The third issue of the deepin Bi-Weekly Technical Report has been released. We will briefly list the progress of various deepin teams over the past two weeks and outline the general plan for the next two weeks! DDE (deepin Desktop Environment) Defect fixes for deepin 23 and requirement development for deepin 25 are progressing steadily in parallel. The specific progress and plans are as follows: Progress The development of the new QML Control Center for deepin 25 is progressing steadily, with support for modules such as Network, Personalization, Bluetooth, and Keyboard now completed. The taskbar has improved the accuracy of ...Read more
deepin Community Monthly Report for September 2024
Community Data Overview Community Products 1、deepin 25 version planning released In September, the deepin 25 version planning was officially confirmed and released. The main goal is to fix the legacy issues in deepin 23, improve system stability, and complete the functional pilot of technology upgrade (Treeland). >>> Why is there no deepin 24？ >>> deepin 25 Version Planing 2、deepin 23 update This month, the internal test was updated 4 times, 16 new features were added, and 77 issues were fixed. 3、deepin Home In September 2024, Deepin Home received a total of 316 user bug and demand feedback: ...Read more
CUPS Multiple High-Risk Security Vulnerabilities: How Does deepin Respond?
On September 27, 2024, security researcher Simone "evilsocket" Margaritelli reported on his personal blog that the Unix-based printing framework CUPS has multiple high-risk security vulnerabilities[1]. Unauthenticated remote attackers can impersonate printers, using malicious IPP URLs to replace the URLs of existing printers or add new malicious printers. In this scenario, when a user initiates a print job from the affected computer, attackers can silently execute arbitrary commands on that computer through the fake printer URL, thereby achieving the attack. These vulnerabilities have been confirmed by the upstream software maintainers and security personnel, and temporary measures have been taken to disable ...Read more
What! 300 Million People Are Using French to Talk about deepin?
Following the launch of the deepin Ecuador community, the deepin French community is now officially online! This is another significant milestone in deepin's internationalization strategy. Here are the greetings from the representative of the deepin French community: Bonjour à toutes et à tous, je viens de France et suis l'administrateur du site deepin France. Je suis ravi de vous annoncer que le site deepin France est désormais en ligne. Dans l'attente de vous y croiser, je vous souhaite, ainsi qu'à deepin, le meilleur pour la suite. Hello everyone, I am from France and am the administrator of the deepin France ...Read more
Why is there no deepin 24
Recently, the deepin community announced its plans for the next version, but many users have a question: why is there no deepin 24 version after deepin 23, and it directly jumps to deepin 25? In fact, this is the result of discussions with the open-source community to determine the future release strategy of deepin OS. Release Cycle and Naming Rules for deepin OS To begin with, the deepin community will adopt a strategy based on the "year" as the basis for version numbering in the future: One major version will be released each year, providing two important version images: ...Read more
deepin Bi-Weekly Technical Report: Latest Progress and Upcoming Plans
The second issue of the deepin bi-weekly technical progress is fresh out of the oven. What progress has each deepin group made in the past two weeks? What are we planning for the next two weeks? Let's take a look together! DDE (deepin Desktop Environment) The defect repair for deepin 23 and the demand development for deepin 25 are advancing steadily. The specific progress and plans are as follows: Progress: Fixed several defects existing in the deepin 23 version; Special rectification of the Application Manager (AM) to solve various issues with taskbar application grouping/inaccurate icons; Redesign of some modules for ...Read more
deepin 23, Save Your Raspberry Pi from Dust - Detailed Configuration Tutorial
Previously, we received a message from a user who wanted to run deepin 23 on their Raspberry Pi. Recently, the deepin community's deepin-raspberrypi SIG internally released a preview version of deepin 23 for Raspberry Pi. Let's take a look at the performance of this card computer running deepin 23 together. (Devices tested: Raspberry Pi 4B, Raspberry Pi 5B, theoretically compatible with other models, feel free to try!) Building the Kernel The kernel can be copied from the boot directory of the official repository: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware Install the necessary tools, choosing cross-compilation for a 64-bit toolchain. sudo apt install git bc ...Read more
How to Play Games on deepin Besides Steam?
Recently, many friends have completed "Black Myth: Wukong" on deepin 23. So, aside from playing Windows games through Steam, are there other gaming platforms available? The answer is, of course, yes! Introduction to Gaming Platforms Today, I'm introducing Heroic Games Launcher, a tool I use frequently. It supports Epic, GOG, and Amazon platforms, and you can also manually add games. Specifically, support for the Epic platform is based on Legendary, which covers most features of the original Epic Games Launcher, including cloud save support and EOS Overlay support. Additionally, you can download Wine-GE and Proton-GE compatibility layers and assign ...Read more
deepin Biweekly Technical Report is Online: Latest Progress and Upcoming Plans
The first edition of the deepin Biweekly Technical Report is now online. We will briefly outline the work progress of various deepin teams over the past two weeks and provide an overview of the plans for the next two weeks. This allows those interested in deepin to stay informed and participate in the project. DDE (deepin Desktop Environment) The relevant DDE projects have created corresponding maintenance branches for deepin 23. Over the next period, version 23 will focus solely on bug fixes and will not include new features, while feature development will continue on the Master branch. Progress: Initial integration ...Read more
From AMD64 to RISC-V, LoongArch, and ARM64: The Multi-Architecture Adaptation Journey of deepin
Author: longlong This article is a full transcription of longlong’s speech at WHLUG, so there are some informal expressions. The content only represents personal views and positions. As the successor to deepin 20, one of the biggest changes in deepin 23 is the addition of multi-architecture support: from originally only supporting the AMD64 architecture to now supporting multiple CPU architecture platforms including AMD64, RISC-V, LoongArch (New World), and ARM64. Currently, the stable image for AMD64 architecture of deepin 23 has been released, while the images for other CPU architectures are still in the preview version stage as the ecosystem is ...Read more