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Open-source software. The main functionality of Snoop Project is to track 'username' in public data, along with various OSINT plugins. Snoop Project is registered in the domestic software registry of Russia under code 26.30.11.16: Software that provides execution of established actions during operational-search activities: No. 7012 order dated 07.10.2020 No. 515. Snoop Project was developed based on research work in the field of scraping […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 8.19, has been made. Since the release of version 8.18, 44 bug reports have been closed and 225 changes made. The most important changes include: The Wine Mono engine with .NET platform implementation has been updated to release 8.1.0. The development of the winewayland.drv driver has continued, allowing the use of Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol without using XWayland and […]
Canonical has announced the code name for Ubuntu 24.04 — Noble Numbat. The release schedule is as follows: February 29, 2024 – Feature Freeze; March 21, 2024 – User Interface Freeze; April 4, 2024 – Ubuntu 24.04 Beta; April 11, 2024 – Kernel Freeze; April 25, 2024 – Ubuntu 24.04 LTS regular release; August 2024 — Ubuntu […]
Leah Rowe, the lead developer and founder of the Libreboot distribution, has introduced the first release of the Canoeboot project, developed alongside Libreboot and positioned as a fully free version of Libreboot that meets the Free Software Foundation's requirements for fully free distributions. Earlier, the project was published under the name 'unofficial GNU Boot', but after receiving a complaint from the creators of GNU Boot, it was initially renamed to […]
Rust language developers have announced the discontinuation of support for non-canonical uploads in the crate.io repository, which use normalized package names with replaced underscores and hyphens, effective November 20, 2023. The reason cited for this change is to enhance reliability and optimize performance. Until now, it hasn’t mattered whether an underscore or hyphen was specified in the name during upload — […]
The codebase that shapes the user environment release of KDE Plasma 6 has added support for extensions of the Wayland protocol, which manage color in the KWin compositing server. In the KDE Plasma 6 session based on Wayland, the ability to separately manage color for each screen has been implemented. Users can now assign their ICC profiles to each screen, and in applications using […]
The Russian company RED SOFT, known for developing the RHEL-based distribution RED OS and the database Rед База Данных (a version of the open-source database Firebird), has registered the operating system RED OS M in the Russian software registry, aimed at use on mobile devices and stationary systems with touch screens. RED OS M is built from the source code of the Android platform, available at […]
The release of Sculpt 23.10 has been announced, within which an operating system for general purposes is being developed based on Genode OS Framework technologies, intended for use by everyday users for routine tasks. The source code of the project is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A LiveUSB image, sized at 28 MB, is available for download. It supports operation on systems with Intel processors and graphics subsystems with […]
The developers of the Linux Mint distribution have announced the start of work on adapting the Cinnamon desktop environment for Wayland. Experimental support for Wayland will appear in the upcoming Cinnamon 6.0 release, which will be included in Linux Mint 21.3 (based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS + fresh software versions from Ubuntu 23.10). The release of Linux Mint 21.3 is scheduled for December. Linux Mint will provide the option […]
The release of the Simply Linux 10.2 operating system for x86_64, AArch64, and i586 on platform 10 (branch p10 Aronia) has occurred. Simply Linux is an operating system for home use and tackling everyday tasks. Download the release image Changes: Linux kernel versions 5.10 and 6.1. XFCE 4.18 desktop environment. Chromium 117.0 web browser. Pidgin 2.14 messenger. Improved interface interaction. Added new […]
Bulky, sluggish, energy-hungry — what derogatory epithets SSD advocates use for the good old magnetic hard drives! However, are HDD technologies really that outdated — and why have NAND memory-based storage devices not yet displaced "hard drives" from data centers, home/office NAS, or desktop PCs? Source: 3dnews.ru
The developers of the Linux Mint project have announced work on adapting the Cinnamon desktop environment for operation in a Wayland protocol-based environment. Experimental support for Wayland will be available in Cinnamon 6.0, scheduled for release in November, and an optional session with Cinnamon on Wayland will be offered for testing in the upcoming Linux Mint 21.3 release, expected in December. The porting is currently underway […]