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After three months of development, the release of the open-source implementations of the OpenGL and Vulkan APIs — Mesa 25.2.0 — has been announced. The first release of the Mesa 25.2.0 branch is in an experimental status; a stable version 25.2.1 will be released after final code stabilization. Mesa 25.2 adds support for Vulkan 1.4 in the ANV drivers for Intel GPUs, RADV for AMD GPUs, NVK for […]
Proxmox, known for developing Proxmox Virtual Environment and Proxmox Mail Gateway, has released Proxmox Backup Server 4.0, which is presented as a ready solution for backing up and restoring virtual environments, containers, and server configurations. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are licensed under AGPLv3. A paid subscription is available for installing updates […]
The developers of the AlmaLinux distribution have announced the availability of packages with NVIDIA drivers for AlmaLinux 9 and 10. Packages with the driver and CUDA stack are also offered for installation. The drivers can be used in configurations with UEFI Secure Boot. Kernel modules from NVIDIA's official proprietary driver set cannot be loaded in UEFI Secure Boot mode, so […]
Lansweeper has reported an increase in the popularity of Linux among corporate clients using the Lansweeper inventory platform. Scanning approximately 18.5 million devices showed an increase in the percentage of Linux on corporate laptops and PCs from 1.6% in January to 1.9% in June. When considering only new devices that appeared after March 1, the percentage of systems with Linux reached 2.5%. According to […]
Google has released version 139 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable version of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium by using Google logos, having a crash notification system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, a constant Sandbox isolation feature, supplying keys for Google API, and passing RLZ parameters […]
The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 has been announced. This specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux is aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, serving as a replacement for products like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation ISO image is 1.6 GB. Proxmox VE provides tools to deploy a fully functional virtual system […]
A corrective release of Firefox 141.0.2 is available, addressing several issues: Crashes upon startup on some Linux systems with older versions of proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Inability to launch on some systems with the GTK library built without Wayland support. A regression causing incompatibilities due to the ability to drag canvas objects leading to crashes when inspecting pages with elements […]
The release of the syncspirit 0.4.1 program, which allows for automatic continuous file synchronization across multiple devices, is now available. The project addresses tasks similar to the proprietary Resilio Sync system (formerly BitTorrent Sync). Syncspirit is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The graphical interface is built using the FLTK library; the domestic embedded DBMS libmdbx is used for database storage; for event processing […]
The release candidate for the openSUSE Leap 16 distribution has been presented, built on the technologies of the next major branch of the commercial distribution SLES 16, transitioning to the new SLFO platform (SUSE Linux Framework One), previously known as ALP (Adaptable Linux Platform). openSUSE Leap 16 will retain the features of a classic distribution using traditional packages, while for those who need an atomically updatable system with a base […]
The Proton Authenticator app, introduced last week for authentication using one-time passwords, has revealed a privacy issue — the detailed debug log was not disabled in the mobile iOS builds, where the original secret keys for generating one-time passwords were stored in plaintext. Such logging undermined the encryption of the keys and restricted access to them […]
The third candidate for the installer releases of the next significant release of Debian 13 "Trixie" has been published. A week ago, the Debian 13 branch was frozen before the release, during which the transfer of any package changes to the Testing branch was stopped (exceptions may be made only upon special request and after manual review by the release preparation team). The release is scheduled for […]
In the package StarDict available in the Debian Testing repository (the upcoming release of Debian 13), a privacy issue has been identified — by default, the application sends selected text (x11 PRIMARY selection), which is automatically placed in the clipboard, to external servers. It is sufficient to highlight a snippet of text in any application, and it is immediately sent unencrypted […]