Author: ProHoster

Astronomers have discovered the most abandoned nova - it flared in the halo of the Andromeda Nebula

Astronomers from the University of Liverpool. John Moores observed the outbreak of a nova (nova) - a star whose brightness increases sharply and slowly returns to its original state. This turned out to be the most “orphaned” of the discovered new ones - it is 150 thousand light years away from its parent galaxy, the Andromeda Nebula. No new ones have yet been observed at such a range. Image source: AI generation Kandinsky 2.2 […]

New article: The Talos Principle 2 - a robo-philosopher on a walk. Review

The first The Talos Principle showed that even in the puzzle genre you can add a great plot - if only you wanted to. Nine years later, the Croats decided to philosophize again, surrounded by riddles - and, perhaps, for the second time they hit the mark. How exactly they managed this, we’ll talk in the review. Source: 3dnews.ru

Nvidia GSP Firmware Now in Linux 6.7

Firmware to support NVIDIA video cards is included in the 6.7 branch of the Linux kernel. This solution will allow nouveau developers in general not to worry about reclocking for new video cards (starting from the 20xx (NV160 family (Turing) series of video cards to the latest 40xx ((Ada Lovelace))). By default, this feature will be enabled only for video cards of the 40xx series. If do you want to try it […]

Release of the distribution kit OpenMandriva Lx 5.0

After a year and a half of development, the release of the OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 distribution was presented. The project is being developed by the community after Mandriva SA handed over the management of the project to the non-profit organization OpenMandriva Association. Live builds for the x86_64 architecture with KDE (full 3.0 GB, reduced 2.5 GB and optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper and EPYC processors), GNOME and […]

Release of the Radix cross Linux distribution 1.9.226

The next version of the Radix cross Linux 1.9.226 distribution kit is available, built using our own Radix.pro build system, which simplifies the creation of distribution kits for embedded systems. Distribution builds are available for devices based on RISC-V, ARM/ARM64, MIPS and x86/x86_64 architectures. Boot images prepared according to the instructions in the Platform Download section contain a local package repository and therefore system installation does not require a network connection […]

Nvidia GSP firmware is now in Linux 6.7

Firmware to support NVIDIA video cards is included in the 6.7 branch of the Linux kernel. This solution will allow nouveau developers in general not to worry about reclocking for new video cards (starting from the 20xx (NV160 family (Turing) series of video cards to the latest 40xx ((Ada Lovelace))). By default, this feature will be enabled only for video cards of the 40xx series. If do you want to try it […]

LibreOffice Viewer has returned to Google Play

The Document Foundation announced that it has synchronized the LibreOffice Viewer Android application with the current LibreOffice code base and placed this application in the Google Play directory. Due to the lack of a maintainer, LibreOffice Viewer was removed from Google Play in 2020 and remained stagnant for a long time. It is expected that the return of LibreOffice Viewer to Google Play will make the package available to a wider […]

Wine 8.21, Wine staging 8.21 and VKD3D-Proton 2.11 published

An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 8.21 - took place. Since the release of version 8.20, 29 bug reports have been closed and 321 changes have been made. The most important changes: Continued development of functionality aimed at implementing the ability to use Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol without the use of XWayland and X11 components. Graphics API support has been added to the winewayland.drv driver […]