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On December 28, after more than two years of hiatus, version 2.5.0 of the TUI creation library termbox2, written in C and distributed under the MIT license, was released. Compared to the original termbox, the simple API and lack of dependencies apart from libc have been preserved, but new features include: stricter error checking; more efficient parsing of escape sequences; optional support for 32-bit color; improved Unicode grapheme support; […]
After more than a year of development, version 0.8.3 of the xxHash library has been released, implementing high-performance non-cryptographic hash algorithms. The library and command-line utility are written in C and distributed under the BSD 2 license. What's new: A bug in the XXH3_128bits_withSecretandSeed() function has been fixed, which caused incorrect results in some cases. An optimized implementation for LoongArch SX has been added. Now, the xxhsum command-line utility automatically detects and […]
Recently, the first version of Ghostty was released, one of the fastest terminal emulators available. Reddit and many related channels on YouTube have already dubbed it the best. The project has garnered over 15k ⭐ on GitHub in a short time. Features: Multi-platform. Written in the increasingly popular programming language Zig. Utilizes a native UI (requires GTK 4 on Linux) and GPU acceleration. […]
At the conference, a presentation was made detailing the reverse engineering of the firmware and command system of TI SimpleLink chips (CC13XX and CC26XX) with BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) support, which enabled the implementation of an FM receiver. An analog transmitter may not be feasible since the chips are strictly digital. The chips utilize DSP, and the main ARM Cortex core controls the radio core (RF Core) Arm Cortex-M0, which provides […]
A new release of the APT 2.9.20 (Advanced Package Tool) package management toolkit has been published. The 2.9.x branch is experimental and is used for developing features for the upcoming stable version APT 3.0, which will be integrated into Debian Testing after stabilization and will be included in the next major Debian release, as well as added to the Ubuntu package repository. Changes since the last announcement: APT 2.9.16: […]
Hello, LOR! The beta version of the quite interesting distribution Chimera Linux has been released. Unlike other distributions, Chimera is distinguished by the absence of GNU utilities and libraries and the use of code from BSD systems. It is built using LLVM and musl with the mimalloc allocator from Microsoft. Dinit serves as the initialization system. The default desktop environment is GNOME. The package manager for the distribution is APK (from […]
The release of the IvorySQL 4.0 project has been published, developing an edition of PostgreSQL that ensures compatibility with applications designed for Oracle DBMS. IvorySQL claims to work as a transparent replacement for the latest version of PostgreSQL, differing primarily by the addition of the 'compatible_db' setting, which includes compatibility mode with Oracle. The code is written in C and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. […]
The release of the free PaaS platform Cozystack 0.21.0, built on Kubernetes, is now available. The project aims to provide a ready-made platform for hosting providers and a framework for building private and public clouds. The platform installs directly on servers and covers all aspects of infrastructure preparation for providing managed services. Cozystack allows for running and providing Kubernetes clusters, databases, and virtual machines. The platform's code […]
The developers of the Bottles program, which offers an interface to simplify the installation, configuration, and running of Windows applications on Linux, have published information about the development of the Bottles Next initiative, aimed at a complete revamp of the project's architecture and codebase. It is noted that the existing monolithic application written in Python with a GTK interface does not allow for many ideas to be implemented, such as macOS support, limits capabilities, and leads to […]
After a year of development, the release of the Arcan 0.7 desktop engine has been published, which combines a display server, multimedia framework, and game engine for processing 3D graphics. Arcan can be used to create various graphical systems – from user interfaces for embedded applications to standalone desktop environments. Among other things, the three-dimensional workspace Safespaces for virtual reality systems is built on Arcan and […]
The ALT Workstation 11.0 alpha version for p11 (Salvia) is available. Download the x86_64 AArch64 image. Innovations The image is built on kernels 6.12 and 6.6 (only on AArch64). It uses the GNOME 47.2 desktop environment, libadwaita 1.4.2, GTK4 4.16.7. Package selection during installation occurs before disk partitioning. Installation groups have been revamped. Source: linux.org.ru
The release of the Ghostty 1.0.0 terminal emulator has been announced, utilizing GPU acceleration for rendering content. The project is developed by Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of projects such as Vagrant and Terraform. The author of Ghostty aims to embody three qualities in the new terminal emulator — high performance, extensive functionality, and an interface that looks native to each supported platform. The project code is written […]
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