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Release of Salix Live 15.0 Distribution

The Live edition of the Salix 15.0 distribution has been released, providing a bootable working environment that does not require installation on a disk. Changes made during the current session can be saved to a separate area of a USB drive to continue working after a reboot. The distribution is developed by the creator of Zenwalk Linux, who left the project due to conflicts with other developers advocating for a policy of maximum similarity to Slackware. Salix 15 is fully compatible with Slackware […]

Cisco has released the free antivirus package ClamAV 1.0.0.

Cisco has introduced a new major release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 1.0.0. This new branch is notable for its shift to traditional release numbering 'Major.Minor.Patch' (instead of 0.Version.Patch). The significant version change is also due to modifications in the libclamav library that break ABI-level compatibility due to the removal of the namespace CLAMAV_PUBLIC, changes to argument types in the cl_strerror function, and the inclusion of symbols into the namespace for […]

A file system Composefs has been proposed for Linux.

Alexander Larsson, the creator of Flatpak, working at Red Hat, has presented a preliminary version of patches implementing the Composefs filesystem for the Linux kernel. The proposed filesystem resembles Squashfs and is also suitable for mounting images in read-only mode. The differences come down to providing efficient shared storage of contents from multiple mounted disk images in Composefs and supporting […]

Release of OpenRGB 0.8, a toolkit for managing RGB lighting of peripheral devices

After nearly a year of development, a new release of OpenRGB 0.8, an open toolkit for managing RGB lighting of peripheral devices, has been published. The package supports motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI with RGB subsystems for case lighting, memory modules with lighting from ASUS, Patriot, Corsair, and HyperX, ASUS Aura/ROG graphics cards, MSI GeForce, Sapphire Nitro, and Gigabyte Aorus, various LED strip controllers […]

Update of the framework for building the Maui interface and the set of Maui Apps.

The developers of the Nitrux project have introduced new releases of components used to build the interface in the Maui DE (Maui Shell) user environment. Maui DE forms a set of applications called Maui Apps, the Maui Shell interface, and the MauiKit framework for building user interfaces that offer ready-made templates for interface elements. The development also utilizes the Kirigami framework, which is developed by the KDE community and serves as an extension over […]

Release of the Rocky Linux 9.1 distribution, developed by the founder of CentOS.

The release of Rocky Linux 9.1, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can replace the classic CentOS, has been announced. This release is marked as ready for production deployment. The distribution is fully binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.1 and CentOS 9 Stream. Support for the Rocky Linux 9 branch will continue until May 31 […]

Wasmer 3.0 is now available, a toolkit for building applications based on WebAssembly.

The third major release of the Wasmer project, which develops a runtime for executing WebAssembly modules that can be used to create universal applications capable of running on different operating systems, as well as for the isolated execution of untrusted code, has been presented. The project’s code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT license. The ability to run a single application across different platforms is achieved through compilation […]

Release of Nuitka 1.2, a compiler for the Python language.

The release of the Nuitka 1.2 project, which develops a compiler for translating Python scripts into C code representation that can then be compiled into an executable file using libpython for maximum compatibility with CPython (using CPython’s built-in tools for object management), is now available. Full compatibility is ensured with the latest releases of Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.3 – 3.10. Compared to […]

Release zeronet-conservancy 0.7.8, a platform for decentralized websites

The release of the zeronet-conservancy project 0.7.8, which continues the development of the decentralized, censorship-resistant ZeroNet network, has taken place. In this network, websites are created using Bitcoin addressing and verification mechanisms combined with BitTorrent distributed delivery technologies. The content of the websites is stored in a P2P network on visitors' machines and is verified using the owner's digital signature. This fork was created after the original developer of ZeroNet disappeared and aims to maintain and […]

The Forgejo project has initiated the development of a fork of the collaborative development system Gitea.

Within the Forgejo project, a fork of the collaborative development platform Gitea has been established. The reason for this is the rejection of attempts to commercialize the project and concentrate management in the hands of a commercial company. According to the creators of the fork, the project should remain independent and belong to the community. Forgejo will continue to adhere to the previous principles of independent governance. On October 25, the founder of Gitea (Lunny) and one of the active participants (techknowlogick) without […]

Release Wine 7.22

An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.22 has taken place. Since the release of version 7.21, 38 bug reports have been closed and 462 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: In WoW64, the layer for running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows, system call (thunk) converters for Vulkan and OpenGL have been added. The OpenLDAP library has been included in the main build, compiled in the format […]

The SerpentOS toolkit is available for testing.

After two years of work on the project, the developers of the SerpentOS distribution announced the availability of testing for the core toolkit, which includes: the package manager moss; the container system moss-container; the dependency management system moss-deps; the build system boulder; the service hiding system avalanche; the repository manager vessel; the control panel summit; the database moss-db; and the reproducible bootstrapping system bill. A public API and package recipes are available. […]

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