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Chrome is experimenting with RSS support, cleaning User-Agent strings, and automatic password changes.

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Google has announced the addition of an experimental 'Follow' feature in Chrome, implementing a built-in RSS client. Users will be able to subscribe to RSS feeds from sites they are interested in through the Follow button in the menu and track new publications in the Following section on the new tab page. Testing of this new feature is set to begin in the coming weeks and will be limited to select Chrome users on Android, […]

Taking control of the FreeNode IRC network, staff departures, and the creation of the new Libera.Chat network

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The team maintaining the FreeNode IRC network, popular among open-source and free software developers, has ceased support for the project and founded a new IRC network, libera.chat, intended to replace FreeNode. It has been noted that the old network, using the freenode.[org|net|com] domains, has come under the control of questionable individuals, raising concerns about trust. Projects like CentOS have already announced their migration of IRC channels to the libera.chat network […]

Release of the T2 SDE 21.5 meta-distribution

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The release of the T2 SDE 21.5 meta-distribution has taken place, providing an environment for building custom distributions, cross-compilation, and maintaining package versions up to date. Distributions can be created based on Linux, Minix, Hurd, OpenDarwin, Haiku, and OpenBSD. Among the popular distributions built on the T2 system is Puppy Linux. The project offers basic bootable ISO images (ranging from 382 to 735 MB) with […]

Release of the GeckoLinux 999.210517 distribution

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The release of GeckoLinux 999.210517 is now available, based on the openSUSE package base, with a strong focus on desktop optimization and details such as quality font rendering. The distribution comes (1.6 GB) in a Rolling edition, built from the Tumbleweed repository and its own Packman repository. The 999 number in the version indicates Rolling releases and is used to avoid overlap with the Static releases assembled […]

The 1Password password manager now offers full support for Linux.

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The popular proprietary password manager 1Password has implemented comprehensive support for the Linux platform, including integration with GNOME, KDE, and any window managers. A tray applet is available for password management. Supported distributions include Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Arch Linux, and RHEL. Additionally, self-contained packages in snap format and a universal build are provided […]

Solaris 11.4 SRU33 is now available.

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Oracle has released an update for the Solaris 11.4 SRU 33 (Support Repository Update) operating system, which includes a series of fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes, simply execute the command 'pkg update'. The new release includes support for 18 TB Western Digital (WDC Paris-C SAS) hard drives. The package includes SpiderMonkey 78, […]

First release of the DogLinux assembly for hardware testing

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The first release of a specialized build of the DogLinux distribution (Debian LiveCD styled like Puppy Linux), based on the Debian 11 'Bullseye' package base, has been announced. It is designed for testing and maintaining PCs and laptops. It includes applications such as GPUTest, Unigine Heaven, ddrescue, WHDD, and DMDE. The system environment is based on Linux kernel 5.10.28, Mesa 20.3.4, Xfce 4.16, Porteus Initrd, […]

W3C has released a draft version of the WebGPU standard.

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The W3C consortium has presented the first drafts of the WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL) specifications, defining an API for executing GPU operations such as rendering and computations, as well as a shading language for writing programs that run on the GPU, conceptually similar to the Vulkan, Metal, and Direct3D 12 APIs. The specifications have been prepared by a working group that includes engineers from Mozilla, […]

The new version of the open billing system ABillS 0.90 CRM

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The release of the open billing system ABillS 0.90 is available, with components provided under the GPLv2 license. Major updates include: The web interface has been updated to use AdminLTE 3. A plugin system has been added in the Msgs module. Competitor management has been integrated into the CRM module. The Equipment module in the cable tester has expanded support for devices and now displays MAC addresses for ONU. The Paysys module has introduced the ability to […]

Mozilla has introduced a strict site isolation mode for Firefox

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Mozilla has announced the commencement of mass testing in nightly builds and beta releases of Firefox for the strict site isolation mode, which has been developed as part of the Fission project. This mode expands the use of a multiprocess architecture — instead of a fixed pool of processes, a separate process is created for each site. The Fission mode activation can be managed through the variable 'fission.autostart=true' in about:config or on the about:preferences#experimental page. Remember that the applied […]

The OpenPrinting project has taken on the development of the CUPS printing system.

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Till Kamppeter, the leader of the OpenPrinting project, announced that due to Apple's lack of interest in maintaining the CUPS printing system, last year's fork of CUPS can be viewed as the upstream project for patch submissions and inclusion in distributions. Michael R Sweet, the original author of CUPS who left a year and a half ago, is involved in the development of the fork […]

Release of NetBSD 9.2

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The release of the NetBSD 9.2 operating system has been announced. Installation images sized at 820 MB are available for download, supporting 57 system architectures and 16 different CPU families. Key changes include the ability to export ZFS file systems via NFS. Code from NetBSD HEAD has been transferred to the http server httpd, adding support for additional MIME types and addressing file processing issues […]

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