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Release Xpra 6.0, an equivalent of the screen utility for GUI. Development of Wprs, the implementation of Xpra for Wayland.

The release of the Xpra 6.0 project has been published, which develops utilities similar to screen and tmux for working with graphical applications. Xpra allows you to run X11 applications on a local or remote system, detach a session without terminating running programs, and return to working with applications later or continue working from another host (you can start with a program on one machine and […

The release of Rocky Linux 9.4, developed by the founder of CentOS

The release of Rocky Linux 9.4 has been introduced, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS. The distribution is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.4 and CentOS 4 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will continue until May 31, 2032. Installation ISO images of Rocky Linux have been prepared for […

Proposal to include TCP_NODELAY mode by default

Marc Brooker, an engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), addressed misconceptions regarding the efficiency of message transmission using the Nagle algorithm, which is enabled by default in the TCP/IP stack. The recommendations suggest disabling the Nagle algorithm by default, which can be achieved in the context of specific applications by setting the TCP_NODELAY option for network sockets using the […]

Daphile 24.05 released, a distribution for building music systems.

The release of Daphile 24.05 has taken place, based on Gentoo Linux and designed to create a system for storing and playing music collections, which can be operated on a computer without a display. Playback and collection management are conducted through a specially designed web interface. Available for download are a build with a standard Linux kernel (329 MB) and a version with components for real-time operation (319 […]

Release of Nebula 1.9, a system for creating overlay P2P networks

The Nebula 1.9 project release has been published, offering a toolkit for building secure overlay networks that allow geographically separated hosts to be combined into a separate isolated network operating over the global network. The project is intended for creating custom overlay networks for various needs, such as linking corporate computers across different offices, servers in distinct data centers, or virtual environments with various cloud providers. […]

Rustls has been made compatible with OpenSSL and nginx.

The ISRG (Internet Security Research Group), which is the founder of the Let’s Encrypt project and aids in developing technologies for improving internet security, announced the release of the rustls-openssl-compat layer, which allows the Rustls library to be used as a transparent replacement for OpenSSL. Currently, the project provides the rustls-libssl implementation that ensures compatibility with libssl, while the libcrypto implementation is under development. The functionality present in the layer […]

Release of Ondsel ES 2024.2

A new version of the Ondsel Engineering Suite (ES) has been released — a three-dimensional CAD based on FreeCAD. The build is created on the current unstable branch of FreeCAD development. Some of the changes listed below have already been forwarded to upstream, while others are under consideration. What's new: Assembly workbench: new basic tool for model disassembly (exploded view), new experimental types of connections (rack and pinion, screw, gears, belt), […]

Red Hat has introduced the RHEL AI distribution and the OSTree-based RHEL build mode and boot

Red Hat has introduced the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) distribution, specifically designed for machine learning tasks and aimed at simplifying the creation of server solutions using large dialogue models. It includes a collection of machine learning tools and frameworks, as well as drivers for utilizing various hardware accelerators from AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA, along with components for […]

Qalculate! 5.1 and 5.1.1

On May 6 and 7, the releases of versions 5.1 and 5.1.1 of the C++ library, and the console and GUI calculators Qalculate!, written in C++ and distributed under the GPL 2.0 license, took place. Changes in the library and console calculator include: support for solving equations containing the if() function; support for solving root(a, x)=b (requires a rational value for ln(a)/ln(b)); new functions: powertower() and multiples(); new units of measurement for solar […]

Release 9front 10522, a branch of the Plan 9 operating system

A new release of the operating system 9front has been introduced, published under the codename "DO NOT INSTALL" (named after a song released with it). Since 2011, the 9front project has been independently evolving as a fork of the distributed operating system Plan 9, separate from Bell Labs. Ready-made installation builds are available for i386, x86_64 architectures, and Raspberry Pi 1-4 platforms. The project's code is distributed under […]

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 has been released, a distribution for Apple ARM chips

The Fedora Asahi Remix 40 distribution has been introduced, designed for installation on Macs equipped with ARM chips developed by Apple. Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is based on the package base of Fedora Linux 40 and comes with the Calamares installer. This is the second release published following the project's transition from Arch to Fedora, which helped the Asahi Linux team focus on reverse engineering the hardware, […]

Raspberry Pi Connect has been launched, a service for connecting to Raspberry Pi OS from your browser.

Developers of the Raspberry Pi project have introduced the Raspberry Pi Connect service, designed for remote desktop connection to the Raspberry Pi OS distribution via a web browser. The service can be used in Raspberry Pi OS environments for Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400, and Raspberry Pi 5 boards built on Debian 12 and transitioned to a graphical stack based on Wayland. […]

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