The release of the PulseAudio 15.0 sound server is presented, which acts as an intermediary between applications and various low-level sound subsystems, abstracting work with the hardware. PulseAudio allows you to control the volume and mixing of audio at the level of individual applications, organize the input, mixing and output of audio in the presence of several input and output channels or sound cards, allows you to change […]
GitHub announced the creation of a service to provide free legal assistance to open source software developers accused of violating Article 1201 of the DMCA, which prohibits circumvention of technical protection measures such as DRM. The service will be overseen by lawyers from Stanford Law School and funded by a new $XNUMX million Developer Defense Fund. The funds will be spent […]
The ntop project, which develops tools for capturing and analyzing traffic, has published a release of the nDPI 4.0 Deep Packet Inspection Toolkit, which continues the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was founded after an unsuccessful attempt to commit changes to the OpenDPI repository, which was left unmaintained. The nDPI code is written in C and distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The project allows you to determine the protocols used in traffic […]
The author of the Barinsta project, which develops an alternative open Instagram client for the Android platform, received a request from lawyers representing the interests of Facebook to curtail the development of the project and remove the product. In case of non-compliance, Facebook expressed its intention to take the proceedings to another level and take the necessary legal measures to protect their rights. Barinsta is alleged to be violating Instagram's terms of use for […]
The release of the DXVK 1.9.1 layer is available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10 and 11, working through call translation to the Vulkan API. DXVK requires Vulkan 1.1 API-enabled drivers such as Mesa RADV 20.2, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]
The reference implementation of the BLAKE3 1.0 cryptographic hash function has been released, notable for its very high hash computation performance while ensuring reliability at the SHA-3 level. In the hash generation test for a 16 KB file, BLAKE3 with a 256-bit key outperforms SHA3-256 by 17 times, SHA-256 by 14 times, SHA-512 by 9 times, SHA-1 by 6 times, A […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
