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Release of Midnight Commander file manager 4.8.31

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After five months of development, the release of the console file manager Midnight Commander 4.8.31 has been published, distributed in source code under the GPLv3+ license. The main changes include: Support for LZO/LZOP compression format has been added to VFS. The virtual filesystem uc1541, providing access to disk images of the Commodore VIC20/C64/C128, has been updated to version 3.6. The implementation of the virtual filesystem s3+, used for accessing Amazon AWS S3 storage, […]

Release of Slackel 7.7 distribution with MATE desktop

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The developers of the Slackel distribution, built on the foundations of the Slackware and Salix projects, have presented a build with the custom MATE shell, complementing the previously released environment based on the Openbox window manager. The distribution is formed on the constantly updated Slackware-Current branch and is fully compatible with the Slackware and Salix repositories. The size of the boot image capable of running in Live mode is 2.9 GB (i386 and x86_64). The new release […]

Testing of USB4 2.0 support and other features in Windows 11

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This week, Microsoft announced the start of testing several new features for Windows 11. This includes the use of AI algorithms for noise cancellation during audio and video calls, support for the USB4 2.0 standard, which will provide data transfer speeds of up to 80 Gbps, as well as other useful features. These innovations appeared in Windows 11 build number 26040, which was recently […]

Release of Libreboot 20240126 boot firmware

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After three months of development, the release of the free Libreboot 20240126 boot firmware has emerged. The update has been designated as a test release (stable releases are published approximately once a year, with the last stable release in June). The project develops a ready-made build of the coreboot project, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware, responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals, and other hardware components, with […]

Final performance optimization and interface polishing in KDE 6

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Nate Graham, a developer involved in quality control for the KDE project, published another release preparation report for KDE 6, scheduled for February 28. In addition to bug fixes, the user interface of KDE 6 has undergone polishing over the past week. For instance, incremental scrolling has been implemented in the volume control sliders on the panel and in the configurator using user-configurable options […]

Release of Wine 9.1

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.1 has occurred. Since the release of 9.0, 42 bug reports have been closed and 270 changes have been made. It is worth noting that starting from version 2.x, the Wine project has switched to a version numbering scheme where each stable release increases the first digit of the version number (8.0.0, 9.0.0), while updates […]

The number of active users on Flathub has surpassed one million

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One popular method of distributing software across various popular Linux distributions is Flatpak. Flatpak is a utility for deploying, managing packages, and virtualization for Linux. It provides a sandbox in which users can run applications without affecting the main system. Unlike snap, Flatpak is not distributed centrally, and one of the most popular places is Flathub. The repository […]

OpenVINO 2023.3

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On January 24, Intel engineers released a major update to the leading open-source AI toolkit, OpenVINO 2023.3. It provides full support for the new Emerald Rapids and Meteor Lake processors, as well as other Intel hardware improvements for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLM). OpenVINO 2023.3 introduces the OpenVINO Gen AI repository […]

A remote vulnerability in the Shim layer allows bypassing UEFI Secure Boot

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A vulnerability (CVE-2023-40547) has been identified in the Shim layer used in most Linux distributions for verified boot in UEFI Secure Boot mode, which may lead to remote code execution and bypassing the UEFI Secure Boot verification mechanism. An attacker controlling the HTTP server contacted by Shim could return a specially crafted response, leading to controlled writes into a buffer overflow area for […]

OBS adds support for FFmpeg VA-API AV1

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On January 23, a message appeared on the GitHub page of the Open Broadcaster Software project announcing the completion of support for AV1 video encoding using the Linux Video Acceleration API (VA-API). On May 2, 2023, a merge request for OBS FFmpeg to add AV1 VA-API support was opened, and as of the evening of January 23, that code has been merged. Code […]

Support for MICE protocols added in GNOME Network Displays

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On January 18, version 0.91 of GNOME Network Displays was released. Among the significant improvements announced are: added support for the Miracast over Infrastructure (MICE) protocol (@lorbus); support for the Chromecast protocol (@kyteinsky); added support for streaming a virtual screen (@NaheemSays); various bug fixes; various translations added/updated. For reference: GNOME Network Displays is software that allows streaming the GNOME desktop to […]

Release of Redcore Linux 2401 distribution

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A year after the previous release, the Redcore Linux 2401 distribution has been published, attempting to combine the features of Gentoo with ease of use for regular users. The distribution provides a simple installer enabling rapid deployment of a working system without requiring the recompilation of components from source code. Users are provided with a repository of ready-made binary packages, accompanied by a continuous cycle of updates (rolling model). For managing […]

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