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The Open Source Initiative (OSI), which checks licenses for compliance with Open Source criteria, announced a continuation of the story accusing the GNOME project of violating the 9,936,086 patent. At one time, the GNOME project did not agree to pay royalties and launched active efforts to collect facts that could indicate the insolvency of the patent. To stop such activities, Rothschild Patent […]
The distribution kit Lakka 4.2 has been released, allowing you to turn computers, set-top boxes or single-board computers into a full-fledged game console for running retro games. The project is a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally designed to create home theaters. Lakka builds are generated for i386, x86_64 (Intel, NVIDIA or AMD GPUs), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, Odroid C1/C1+/XU3/XU4, etc. platforms. […]
The release of the Sculpt 22.04 operating system has been introduced, within which, based on Genode OS Framework technologies, a general-purpose operating system is being developed that can be used by ordinary users to perform everyday tasks. The source code of the project is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. A 28 MB LiveUSB image is offered for download. Supports operation on systems with Intel processors and graphics […]
Mozilla has released an update to its Common Voice datasets, which include pronunciation samples from nearly 200 people. The data is published as public domain (CC0). The proposed sets can be used in machine learning systems to build speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to the previous update, the volume of speech material in the collection increased by 10% - from 18.2 to 20.2 […]
The release of the Redis 7.0 DBMS, which belongs to the class of NoSQL systems, has been published. Redis provides functions for storing key/value data, enhanced by support for structured data formats such as lists, hashes, and sets, as well as the ability to run server-side script handlers in Lua. The project code is supplied under the BSD license. Additional modules that offer advanced capabilities for corporate […]
The release of the KDE Plasma Mobile 22.04 mobile platform has been published, based on the mobile edition of the Plasma 5 desktop, the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, the ModemManager phone stack and the Telepathy communication framework. The kwin_wayland composite server is used to display graphics in Plasma Mobile, and PulseAudio is used for sound processing. At the same time, a set of mobile applications Plasma Mobile Gear 22.04 was prepared, which is […]
The release of the Archinstall 2.4 installer has been published, which since April 2021 has been included as an option in Arch Linux installation ISO images. Archinstall works in console mode and can be used instead of the default manual installation mode of the distribution. The implementation of the installation graphical interface is being developed separately, but it is not included in the Arch Linux installation images and has already […]
The Linux kernel mailing list noted problems with maintaining the new implementation of the NTFS file system, open sourced by Paragon Software and included in the Linux kernel 5.15. One of the conditions for the inclusion of new NTFS code in the kernel was to ensure further maintenance of the code as part of the kernel, but starting from November 24 last year, any activity in the development of open […]
At a meeting of the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical part of the development of the Fedora Linux distribution, the change proposed for release in Fedora Linux 37, which would make UEFI support a mandatory requirement for installing the distribution on the x86_64 platform, was rejected. The issue of ending BIOS support has been postponed and developers will probably return to it when preparing the release of Fedora Linux […]
Security researchers from Microsoft have identified two vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-29799, CVE-2022-29800) in the networkd-dispatcher service, codenamed Nimbuspwn, that allow an unprivileged user to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. The issue is fixed in the release of networkd-dispatcher 2.2. There is no information about the publication of updates by distributions yet (Debian, RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, Arch Linux). Networkd-dispatcher is used on many Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, […]
Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 101 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which is the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, always turning on Sandbox isolation, supplying keys to the Google API and passing […]
Google presented the first beta version of the open mobile platform Android 13. The release of Android 13 is expected in the third quarter of 2022. To evaluate the new capabilities of the platform, a preliminary testing program is proposed. Firmware builds have been prepared for Pixel 6/6 Pro, Pixel 5/5a 5G, Pixel 4 / 4 XL / 4a / 4a (5G) devices. For those who installed the first test release, […]
