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The Q4OS 5.6 distribution has been released, based on the Debian package base and featuring the KDE Plasma 5 and Trinity desktop environments (continuing the development of the KDE 3.5.x codebase). Both user environments can coexist simultaneously in one system, allowing users to switch between them. The distribution is positioned as low on hardware demands while offering a classic desktop layout. Size […]
A Fedora developer at Red Hat has introduced the SyncStar toolkit, which allows users to deploy services for writing operating system installations to USB drives of their choice. The primary purpose of SyncStar is to create kiosks and information stands that can be used at technical conferences and exhibitions to record bootable distributions of various operating systems onto USB drives for participants. The project's code is written […]
The release of QEMU 9.1 has been announced. As an emulator, QEMU allows you to run programs compiled for one hardware platform on a system with an entirely different architecture, for example, executing an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, QEMU's code execution performance in an isolated environment is close to that of a hardware system due to direct instruction execution on the CPU and the involvement of […]
The Ergo Framework is an implementation of ideas, technologies, and design patterns from the Erlang world in the Go programming language. It is built on the actor model, network transparency, and a set of ready-made components for development. This significantly simplifies the creation of complex and distributed solutions while ensuring a high level of reliability and performance. This version marks an important milestone in the development of Ergo […]
After a month of development, version 14.0.7 of the full-text search engine and columnar database management system Groonga has been released. Groonga is written in C and C++ and is distributed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 license. The project provides a library and console utilities. Notable related projects include Mroonga and PGroonga – integrations of Groonga into MySQL and PostgreSQL, respectively. Change list: in the normalizer […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.19 suite of internet applications has occurred, combining a web browser, an email client, an RSS/Atom news feed aggregator, and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor (Composer) into a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, a set of web development tools (DOM Inspector), and the Lightning calendar and task manager. The new release carries fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
After nine months of development, a stable release of the composite server Weston 14.0 has been published, advancing technologies that support full Wayland protocol integration in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, and other desktop environments. The development of Weston aims to provide a high-quality codebase and working examples for utilizing Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, and televisions […]
The web browser Firefox 130 has been released, and updates for previous long-term support branches — 115.15.0 and 128.2.0 — have been prepared. The Firefox 131 branch has moved to the beta testing stage, with the release scheduled for October 1. Key innovations in Firefox 130 include: machine translation capability for selected text snippets on a page after executing the full-page translation operation (i.e. […]
Firefox 130 is available. Linux: On touchscreen devices, elastic scrolling has been enabled (overscroll, bounce animation when scrolling with two fingers over the edge of a container; apz.overscroll.enabled). Support for MP4 videos using the YUV444 format has been included. Support for RGB/BGR formats during video capture via PipeWire has been implemented. A section with experimental features has been added to the settings interface. In the homepage settings (gear icon in […]
The desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 24.07.1 has been released, built on FreeBSD 14-STABLE and offering the MATE desktop environment. Additionally, the community provides unofficial builds with Xfce. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS filesystem. Both Live mode operation and installation to hard disk are supported (using a custom installer ginstall written in Python). Boot images have been prepared for the architecture […]
After 6 months of development, the release of Samba 4.21.0 has been announced, continuing the Samba 4 branch with a complete implementation of the domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows 2008 implementation and able to support all supported Microsoft versions of Windows clients, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides file server implementation, print service, and server […]
The Linux From Scratch community has announced the release of the book-distribution LFS 12.2-SysV and LFS 12.2-systemd, a translation into Russian is also available. Key changes include updates of the toolchain to binutils-2.43.1, gcc-14.2.0, and glibc-2.40. A total of 45 packages have been updated since the last release, and one new package, lz4, has been added. Extensive text changes have been made for improved readability. The Linux kernel […]