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Microsoft at a Crossroad: the Company Expands its Data Center Fleet while Trying to Improve Eco-Sustainability

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Without pause to announce projects for expanding or building new data centers, Microsoft nevertheless insists on its commitment to a 'green agenda.' According to DigiTimes, the hyperscaler will face several serious challenges to maintain ecological balance amidst its business expansion. As stated by Microsoft, the implementation of AI solutions is accelerating, and the intensity of consumption […]

Project for Integration with the Qt Web Engine Servo, Developed in the Rust Language

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KDAB has announced the development of the Servo WebView component for Qt, using the Servo browser engine instead of the Qt WebEngine (based on Chromium) for rendering web content in QML applications. The project is expected to reduce the attack surface for Qt applications using the WebView API, by employing a component where vulnerabilities caused by errors in handling […] are minimized through the use of the Rust language.

Release of the nxs-backup 3.4.0 backup system

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The release of the nxs-backup 3.4.0 backup toolkit has been published, allowing for backups, rotation, and storage on local or external storage. In addition to backing up files, support for backing up various DBMS is included. The project code is released under the GPLv3 license. Starting with the nxs-backup 3.x branch, the project code has been completely rewritten in the Go language (previously Python was used) to enhance […] performance.

Firefox adds support for machine translation of selected text fragments

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In the nightly builds of Firefox, upon which the release of Firefox 126 will be based on May 14, an automated machine translation feature for selected text fragments on the page has been added (previously only full page translation was supported). The translation function is invoked through the context menu that appears when right-clicking on the selected block of text. To enable fragment translation, a setting browser.translations.select.enable has been added in about:config, […]

Fedora 41 approves the transition to the DNF5 package manager

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The FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical part of the Fedora Linux distribution development, has approved the default use of the DNF5 package manager in the upcoming Fedora 41 release. The dnf, libdnf, and dnf-cutomatic packages will be replaced in Fedora 41 with the DNF5 toolkit and the new libdnf5 library, and the symbolic link /usr/bin/dnf will point to the dnf5 executable. Despite […]

The first release of the Pingora framework for creating network services

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Cloudflare has released the first version of the Pingora framework, designed for developing secure, high-performance network services in Rust. Built with Pingora, a proxy has been in use within Cloudflare's content delivery network for about a year, replacing nginx and handling over 40 million requests per second. The code is written in Rust and published under the Apache 2.0 license. Key features include support for HTTP/1 […]

Schleswig-Holstein: migrating 30,000 machines from Windows/MS Office to Linux/LibreOffice

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The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to transition 30,000 computers in local government agencies from Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice, according to a blog post by the Document Foundation, the organization overseeing the development of LibreOffice. This decision was made following a ruling by the European Data Protection Supervisor that the European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 constitutes a violation of data protection laws […]

Assessing the impact of optimizations in GNOME 46 on the performance of terminal emulators

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The results of the effectiveness review of optimizations added to the VTE (Virtual Terminal library) and included in the GNOME 46 release have been published. During testing, the responsiveness of the interface was measured in the Alacritty, Console (GTK 4), GNOME Terminal (GTK 3 and 4), and VTE Test App (an example from the VTE repository) terminal emulators when run on Fedora 39 with GNOME 45 and […]

The development of the PiVPN project has been officially ceased.

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The developer of the PiVPN toolkit, designed for quickly setting up a VPN server on a Raspberry Pi board, has announced the release of version 4.6, marking the conclusion of 8 years of the project. After the release, the repository has been moved to an archived state, and the author has announced a complete cessation of project maintenance, citing a loss of interest in development with the feeling that the project has fulfilled its […]

The release of tools for maintaining local mirrors apt-mirror2 4

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The release of the apt-mirror2 tool version 4 has been published, designed for managing local mirrors of apt repositories for Debian and Ubuntu distributions. Apt-mirror2 can be used as a transparent replacement for the apt-mirror utility, which has not been updated since 2017. The primary distinction of apt-mirror2 is its use of the Python programming language with the asyncio library (the original apt-mirror code was written in Perl), along with the application of […]

The PumpkinOS project is developing a reincarnation of PalmOS

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The PumpkinOS project has made an attempt to create a reimplementation of the PalmOS operating system used in Palm's communicators. PumpkinOS allows applications created for PalmOS to run directly without the need for a PalmOS emulator, nor requiring the original PalmOS firmware. Applications compiled for the m68K architecture can run on systems with x86 and ARM processors. The project code is written in C […]

Release of the GNU Stow 2.4 package management system that uses symbolic links.

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Almost five years after the last release, the GNU Stow 2.4 package management system has been presented, using symbolic links to separate the content of packages and associated data into individual directories. The Stow code is written in Perl and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Stow employs a straightforward approach that differs from traditional package managers […]

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