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System76, the developer of the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, has released the COSMIC desktop environment version 1.3.0. Packages for COSMIC 1.3.0 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 […]
In the FreeBSD-CURRENT codebase, on which the FreeBSD 16 branch is based, a change has been made to remove the last components distributed under the GPL license from the base system - the diff3 and dialog utilities. The diff3 program has been replaced with an equivalent from the OpenBSD project, distributed under the BSD license, while a tool called bsddialog was specifically developed for FreeBSD to replace dialog. The installer has been translated […]
The release of service manager s6-rc 0.7.0.0 has been published, designed for managing the startup of initialization scripts and services. It supports tracking dependency trees and automatically starting or stopping services to achieve the specified state. The s6-rc toolset can be used both in initialization systems and for launching arbitrary services in connection with events reflecting system state changes. The system supports initialization scripts, […]
Sylvestre Ledru, the engineering director at Mozilla, has announced the transition to a two-week release cycle for Firefox. Starting in September, new releases will be generated every two weeks instead of every four weeks. This change is already reflected in the release schedule: the last release with a four-week development cycle will be Firefox 154, scheduled for August 18. After that, […]
After five months of development, the stable release of the composite server Weston 16.0 has been published, advancing technologies that facilitate full support for the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other desktop environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for utilizing Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, televisions […]
Researchers from the University of Michigan developed a tool called MVPNalyzer to identify information leaks and analyze VPN performance, testing 281 VPN applications for the Android platform. The study focused on the most popular VPN apps available through the Google Play catalog. VPN applications identified with various security and privacy issues total 2.4 billion […]
GNOME OS developers, a distribution for GNOME developers and testers, introduced an initiative to create a toolkit to simplify the testing of experimental software versions in distributions provided as atomically updatable monolithic system images. The developing GNOME OS Developer Tool Suite will enable the assembly, distribution, and testing of extensions for distributions delivered as system images. The toolkit will provide developers and […]
After five months of development, the release of IncidentRelay 1.1 has been published, enhancing the open system for organizing on-call duties, alert routing, and incident management, which runs on its own server (self-hosted). IncidentRelay 1.1 is marked as the first stable release (the 1.0 branch was in beta). The project is aimed at SRE, DevOps, and infrastructure teams that need a locally deployable alternative to SaaS services for managing on-call […]
The Document Foundation announced the start of beta testing for the LibreOffice suite 26.8. Ready installation packages have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. The release is scheduled for August 18-20. Changes include: Support for different background colors of the top panel (Notebookbars) in different modules (Writer, Calc, Draw, and Impress). In tabbed tool mode, category labels have been added. Added […]
The chat platform Chatto, designed for facilitating communication in communities and developer teams, has been moved to open project status. The platform is optimized for maximum interface responsiveness, minimal backend resource consumption, and ease of deployment on personal server infrastructure for group chats, independent of external services. User access is provided through a browser via a web interface. The code is written in […]
The release of Lanemu P2P VPN 0.14 has occurred — a decentralized virtual private network operating on a Peer-To-Peer principle, where participants connect directly to each other rather than through a central server. Network participants can find each other via BitTorrent trackers or BitTorrent DHT, or through other participants in the network (peer exchange). The application is a free and open alternative to VPN Hamachi, written in […]
The B1ackOS GNU/Linux project develops a distribution based on Debian Sid (Unstable), using a rolling release update model. systemd is used as the initialization system, and package management is done using APT. The project has its own package repository. The Debian Installer is used as the installer for the console version, while Calamares is used in graphical editions. Architectures supported include amd64, i386, and arm64. […]