The Wine project has published a release of the vkd3d 1.4 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 […]
Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 103 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 […]
GitHub announced that it has completed testing of the GitHub Copilot smart assistant, which can generate generic constructs while writing code. The system was developed in collaboration with the OpenAI project and uses the OpenAI Codex machine learning platform, trained on a large array of source codes hosted in public GitHub repositories. The service is free for maintainers of popular open source projects and students. For other categories of users, access to […]
The creator of the GeckoLinux distribution, which is based on the openSUSE package base and pays a lot of attention to desktop optimization and small things, such as high-quality font rendering, has introduced a new distribution, SpiralLinux, built using Debian GNU/Linux packages. The distribution offers 7 ready-to-use Live builds shipped with Cinnamon, Xfce, GNOME, KDE Plasma, Mate, Budgie, and LXQt desktops, […]
At the ongoing Open-Source Summit 2022 conference these days, in the FAQ section, Linus Torvalds mentioned the possibility of early integration into the Linux kernel of components for developing device drivers in Rust. It is possible that Rust-enabled patches will be accepted in the next changelog forming the composition of the 5.20 kernel, scheduled for late September. Request […]
Volker Hilsheimer has been selected as Chief Maintainer of the Qt project, replacing Lars Knoll, who has held the position for the past 11 years and announced his retirement from the Qt Company last month. The leader's candidacy was approved during the general vote of the escorts. By a margin of 24 votes to 18, Hilsheimer finished ahead of Alan […]
Microsoft announced the integration of support for Linux environments based on the WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) subsystem as part of the recently released June Windows Server 2022 rollup update. stations. To ensure that Linux executables run on WSL2 instead of the emulator running […]
The first release of the new main branch nginx 1.23.0 is presented, within which the development of new features will continue. In the parallel maintained stable branch 1.22.x, only changes related to the elimination of serious bugs and vulnerabilities are made. Next year, the 1.23 stable branch will be formed from the 1.24.x main branch. Main changes: Redesigned internal API, header lines are now passed to […]
The developers of the AlmaLinux distribution kit, which develops a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux similar to CentOS, presented a new build system ALBS (AlmaLinux Build System), which is already used in the formation of AlmaLinux 8.6 and 9.0 releases prepared for the x86_64, Aarch64, PowerPC ppc64le and s390x architectures. In addition to building the distribution, ALBS is also used to generate and publish corrective updates (errata), and […]
Engineers from Facebook (banned in the Russian Federation) published a report on the introduction of TMO (Transparent Memory Offloading) technology last year, which allows you to significantly save RAM on servers by displacing secondary data that is not required to perform work on cheaper drives, such as NVMe SSD -discs. According to Facebook, the use of TMO allows you to save from 20 to 32% […]
A toolkit has been published with an implementation of a method for detecting add-ons installed in the Chrome browser. The resulting add-on list can be used to increase the passive identification accuracy of a particular browser instance, in combination with other indirect cues such as screen resolution, WebGL features, lists of installed plugins and fonts. The proposed implementation checks for more than 1000 add-ons to be installed. An online demo is offered to test your system. Definition […]
The release of Mattermost 7.0 messaging system, focused on providing communication between developers and employees of enterprises, has been published. The server part of the project is written in Go and distributed under the MIT license. The web interface and mobile applications are written in JavaScript using React, the desktop client for Linux, Windows and macOS is built on the Electron platform. MySQL and […]
