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The third beta release of the Haiku R1 operating system

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After a year of development, the third beta release of the Haiku R1 operating system has been published. Initially, the project was created as a reaction to the closure of the BeOS OS and developed under the name OpenBeOS, but was renamed in 2004 due to claims related to the use of the BeOS trademark in the name. Several bootable Live images (x86, x86-64) have been prepared to evaluate the performance of the new release. The source texts of the larger […]

Cambalache, a new tool for developing GTK interfaces, is introduced

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GUADEC 2021 introduces Cambalache, a new rapid interface development tool for GTK 3 and GTK 4 using the MVC paradigm and data model overriding philosophy. One of the most notable differences from Glade is the support for maintaining multiple user interfaces in a single project. The project code is written in Python and is licensed under the GPLv2. To provide support […]

Hardware Health Initiative in a Future Debian 11 Release

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The community has launched an open beta test of the future release of Debian 11, in which even the most inexperienced novice users can participate. Full automation was achieved after the hw-probe package was included in the new version of the distribution kit, which can independently determine the health of individual devices from logs. Organized a daily updated repository with a list and catalog of tested hardware configurations. The repository will be updated until […]

Release of decentralized video broadcasting platform PeerTube 3.3

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The decentralized platform for organizing video hosting and video broadcasting PeerTube 3.3 was released. PeerTube offers a vendor-independent alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo, using a content distribution network based on P2P communication and linking visitor browsers. The developments of the project are distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Main innovations: Provided the ability to create your own home page for each instance of PeerTube. At home […]

A new installer is being developed for FreeBSD

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With the support of the FreeBSD Foundation, a new installer is being developed for FreeBSD that, unlike the current bsdinstall installer, can be used in graphical mode and is more understandable to ordinary users. Currently, the new installer is at the stage of an experimental prototype, but it can already perform basic installation operations. For those wishing to take part in testing, an installation […]

Analyzing the performance impact of Chrome add-ons

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An updated report has been prepared with the result of a study of the impact on browser performance and user experience of thousands of the most popular Chrome add-ons. Compared to last year's test, the new study measured the change in performance when opening apple.com, toyota.com, The Independent, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in addition to a simple stub page. The findings of the study have not changed: many popular add-ons such as […]

A bug in updating Chrome OS resulted in an inability to sign in

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Google has released Chrome OS update 91.0.4472.165, which has a bug that prevents you from signing in after a reboot. Some users have experienced a boot loop that prevents the login screen from appearing, or if it does, prevents them from logging in with their account. Hot on the heels of a Chrome OS fix released […]

Gentoo started building additional builds based on Musl and systemd

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The developers of the Gentoo distribution announced an expansion of the range of ready-made stage files available for download. The publication of stage archives based on the Musl C library and assemblies for the ppc64 platform, optimized for POWER9 processors, has begun. Builds with the systemd system manager have been added for all supported platforms, in addition to the previously available OpenRC-based builds. Delivery of stage files has begun via the standard download page for the amd64 platform […]

firewalld 1.0 release

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A release of the dynamically controlled firewall firewalld 1.0 is presented, implemented in the form of a wrapper over the nftables and iptables packet filters. Firewalld runs as a background process that allows you to dynamically change packet filter rules via D-Bus without having to reload the packet filter rules or breaking established connections. The project is already used in many Linux distributions, including RHEL 7+, Fedora 18+ […]

Firefox 90.0.2, SeaMonkey 2.53.8.1 and Pale Moon 29.3.0 update

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A maintenance release of Firefox 90.0.2 is available, which offers several fixes: Corrected the menu display style for some GTK themes (for example, when using the Yaru Colors GTK theme in Firefox's Light theme, menu text was displayed in white on a white background, and in Minwaita theme made context menus transparent). Fixed an issue with output being truncated when printing. Changes have been made to enable DNS-over-HTTPS […]

SixtyFPS 0.1.0 GUI library is available, developed by former Qt developers

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The release of a cross-platform library for creating graphical interfaces SixtyFPS 0.1.0 has been published, oriented for use on embedded devices and desktop applications on Linux, macOS and Windows platforms, as well as for use in web browsers (WebAssembly). The library code is written in Rust and is licensed under GPLv3 or a commercial license that allows use in proprietary products without […]

Release of the mobile platform KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07

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The release of the KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07 mobile platform has been published, based on the mobile edition of the Plasma 5 desktop, the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, the Ofono phone stack and the Telepathy communication framework. To create the application interface, Qt, a set of Mauikit components and the Kirigami framework from the KDE Frameworks are used, which allows you to create universal interfaces suitable for smartphones, tablets and PCs. To withdraw […]

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