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Recruitment to a free online school for Open Source developers is open

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Until August 13, 2021, enrollment is underway for a free online school for those who want to start working in Open Source - “Community of Open Source Newcomers” (COMMoN), organized as part of the Samsung Open Source Conference Russia 2021. The project is aimed at helping young developers to begin their journey as a contributor. The school will allow you to gain experience interacting with the open source developer community [...]

Release of Mesa 21.2, a free implementation of OpenGL and Vulkan

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After three months of development, the release of a free implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan API - Mesa 21.2.0 - was published. The first release of the Mesa 21.2.0 branch has an experimental status - after the final stabilization of the code, a stable version 21.2.1 will be released. Mesa 21.2 includes full support for OpenGL 4.6 for the 965, iris (Intel), radeonsi (AMD), zink and llvmpipe drivers. OpenGL 4.5 support […]

New version of music player DeaDBeeF 1.8.8

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The release of music player DeaDBeeF 1.8.8 is available. The source code of the project is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The player is written in C and can work with a minimal set of dependencies. The interface is built using the GTK+ library, supports tabs and can be expanded through widgets and plugins. Features include: automatic recoding of text encoding in tags, equalizer, support for cue files, minimum dependencies, […]

Nightly builds of Ubuntu Desktop have a new installer

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In the nightly builds of Ubuntu Desktop 21.10, testing has begun of a new installer, implemented as an add-on to the low-level installer curtin, which is already used in the Subiquity installer used by default in Ubuntu Server. The new installer for Ubuntu Desktop is written in Dart and uses the Flutter framework to build the user interface. The design of the new installer is designed taking into account the modern style [...]

InitWare system manager, fork of systemd, ported to OpenBSD

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The InitWare project, which develops an experimental fork of the systemd system manager, has implemented support for the OpenBSD operating system at the level of ability to manage user services (user manager - “iwctl -user” mode, allowing users to manage their own services). PID1 and system services are not yet supported. Previously, similar support was provided for DragonFly BSD, and the ability to manage system services and login control for NetBSD […]

Stack Overflow Poll: Rust Named Most Favorite and Python Most Demanded Language

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The discussion platform Stack Overflow published the results of an annual survey in which more than 83 thousand software developers took part. The most frequently used language by survey participants is JavaScript 64.9% (a year ago 67.7%, the majority of Stack Overflow participants are web developers). The greatest increase in popularity, as last year, is demonstrated by Python, which over the year moved from 4th (44.1%) to 3rd place (48.2%), […]

CrossOver 21.0 release for Linux, Chrome OS and macOS

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CodeWeavers has released the release of the Crossover 21.0 package, based on the Wine code and designed to run programs and games written for the Windows platform. CodeWeavers is one of the key contributors to the Wine project, sponsors its development and returns to the project all the innovations implemented for its commercial products. The source code for the open components of CrossOver 21.0 can be downloaded from this page. […]

Chrome OS Release 92

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A release of the Chrome OS 92 operating system has been published, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild/portage assembly tools, open components and the Chrome 92 web browser. The Chrome OS user environment is limited to a web browser, and instead of standard programs, web applications are used, however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. Building Chrome OS 92 […]

Google will block very old versions of Android from connecting to its services

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Google has warned that starting September 27, it will no longer be able to connect to a Google account on devices running Android editions older than 10 years ago. The reason cited is concern for user safety. When trying to connect to Google products, including Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps services, from an older version of Android, the user will receive an error […]

Implementation of VPN WireGuard for Windows kernel introduced

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Jason A. Donenfeld, author of VPN WireGuard, introduced the WireGuardNT project, which develops a high-performance WireGuard VPN port for the Windows kernel, compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, and supporting AMD64, x86, ARM64 and ARM architectures. The implementation code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new driver is already included in the WireGuard client for Windows, but is currently marked as experimental […]

The share of Linux users on Steam was 1%. Valve and AMD Working on Improved AMD CPU Frequency Management on Linux

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According to Valve's July report on the preferences of users of the Steam game delivery service, the share of active Steam users using the Linux platform reached 1%. A month ago this figure was 0.89%. Among the distributions, the leader is Ubuntu 20.04.2, which is used by 0.19% of Steam users, followed by Manjaro Linux - 0.11%, Arch Linux - 0.10%, Ubuntu 21.04 - […]

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