The release of the KWin-lowlatency 5.15.5 project has been announced, which includes a version of the composite manager for KDE Plasma 5.15, enhanced with patches to improve interface responsiveness and fix certain issues related to user action delays, such as input lag. The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv2 license. A ready PKGBUILD is available in AUR for Arch Linux. Inclusion in Gentoo […]
The release of GDB 8.3 debugger has been announced, supporting source-level debugging for a wide range of programming languages (Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal, Go, etc.) on various hardware (i386, amd64, ARM, Power, Sparc, RISC-V, etc.) and software platforms (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Unix, Windows, macOS). Key improvements include the ability to determine terminal styles in CLI and TUI interfaces […]
In the future, almost all Intel products will utilize the spatial architecture Foveros, with its active implementation beginning under the 10nm process. The second generation of Foveros will be used in the first 7nm Intel graphics processors, which will find application in the server segment. At an investor event, Intel clarified what five layers the Lakefield processor will consist of. Performance level forecasts have been published for the first time […]
The company "NPO RusBITech" has released the Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.13 distribution, built on the Debian GNU/Linux package base and supplied with its own Fly desktop (interactive demo), which uses the Qt library. ISO images (3.7 GB, x86-64), binary repository, and source codes of the packages are available for download. The distribution is distributed under a licensing agreement that imposes certain restrictions on users, for example, […]
A team of engineers from MIT has developed an object-oriented memory hierarchy for more efficient data handling. This article analyzes how it is structured. / PxHere / PD As is known, the performance growth of modern CPUs is not accompanied by a corresponding decrease in memory access latency. The difference in performance metrics from year to year can reach up to 10 times (PDF, […]
Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu, is preparing for a public offering. The company plans to expand into cloud computing. / photo NASA (PD) - Mark Shuttleworth on the ISS. Discussions about Canonical's IPO have been ongoing since 2015, when the company's founder, Mark Shuttleworth, announced the possibility of a public offering. The goal of the IPO is to raise funds that will help Canonical […]
Hello Habr. In the first part of the article about what’s been heard on the air, we discussed service stations on long and short waves. It’s worth separately mentioning amateur radio stations. Firstly, this is also interesting, and secondly, anyone who wishes can join in this process, both for receiving and transmitting. As in the first parts, the focus will be on […]
GitHub has announced the launch of a new service called Package Registry, which provides developers with the opportunity to publish and distribute packages containing applications and libraries. It supports the creation of both private package repositories, accessible only to specific groups of developers, as well as public repositories for delivering ready-made builds of their programs and libraries. The presented service allows for a centralized delivery process of dependencies […]
Following the recent release of 3CX v16, we have prepared the first update, 3CX V16 Update 1 Beta. It includes new features for corporate chat and the updated Call Flow Service, which, along with the Call Flow Designer (CFD) development environment, allows for the creation of complex voice applications in C#. The updated corporate chat. The 3CX Live Chat & Talk communication widget continues […]
Several previous articles in our blog have been dedicated to the issue of personal information security transmitted via messengers and social media. Now it’s time to discuss precautions regarding physical access to devices. How to quickly erase information from a flash drive, HDD, or SSD. Often, it is easiest to destroy information when it is nearby. We are talking about wiping data from […]
Crytek has revealed details about its recent demonstration of real-time ray tracing on the Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card. Recall that in mid-March of this year, the developer published a video showcasing real-time ray tracing on the CryEngine 5.5 engine using an AMD graphics card. At the time of the video release, Crytek did not […].
Ten years ago, on May 11, 2009, Mikhail Zaripov (MikhailZ) announced the first modular build based on Mandriva repositories, which became the first release of MagOS. MagOS is a Linux distribution preconfigured for Russian-speaking users, combining a modular architecture (like Slax) with the repositories of a 'donor' distribution. The first donor was the Mandriva project; currently, Rosa (fresh and red) repositories are used. The 'modularity' makes […].