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Daniel J. Bernstein, a renowned cryptography and security software expert who developed projects such as qmail, djbdns, NaCl, Ed25519, Curve25519, and ChaCha20-Poly1305, has released cdb 20250121, a data storage format and accompanying library for embedding key/value database functions into applications. This release comes more than 25 years after [β¦]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds released the kernel. Linux 6.18. Among the most notable changes: dm-pcache for disk caching in non-volatile memory (PMEM), removal of Bcachefs, online XFS checking mode, Binder drivers (Android IPC) and Tyr (Mali GPU) in Rust, the ability to create USB drivers in Rust, caching optimizations in the SLUB memory allocator, addressing namespaces by file descriptors, [β¦]
CachyOS distribution release 251129, based on the Arch package base, has been released. Linux and uses a continuous update delivery model. The distribution is notable for its performance optimizations and the ability to install various desktop environments. In addition to the base KDE-based environment, GNOME, Xfce, i3WM, Wayfire, LXQT, OpenBox, Cinnamon, Cosmic, Niri, UKUI, LXDE, Mate, Budgie, Qtile, [β¦]
EndeavourOS 25.11 "Mercury" distribution has been released, continuing the development of the Antergos project and aimed at providing the ability to install Arch without unnecessary complications. Linux with the selected desktop environment. The desktop environment's contents match the source distribution of the selected project. The installation image size is 3.4 GB (x86_64). The distribution offers a simple installer for installing the basic Arch environment. Linux, based on the Calamares toolkit. For [β¦]
The release has been published LinuxThe Solus 4.8 distribution, which is not based on packages from other distributions and develops its own installer, package manager, and configurator. The Budgie desktop was previously part of the distribution, but it has now been spun off into an independent project. The next branch, Solus 5, will be developed using AerynOS technologies. The project's code is licensed under the GPLv2 license, and the following languages ββare used for development [β¦]
4M edition availableLinux 50.0, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on the JWM window manager. 4MLinux It can be used both as a live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, as well as a disaster recovery system and a platform for running mini-servers. A live image is available for download [β¦]
The release of the MiniOS 5.1.0 distribution, based on Debian 13 "Trixie" and runs directly from a USB drive. The graphical environment is based on Xfce. The distribution uses a modular architecture, allowing for customized configurations by adding and removing components to tailor the system to specific needs. The release is available in three editions: Standard (amd64, 812 MB) β a compact build for everyday tasks. Characterized by high [β¦]
After three months of development, Niri 25.11, a compositing server, has been released. It implements a tiling layout similar to the GNOME extension PaperWM, grouping windows into an infinitely scrolling ribbon. Opening a new window expands the ribbon, while previously added windows remain unchanged. The project relies on the Wayland protocol, but allows you to run X11 applications [β¦]
After 8 months of development, the first prototype of the Unix-like Moss kernel, partially compatible with LinuxThe code is written in Rust with assembly language inserts and is distributed under the MIT license. The project currently only supports the Aarch64 architecture, can run in QEMU, and has been tested on Raspberry Pi 4, Jetson Nano, AMD Kria, and imx8 boards. According to the developers [β¦]
The latest KDE weekly development report has been published. The most notable changes being developed for the KDE Plasma 6.6 release, scheduled for February 12th, include: The KWin compositing manager now emulates the XRandr extension, used for dynamic resolution changes, rotation, transformation, and mirroring of screen contents. This support resolves issues with displaying full-screen X11 applications on widescreen displays when using XWayland. Modernization of [β¦]
Wine 10.20, an experimental release of the open source Win32 API implementation, has been published. Since the release of 10.19, 31 bug reports have been closed and 337 changes have been made. The most important changes include: The built-in Vkd3d package with its Direct3D 12 implementation has been updated to version 1.18. A dialog box has been added to display document scanning progress. The Reparse Point mechanism, which allows [β¦]
The release of Redis 8.4, a NoSQL database management system, has been published. Redis provides functions for storing data in key/value format, extended by support for structured data formats such as lists, hashes, and sets, as well as the ability to execute Lua script handlers on the server side. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Redis DBMS supports transactions, [β¦]