 […]

Release of OS Qubes 4.3.0, utilizing virtualization for application isolation

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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, […]

Release of the Chimera 20251220 distribution, combining the Linux kernel with the FreeBSD environment.

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An update has been released for the Chimera Linux distribution, notable for its use of the Linux kernel combined with FreeBSD utilities, the dinit system manager, and the Musl standard C library. The build is compiled with Clang. Live boot images have been created for the x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64, riscv64, and ppc64 architectures in variants with GNOME (1.8 GB), KDE (2.5 GB), and a minimal environment (1 GB). The project is aimed at […]

Arch Linux is transitioning to the use of open kernel modules in NVIDIA driver packages.

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Developers of the Arch Linux distribution have announced the replacement of packages with proprietary NVIDIA drivers "nvidia", "nvidia-dkms", and "nvidia-lts" with the packages "nvidia-open", "nvidia-open-dkms", and "nvidia-lts-open", which utilize open-source kernel modules from NVIDIA. This decision is due to the fact that NVIDIA drivers version 590.x only support GPUs starting from the Turing microarchitecture (RTX 20xx and GTX 1650 series), making it pointless to maintain official […]

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