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After a long silence, Paru has been updated — a wrapper for pacman with AUR integration. The update includes many significant changes, primarily important for advanced users. PKGBUILD Repositories The main feature of this release is the ability to integrate PKGBUILD repositories that are not based on AUR. You can now add them in paru.conf: [repo_name] Url = https://path/to/git/repo Then synchronize using paru -Sy —pkgbuilds. You can also […]
Several recently discovered vulnerabilities: In the corrective release of Perl 5.38.1, a vulnerability (CVE-2023-47038) has been fixed that could lead to writing one byte out of bounds of the allocated buffer when processing compiled regular expressions with an incorrectly redefined internal Unicode property with a name starting with “utf8::perl”. The issue appears starting from Perl 5.30. Additionally, Perl 5.38.1 has addressed a platform-specific […]
The third release of the Incus project has been announced, in which the Linux Containers community is developing a fork of the LXD container management system, created by the original development team behind LXD. The Incus code is written in Go and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It should be noted that the Linux Containers community oversaw the development of LXD before Canonical decided to independently develop LXD as an enterprise […]
The Document Foundation has announced the synchronization of the Android application LibreOffice Viewer with the current codebase of LibreOffice and the placement of this app in the Google Play catalog. LibreOffice Viewer is a lighter version of LibreOffice for Android smartphones and tablets for viewing documents in open document formats (.odt, .ods, .odp) and Microsoft Office (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx). LibreOffice Viewer also features experimental […]
Finally, the long-awaited first major version of PipeWire has been released, a multimedia server and framework designed for real-time audio output and processing. It maintains API and ABI compatibility with ALSA, PulseAudio, and JACK. While the changes are not numerous, they are significant (after all, this is the first release version). Key changes: Fixed a memory leak in memfd/dmabuf when unloading buffers during […]
Microsoft has announced the release of the source code for the real-time operating system Azure RTOS under the permissive MIT license, which was acquired following the purchase of Express Logic in 2019 and was previously provided under the name ThreadX for over 20 years. It is claimed that this operating system has been installed on more than 12 billion devices worldwide, among which […]
The 1.0.0 release of the multimedia server PipeWire has been published, marking its first stable release and the maturity of the project. In terms of API and ABI, version 1.0 is backward compatible with the 0.3 branch. PipeWire is positioned as a server to replace the PulseAudio sound server and differs from it by adding tools for handling video streams, allowing for audio processing with minimal latency and […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of the OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 distribution has been announced. The project is being developed by the community following the transfer of project management from Mandriva S.A. to the non-profit organization 'OpenMandriva Association'. Live images are available for download for the x86_64 architecture with KDE (full 3.0 GB, minimal 2.5 GB, and optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper, and EPYC processors), GNOME, and […]
The latest version of the Radix cross Linux distribution 1.9.226 is now available, built using the Radix.pro custom build system that simplifies the creation of distributions for embedded systems. The distribution builds are available for devices based on RISC-V, ARM/ARM64, MIPS, and x86/x86_64 architectures. The boot images, prepared according to the instructions in the Platform Download section, contain a local package repository, so installation does not require an internet connection […]
The firmware to support NVIDIA graphics cards is included in the Linux kernel branch 6.7. This solution will allow nouveau developers not to worry about reclocking for new graphics cards (starting from the 20xx (NV160 family (Turing) series) to the latest 40xx (Ada Lovelace)). By default, this feature will only be enabled for 40xx series graphics cards. If you want to try it […]
The Document Foundation has announced the synchronization of the LibreOffice Viewer Android app with the current LibreOffice codebase and its availability in the Google Play store. Due to the lack of support, LibreOffice Viewer was removed from Google Play in 2020 and remained stagnant for a long time. It is anticipated that the return of LibreOffice Viewer to Google Play will make the package accessible to a wider […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 8.21 has occurred. Since the release of version 8.20, 29 bug reports have been closed and 321 changes have been made. The most significant changes include further development of functionality aimed at enabling the use of Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol without relying on XWayland and X11 components. The driver winewayland.drv has added support for the graphics API […]