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The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling regarding the ongoing legal battle of 'Oracle vs. Google' that has been in process since 2010, concerning the use of the Java API in the Android platform. The Supreme Court sided with Google, ruling that the use of the Java API constitutes fair use. The Court agreed that Google's intention was to create a different system focused on solving […]
On April 4, the preliminary discussion was concluded, and voting began to determine the official position of the Debian project regarding Richard Stallman's return as head of the Free Software Foundation. The voting will last for two weeks, until April 17. The vote was initially initiated by Canonical employee Steve Langasek, who proposed the ratification of the first version of the statement (calling for the resignation of the council […]
The Federal Service for Technical and Export Control has signed a contract with the Institute of System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISP RAS) for the establishment of a technological center for researching the security of operating systems based on the Linux kernel. The contract also includes the creation of a hardware and software complex for the research center. The contract amount is 300 million rubles. The deadline for completion of the work […]
The release of the lightweight window manager IceWM 2.3 is now available. IceWM offers full management via keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, taskbars, and application menus. The window manager can be configured through a relatively simple configuration file, with the option to use themes. Built-in applets for monitoring CPU usage, memory, and traffic are available. Several third-party GUIs for configuration, desktop implementations, and editors are also being developed separately […]
The release of the TeX Live 2021 distribution, created in 1996 based on the teTeX project, has been prepared. TeX Live is the simplest way to deploy infrastructure for preparing scientific documentation, regardless of the operating system used. A DVD build (4.4 GB) of TeX Live 2021 has been formed, which contains a working Live environment, a complete set of installation files for various operating systems, and a copy of the CTAN repository […]
Oracle has released the second functional update for the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R6, positioned for use in the Oracle Linux distribution as an alternative to the default Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel package. The kernel is available for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. The kernel's source code, including a breakdown into individual patches, has been published in Oracle's public Git repository. The Unbreakable Enterprise package […]
Proxmox, known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution for deploying virtual server infrastructures, has released Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.4. Proxmox Mail Gateway is presented as a ready-to-use solution for quickly creating a system to monitor mail traffic and protect the internal mail server. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are released under the AGPLv3 license. For […]
The Fedora Project Board has published a statement regarding Richard Stallman's return to the board of the Free Software Foundation. The statement emphasizes that Fedora advocates building an inclusive, open, and friendly community that does not tolerate harassment, bullying, or any other forms of abusive behavior in communications. Furthermore, the Fedora Board is stunned that the Free Software Foundation allowed Stallman to return with […]
The beta release of Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" has been introduced, following which a full package freeze was implemented and the developers moved on to final testing and bug fixing. The release is scheduled for April 22. Ready test images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and UbuntuKylin (the edition for China). Key changes: As […]
Valve has released Proton 6.3-1, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the running of gaming applications created for Windows on Linux, available in the Steam catalog. The project advancements are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows gaming applications that are only available for Windows to be launched directly in the Linux Steam client. The package includes an implementation of DirectX […]
The developers of the Arch Linux distribution announced the integration of the Archinstall installer into the installation ISO images, which can be used instead of manual installation. Archinstall operates in console mode and is offered as an option to automate the installation. By default, as before, the manual mode is suggested, which involves using a step-by-step installation guide. The announcement of the installer integration was made on April 1, but this is not […]
The developers of the LineageOS project, which succeeded CyanogenMod following the discontinuation of the project by Cyanogen Inc, have released LineageOS 18.1, based on the Android 11 platform. The 18.1 release was created skipping 18.0 due to the peculiarities of tag assignments in the repository. It is noted that the LineageOS 18 branch has reached parity in functionality and stability with branch 17 and is considered ready for transition to […]