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KDE Plasma Mobile 22.09 Mobile Platform Available

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The release of the KDE Plasma Mobile 22.09 mobile platform has been published, based on the mobile edition of the Plasma 5 desktop, the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, the ModemManager phone stack and the Telepathy communication framework. The kwin_wayland composite server is used to display graphics in Plasma Mobile, and PulseAudio is used for sound processing. At the same time, a set of mobile applications Plasma Mobile Gear 22.09 was prepared, which is […]

Chrome Release 106

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Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 106 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which is the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in its use of Google logos, a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, always turning on Sandbox isolation, supplying keys to the Google API and passing […]

The tenth version of patches for the Linux kernel with Rust language support

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Miguel Ojeda, author of the Rust-for-Linux project, has proposed the v10 release of components for Rust device driver development for Linux kernel developers to consider. This is the eleventh edition of the patches, taking into account the first version published without a version number. The inclusion of Rust support has been approved by Linusum Torvalds for inclusion in the Linux 6.1 kernel, unless unforeseen issues crop up. The development is funded […]

Fedora 37 disables use of VA-API to accelerate H.264, H.265 and VC-1 video decoding

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The developers of Fedora Linux have disabled the use of the VA-API (Video Acceleration API) for hardware acceleration of video encoding and decoding in H.264, H.265 and VC-1 formats in the Mesa package supplied with the distribution. The change will be included in Fedora 37 and will affect configurations using open video drivers (AMDGPU, radeonsi, Nouveau, Intel, etc.). The change is also expected to be backported to the Fedora branch […]

Forgotten patch found in Linux kernel affecting AMD CPU performance

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The Linux 6.0 kernel, which is expected to be released next Monday, has adopted a change that addresses performance issues on systems based on AMD Zen processors. The source of the performance drop turned out to be code added 20 years ago to work around a hardware problem in some chipsets. The hardware problem has been fixed a long time ago and does not appear in current chipsets, but the old workaround was forgotten and […]

Wine project published Vkd3d 1.5 with Direct3D 12 implementation

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The Wine project has published a release of the vkd3d 1.5 package with a Direct3D 12 implementation that works via call translation to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes libvkd3d libraries with Direct3D 12 implementations, libvkd3d-shader with shader model translator 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify porting of Direct3D 12 applications, as well as a set of demos, including a port of glxgears […]

The LeanQt project develops a stripped-down fork of Qt 5

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The LeanQt project has begun developing a stripped-down fork of Qt 5 aimed at making it easier to build from source and integrate with applications. LeanQt is developed by Rochus Keller, the author of the compiler and development environment for the Oberon language, tied to Qt 5, in order to simplify the compilation of his product with a minimum number of dependencies, but while maintaining support for current platforms. […]

Bash 5.2 shell available

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After twenty months of development, a new version of the GNU Bash 5.2 shell, used by default in most Linux distributions, has been published. At the same time, the release of the readline 8.2 library, which is used in bash to organize command line editing, was formed. Among the key improvements are: Rewritten code for parsing command substitution constructs (command substitution, substitution of output from executing another command, for example, “$(command)” […]

The OpenBSD project has published a git-compatible version control system Got 0.76

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The developers of the OpenBSD project have unveiled a new release of the Got (Game of Trees) source control system, which focuses on ease of design and use. To store versioned data, Got uses storage that is compatible with the disk format of Git repositories, which allows you to work with the repository using the Got and Git toolkits. For example, with Git you can do things […]

Shotcut 22.09 Video Editor Release

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The release of the video editor Shotcut 22.09 is available, which is developed by the author of the MLT project and uses this framework to organize video editing. Support for video and audio formats is implemented through FFmpeg. It is possible to use plugins with the implementation of video and audio effects compatible with Frei0r and LADSPA. Among the features of Shotcut, one can note the possibility of multi-track editing with the layout of video from fragments in […]

CRUX 3.7 Linux Distribution Released

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After almost two years of development, the release of an independent lightweight Linux distribution CRUX 3.7, developed since 2001 in accordance with the concept of KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) and focused on advanced users, has been formed. The goal of the project is to create a distribution kit that is simple and transparent for users, based on BSD-like initialization scripts, having the most simplified structure and containing a relatively small number of […]

The twenty-sixth alpha version of the open game 0 AD is available

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The twenty-sixth alpha release of the free game 0 AD has been published, which is a real-time strategy game with high-quality 3D graphics and gameplay similar to the games in the Age of Empires series. The source code of the game was opened by Wildfire Games under the GPL license after 9 years of development as a proprietary product. Game build available for Linux (Ubuntu, Gentoo, […]

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