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Kamil Łysik, working at NVIDIA, spoke at the XDC 2026 conference, where he presented the results of testing output latency in GNOME 49.7 (mutter) and KDE 6.7.4 (kwin) environments using the X.Org Server and Wayland. The code used in the study has been published under the MIT license. Overall, the findings suggest that the differences […
Theo de Raadt has proposed the inclusion of a new mechanism in OpenBSD to reduce the attack surface, implemented through the enhanced capabilities of the openat system call. Patches with the implementation of additional flags for openat and open, which limit the ability to traverse to parent directories via "/.." and access by absolute paths, have been prepared for the kernel, libc, and some applications from the base system. The changes are still […]
The non-profit organization Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, which oversees the development of the Rocky Linux distribution, has announced the creation of the OpenCourant project, which will continue the development of the open code base of the OpenRadioss platform after its transformation into a proprietary product. The project's code will continue to evolve under the APGLv3 license with the support of the community and under the management of a non-profit foundation independent of individual vendors. To participate in the work on the fork […]
The Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations of the Netherlands is developing the DAWO (Digital Autonomous Work Environment for the Government) project, aimed at creating a sovereign work environment for government institutions, promoted to eliminate dependence on foreign technology corporations. The Linux distribution NixOS has been selected as the operating system for workstations. Three state IT companies — DICTU, SSC-ICT, and DUO-ICT — are involved in the project development. […]
A group of enthusiasts has created the Xenolith SDK, allowing you to build full desktop applications directly in the browser. The system enables cross-compilation of graphical applications from any supported system to any other. One of the supported systems is WebAssembly, so applications can be built for the browser and built in the browser for any other platform. The project's source code is written in C++ and is available under […]
System76 has added to the pull request acceptance rules for the COSMIC desktop environment and in the participation agreement for the Linux distribution Pop!_OS requirements that prohibit the submission of content generated using AI tools in changes or issue messages. The ban applies to code, comments, and text descriptions. Initially, the rules mentioned the acceptability of using AI for research purposes […]
The release of the Qubes operating system 4.3.2 is available, implementing the idea of using a hypervisor for strict isolation of applications and OS components (each class of applications and system services runs in separate virtual machines). A system with 16 GB of RAM (minimum — 6 GB) and a 64-bit Intel or AMD CPU with support for VT-x with EPT/AMD-v with RVI is recommended for operation […]
The release of the Rust programming language 1.99 has been published, originally based on the Mozilla project but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation. The language focuses on safe memory handling and provides means to achieve high parallelism in task execution while doing without garbage collection and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintaining the standard library). Methods of operation […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.19 has been published. Since the release of 11.18, 23 bug reports have been closed and 358 changes have been made. The most important changes include: the GDIPlus library now supports vertical text rendering, character tables have been updated to Unicode 18.0.0, DNS query caching support has been implemented, and the VBScript parser has been improved. Support for IOCTL_DVD_SEND_KEY operations has been added to mountmgr, […]
A port of the file manager DOS Navigator has been prepared, reworked for building with the Free Pascal compiler. Currently, builds for DOS and Linux are supported. Panel display, viewer, editor, command execution, basic file operations, and the built-in Tetris game are already functional. To ensure licensing compliance during the porting process, all traces of the original Turbo Vision library code have been removed, […]
Cloudflare has announced the creation of its own certificate authority aimed at providing free TLS certificates that utilize cryptographic algorithms resistant to hacking by quantum computers. At the same time, it was announced that it has acquired the certificate authority GlobalSign, which will serve as the foundation for implementing the project and will enable the immediate issuance of certificates that ensure maximum device coverage, thanks to GlobalSign's presence in existing root certificate lists. In addition to this […]
Siemens has announced the cessation of development for OpenRadioss as an open project and has transformed it into a proprietary product. The OpenRadioss repository has been removed from GitHub, and the site openradioss.org now redirects users to a page with information about the project's closure. Enterprises interested in continuing to use OpenRadioss are encouraged to switch to the proprietary product Simcenter Radioss, while researchers, scientists, and industry partners […]