The release of the raster graphics editor Krita 5.0.0, designed for artists and illustrators, is presented. The editor supports multi-layer image processing, provides tools for working with various color models and has a large set of tools for digital painting, sketching and texture formation. Self-contained AppImages for Linux, experimental APKs for ChromeOS and Android, and […]
US courts have recorded the emergence of the phenomenon of copyleft trolls, who use aggressive schemes to initiate mass litigation, taking advantage of the carelessness of users when borrowing content distributed under various open licenses. At the same time, the name “copyleft troll” proposed by Professor Daxton R. Stewart is considered as a result of the evolution of “copyleft trolls” and is not directly related to the concept of “copyleft”. In particular, attacks […]
After a year and a half of development, the classic platform game SuperTux 0.6.3 has been released, reminiscent of Super Mario in style. The game is distributed under the GPLv3 license and is available in builds for Linux (AppImage), Windows and macOS. Among the changes in the new release: The ability to compile into WebAssembly intermediate code has been implemented to run the game in a web browser. An online version of the game has been prepared. Added new skills: swimming and […]
The Manjaro Linux 21.2 distribution, built on Arch Linux and aimed at novice users, has been released. The distribution is notable for the presence of a simplified and user-friendly installation process, support for automatically detecting hardware and installing the drivers necessary for its operation. Manjaro comes in live builds with KDE (2.7 GB), GNOME (2.6 GB) and Xfce (2.4 GB) desktop environments. At […]
A new release of the unwanted content blocker uBlock Origin 1.40 is available, providing blocking of advertising, malicious elements, tracking code, JavaScript miners and other elements that interfere with normal operation. The uBlock Origin add-on is characterized by high performance and economical memory consumption, and allows you not only to get rid of annoying elements, but also to reduce resource consumption and speed up page loading. Main changes: Improved […]
A significant release of the service manager s6-rc 0.5.3.0 has been prepared, designed to manage the launch of initialization scripts and services, taking into account dependencies. The s6-rc toolkit can be used both in initialization systems and for organizing the launch of arbitrary services in connection with events reflecting changes in the system state. Provides full dependency tree tracking and automatic startup or shutdown of services to achieve specified […]
Vivaldi Technologies (developer of the Vivaldi browser) and Polestar (a subsidiary of Volvo, which creates Polestar electric cars) announced the release of the first full version of the Vivaldi browser for the Android Automotive OS platform. The browser is available for installation in on-board infotainment centers and will be supplied by default in premium electric cars Polestar 2. In the Vivaldi edition, all […]
The DuckDuckGo project, which is developing a search engine that works without tracking user preferences and movements, has announced work on its own browser for desktop systems, which will complement the mobile applications and browser add-on previously offered by the service. A key feature of the new browser will be the lack of binding to individual browser engines - the program is positioned as a tie-in over the browser engines provided by the operating system. It is noted that […]
According to the protondb.com service, which collects information about the performance of gaming applications presented in the Steam catalog on Linux, 80% of the 100 most popular games are currently functional on Linux. When looking at the 1000 most popular games, the support rate is 75%, and the Top10 is 40%. In general, out of 21244 tested games, performance was confirmed for 17649 games (83%). […]
The release of the Apache HTTP server 2.4.52 has been published, which introduces 25 changes and eliminates 2 vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-44790 - a buffer overflow in mod_lua, which occurs when parsing requests consisting of several parts (multipart). The vulnerability affects configurations in which Lua scripts call the r:parsebody() function to parse the request body, allowing an attacker to cause a buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted request. Facts of the presence […]
The developers of the open operating system Haiku, which continues the development of BeOS ideas, have prepared an initial implementation of the layer to ensure compatibility with the Xlib library, allowing you to run X11 applications in Haiku without using an X server. The layer is implemented through emulation of Xlib functions by translating calls to the high-level Haiku graphics API. In its current form, the layer provides most of the commonly used Xlib APIs, but […]
The release of the graphics editor GIMP 2.10.30 has been published. Packages in flatpak format are available for installation (the snap package is not ready yet). The release mainly includes bug fixes. All feature development efforts are focused on preparing the GIMP 3 branch, which is in the pre-release testing phase. Changes in GIMP 2.10.30 include: Improved support for AVIF, HEIF, […]
