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Release of the GNU GRUB 2.06 boot manager

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After two years of development, the stable release of the modular cross-platform bootloader manager GNU GRUB 2.06 (GRand Unified Bootloader) has been presented. GRUB supports a wide range of platforms, including standard PCs with BIOS, IEEE-1275 platforms (PowerPC/Sparc64 hardware), EFI systems, RISC-V, MIPS-compatible Loongson 2E processor hardware, Itanium systems, ARM, ARM64, and ARCS (SGI), as well as devices using the free CoreBoot package. Main […]

Release of Proton 6.10-GE-1, an enhanced build of Proton, a package for running Windows games on Linux

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The release of the Proton-6.10-GE-1 project is now available, in which enthusiasts create independent builds of the Windows application launcher Proton that is separate from Valve, featuring a newer version of Wine, the use of FFmpeg in FAudio, and the inclusion of additional patches that resolve issues in various gaming applications. The new Proton GE version updates dxvk, vkd3d, steamclient, nvapi, and faudio, and carries over patches to improve […]

Release of the Mir 2.4 display server

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The release of the Mir 2.2 display server has been announced, which continues to be developed by Canonical, despite the discontinuation of the Unity shell and Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, allowing environments to run […]

Second open competitions for children and adolescents on GNU/Linux

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The Children and Youth Center for Technical Creativity and Information Technologies of the Pushkin District of St. Petersburg has opened registration for the second open competitions for children and adolescents on GNU/Linux. Participants will be offered theoretical questions and practical tasks of varying difficulty levels. Age of participants: 10-17 years. Registration is open until June 11, 2021. Participation is free. All participants will receive diplomas. The competitions will take place in 2 stages: […]

In Fedora 35, a transition to yescrypt for password hashing is planned.

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For implementation in Fedora 35, a transition to the yescrypt password hashing scheme is planned. This change has not yet been considered by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical development of the Fedora distribution. If approved, starting from Fedora 35, passwords for new users in /etc/shadow will be hashed using yescrypt by default. Support for old hashes created […]

Release of the IceWM 2.4 window manager

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The release of the lightweight window manager IceWM 2.4 is available. IceWM provides full management through keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, taskbars, and application menus. The window manager can be configured using a fairly simple configuration file, with themes available for customization. Built-in applets for monitoring CPU, memory, and traffic are also available. A number of third-party GUIs for configuration, desktop implementations, and editors are being developed separately […]

Mozilla has created a platform for discussing ideas and proposals.

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Mozilla has launched the service ideas.mozilla.org, designed for discussing ideas and suggestions for the development of existing projects, conducting experiments, and creating new products. The site provides insights into what Mozilla developers are currently working on, the problems they aim to solve, and the changes that can be anticipated. Moreover, suggestions for improvements can be made not only by Mozilla employees but by […]

Release vsftpd 3.0.4

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After six years since the release of the last update, a new version of the secure and high-performance FTP server vsftpd 3.0.4 is available, featuring the following changes: Added support for hostname matching within TLS connections using the TLS SNI extension. A setting for binding and hostnames called ssl_sni_hostname has been introduced. TLS ALPN support has been added, but any TLS ALPN sessions not associated with […]

Release of the Git source control system 2.32

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After three months of development, the release of the distributed version control system Git 2.32 has been published. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible tools for non-linear development based on branching and merging. Implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used to ensure history integrity and resistance to 'retroactive' changes […]

Release of Regolith desktop 1.6

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The release of Regolith Desktop 1.6 is available, developed by the creators of the Linux distribution of the same name. Regolith is based on GNOME session management technologies and the i3 window manager. The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. PPA repositories have been prepared for Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, and 21.04. The project is positioned as a modern desktop environment, developed for faster execution of routine actions through optimizations […]

Release of Wine version 6.9

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In this version: The WPCAP library has been converted to PE (Portable Executable) format. Support for sheet formats in the print spooler has been added. The implementation of mathematical functions from Musl continues in the C runtime environment. Additionally, some bugs in the operation of programs like: TroopMaster Agenda Circling Forth GPU particle demo Visual Studio 2010 (10.0) Express have been fixed […]

Release of Floppinux 0.2.1

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Krzysztof Krystian Jankowski has released another version of the Floppinux distribution, version 0.2.1. The distribution is based on kernel 5.13.0-rc2+ and BusyBox 1.33.1. Syslinux is used as the boot loader. A processor no less than 486 DX with at least 24 megabytes of RAM is required for the operation of the distribution. As the name suggests, the entire distribution fits on a 3.5" double-density floppy disk […]

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