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A stable release of the operating system for routers and small network devices, OpenWrt 25.12, has been released with significant changes: the package manager has been replaced with apk (Alpine Package Keeper), the outdated opkg has been removed due to prolonged stagnation in its development; integration of attended sysupgrade (ASU) – a mechanism for self-updating the entire operating system while preserving packages and settings; shell history is kept in temporary memory […]
Kristoffer Grönlund, working at SUSE, announced the creation of a fork of the code editor Zed, which will be developed under the name Gram. The reason for creating the fork is mentioned as a desire to have a code editor that can serve as an alternative to VS Code, without using AI-based functionality, and without imposing an incompatible usage agreement (Terms of Use) […]
The developers of the GNU Guix package manager and the GNU/Linux Guix System distribution have announced the release of a 64-bit version of the Guix/Hurd distribution, which uses the GNU Hurd kernel instead of the Linux kernel. An option for installing Guix/Hurd on x86_64 architecture systems has been added to the installer, but the capabilities of this distribution version are severely limited, for example, support for booting is not yet implemented […]
The memory market crisis, triggered by the AI boom, is affecting many related industries. Manufacturers of solid-state drives have started to frequently revise contract prices and also require customers to make prepayments for product delivery. Similarly, the SSD controller developer, Phison, has acted. Phison's business model involves supplying partners with ready-made 'semi-finished products' for producing SSDs, which include […]
The release of version 0.8.0 of the ZXC library and cross-platform console utility (github.com) has taken place, implementing high-performance multi-threaded lossless compression optimized for game assets, firmware, and application packages. It claims to provide over 40% faster decompression than LZ4 on ARM64, with better compression ratios. The project is written in C and distributed under the BSD 3 license. Change list: Format version […]
The composite server Hyprland 0.54 is now available, utilizing the Wayland protocol. The project is focused on a tiling window layout but also supports classic free placement of windows, grouping of windows in tab form, pseudo-tiling mode, and fullscreen window expansion. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. It provides capabilities for creating visually appealing interfaces: gradients in window borders, blurring […]
The release of the browser engine Servo 0.0.5 and its accompanying demo browser ServoShell, written in Rust, has been published. Ready builds are available for Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows. Originally developed by Mozilla, the engine is now under the wing of the Linux Foundation. Servo is characterized by support for multithreaded rendering of web pages, parallelization of DOM (Document Object Model) operations, and involvement […]
The developers of the GNOME project have announced the start of redirecting some requests to the main Git repositories of the project to mirrors hosted on GitHub. All ‘git clone’ operations from gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/ are now redirected to github.com/GNOME/. The project migrated its development infrastructure to GitLab in 2018 (previously using cgit and Bugzilla). The reason given is working to reduce costs due to high traffic volume. […]
The release of the free PaaS platform Cozystack 1.0, built on Kubernetes, is now available. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform installs directly on servers and covers all aspects of infrastructure preparation for providing managed services. Cozystack allows the running and provision of Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
Google has introduced the second beta version of the open mobile platform Android 17. A preview testing program has been proposed to evaluate the new capabilities of the platform. Firmware builds have been prepared for Pixel 6/6a/6 Pro, Pixel 7/7a/7 Pro, Pixel 8/8a/8 Pro, Pixel 9/9a/9 Pro/9 Pro XL/9 Pro Fold, Pixel 10/10 Pro/10 Pro XL/10 Pro Fold, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Tablet. The release of Android 17 […]
On February 26, version 26.3.0 of the cross-platform multi-format electronic dictionary GoldenDict-ng was released – a fork of the GoldenDict dictionary. The dictionary features support for local dictionaries in formats such as: MDict, StarDict, ABBYY Lingvo DSL and .lsa/.dat, XDXF, Zim, Aard and Aard 2 (Slob), DictD, Epwing, SDictionary, Babylon and Babylon glossary builder, files with sounds in directories, and combined in zip archives. It also supports network […]
Ondřej Surý, Director of DNS Engineering at ISC, who previously created the CZ.NIC Labs project developing the Knot DNS server, summarized the experiments using large language models to analyze, correct, and modernize the codebase of the BIND 9 DNS server, prototype new projects, and prepare materials for student training. Impressions from using AI boiled down to […]