Author: ProHoster

A split in the community of the free game engine Urho3D led to the creation of a fork

As a result of controversy in the Urho3D game engine developer community (with mutual accusations of "toxicity"), the developer 1vanK, who has administrative access to the repository and the project forum, unilaterally announced a change in development course and a reorientation towards the Russian-speaking community. Since November 21, notes in the list of changes began to be published in Russian. The release of Urho3D 1.9.0 is marked as the last […]

Release of Proxmox VE 7.3, a distribution kit for organizing the work of virtual servers

Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.3, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of acting as a replacement for products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix, has been released hypervisor. The size of the installation iso-image is 1.1 GB. Proxmox VE provides the means to deploy a turnkey virtual […]

Release of the Tails 5.7 distribution

The release of Tails 5.7 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), a specialized distribution kit based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous access to the network, has been released. Anonymous exit to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by default by the packet filter. Encryption is used to store user data in the save user data between runs mode. […]

Pale Moon Browser 31.4 Release

The release of the Pale Moon 31.4 web browser has been published, which forked from the Firefox codebase to provide higher performance, retain the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are generated for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classical organization of the interface, without […]

Release of the minimalist distribution kit Alpine Linux 3.17

The release of Alpine Linux 3.17 is available, a minimalistic distribution built on the basis of the Musl system library and the BusyBox utility set. The distribution is distinguished by increased security requirements and is built with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection) protection. OpenRC is used as an initialization system, and its own apk package manager is used for package management. Alpine is used to build official Docker container images. Boot […]

I2P Anonymous Network Implementation Release 2.0.0

The anonymous network I2P 2.0.0 and the C++ client i2pd 2.44.0 were released. I2P is a multi-layer anonymous distributed network operating on top of the regular Internet, actively using end-to-end encryption, guaranteeing anonymity and isolation. The network is built in P2P mode and is formed thanks to the resources (bandwidth) provided by network users, which makes it possible to do without the use of centrally managed servers (communications within the network […]

Testing of Fedora builds with a web-based installer has begun

The Fedora Project announced the formation of experimental builds of Fedora 37, equipped with a redesigned Anaconda installer, which replaces the interface based on the GTK library with a web interface. The new interface allows interaction through a web browser, which greatly improves the convenience of remote control of the installation, which cannot be compared with the old solution based on the VNC protocol. The size of the iso image is 2.3 GB (x86_64). Development of a new installer more […]

Release of the two-pane file manager Krusader 2.8.0

After four and a half years of development, the release of the two-pane file manager Krusader 2.8.0, built using Qt, KDE technologies and KDE Frameworks libraries, has been published. Crusader supports archives (ace, arj, bzip2, gzip, iso, lha, rar, rpm, tar, zip, 7zip), checksum checks (md5, sha1, sha256-512, crc, etc.), to external resources (FTP, SAMBA, SFTP, […]

Micron releases HSE 3.0 storage engine optimized for SSDs

Micron Technology, a specialist in the production of DRAM and flash memory, has published the release of the HSE 3.0 (Heterogeneous-memory Storage Engine) storage engine, designed specifically for use on SSDs and read-only memory (NVDIMM). The engine is made in the form of a library for embedding into other applications and supports data processing in the key-value format. The HSE code is written in C and distributed under […]

Oracle Linux 8.7 distribution release

Oracle has published the release of the Oracle Linux 8.7 distribution kit, created on the basis of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 package base. 11 GB and 859 MB installation iso images prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures are distributed for download without restrictions. For Oracle Linux, unlimited and free access to the yum repository with binary package updates with bug fixes is open […]

SQLite 3.40 release

The release of SQLite 3.40, a lightweight DBMS designed as a plug-in library, has been published. The SQLite code is distributed in the public domain, i.e. can be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley and Bloomberg. Main changes: Implemented experimental ability to compile […]

Wayland adds ability to disable vertical sync

The tearing-control extension has been added to the wayland-protocols suite to extend the basic Wayland protocol with the ability to disable vertical sync (VSync) with a vertical blanking pulse in full-screen applications, which is used to protect against tearing in the output (tearing). In multimedia applications, the appearance of artifacts due to tearing is an undesirable effect, but in game programs, artifacts can be tolerated if the fight against them […]