After four and a half years since the last update, the fourth release of the Replicant 6 project has been formed, developing a completely open version of the Android platform, free of proprietary components and closed drivers. The Replicant 6 branch is built on the LineageOS 13 code base, which in turn is based on Android 6. Compared to the original firmware, Replicant has replaced a large portion of […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, on the basis of which the Firefox 26 release will be formed on July 103, hardware acceleration of video decoding is enabled by default using VA-API (Video Acceleration API) and FFmpegDataDecoder. Support is included for Linux systems with Intel and AMD GPUs that have at least version 21.0 of Mesa drivers. Support is available for both Wayland and […]
A mode for automatically blocking spam in push notifications has been proposed for inclusion in the Chromium codebase. It is noted that spam via push notifications is among the complaints most often sent to Google support. The proposed protection mechanism will solve the problem of spam in notifications and will be applied at the discretion of the user. To control the activation of the new mode, the “chrome://flags#disruptive-notification-permission-revocation” parameter has been implemented, which […]
Enthusiasts were able to successfully boot the Linux 5.18 kernel on Apple iPad tablet computers built on A7 and A8 ARM chips. Currently, the work is still limited to adapting Linux for the iPad Air, iPad Air 2 and some iPad mini devices, but there are no fundamental problems for applying the developments for other devices on Apple A7 and A8 chips, such […]
The Armbian 22.05 Linux distribution has been released, providing a compact system environment for various ARM-based single board computers, including various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi and Cubieboard based on Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi processors , Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa and Samsung Exynos. Debian package databases are used to generate builds […]
The NGINX Unit 1.27.0 application server has been published, within which a solution is being developed to ensure the launch of web applications in various programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js and Java). NGINX Unit can simultaneously run multiple applications in different programming languages, the launch parameters of which can be changed dynamically without the need to edit configuration files and restart. The code is written […]
Mozilla has released a toolkit for self-sufficient machine translation from one language to another, running on the user’s local system without resorting to external services. The project is being developed as part of the Bergamot initiative together with researchers from several universities in the UK, Estonia and the Czech Republic with financial support from the European Union. The developments are distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. The project includes the bergamot-translator engine, tools […]
The Distrobox 1.3 toolkit has been released, allowing you to quickly install and run any Linux distribution in a container and ensure its integration with the main system. The project code is written in Shell and distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project is implemented in the form of an add-on to the Docker or Podman toolkit, and is characterized by maximum simplification of work and customization of integration of the running environment with the rest of the system. […]
The release of the FerretDB 0.3 project has been published, which allows you to replace the document-oriented DBMS MongoDB with PostgreSQL without making changes to the application code. FerretDB is implemented as a proxy server that translates calls to MongoDB into SQL queries to PostgreSQL, which allows you to use PostgreSQL as the actual storage. The code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The need for migration may arise due to […]
The release of the Nitrux 2.2.0 distribution, built on the Debian package base, KDE technologies and the OpenRC initialization system, has been published. The distribution develops its own desktop NX Desktop, which is an add-on over the KDE Plasma user environment, as well as the MauiKit user interface framework, on the basis of which a set of standard user applications is developed that can be used both on desktop systems and […]
Jonas Dreßler of the GNOME Project has published a report on the state of adaptation of the GNOME Shell for smartphones. To carry out the work, a grant was received from the German Ministry of Education as part of the support of socially significant program projects. It is noted that adaptation for smartphones is simplified by the presence in the latest releases of GNOME of a certain basis for working on small touch screens. For example, there is […]
The release of the Deepin 20.6 distribution kit, based on the Debian 10 package base, but developing its own Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) and about 40 user applications, including DMusic music player, DMovie video player, DTalk messaging system, installer and installation center of Deepin programs, has been published software center. The project was founded by a group of developers from China, but has been transformed into an international project. […]
