Author: ProHoster

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 open engine release - fheroes2 - 1.0.10

The fheroes2 1.0.10 project is now available, which recreates the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine from scratch. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. To run the game, files with game resources are required, which can be obtained from the original game Heroes of Might and Magic II. Major changes: The ability to use markets has been added to AI […]

Release of the Rocky Linux 9.3 distribution developed by the founder of CentOS

The release of the Rocky Linux 9.3 distribution kit has been presented, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of the classic CentOS. The distribution is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be used as a replacement for RHEL 9.3 and CentOS 9 Stream. The Rocky Linux 9 branch will be supported until May 31, 2032. Rocky Linux installation iso images are prepared for […]

FreeBSD 14.0 release

After two and a half years from the publication of the 13.0 branch, the FreeBSD 14.0 release was formed. Installation images are prepared for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64 and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, assemblies have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine and Vagrant. The FreeBSD 14 branch will be the last one […]

NVIDIA was accused of stealing secret data worth hundreds of millions of dollars - the source of evidence was human stupidity

Valeo Schalter und Sensoren, a company specializing in the development of automotive technologies, sued NVIDIA, accusing the chipmaker of misappropriating data that constitutes a trade secret. According to the plaintiff, NVIDIA obtained his confidential data from a former employee. The latter accidentally revealed the stolen data himself, and as a result of the criminal case he was already found guilty. Now Valeon has filed a lawsuit […]

RockyLinux 9.3

Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9, Rocky Linux 9.3 was released. The distribution was ahead of Alma Linux, Euro Linux and Oracle Linux with UEK R7 in terms of release dates. The founder of the distribution is one of the founders of CentOS, Georg Kutzer, who is also the founder of CtrlIQ. CtrlIQ is a member of the OpenELA clone association. The distribution is fully binary compatible with RHEL […]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9

Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise 9.3, the previous version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 has been released. Rocky Linux still hasn't released version 9.3 at this time. RHEL 8 will be supported without the extended phase until 2029, support for CentOS Stream will end in 2024, users are recommended to either upgrade to CentOS Stream 9 or move […]

OpenMoHAA 0.60.1 alpha - free implementation of the Medal of Honor engine

OpenMoHAA is a project to freely implement the Medal of Honor engine for modern systems. The goal of the project is to make Medal of Honor and its add-ons Spearhead and Breakthrough available for x64, ARM, Windows, macOS and Linux. This project is based on the ioquake3 source code, since the original Medal of Honor used the Quake 3 engine as a base. […]

Fedora 40 plans to enable system service isolation

The Fedora 40 release suggests enabling isolation settings for systemd system services that are enabled by default, as well as services with mission-critical applications such as PostgreSQL, Apache httpd, Nginx, and MariaDB. It is expected that the change will significantly increase the security of the distribution in the default configuration and will make it possible to block unknown vulnerabilities in system services. The proposal has not yet been considered by the committee [...]

NVK, an open driver for NVIDIA graphics cards, supports Vulkan 1.0

The Khronos consortium, which develops graphics standards, has recognized the full compatibility of the open NVK driver for NVIDIA video cards with the Vulkan 1.0 specification. The driver has successfully passed all tests from the CTS (Kronos Conformance Test Suite) and is included in the list of certified drivers. Certification has been completed for NVIDIA GPUs based on the Turing microarchitecture (TITAN RTX, GeForce RTX 2060/2070/2080, GeForce GTX 1660, Quadro […]

Louvre 1.0, a library for developing composite servers based on Wayland, is available

The developers of the Cuarzo OS project presented the first release of the Louvre library, which provides components for the development of composite servers based on the Wayland protocol. The code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv3 license. The library takes care of all low-level operations, including managing graphics buffers, interacting with input subsystems and graphics APIs in Linux, and also offers ready-made implementations […]