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Audacious 4.6, a lightweight music player forked from the Beep Media Player (BMP) project, a fork of the classic XMMS player, has been released. The release comes with two user interfaces: GTK and Qt. Ready-to-use builds for various distributions will be available soon. Linux (snap, flatpak, PPA) and for WindowsKey features in Audacious 4.6: Added […]
Flacon, a multi-format audio converter, has released version 13.0.1. Flacon extracts individual tracks from a single, large audio file containing an entire album and saves them as individual audio files. It does this using information from the corresponding CUE file. Flacon also lets you easily edit and set tags for all tracks at once, or for each tag individually. Features: […]
Project 86Box 6.0 has been released. It's a developing x86-based system emulator that can run legacy operating systems and applications, including those used in the early 1980s on the IBM PC 5150 and IBM PS/2 computers. It supports accurate low-level emulation of systems ranging from the 8086 to the Intel Celeron Mendocino. To manage the operation of […]
In KDE OS Linux, developed by the KDE team, underwent a revision of its core components following an internal mini-security audit. The project, which KDE positions as its own operating system in development, continues to move toward a more controlled and predictable model: fewer non-standard kernel modules, fewer dependencies on the AUR, and more custom implementations where kernel components were previously used. The developers explained […]
Yes, for now it's a limited edition of 2000 units. Yes, for now only for Europe. But it's nice to know the project hasn't died and is continuing to develop. The company announced a crowdfunding campaign for the production of 2000 smartphones with Sailfish OS, and a few days ago, the required amount was fully raised. The full price of the device is €649. The pledge amount is €99 […]
The Cirrus CI continuous integration service ceased executing tasks on June 1, 2026. This decision is due to the Cirrus Labs team transitioning to OpenAI and joining the Agent Infrastructure team. Cirrus Labs' official announcement stated that the company is no longer accepting new customers for Cirrus Runners, will support existing contracts until their expiration, and Cirrus itself […]
Servo 0.2.0, a new version of the experimental browser engine written in Rust, has been published. The release was released on May 31, 2026, and includes changes made in April: the developers counted 534 commits in total, setting a new monthly record for the project. Servo is being developed as an independent project under the auspices of Linux Foundation Europe and is focused on creating a lightweight, embeddable web engine for applications […]
Although the ReactOS project is still in no hurry to overthrow Windows Since its departure from its position as the primary desktop OS, it's undergoing some very real changes. Two more major changes were recently accepted into the mainline. The first concerns the separate BootCD and LiveCD images, which have now been merged into a single image (PR #7313). The second is a new Plug and Play-aware ATA storage stack, […]
On May 31, 2026, DistroWatch, a favorite of distrohoppers, celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday. From a site comparing five distributions in a single table, the site has evolved into a knowledge base tracking 1204 projects, 484 of which are in active development. The project is accessed monthly from approximately 5 million unique IP addresses and viewed by 10 million users.
The issue has been published Linux- the Armbian 26.5 distribution, which provides a compact system environment for single-board computers with processors based on the ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures, supporting various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. To create builds […]
The NixOS 26.05 distribution is released. It is based on the Nix package manager and provides its own developments to simplify the system setup and maintenance. In NixOS, all system setup is carried out through a single system configuration file, configuration.nix. It provides the ability to quickly roll back the system to a previous configuration version and switch between different system states. It supports the installation of individual packages by individual users and […]
The release of syncspirit 0.4.5 is available. It allows you to organize automatic continuous synchronization of user files on several devices. The project solves problems similar to the proprietary Resilio Sync system (former BitTorrent Sync). Syncspirit is written in C++ and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The graphical interface is built using the FLTK library; the domestic embedded DBMS libmdbx is used to store the database; for event processing […]