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openSUSE removes Deepin from its repositories after long string of security issues and unauthorised security bypass
The openSUSE team has decided to remove the Deepin Desktop Environment from openSUSE, after the project's packager for openSUSE was found to have added workaround specifically to bypass various security
curl bans “AI” security reports as Zuckberg claims we’ll all have more “AI” friends than real ones
Daniel Stenberg, creator and maintainer of curl, has had enough of the neverending torrent of "AI"-generated security reports the curl project has to deal with.
That's it. I've had it. I'm putting my foot down on this craziness.
TDE’s Qt 3 fork drops the 3
The Trinity Desktop Environment, the continuation of the final KDE 3.x release updated and maintained for modern times, consists of more than just the KDE bits you may think of. The project also maintains a fork of Qt 3 called TQt3, which it obviously needs to be able to work on and improve TDE itself, which is based on it. In the beginning, this fork consisted mainly
https://www.osnews.com/story/142297/tdes-qt-3-fork-drops-the-3/
VectorVFS: your filesystem as a vector database
VectorVFS is a lightweight Python package that transforms your Linux filesystem into a vector database by leveraging the native VFS (Virtual File System) extended attributes. Rather than maintaining a separate index or external database, VectorVFS stores vector embeddings directly alongside each file—turning your existing directory structure in
https://www.osnews.com/story/142293/vectorvfs-your-filesystem-as-a-vector-database/
Redox gets services management, completes userspace process manager
Can someone please stop these months from coming and going, because I'm getting dizzy with yet another monthly report of all the progress made by Redox. Aside from the usual swath of improvements to the kernel, relibc, drivers, and so on, this month saw the completion of the userspace process manager.
Google accidentally reveals Android’s Material 3 Expressive interface ahead of I/O
Google's accelerated Android release cycle will soon deliver a new version of the software, and it might look quite different from what you'd expect. Amid rumors of a major UI overhaul, Google seems to have accidentally published a blog post detailing "Material 3 Expressi
IBM unveils the LinuxONE Emperor 5
Following the recent release of the IBM z17 mainframe, IBM today unveiled the LinuxONE Emperor 5, which packs much of the same hardware as the z17, but focused on Linux use.
Today we're announcing IBM LinuxONE 5, performant Linux computing platform for data, applications and your trusted AI, powered by the IBM Telum II processor with built-in AI acceleration. This la
https://www.osnews.com/story/142287/ibm-unveils-the-linuxone-emperor-5/
Building your own Atomic (bootc) Desktop
Bootc and associated tools provide the basis for building a personalised desktop. This article will describe the process to build your own custom installation.
↫ Daniel Mendizabal at Fedora Magazine
The fact that atomic distributions make it relatively easy to create custom "distributions" is s really interesting bonus quality of these types of Linux
https://www.osnews.com/story/142282/building-your-own-atomic-bootc-desktop/
GTK markup language Blueprint becomes part of GNOME
This week's This Week in GNOME mentions that Blueprint will become part of GNOME.
Blueprint is now part of the GNOME Nightly SDK and is expected to be part of the GNOME 49 SDK. This means, apps relying on Blueprint won’t have to install it manually anymore.
Blueprint is an alternative to defining GTK/Libadwaita user interface vi
https://www.osnews.com/story/142280/gtk-markup-language-blueprint-becomes-part-of-gnome/
OSle: a tiny boot sector operating system
OSle is an incredibly small operating system, coming in at only 510 bytes, so it fits entirely into a boot sector. It runs in real-mode, and is written in assembly. Despite the small size, it has a shell, a read and write file system, process management, and more. It even has its own tiny SDK and some pre-built programs.
The code's available under the
https://www.osnews.com/story/142273/osle-a-tiny-boot-sector-operating-system/
EU fines TikTok token amount of €530 million for gross privacy violations
A European Union privacy watchdog fined TikTok 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday after a four-year investigation found that the video sharing app’s data transfers to China put users at risk of spying, in breach of strict EU data privacy rules.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commissio
Microsoft brings back Office application preloading from the ’90s
Back in the late '90s and early 2000s, if you installed a comprehensive office suite on Windows, such as Microsoft's own Office or something like WordPerfect Office or IBM Lotus SmartSuite, it would often come with a little icon in the system tray or a floating toolbar to ensure the applications were prel
DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 released
It has been well over two years since the last release of DragonFlyBSD, version 6.4.0, and today the project pushed out a small update, DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1. It fixes a few small, longstanding issues, but as the version number suggests, don't expect any groundbreaking changes here. The legacy IDE/NATA driver had a memory leak fixed, the ca_root_nss package has been updated to supp
https://www.osnews.com/story/142263/dragonflybsd-6-4-1-released/
Zhaoxin’s KX-7000 x86-64 processor
Chips and Cheese takes a very detailed look at the latest processor design from Zhaoxin, the Chinese company that inherited VIA's x86 license and has been making new x86 chips ever since. Their latest design, 世纪大道 (Century Avenue), tries to take yet another step closer to current designs chips form Intel and AMD, and while falling way short, that's not really the p
https://www.osnews.com/story/142261/zhaoxins-kx-7000-x86-64-processor/
Run x86-64 games on RISC-V with felix86
If RISC-V ever manages to take off, this is going to be an important tool in RISC-V users' toolbox: felix86 is an x86-64 userspace emulator for RISC-V.
felix86 emulates an x86-64 CPU running in userspace, which is to say it is not a virtual machine like VMware, rather it directly translates the instructions of an application and mostly uses the host Li
https://www.osnews.com/story/142259/run-x86-64-games-on-risc-v-with-felix86/
US court eviscerates Apple’s malicious compliance, claims company lied under oath several times
Way back in 2021, in the Epic v. Apple court case, judge US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to allow third-party developers to tell users how to make payments inside iOS applications without going through Apple's App Store. As we
Sculpt OS 25.04 released
Sculpt OS 25.04 has been released, and with it come a number of very welcome and important improvements. What most users will care about the most is the updated version of the Falkon web browser, built atop Qt 6.2.2 and its accompanying qtwebengine release, which in turn is using version 112 of the Chromium engine. Aside from this major improvement, there's two other things that stand ou
https://www.osnews.com/story/142252/sculpt-os-25-04-released/
Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background?
Time for another story from Raymond Chen, about why, in Windows 7, logging in took 30 seconds if you had set a solid colour as your background. Windows 7's logon system needs to wait for a number of tasks to be completed, like creating the taskbar, populating the
Google is working on a big UI overhaul for Android
When Google released the fourth beta of Android 16 this month, many users were disappointed by the lack of major UI changes. As Beta 4 is the final beta, it’s likely the stable Android 16 release won’t look much different than last year’s release. However, that might not hold true for subsequent updates. Google recently confirmed it wi
https://www.osnews.com/story/142246/google-is-working-on-a-big-ui-overhaul-for-android/
PATH isn’t real on Linux
I have no idea how much relevance this short but informative rundown of how PATH works in Linux has in the real world, but I found it incredibly interesting and enlightening.
The basic gist - and I might be wrong, there's code involved and I'm not very smart - is that Linux itself needs absolute paths to binaries, while shells and programming languages do not. In other words, the Linu
https://www.osnews.com/story/142244/path-isnt-real-on-linux/