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The release of RT-Thread 5.0, a real-time operating system (RTOS) for Internet of Things devices, has been published. The system has been developed since 2006 by a community of Chinese developers and is now ported for nearly 200 platforms, chips, and microcontrollers based on x86, ARM, MIPS, C-SKY, Xtensa, ARC, and RISC-V architectures. The minimalist version of RT-Thread (Nano) requires only 3 KB of Flash to operate […]
After nine years of work, the last components of the Firefox codebase that utilized the XUL namespace for the interface rendering have been removed. Thus, with a few exceptions, standard web technologies (primarily CSS flexbox) are now used for rendering the Firefox user interface instead of specific XUL handlers (-moz-box, -moz-inline-box, -moz-grid, -moz-stack, -moz-popup). As an exception, XUL continues to be used for rendering system […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 8.5 has taken place. Since the release of version 8.4, 21 bug reports have been closed, and 361 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Support for configuring a dark theme in WinRT has been added. The vkd3d package implementing Direct3D 12, which operates through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API, has been updated to version 1.7. Changes have been made in the IDL compiler […]
The Blender Foundation has released version 3.5 of its free 3D modeling package Blender, suitable for various tasks related to 3D modeling, 3D graphics, game development, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, sculpting, animation creation, and video editing. The code is distributed under the GPL license. Precompiled builds are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Additionally, a corrective release of Blender 3.3.5 has been prepared in the branch […]
The OpenMandriva project has released OpenMandriva ROME 23.03, a distribution edition that uses a continuous delivery model (rolling releases). This edition allows users to access new package versions developed for the OpenMandriva Lx 5 branch without waiting for a traditional distribution release. ISO images sized 1.7-2.9 GB with KDE, GNOME, and LXQt desktops, supporting Live mode booting, have been prepared for download. An additional […]
The main branch release of nginx 1.23.4 has been formed, continuing the development of new capabilities. In the simultaneously supported stable branch 1.22.x, only changes related to fixing critical bugs and vulnerabilities are made. A stable branch 1.24 will later be formed based on the main branch 1.23.x. Among the changes: The TLSv1.3 protocol is enabled by default. A warning output is provided in case of overriding settings […]
After a year of development, the Live distribution Finnix 125 has been released, coinciding with the 23rd anniversary of the project. The distribution is based on the Debian package base and supports only console operations but includes a good selection of utilities for administrative needs. It includes 601 packages with various utilities. The ISO image size is 489 MB. In the new version: The package base is synchronized with Debian repositories. […]
NTC IT ROSA has released a corrective release of the freely available and community-developed distribution ROSA Fresh 12.4, built on the rosa2021.1 platform. Builds for the x86_64 platform have been prepared for free download, with KDE Plasma 5, LXQt, GNOME, Xfce, and without a GUI options. Users with the ROSA Fresh R12 distribution already installed will receive the update automatically. […]
Members of the technical committee overseeing the development of Ubuntu have approved the inclusion of the Ubuntu Cinnamon distribution, which offers the Cinnamon desktop environment, among the official editions of Ubuntu. At this stage of integration with the Ubuntu infrastructure, the formation of test builds for Ubuntu Cinnamon has already begun, and work is underway to organize testing within the quality control system. If no serious issues are found, Ubuntu Cinnamon will be included in […]
After a year of development, the Porteus Kiosk 5.5.0 distribution has been released, based on Gentoo and designed for equipping standalone internet kiosks, demo stands, and self-service terminals. The bootable image of the distribution is 170 MB (x86_64). The base build includes only the minimal set of components necessary to launch a web browser (supporting Firefox and Chrome), which has limited capabilities to prevent unwanted activity […]
The release of Ventoy 1.0.90, a toolkit for creating bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems, has been published. This program is notable for enabling OS booting from unmodified ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI images without the need to unpack the image or reformat the drive. For instance, simply copying the desired set of ISO images onto a USB flash drive with the Ventoy bootloader will allow you to boot […]
Debian 9 (Stretch) repositories have been moved to archive.debian.org, and after that, the distribution will soon no longer be accessible through the main mirror network. The removal of Debian 9 from the main archive is scheduled for April 23. The release of Debian 9 was presented on June 18, 2017, and was officially supported until July 18, 2020, and in the LTS branch until June 30, 2022. As part of […]