The release of Chrome OS 96, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart init system, the ebuild/portage build tools, open components, and web browser Chrome 96 has been announced. The user environment of Chrome OS is limited to the web browser, and instead of standard applications, web applications are deployed; however, Chrome OS includes a full-fledged multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. The build of Chrome OS 96 […]
The release of the optical character recognition system Tesseract 4.1, supporting UTF-8 character recognition and texts in over 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Ukrainian, has been announced. The output can be saved as plain text or in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF, and TSV formats. The system was originally created between 1985 and 1995 at Hewlett Packard's laboratory, in […]
The Ubuntu RescuePack 21.11 build is available for free download, allowing for a complete antivirus check to detect and remove various malware, computer viruses, trojans, rootkits, worms, spyware, and ransomware without launching the main operating system, as well as to cure infected computers. The size of the bootable Live image is 3.4 GB (x86_64). It includes ESET NOD32 4 antivirus packages, […]
The release of library SDL 2.0.18 (Simple DirectMedia Layer) aimed at simplifying the writing of games and multimedia applications has occurred. The SDL library provides features such as hardware-accelerated output of 2D and 3D graphics, input handling, sound playback, 3D output via OpenGL/OpenGL ES/Vulkan, and many other associated operations. The library is written in C and is distributed under the zlib license. To use the capabilities of SDL […]
The release of 4MLinux 38.0 has been published, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork from other projects and uses a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be utilized not only as a Live environment for multimedia playback and user tasks but also as a system for recovery from failures and a platform for launching LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and […]
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology is developing the Vortex research project, which offers an open GPGPU based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture, aimed at performing parallel computations utilizing the OpenCL API and the SIMT (Single Instruction, Multiple Threads) execution model, as well as conducting research in 3D graphics and developing new GPU architectures. The project is currently in the prototype stage, […]
The release of the open webOS Open Source Edition 2.14 has been published, which can be applied to various portable devices, boards, and automotive infotainment systems. Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered the reference hardware platform. The platform is developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, with the community overseeing the process, adhering to a collaborative development management model. The webOS platform was originally developed by […]
CodeWeavers has released Crossover 21.1, a package based on Wine code designed for running applications and games developed for the Windows platform. CodeWeavers is a key contributor to the Wine project, sponsoring its development and reinvesting all innovations made for its commercial products back into the project. The source code of the open components of CrossOver 21.1 can be downloaded on this page. […]
The OpenPrinting project has released CUPS 2.4.0 (Common Unix Printing System), developed without the involvement of Apple, which had fully controlled the project’s development since 2007 after acquiring Easy Software Products, the creator of CUPS. Due to Apple’s declining interest in maintaining the printing system and the overall significance of CUPS for the Linux ecosystem, enthusiasts from the OpenPrinting community established a fork. […]
Intel is advancing a new firmware architecture called Universal Scalable Firmware (USF), aimed at simplifying the development of all components in the firmware software stack for various categories of devices, from servers to system on chips (SoC). USF provides levels of abstraction that allow for separating the low-level hardware initialization logic from platform components responsible for configuration, firmware updates, security, and operating system booting. […]
The release of SFTPGo 2.2 has been published, enabling remote file access via SFTP, SCP/SSH, Rsync, HTTP, and WebDav protocols. SFTPGo can also be used to provide access to Git repositories using the SSH protocol. Data can be served both from the local file system and from external storage compatible with Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and […]
Ethan Smith, one of the main developers of MyPyC, a compiler that converts Python modules to C code, announced the addition of changes to the CPython codebase (the core implementation of Python) that allow the main branch of CPython to be built for use within a browser without requiring additional patches. The build is produced into a universal low-level intermediate code called WebAssembly using the Emscripten compiler. The work […]