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The new release of the Memtest86+ memory testing program 7.20 is now available. The program is not tied to operating systems and can be launched directly from the BIOS/UEFI firmware or from a bootloader for a complete memory check. In case of detected problems, the built-in Memtest86+ faulty memory map can be used in the Linux kernel to exclude problematic areas with the memmap option. […]
The release of the composite server Niri 0.1.10 has been published, implementing a tiling layout method in the style of the GNOME extension PaperWM, where windows are grouped in an endlessly scrollable ribbon on the screen. Opening a new window expands the ribbon, while previously added windows do not change size. The project is based on the use of the Wayland protocol but allows running X11 applications with the help of the Xwayland DDX server. […]
The release of the optical character recognition system Tesseract 5.5.0 has been published, supporting Unicode and text recognition in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. The results can be saved in plain text as well as in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. The system was originally created between 1985-1995 in a laboratory at Hewlett Packard, in 2005 […]
Aaron Plattner, one of the leading developers of NVIDIA's proprietary drivers, assessed the state of Wayland support in NVIDIA's proprietary drivers and listed areas where the Wayland-related capabilities still lag behind X11. This information corresponds to the NVIDIA driver branch 565, which is currently in beta testing. The lag is associated with issues in the NVIDIA driver itself as well as general […]
After a year of development, the release of the classic toolkit for managing the iptables packet filter 1.8.11 has been published, which has recently focused on components for maintaining backward compatibility — iptables-nft and ebtables-nft, providing utilities with the same command-line syntax as iptables and ebtables, but translating the received rules into nftables bytecode. The original set of iptables programs, including ip6tables, arptables […]
Microsoft has released an update for the Azure Linux distribution 3.0.20241101, continuing the development of the stable branch 3.0 established in August. The distribution is evolving as a universal base platform for Linux environments used in cloud infrastructure, edge systems, and various Microsoft services. The project's developments are distributed under the MIT license. Package builds are created for the aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. The size of the installation image is 751 MB. Among the changes […]
The eighth correction update for Debian 12 has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. This release includes 68 updates addressing stability issues and 50 updates fixing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 12.8 include updates to the latest stable versions of systemd, clamav, dpdk, galera-4, intel-microcode, openssl, and wireshark. For […]
Andreas Huettel from the Gentoo Linux Release Engineering team has announced the beginning of the creation of experimental Gentoo disk images in QCOW2 format, allowing for a fully functional system environment bootable in virtual machines. The images are planned to be updated weekly, which will allow them to be used for assessing the current state of the distribution. Previously, the project […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.21 has been published. Since the release of 9.20, 16 bug reports have been closed and 230 changes have been made. The most important changes include: Continued implementation of support for network sessions in the DirectPlay API. Header files have been modified to ensure compilation of C++ code. Fixes related to input-output (I/O) operation completion have been made during […]
The release of the ratarmount program version 1.0.0 has taken place, allowing users to work with archives in various formats as if they were a regular file system. It supports working with RAR and ZIP formats, as well as TAR archives compressed with bzip2, gzip, xz, and zstd. Data is extracted as needed without unpacking the entire archive in advance. The utility's code is written in Python using the […]
A Chrome extension has been developed that allows users to comment on and discuss job vacancies on well-known Russian job search websites. The extension does not require account creation or logging into the job vacancy site. It does not collect any identifying information. All the extension knows about users is the URL of the viewed vacancy. Currently, the following sites are supported: career.habr.com hh.ru rabota.ru […]
The Khronos Consortium, responsible for developing graphics standards, has recognized the full compatibility of the open-source RADV driver developed by the Mesa project with the Vulkan 1.3 specification. The driver successfully passed all tests from the CTS (Khronos Conformance Test Suite) and is included in the list of certified drivers. Obtaining certification allows for official claims of compliance with graphics standards and the use of associated trademarks […]