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Linus Torvalds has voiced new criticisms regarding the maintenance methods of Bcachefs in the main Linux kernel. The essence of the concerns is that Kent Overstreet, the author of Bcachefs, often sends many changes at the last minute before the release of the next pre-release version (‘-RC’), and this time his changes caused a build failure in 6.12-RC1 on big-endian systems […]
The release of the Hyprland 0.44 composite server, which uses the Wayland protocol, has been announced. The composite server is focused on a tiling window layout but also supports classic floating window placement, tabbed window grouping, a pseudo-tiling mode, and full-screen window expansion. It includes elements for creating visually appealing interfaces, such as gradients in window borders, blurring, animation effects, and shadows. For […]
Andrzej Janik has presented a plan for the further development of the ZLUDA project, which focuses on an open implementation of CUDA technology. While the first version of ZLUDA aimed at creating a CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs, and the second for AMD GPUs, the currently presented third version will concentrate on developing a universal CUDA implementation for any GPU other than NVIDIA GPUs. The project's goal is […]
The release of the Cage 0.2 composite server is available, utilizing Wayland and focused on the isolated launch of individual applications in kiosk mode. Use cases for Cage include creating home automation systems, demonstration stands, electronic signage, and self-service terminals. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The interface in Cage is limited to a single application, and the user cannot […]
A new version of Hyprland has been released, a modern stacking compositor for Wayland aimed at customizability and high performance. Written in C++, it is distributed under the BSD-3 license. Changes and innovations: a new argument —version has been added for checking the version of the Hyprland executable (instead of hyprctl version); the same applies to —systeminfo. New layout rule — order, intended for organizing […]
On October 6, a small update was released for Cage, a kiosk program for Wayland, whose sole purpose is to launch a single application in full screen. Changes and innovations: a version 0.18 of the wlroots library is now required for building; all improvements from wlroots 0.17 and 0.18 are included; support for primary selection has been added; support for the relative-pointer-unstable-v1 protocol has been added; Xwayland is no longer mandatory at runtime. Source: linux.org.ru
A new version of Elektroid has been released — a free alternative to Elektron Transfer for managing presets and samples on hardware synthesizers and samplers from various manufacturers. What's new: Added support for Arturia MicroFreak, including loading presets (compressed and uncompressed), wave tables, and samples. Support for Elektron Digitakt II has been added. A simple settings dialog has been introduced. Visualization of short samples has been improved. Now you can view the information […]
The developers of Wine have released version 9.19, which contains a number of significant improvements. Key changes in Wine 9.19 include: Enhanced Unicode support: character tables have been updated to Unicode 16.0.0, providing more accurate text rendering in various languages and the use of modern characters. This should lead to improved compatibility with applications that utilize extended character sets. Improvements in operation with […]
The Mitmproxy project 11 release has been introduced, developing a toolkit for intercepting traffic within HTTPS connections, with capabilities for inspecting, modifying, and replaying traffic. The primary purpose of Mitmproxy is to facilitate traffic monitoring in corporate systems and diagnosing problems, such as identifying hidden network activity of applications. The project's source code is written in Python and is distributed under the MIT license. For […]
The Input Leap 3.0.0 project release is now available, developing a software KVM switch (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) that allows a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers over a network, simulating physical connection to the system. Input Leap separated from the Barrier project in 2021 due to maintenance issues with the latter. Barrier, in turn, was created as a fork of the Deskflow project, which continues active […]
Two weeks after the last critical update, the developers of the Firmware Updater (fwupd) daemon for managing automatic firmware updates released a major version 2.0.0, which includes incompatible ABI changes, added support for Darwin operating system, and fixed numerous bugs. Access to firmware in cab archive format is provided from the LVFS repository, which is curated by fwupd developers together with manufacturers […]
After more than five months of development, version 1.7.0 of the high-performance speech recognition system whisper.cpp has been released, implementing the Whisper model from OpenAI in C and C++ and distributed under the MIT license. The project uses the author's machine learning tensor library GGML, written in C. Key changes: crashes with a large number of beams have been fixed; overall VRAM usage has been reduced; […]