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The lightweight Live distribution AntiX 26 has been released, built on a Debian package base and aimed at installation on outdated hardware. The release is based on Debian 13 package base but comes without the system manager systemd and includes eudev instead of udev. By default, runit is used for initialization. The default user environment is formed with the IceWM window manager, but additional options are included.
On March 12 and 14, after a long pause, releases 1.10.0 and 1.10.1 of the cpp-peglib library, which implements PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar), were announced. The library supports the syntax detailed by Brian Ford on page 2 of the document "Parsing Expression Grammars: A Recognition-Based Syntactic Foundation," with many additional improvements. Unlike projects like PEGTL, Lexy, and many others, cpp-peglib allows for defining...
The release of Cambalache 1.0 has been announced, a tool for rapid interface development for GTK 3 and GTK 4, using visual design (WYSIWYG), the MVC paradigm, and the philosophy of primary importance of the data model. The version number 1.0 is presented as an achievement of the project's readiness for widespread use. The code is written in Python and is available under the LGPLv2.1 license. A package is available for installation in...
Intel is often criticized for its short-lived support of CPU sockets for desktop PCs. In a recent interview with Club386, Robert Hallock, Intel's Vice President of Client Computing, stated that he "sees a future where Intel sockets will support more generations of processors." He added that the company is paying close attention to feedback from enthusiasts. Intel has already officially confirmed its work on […]
Microsoft announced major changes to its operating system update distribution system. Pavan Davuluri, head of the Windows division, promised that in the future users will be able to pause the installation of patches "for as long as necessary." Computer owners will also be able to restart or turn off their devices without forced installation of updates. According to The Verge, this decision was made in response to years of criticism […]
After two years of development, the release of the standard C library Musl 1.2.6 has been announced, providing an implementation of libc suitable for use on both stationary PCs and servers as well as mobile systems, combining full support for standards (like in Glibc) with a small size, low resource consumption, and high performance (similar to uClibc, dietlibc, and Android Bionic). Support for all mandatory […]
The developers of the AlmaLinux project, which is developing a distribution edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), have announced the addition of support for the RISC-V (RV64GC) architecture in the AlmaLinux Kitten 10 distribution. The AlmaLinux Kitten 10 edition is based on the package base of CentOS Stream 10, developed using a continuous package update model, and is used as the upstream for the AlmaLinux 10 branch. Builds of AlmaLinux Kitten 10 for […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 11.5 has been published. Since the release of 11.4, 22 bug reports have been closed and 208 changes have been made. The most important changes include: support for compiling code in C++ has been added to the build system. The configure script now includes the ability to check for a compiler supporting C++17. Header files for C++ are now included, and […]
The stable release of Wayland 1.25 is now available. The main changes concern documentation, development convenience, and minor protocol extensions. Changes include: documentation in text format has been converted from DocBook to mdBook; fully documented: the XML dialect of Wayland (how to write protocols); content update model (how clients send buffers); color management. A new attribute 'frozen' has been added for interfaces with multiple parent interfaces; a new request […]
The Fedora Asahi Remix 43 distribution has been released, intended for installation on Mac computers equipped with ARM chips developed by Apple. Fedora Asahi Remix 43 is based on the package base of Fedora Linux 43 and features the Calamares installer. Initially, the Asahi Linux distribution was developed based on Arch Linux, but in 2023 it was transitioned to the Fedora package base, allowing efforts to be focused on […]
The ReactOS project has reported significant progress in achieving compatibility with proprietary video drivers. Thanks to a series of fixes and the implementation of the KMDF (Kernel-Mode Driver Framework) and WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) subsystems, support for around 90% of GPU drivers for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has been realized. Prior to these changes, launching many proprietary drivers either resulted in crashes or unstable operation. […]
Roman Gushchin from the Linux kernel development team at Google announced the availability of a new code review system powered by artificial intelligence. It is already being used internally at Google to identify issues, and is now publicly available, covering all messages sent to the Linux kernel mailing list. Roman reports that Sasiko has managed to detect about 53% of errors on […]