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Jon Seager, Vice President of Engineering at Canonical and technical leader of the Ubuntu project, introduced an initiative to replace system utilities in Ubuntu with equivalents written in Rust. The first goal of the initiative is to transition Ubuntu 25.10 to using the uutils toolkit by default instead of the GNU Coreutils. If the experiment is deemed successful, uutils will also be […]
The Open Source Initiative (OSI), which verifies licenses for compliance with Open Source criteria, has officially approved the Open Source principles proposed by the United Nations (UN) to stimulate collaboration and the widespread implementation of open source code within UN departments and beyond. These principles were developed by the Open Source United community, organized by the UN Executive Council as part of the 'Digital Technology Network' program, and […]
Another patch for Windows 11 24H2 has proven to be extremely unstable and rife with issues. Users are reporting freezes during installation, BSoD ('Blue Screen of Death'), and inability to boot the system. Fixes have not yet been released. Just a couple of days ago, Microsoft issued update KB5053598 for Windows 11 24H2, which includes several important security fixes. This is a mandatory update that installs […]
In mid-2023, Intel announced the x86S initiative — a simplification of x86. The initiative involved the complete removal of real mode, the elimination of 16-bit instructions from protected/long mode, and the partial removal of 32-bit instructions (for user mode, 32-bit instructions were retained — only system ones were removed). Additionally, the VTx mechanism — virtualization extensions, which were previously intended to be preserved […]
The release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 (Focal) has been announced. This update is part of the 20.04 series; however, the developers are focusing on transitioning the system to another branch of Ubuntu, which means the list of changes is small. Key new features include support for VoLTE (Voice over LTE) on Volla Phone X23 and Volla Phone 22 (through the Halium layer); the ability to remove the avatar of an added contact; support has been added for […]
On March 2, after more than a month of development, version 1.24 (named after Herman Toothrot from the Monkey Island game series) of the Clifm console file manager was released. Clifm is a file manager with a text interface designed with command line interface principles in mind, as opposed to TUI design, such as the excellent Midnight Commander and Ranger. The program is written in C […]
After a year of development, the release of GStreamer 1.26 has been presented, a cross-platform set of components for creating a wide range of multimedia applications, from media players and audio/video file converters to VoIP applications and streaming systems. The GStreamer code is distributed under the LGPLv2.1 license. Updates for the plugins gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly, as well as the gst-libav wrapper and the streaming server gst-rtsp-server are developed separately. At the API level and […]
Mozilla has published an objection to the recommendations made by the U.S. Department of Justice in the antitrust case in which Google was recognized as a monopoly in the search engine market. The recommendation mentions a ban on all payments to browser developers for directing traffic to the search engine. According to Mozilla, if the court approves this proposal, it will deal a blow to independent browsers that exist thanks to […]
The latest release of the open chemical process simulator DWSIM has been launched. The closest proprietary equivalents are the HYSYS and Aspen Plus packages. The main innovation is the transition from Mono to .NET 8 for running the Linux version. DWSIM can run on Linux, Windows, macOS, and has applications for Android and Apple with limited functionality. DWSIM can model stationary vapor-liquid, vapor-liquid-liquid, and solid […]
On February 27, after more than a year of development, version 2.5.0 of the cross-platform header-only library for C++ CLI11 was released. This library is designed for parsing command-line parameters and is distributed under the BSD 3 license. This version introduces a new formatter with enhanced control capabilities and help output in accordance with standards. A modifier has also been added to allow the use of non-standard option names, and several issues have been fixed […]
The release of the network configuration utility NetworkManager 1.52.0 has taken place. The main changes compared to version 1.50.0 include: The command history in nmcli will now be stored in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/nmcli-history instead of the previously used ~/.nmcli-history. A new parameter ipv4.link-local=fallback has been added, which assigns an IPv4 address to the internal network interface when no other address is specified. Support for building with Autotools has been removed. IPVLAN network interface support has been introduced. Support for […]
A corrective release of Firefox 136.0.1 is available, which fixes the issue with incorrect cookie size limitations (the maximum size was set to 1024 bytes instead of 4096), leading to crashes on websites using the CookieStore API for cookie management. Additionally, a bug was fixed that prevented the Ctrl+L key combination from focusing on the address bar in new windows. Mozilla has warned about […]
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