A Reddit user reported slower I/O on his btrfs system after updating the kernel to version 5.10. I found a very simple way to reproduce the regression, namely by extracting a huge tarball, for example: tar xf firefox-84.0.source.tar.zst. On my external USB3 SSD on a Ryzen 5950x it took from ~15s on the 5.9 kernel to almost 5 minutes on 5.10! […]
The annual winter sale has started on Steam. The sale will end on January 5 at 21:00 Moscow time. Don't forget to vote for the following categories: Game of the Year VR Game of the Year Favorite Child A Friend in Need Most Innovative Gameplay Best Game with an Outstanding Story Best Game You Can't Get Outstanding Visual Style Award […]
On December 14, search in PyPi using pip search was disabled due to increased load on the servers. Now the console kindly reports: PyPI's XMLRPC API has been temporarily disabled due to unmanageable load and will be deprecated in the near future. Load chart Last year Source: linux.org.ru
The release included a significant number of functions for working with game controllers and joysticks, new platform-dependent hints and some high-level queries. Support for PS5 DualSense and Xbox Series X controllers has been added to the HIDAPI driver; Constants for new keys have been added. The default value of SDL_HINT_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS is now false, which will improve compatibility with modern window managers. Were added […]
A new release of WindTerm has been released - a professional SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client for DevOps. This release added support for running the client on Linux. Please note that the Linux version does not yet support X Forwarding. WindTerm is completely free for commercial and non-commercial use without restrictions. All currently published source code (excluding third party code) is provided […]
Rostelecom and the Russian developer Red Soft entered into a license agreement for the use of the RED OS operating system, according to which the Rostelecom group of companies will use RED OS in the “Server” configuration in its internal systems. The transition to the new OS will begin next year and will be completed by the end of 2023. It has not yet been specified which services will be transferred to work under [...]
On December 1st, an emulator of old pcem systems was released. Few changes: New machines: Amstrad PC5086, Compaq Deskpro, Samsung SPC-6033P, Samsung SPC-6000A, Intel VS440FX, Gigabyte GA-686BX New video cards: 3DFX Voodoo Banshee, 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000, 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000, Creative 3D Blaster Banshee , Kasan Hangulmadang-16, Trident TVGA9000B New processors: Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Celeron, Cyrix III Image support […]
On December 21, the free video editor Kdenlive version 20.12 was released. Innovations: Single track transitions. Allows you to add transition effects between clips located on the same track Added a new tool for creating subtitles. You can import subtitles in SRT or ASS format, as well as export in SRT format. The location of effects in the interface has been reorganized. The ability to rename and change the description has been added […]
A new version of Guitarix, a free emulator of guitar effects and amplifiers, has been released. The main innovation was a redesigned tube emulation algorithm, which affected both the overall sound and the response dynamics. The change will likely change the sound of existing presets, but the developers are confident that the improvements are worth it. The new algorithm was written by Damien Zammit, author of the ZamAudio plugins. Except […]
After the announcement in September, the source code of client applications for the Threema messenger has finally been published. Let me remind you that Threema is a messaging service that implements end-to-end encryption (E2EE). Audio and video calls, file sharing and other features expected from modern instant messengers are also supported. Applications are available for Android, iOS and Web. There is no separate desktop application, including for Linux. […]
A new version of the LSP Plugins effects package has been released, designed for sound processing during mixing and mastering of audio recordings. The most significant changes: A series of Artistic Delay plugins have been released. The crossover functionality has been expanded: the ability to control phase and delay for each band has been added. A number of changes regarding the Multisampler: the numbering of octaves has been changed, now starting from “-1” (previously the numbering started from “-2”); […]
On the open.tube service, as part of the irregular amateur podcast “Reassembly,” the administrator of one of the nodes of the distributed (federated) social network Mastodon published a podcast telling in Russian the most complete history of the development of projects connected in federated social networks. The podcast is the result of almost a year’s work - collecting information, communicating with the direct creators of individual technologies, and so on. In a two-hour podcast […]
