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Results of the FreeBSD user survey and plan to address identified issues

The FreeBSD Foundation has published the results (PDF, 62 pages) of a survey conducted among users and developers of the project aimed at understanding the state of the community, identifying typical use cases of FreeBSD, prioritizing development efforts, and pinpointing areas needing special attention. The survey, which included about 50 questions, had 1,446 participants. Identified trends: 50% of users utilize FreeBSD on servers, while 18% use it on […]

The Wine project has released vkd3d 1.12 with Direct3D 12 implementation.

The Wine project has released version 1.12 of the vkd3d package, which implements Direct3D 12, functioning through call translation in the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes the libvkd3d libraries for Direct3D 12 implementation, libvkd3d-shader with a translator for shader models 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify the porting of Direct3D 12 applications, along with a set of demonstration examples including the glxgears port […]

In Fedora, the delivery of executables for macOS within the asahi-installer package has been approved.

The FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical development of the Fedora Linux distribution, has approved an exception to the rules that allows distributing executables and libraries compiled for macOS within the installer package asahi-installer. The exception was granted at the request of developers of the Fedora Asahi Remix edition, aimed at installation on Mac computers equipped with Apple Silicon ARM chips. Instead of […]

Release of the HAProxy 3.0 HTTP/TCP Load Balancer

Five years after the formation of branch 2.0, the release of HAProxy 3.0 has been published, which allows distributing HTTP traffic and arbitrary TCP requests among a group of servers, taking into account multiple factors (e.g., checking server availability, assessing load levels, and having DDoS mitigation capabilities) and performing preliminary data filtering (e.g., HTTP headers can be parsed, invalid request parameters can be filtered out, SQL injection can be blocked, and […]

The new version of nginx 1.27.0 addresses 4 vulnerabilities in the HTTP/3 implementation.

The first release of the new main branch nginx 1.27.0 has been introduced, within which new features will continue to be developed. At the same time, nginx 1.26.1 has been released, which pertains to the parallel stable branch, incorporating only changes related to the removal of severe bugs and vulnerabilities. Next year, a stable branch 1.28 will be formed based on the main branch 1.27.x. The project's code is written in […]

Release of Oracle Linux 8.10 distribution

Oracle has released the distribution of Oracle Linux 8.10, based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10. Installation ISO images of size 14 GB and 1 GB, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures, are available for unrestricted download. Oracle Linux offers unlimited and free access to the yum repository with binary updates for bug fixes […]

The AI model ChatTTS for speech synthesis has been released.

The ChatTTS project has released a model and associated machine learning tools for synthesizing emotional speech. The ChatTTS project is specifically optimized for use in dialogue systems such as interactive assistants and aims to replicate the properties of natural emotional communication. It supports interaction with multiple speakers and the construction of interactive dialogues. Prosodic elements are accurately tracked and reproduced during synthesis, such as […]

Release of the continuously updated distribution of Rhino Linux 2024.1

The release of the Rhino Linux 2024.1 distribution has been presented, implementing a variant of Ubuntu with a continuous delivery model, allowing access to the latest versions of software. New versions are mainly pulled from the devel branches of the Ubuntu repositories, where packages with new versions of applications are built, synchronized with Debian Unstable. Components of the desktop, the Linux kernel, boot splash screens, themes, the Firefox browser […]

Ubuntu 24.04 builds have been created for the compact RISC-V board Milk-V Mars

Canonical has announced the preparation of separate builds of Ubuntu 24.04, specifically optimized for use on the Milk-V Mars board, equipped with a 4-core 64-bit StarFive JH7110 processor (1.5GHz) based on the RISC-V architecture (RV64GC). It is noted that this is the first miniature board based on the RISC-V architecture, comparable in size to a credit card (board size 85 x 56 mm). The board is also remarkable for […]

The AlmaLinux 8.10 and EuroLinux 8.10 distributions are available

The release of AlmaLinux 8.10 has been published, synchronized with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 and containing all the changes proposed in this release. Installation images are prepared for the x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures in the form of bootable (1 GB), minimal (2.1 GB), and full images (13 GB). Later, Live builds with GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and MATE are planned, and […]

Update Firefox 126.0.1. Changes at Mozilla

A corrective release of Firefox 126.0.1 is available, which fixes several issues: Problems with the drag & drop mechanism on the Linux platform have been resolved. After updating to Firefox 126, in some configurations, it stopped working to move tabs, selected text, images, links, and other objects with the mouse. A memory leak has been fixed, leading to high memory consumption by the process providing GPU interaction in systems […]

Release of KaOS 2024.05 Distribution

The release of KaOS 2024.05 has been published, a distribution with a continuous update model aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest KDE releases and applications that use Qt. Among the specific design features of the distribution, one can note the placement of a vertical panel on the right side of the screen. The distribution evolves with a nod to Arch Linux, but supports its own independent repository containing over 1500 packages, and […]

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