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The OpenMandriva project has released OpenMandriva ROME 24.12, a version of the OpenMandriva distribution that uses a continuous delivery model (rolling releases). This edition provides access to new package versions developed for the OpenMandriva Lx 6 branch without waiting for the creation of a traditional distribution. ISO images sized between 2.3-3.2 GB are available for download, featuring KDE5, KDE6 with Wayland, KDE6 with X11, GNOME, Cosmic […]
The initiative to port the Firefox browser to the Haiku operating system has reached a stage where this port can be accepted into the project's official repository. Through the collaborative efforts of project participants, various changes were made to the underlying system, as well as to the layer ensuring compatibility with Wayland, prepared by participant x512. To avoid issues related to trademarks held by Mozilla, for […]
The release of the OpenSilver 3.1 project has been published, continuing the development of the Silverlight platform and allowing for the creation of interactive web applications using C#, F#, XAML, and .NET technologies. Applications compiled with OpenSilver can run in any desktop and mobile browser supporting WebAssembly. Development can utilize the Visual Studio environment and the VS Code editor, which supports operation in Windows, […]
After six months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 257 has been presented. Key changes include new utilities systemd-sbsign and systemd-keyutil, support for MPTCP when activating via socket, initial support for building with the Musl C library, the updatectl utility for managing updates installation through systemd-sysupdate, the ability to run services in separate PID namespaces, and protection against accidental file deletion when using 'systemd-tmpfiles --purge'. Among the changes in […]
Following their traditions, the Raspberry Pi community, shortly after the release of the Raspberry Pi 5 board, presents all fans of this computer with a New Year's gift in the form of the Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard computer. The foundation of this computer has not radically changed since the Raspberry Pi 400. It utilizes a different form factor of the original Raspberry Pi 5 board equipped with 8 gigabytes of RAM […]
A new version of MiniOS 4 has been released, a lightweight and modular Linux distribution designed for use on removable media. MiniOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution for removable drives, characterized by its modularity and flexibility. It allows users to easily customize the system to their needs and use it on various devices. MiniOS supports the XFCE desktop environment and is actively developed with […]
The Window Maker Live 12.8 distribution has been released, offering a desktop environment based on the Window Maker 0.96 window manager with a NEXTSTEP-style interface. It includes components from GNUstep, organized into a separate GNUstep Apps submenu. Some applications have been rebuilt using GNUstep libraries, for example, the text editor Emacs 29.4 is built with them. An email client is provided for managing email […]
The developers of the Arch Linux distribution have announced that they have received an investment of €562,000 from the STF (Sovereign Tech Fund), established in Germany to stimulate the development of open digital infrastructure and ecosystems with open source. The fund is backed by resources provided by the German Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection and is overseen by the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovations SPRIND. The funds are allocated for […]
Version 4.0.0 of MiniOS is available, a lightweight modular live Linux distribution designed for use on removable USB drives. The key feature of MiniOS is its modular architecture, allowing for the creation of specialized configurations by excluding unnecessary components and adding needed ones, tailored to specific tasks. It is based on the Debian 12 package base, with the default graphical environment based on Xfce. Among the changes in […]
The system manager GNU Shepherd 1.0.0 (formerly dmd) has been introduced, combining the capabilities of an initialization system with tools for managing system services. It is noted that the designation of version 1.0 after 21 years of development marks the project’s readiness and its compliance with the functional requirements of modern initialization systems and service managers. The project is being developed by the developers of the GNU Guix System as an alternative to the initialization system […]
The Apache Software Foundation has taken under its wing the Cloudberry project, which develops a fork of the distributed database Greenplum, which after VMware's acquisition by Broadcom was turned into a closed product. The Cloudberry project was created by the original developers of Greenplum and is based on the latest version of Greenplum with open source code. After the fork, the project was adapted for use with the latest releases of PostgreSQL and enhanced […]
A group of developers from the Haiku OS has prepared and published the first public port of the Mozilla Firefox browser. Joint efforts during the porting process led to changes in both the core system and other used ports, such as the Wayland layer for Haiku, developed by x512. Due to a lack of response from Mozilla, which prohibits the use of its trademarks […]