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Author: Yuri Gagarin

A technical specialist at ProHoster with over six years of experience in server administration, VPN solutions, and network security. I manage infrastructure setup and support, monitor service stability, and implement solutions to protect client data. I also contribute to performance optimization and compliance with modern security and privacy requirements.

Wolvic 1.7 released, a web browser for virtual reality devices

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After six months of development, the release of the Wolvic 1.7 web browser, designed for use in augmented and virtual reality systems, has been presented. The project continues the development of Firefox Reality, which was previously developed by Mozilla. After stagnation of the Firefox Reality codebase, its development continued under the Wolvic project by Igalia, known for their participation in creating free projects such as GNOME, GTK, WebKitGTK, Epiphany, […]

The collaborative development platform Forgejo is switching from the MIT license to GPLv3

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The developers of the collaborative development platform Forgejo announced a license change — starting with release 9.0, all new developments of the project will begin to be distributed under the copyleft GPLv3+ license instead of the previously used permissive MIT license. Old branches of Forgejo, as well as corrective versions based on them, will remain under the MIT license. It is noted that the change in licensing will simplify the involvement of code in the project that is distributed under […]

Report on the preparation of KDE Plasma 6.2. Improved HDR support and KWin optimization

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Nate Graham, a developer involved in quality control for the KDE project, has published another development report for KDE. The most notable changes that will be included in KDE Plasma 6.2.0 are: Brightness control widgets now have sliders for separately adjusting brightness on each connected monitor. A hotkey or scroll can be used for synchronized brightness adjustment across all monitors […]

Release of Midnight Commander file manager 4.8.32

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After seven months of development, the release of the console file manager Midnight Commander 4.8.32 has been published, a project that has been in development since 1994 and provides a dual-pane interface similar to Norton Commander. Midnight Commander features include mouse support, a built-in file viewer, and a text editor with syntax highlighting, utilizing virtual file systems to navigate within archives, packages, and network storage (SFTP, SSH), connection […]

Release of Wine 9.16 and Wine staging 9.16

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An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.16 has been published. Since the release of 9.15, 25 bug reports have been closed, and 281 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: initial support for a separately managed driver store (Driver Store). Support for pixel buffers (pBuffer) has been added in the driver for Wayland-based environments. The implementation of prototype support continues in the MSHTML engine […]

Mozilla is developing the Whisperfile speech recognition toolkit

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Mozilla is developing the Whisperfile speech recognition toolkit, which includes an independent high-performance implementation of the Whisper machine learning model developed and open-sourced by OpenAI. The toolkit is based on whisper.cpp, an implementation of the Whisper model in C/C++ created by Georgi Gerganov (the author of llama.cpp). The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the MIT license. Whisperfile is being developed by the Mozilla Ocho team and complements the llamafile project […]

Comparison of gaming performance in Windows 11 and Fedora Linux 40

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Forbes has published the results of a performance assessment of computer games on Windows 11 Home and Fedora 40 with the standard Linux kernel 6.10, drivers, and the Proton package from the distribution repositories. In both systems, a power management mode aimed at achieving maximum performance was enabled. The purpose of the experiment was to verify claims that Linux capabilities have significantly improved over the last few years […]

The Linux Foundation launches the OMI initiative to promote open AI models

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The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at promoting open AI models. Last week, the Open Model Initiative (OMI) was officially introduced, and it now operates under the auspices of The Linux Foundation. Together, they aim to stimulate innovations in the development of open AI models. OMI was established by three organizations specializing in AI: Invoke, Comfy […]

bfs 4.0 and 4.0.1

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On August 16 and 19, releases 4.0 and 4.0.1 of the multithreaded console file search utility bfs (Breadth-First Search) written in C and distributed under the BSD license took place. Changes include: to comply with BSD find (and POSIX Utility Syntax Guidelines), multiple options can now be specified in a single argument, for example -LEXO2; explicit timestamps can now be recorded […]

Analysis of the essence of SBAT and the issues with the Windows update that affected Linux booting

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Matthew Garrett, a renowned Linux kernel developer who received an award from the Free Software Foundation for his contributions to free software, discussed the essence of the SBAT (Secure Boot Advanced Targeting) mechanism, designed to block vulnerabilities in boot loaders without revoking digital signatures, as well as its role in a recent incident involving an update for Windows that led to […]

Haiku added support for hardware virtualization in QEMU

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As part of the Google Summer of Code 2024 project, the Haiku operating system has made significant progress in virtualization. Thanks to the work of a developer known as dalme, QEMU on Haiku now supports hardware acceleration. The project focused on porting the NVMM hypervisor from DragonFlyBSD to Haiku. This allows QEMU to utilize hardware virtualization extensions like Intel VT-x, which potentially […]

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