Author: ProHoster

Intel, AMD and ARM unveil UCIe, an open chiplet standard

The formation of the UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express) consortium has been announced, aimed at developing open specifications and creating an ecosystem for chiplet technology. Chiplets allow you to create combined hybrid integrated circuits (multi-chip modules), formed from independent semiconductor blocks that are not tied to one manufacturer and interact with each other using a standard high-speed UCIe interface. To develop a custom solution, for example […]

Wine project released Vkd3d 1.3 with Direct3D 12 implementation

After a year and a half of development, the Wine project has published the release of the vkd3d 1.3 package with a Direct3D 12 implementation that works through broadcasting calls to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes libvkd3d libraries with implementations of Direct3D 12, libvkd3d-shader with a translator of shader models 4 and 5 and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify the porting of Direct3D 12 applications, as well as a set of demo […]

openSUSE Leap 15.4 beta release

The development of the openSUSE Leap 15.4 distribution has entered the beta testing stage. The release is based on a core set of packages shared with the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 4 distribution and also includes some custom applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. A universal DVD build of 3.9 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x) is available for download. The release of openSUSE Leap 15.4 is expected on June 8, 2022 […]

Chrome Release 99

Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 99 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, and transmitting RLZ parameters when searching. The next Chrome 100 release is scheduled for March 29th. […]

Release of Lakka 3.7, a distribution for creating game consoles. Steam OS 3 Features

The release of the Lakka 3.7 distribution kit has been published, which allows you to turn computers, set-top boxes or single-board computers into a full-fledged game console for running retro games. The project is a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally designed for creating home theaters. Lakka builds are generated for platforms i386, x86_64 (GPU Intel, NVIDIA or AMD), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Cubieboard, Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, Odroid […]

First beta release of Arti, a Tor implementation in Rust

The developers of the anonymous Tor network presented the first beta release (0.1.0) of the Arti project, which develops a Tor client written in Rust. The project has the status of an experimental development, it lags behind the functionality of the main Tor client in C and is not yet ready to fully replace it. In September it is planned to create release 1.0 with stabilization of the API, CLI and settings, which will be suitable for initial […]

Those who hacked NVIDIA demanded that the company convert its drivers to Open Source

As you know, NVIDIA recently confirmed the hacking of its own infrastructure and reported the theft of a huge amount of data, including driver source codes, DLSS technology and customer base. According to the attackers, they were able to pump out one terabyte of data. From the resulting set, about 75GB of data, including the source code of Windows drivers, has already been published in the public domain. But the attackers didn’t stop there [...]

Release of Tesseract 5.1 text recognition system

The release of the Tesseract 5.1 optical text recognition system has been published, which supports recognition of UTF-8 characters and texts in more than 100 languages, including Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian and Ukrainian. The result can be saved both in clear text and in HTML (hOCR), ALTO (XML), PDF and TSV formats. Initially, the system was created in 1985-1995 in the laboratory of Hewlett Packard […]

SeaMonkey Integrated Internet Application Suite 2.53.11 Released

The SeaMonkey 2.53.11 set of Internet applications has been released, which combines a web browser, an email client, a news feed aggregation system (RSS / Atom) and a WYSIWYG html page editor Composer within one product. The Chatzilla IRC client, the DOM Inspector web development toolkit, and the Lightning calendar scheduler are offered as preinstalled add-ons. The new release carries over fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is […]

Linux From Scratch 11.1 and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11.1 published

New editions of the Linux From Scratch 11.1 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11.1 (BLFS) manuals, as well as the LFS and BLFS editions with the systemd system manager, have been introduced. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch using only the source code for the required software. Beyond Linux From Scratch augments LFS instructions with assembly information […]

The SPO Foundation has a new Executive Director

The Free Software Foundation has announced the appointment of Zoë Kooyman as executive director, which was left vacant by the departure of John Sullivan, who had held the position since 2011. Zoya joined the Foundation in 2019 and served as a project manager. It is noted that Zoya has experience in managing international projects and organizing events. […]

New versions of OpenWrt 19.07.9 and 21.02.2

Updates to the OpenWrt distribution 19.07.9 and 21.02.2 have been published, aimed at use in various network devices such as routers, switches and access points. OpenWrt supports many different platforms and architectures and has a build system that allows for simple and convenient cross-compilation, including various components in the build, which makes it easy to create ready-made firmware or […]