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Oracle has introduced Solaris 11.4 CBE (Common Build Environment), a new free version of the Solaris 11.4 operating system aimed at open source developers and personal use. Unlike the previously offered core builds of Solaris 11.4, the license for which allows free use for testing, development, and personal projects, the new edition features continuous integration.
The formation of the UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express) consortium has been announced, aimed at developing open specifications and creating an ecosystem for chiplet technology. Chiplets allow the creation of combined hybrid integrated circuits (multi-chip modules) made up of independent semiconductor blocks that are not tied to a single manufacturer and interact with each other using the standard high-speed UCIe interface. Specialized solutions, for instance, are being developed.
After one and a half years of development, the Wine project has published the vkd3d 1.3 release, featuring Direct3D 12, which operates through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes the libvkd3d libraries implementing Direct3D 12, libvkd3d-shader with a translator for shader models 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify porting of Direct3D 12 applications, along with a set of demonstration examples.
The development of the openSUSE Leap 15.4 distribution has entered the beta testing stage. The release is based on a core set of packages common with the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 4 distribution and also includes some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. A universal DVD installation image, sized 3.9 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x), is available for download. The openSUSE Leap 15.4 release is expected on June 8, 2022.
Google has released version 99 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, the stable version of the free project Chromium, which serves as the foundation for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, a crash notification system, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, and the transmission of RLZ parameters during searches. The next release of Chrome 100 is scheduled for March 29. […]
The developers of the Tor anonymous network have introduced the first beta release (0.1.0) of the Arti project, which is developing a Tor client written in Rust. The project is in experimental development status and lags behind the functionality of the main Tor client written in C, and is currently not ready to fully replace it. A 1.0 release is planned for September, which will stabilize the API, CLI, and settings, making it suitable for initial […]
The release of the optical character recognition system Tesseract 5.1 has been published, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian. The results can be saved as plain text or in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. The system was originally developed between 1985 and 1995 in a laboratory at Hewlett Packard, in […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.11 suite of internet applications has taken place, which combines a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom feed aggregator, and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer into a single product. It offers pre-installed add-ons, including the IRC client Chatzilla, the DOM Inspector web development tools, and the Lightning calendar-scheduler. This new release includes fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
New releases of the Linux From Scratch 11.1 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11.1 (BLFS) guides have been presented, along with LFS and BLFS editions featuring the system manager systemd. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch using only the source codes of the necessary software. Beyond Linux From Scratch complements the LFS instructions with information on assembling […]
The Free Software Foundation announced the appointment of Zoë Kooyman as the new executive director, a position that became vacant following the departure of John Sullivan, who held the position since 2011. Zoë joined the Foundation in 2019 and served as a project manager. It is noted that Zoë has experience in managing international projects and organizing events. […]
Updates for the OpenWrt distribution 19.07.9 and 21.02.2 have been released, targeting application in various network devices such as routers, switches, and access points. OpenWrt supports multiple different platforms and architectures and has a build system that allows for easy and convenient cross-compilation, including various components in the build, making it easy to create firmware tailored to specific tasks or […]
After two and a half years since the last release, the Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre 0.4 project has been released, which is part of the Free Software Foundation's list of fully free distributions. Hyperbola is based on stabilized snapshots of the Arch Linux package base with some patches from Debian for improved stability and security. Hyperbola builds are available for i686 and x86_64 architectures (1.1 GB). The project […]