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Fedora 38 is set to establish official builds with the Budgie desktop environment.

Joshua Strobl, the key developer of the Budgie project, published a proposal to begin forming official Fedora Linux Spin builds with the Budgie desktop environment. To accompany the Budgie packages and create new builds, the Budgie SIG group has been established. The Fedora Spin edition with Budgie is expected to be delivered starting with the Fedora Linux 38 release. This proposal has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo committee (Fedora Engineering Steering […]

Release of Linux kernel 6.1

After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 6.1. Among the most notable changes are support for driver and module development in the Rust language, modernization of the memory page identification mechanism, a special memory manager for BPF programs, a memory issue diagnostics system called KMSAN, a protection mechanism known as KCFI (Kernel Control-Flow Integrity), and the introduction of the Maple tree structure. A total of 15,115 changes have been accepted into the new version […]

Android TV 13 platform is available

Four months after the launch of the Android 13 mobile platform, Google has released a version for smart TVs and Android TV set-top boxes, labeled Android TV 13. Currently, the platform is available only for testing by application developers—ready builds have been prepared for the Google ADT-3 set-top box and the Android Emulator for TV. Updates for consumer devices, such as Google Chromecast, are expected in […]

The ping utility check in OpenBSD revealed a bug present since 1998

The results of fuzz testing for the ping utility included in OpenBSD have been published, following the recent discovery of a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the ping utility provided by FreeBSD. The ping utility in OpenBSD is not affected by the issue identified in FreeBSD (the vulnerability exists in the new implementation of the pr_pack() function, rewritten by FreeBSD developers in 2019), but another error was uncovered during testing that had gone unnoticed […]

Qt 6.5 will introduce an API for direct access to Wayland objects

In Qt 6.5, a QNativeInterface::QWaylandApplication interface will be added for Wayland, allowing direct access to native Wayland objects used in Qt's internal structures, as well as access to user activity information, which may be needed for protocol extension communications. The new interface is implemented in the QNativeInterface namespace, which also […]

Candidate releases Wine 8.0 and vkd3d release 1.6

Testing has begun for the first release candidate of Wine 8.0, an open-source implementation of WinAPI. The codebase has reached a freeze stage ahead of the release expected in mid-January. Compared to the Wine 7.22 release, 52 bug reports have been closed and 538 changes have been made. Key changes include: the vkd3d package implementing Direct3D 12, functioning via call translation to the graphic API […]

The code for the original implementation of the PostScript language has been opened.

The Computer History Museum has received permission from Adobe to publish the source code of one of the earliest implementations of the PostScript printing technology, released in 1984. PostScript technology is notable because the printed page is described in a special programming language, with the PostScript document representing a program that is interpreted during printing. The published code is written in C and […]

Release of the Kali Linux 2022.4 distribution for security research

The release of Kali Linux 2022.4 has been announced, created based on Debian and designed for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual information, and identifying the consequences of attacks by malicious actors. All original developments created within the framework of the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through a public Git repository. Several ISO image options have been prepared for download, with sizes of 448 MB, 2.7 […]

Intel has integrated DXVK code into its drivers for Windows

Intel has begun testing a significant update to the Windows drivers Intel Arc Graphics Driver 31.0.101.3959 for graphics cards with Arc (Alchemist) and Iris (DG1) GPUs, as well as for integrated GPUs supplied in processors based on the Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake, Alder Lake, and Raptor Lake microarchitectures. The most significant changes in the new version relate to efforts to increase the performance of games using DirectX […]

CERN and Fermilab are switching to AlmaLinux

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Switzerland) and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab, USA), which once developed the Scientific Linux distribution but later switched to CentOS, have announced the selection of AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for supporting experiments. This decision was made due to changes in Red Hat's policy regarding CentOS support and the premature termination of support […]

Release of the Deepin 20.8 distribution, enhancing its own graphical environment.

The release of Deepin 20.8 has been announced, based on the package base of Debian 10, but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and around 40 user applications, including the music player DMusic, video player DMovie, messaging system DTalk, installer, and application center Deepin Software Center. The project is founded by a group of developers from China but has transformed into an international project. […]

The release of the free 3D modeling system Blender 3.4.

The Blender Foundation has released the free 3D modeling package Blender 3.4, 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. Ready builds have been created for Linux, Windows, and macOS. At the same time, a corrective release Blender 3.3.2 has been formed in the branch […]

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