LibreOffice (a free, open-source, cross-platform office suite) uses AVMedia components internally to support playback and embedding of audio and video into documents or slideshows. It also supported VLC integration for audio/video playback, but after years of not developing this initially experimental functionality, VLC has now been removed, with about 2k lines of code removed in total. GStreamer and others […]
A new release has been released of one of the very few free open high-level (ERP level) information systems development platforms lsFusion. The main emphasis in the new fourth version was on presentation logic - the user interface and everything connected with it. Thus, in the fourth version there were: New views of lists of objects: Grouping (analytical) views in which the user himself can group [...]
Parted Magic is a lightweight live distribution designed for disk partitioning. It comes pre-installed with GParted, Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd and ddrescue. A large number of packages have been updated in this version. Main changes: ► Updating xfce to 4.14 ► Changing the general appearance ► Changing the boot menu Source: linux.org.ru
Quietly and unnoticed, after 3,5 years of development, the first major release of Buttplug took place - a comprehensive solution for software development in the field of remote control of intimate devices with support for various methods of connecting to them: Bluetooth, USB and serial ports using the programming languages Rust, C# , JavaScript and TypeScript. Starting with this version, Buttplug implementation in C# and […]
A new release of the dynamic reflective interpreted high-level object-oriented programming language Ruby version 3.0.0 has been released. According to the authors, a tripling of productivity was recorded (according to the Optcarrot test), thus achieving the goal set in 2016, described in the Ruby 3x3 concept. To achieve this goal, during development we paid attention to the following areas: Performance - MJIT performance - reducing time and reducing the size of the generated code […]
Redox is an open source UNIX-like operating system written in Rust. Changes in 0.6: The rmm memory manager has been rewritten. This fixed memory leaks in the kernel, which were a serious problem with the previous memory manager. Also, support for multi-core processors has become more stable. Many things from Redox OS Summer of Code students have been included in this release. Including works […]
One of the changes planned for Fedora 34 will be the use of dnf-plugin-cow, which speeds up DNF/RPM through Copy on Write (CoW) technology implemented on top of the Btrfs file system. Comparison of current and future methods for installing/updating RPM packages in Fedora. Current method: Decompose the installation/update request into a list of packages and actions. Download and check the integrity of new packages. Sequentially install/update packages using […]
Over the past few days, the free operating system FreeBSD has been transitioning from its development, which was done using Subversion, to using the distributed version control system Git, which is used by most other open source projects. FreeBSD's transition from Subversion to Git has taken place. The migration was completed the other day and the new code is now arriving in their main Git repository […]
A new version of darktable, a popular free program for culling, threading, and printing photos, has been released. Main changes: improved performance of many editing operations; a new Color Calibration module has been added, which implements various chromatic adaptation control tools; the Filmic RGB module now has three ways to visualize dynamic range projection; The Tone Equalizer module has a new eigf guided filter, which […]
Heroic greetings to fans of Might and Magic! At the end of the year, we have a new release 0.8.4, in which we continue our work on the fheroes2 project. This time our team worked on the logic and functionality of the interface: scrolling lists was fixed; division of units now works more conveniently and it is now possible to use keyboard keys for quick and convenient grouping […]
Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralized, real-time communications over IP. It can be used for instant messaging, voice or video over VoIP/WebRTC or anywhere else where you need a standard HTTP API to publish and subscribe data while tracking conversation history. NeoChat is a cross-platform Matrix client for KDE, running […]
Recently a new version of the free flight simulator FlightGear became available. The release contains an improved texture of the Moon, as well as other improvements and bugfixes. List of changes. Source: linux.org.ru
