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Information about the release of CBL-Mariner 2.0.20240301 (CBL-Mariner, Common Base Linux, a Linux distribution for Microsoft's internal infrastructure) is now redirected to the Microsoft/AzureLinux project on GitHub. The CBL-Mariner repository has been renamed to 'AzureLinux', and other references to CBL-Mariner have also been rebranded under Azure Linux. P.S. Do not confuse AzureLinux (formerly CBL-Mariner) with the Microsoft Azure Sphere Linux OS — […]
The Wine project has released version 1.11 of the vkd3d package with an implementation of Direct3D 12, which works through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes the libvkd3d libraries with Direct3D 12 implementations, libvkd3d-shader with shader model 4 and 5 translators, and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify porting Direct3D 12 applications, along with a set of demonstration examples, including the glxgears port […]
Developers of the postmarketOS project, which develops a Linux distribution for smartphones based on the Alpine Linux package base, the standard C library Musl, and the BusyBox utility set, have announced the availability of the system manager systemd. As a result of a year-long effort to implement support for systemd, a prototype build has been prepared and is available for testing, in which systemd replaces the OpenRC initialization system […]
After 11 months of development, FreeBSD 13.3 has been released. Installation images have been created for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, builds are prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments like Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant. The FreeBSD 13.x branch is being developed in parallel with the FreeBSD 14 branch, which is expected to release in autumn […]
The developers of the openSUSE project have announced the integration of systemd-boot support into the openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution, which employs a rolling release model. Compared to the traditional GRUB bootloader, switching to systemd-boot will enable faster boot times and enhance the security of the boot process. Currently, systemd-boot support is implemented as an option, while the traditional bootloader remains the default […]
A corrective release of Firefox 123.0.1 is now available, which includes the following fixes: Resolved the issue of inaccessible system dictionaries on the Linux platform when installing Firefox from a Flatpak package. Established the display of the language icon in the address bar, indicating the language into which the built-in translator has translated the page. Fixed the problem of incorrect rendering of colored conical gradients in Canvas2D on the Windows platform. […]
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired a data center campus being built near the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania (USA) from Talen Energy Corporation. According to Datacenter Dynamics, Talen announced the sale of the campus to a "large cloud provider" just last week. An investor presentation revealed that this refers to AWS. The Cumulus Data campus covers more than 485 acres […]
The package manager for the Arch Linux distribution has been updated. This version includes significant improvements that simplify operations and enhance security when working with packages. New features include support for a package caching server; enhancements to the sysroot option; OpenSSL support; and expanded support for package building and repository management. Source: linux.org.ru
After nearly a year of development, the Xiph.Org organization, which develops free video and audio codecs, has released the audio codec Opus 1.5, which provides high-quality encoding and minimal latency both for compressing high-bitrate streaming audio and for compressing voice in bandwidth-limited VoIP applications. Reference implementations of the encoder and decoder are distributed under the BSD license. Complete specifications […]
The Tor network developers have released version 1.2.0 of the Arti project, which is evolving the Tor client written in Rust. The 1.x branch is marked as suitable for regular users and ensures the same level of privacy, usability, and stability as the main implementation in C. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses. Unlike the C implementation, which initially […]
Collabora has announced the readiness of the open driver panthor, developed for the tenth generation of Mali GPUs (G310, G510, G710), which uses the CSF (Command Stream Frontend) technology to offload some driver functions to the firmware to reduce CPU load and offers a new model for organizing GPU workloads. The DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver panthor has been accepted into the drm-misc branch […]
The NixBSD project has been introduced, developing an unofficial branch of the NixOS distribution which utilizes a FreeBSD kernel instead of the Linux kernel. For software installation, it employs the Nix package manager, which stores the results of package builds in subdirectories within /nix/store and allows the use of multiple versions of a single application. System settings are configured through a single configuration file. There is also an option for quick system rollback to […]