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The company "Bazalt SPO" has released a new version of the Linux distribution for educational organizations — "ALT Education" 11.0, built on the ALT platform 11 (p11). The distribution is intended for everyday use by preschools, schools, universities, and technical colleges. The product is distributed under a Licensing Agreement that allows free use by individuals. Commercial and government organizations can download and […]
Ubuntu has decided to switch by default to providing the intel-compute-runtime package, built with the NEO_DISABLE_MITIGATIONS flag, which disables protection against Spectre-class attacks. According to Ubuntu developers, having such protection leads to a performance reduction of about 20% for the package. The intel-compute-runtime package includes components necessary for using OpenCL and OneAPI Level Zero on systems with Intel GPUs. In the builds provided […]
A set of utilities Cryptsetup 2.8 has been released, designed for configuring disk partition encryption in Linux using the dm-crypt module. Support is provided for working with dm-crypt, LUKS, LUKS2, BITLK, loop-AES, and TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt partitions. It also includes utilities veritysetup and integritysetup for configuring data integrity checks based on dm-verity and dm-integrity modules. Key improvements: Added support for inline mode, allowing the use of advanced […]
The Hangover 10.11 toolkit has been released, allowing 32-bit Windows applications built for x86 (i386) and ARM32 architectures to run in ARM64 (Aarch64) based environments. Development is underway for a Hangover variant for RISC-V architecture. The project's outputs are distributed under the LGPL 2.1 license. Hangover significantly outperforms configurations where Wine is run entirely in emulation mode, as […]
Ryan Dahl, the creator of the JavaScript platforms Node.js and Deno, is seeking to retract the trademark "JavaScript" from Oracle. The first step was the publication last year of an open letter to Oracle calling for the abandonment of the JavaScript trademark, as the term has become a generic term unrelated to specific Oracle products and is widely used by individuals and companies. […]
The developers of the Artix Linux distribution have introduced experimental builds transitioned to using XLibre, a fork of the X.Org Server. Artix Linux is based on the Arch Linux package base and is notable for using openrc, runit, dinit, and s6 system managers instead of systemd, at the user's discretion. XLibre builds have been created for testing with Xfce, Cinnamon, and MATE desktops, with a size of 2 GB, as well as a full build, […]
Ariadne Conill, creator of the Audacious music player, initiator of the IRCv3 protocol development, and leader of the Alpine Linux security team, has published the initial implementation of the Wayback layer that allows desktop environments based on the X11 protocol to run using components based on Wayland. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license (the code file states public domain […]
Daniel Almeida, who is developing video codecs at Collabora, published the initial implementation of the Tyr driver for ARM Mali GPUs, which utilizes the CSF (Command Stream Frontend) technology for Mali G310, G510, and G710, in the Linux kernel developers mailing list. The driver code is written in Rust and contains just over 600 lines of code. Work on the driver […]
Another discussion between Linus Torvalds and Kent Overstreet, the author of Bcachefs, concluded with Linus expressing his willingness to exclude the Bcachefs code from the Linux 6.17 kernel. Linus accepted changes to Bcachefs into the 6.16 kernel, which became the subject of further dissatisfaction with Kent's actions. Linus wrote: I believe our paths will diverge in the 6.17 merge window. You […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.11 has been published. Since the release of 10.10, 25 bug reports have been closed and 292 changes have been made. The most significant changes include preparation for adding support for the NTSync driver introduced in the Linux kernel 6.14, which implements the character device /dev/ntsync and a set of synchronization primitives used in the Windows NT kernel. The implementation of such […]
The release of the general-purpose programming language Rust 1.88, originally based on the Mozilla project but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit Rust Foundation, has been announced. The language focuses on safe memory management and provides means for achieving high task parallelism, while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and support of the standard library). […]
The Cosmoe GUI library has been introduced, supporting operation in Linux environments based on Wayland. Cosmoe allows the creation of graphical interface programs in C++, using an API styled after the class library of the BeOS operating system for interface design. The library enables Linux programs that utilize the BeOS API to run directly. The project code is distributed under the MIT license. Cosmoe offers a set of classes […]