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The Manjaro Linux team has begun testing the MDD (Manjaro Data Donor) service to collect user data and send it to the project's external server. Initially, it was planned that this feature would be enabled by default, but this decision met with objections from other maintainers of the project. According to current information, telemetry will appear as an option requiring user consent upon first […]
After six months of development, the release of the LXQt 2.1.0 desktop environment (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) has been announced, continuing the advancement of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects. The LXQt interface follows the principles of classic desktop organization but brings a modern design and techniques that enhance usability. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast, and user-friendly environment, incorporating the best features of LXDE and Razor-qt. The code is available at […]
The release of the OmniOS Community Edition r151052 distribution, based on the Illumos project developments, has been announced. This version continues the enhancement of the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries, and the basic set of system utilities from OpenSolaris. OmniOS is notable for providing full support for the bhyve and KVM hypervisors, the Crossbow virtual network stack, the ZFS file system, and tools for launching lightweight Linux containers. The distribution can be used to build scalable web systems, […]
The developers of the FFmpeg project have announced the implementation of new assembler optimizations, which have accelerated certain operations used in video decoding thanks to the use of the AVX-512 instruction set. The performance gain of the assembler code with AVX-512 instructions was 94, 44, 64, and 4.24 times compared to the baseline implementation written in C without using SIMD instructions. The assembler code with optimizations on […]
The release of Lime3DS version 2119 has taken place. Lime3DS is a fork of the Citra emulator (the same team that developed Citra also created Yuzu), which was discontinued in March 2024. Lime3DS is a Nintendo 3DS emulator, natively available on Windows, Android, Linux, macOS, and chromeOS. New features include initial support for Pretendo (an equivalent to XLink Kai for multiplayer Nintendo Wii games […]
The ratarmount (random access tar mount) program is designed for mounting archive files into the file system and allows for mounting not only tar files (compressed with bz2, gz, xz, or zstd) but also zip and rar files via FUSE. The new release 1.0.0 is available for installation from pip and AppImage. There are several features that distinguish ratarmount from the existing archivemount. In the first […]
The developers of the Manjaro Linux distribution, built on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users, have announced the start of testing a new service called MDD (Manjaro Data Donor), designed to collect system statistics and send them to the project's external server. The author of MDD intended to include telemetry submission by default (opt-out), but this decision has not yet been finalized, and judging by the objections […]
The distribution for creating firewalls NethSecurity 8.3 has been released, based on the NethServer platform and designed for quick deployment of a firewall. In addition to packet filtering, it offers intrusion detection and prevention capabilities, antivirus scanning, ad blocking, traffic prioritization, deep packet inspection (DPI), and content filtering. Deployed within a corporate network, NethSecurity can also selectively block […]
Standard Intelligence has announced the release of hertz-dev, the first open AI model for full-duplex speech synthesis, which can be used as a foundation for building real-time voice communication systems or generating conversational speech. The model allows generating speech that is close to the voice data it was trained on, facilitating interaction in a manner similar to live human communication without […]
Kent Overstreet, the developer of the Bcachefs filesystem, reported a 40% reduction in error pop-ups when using the test toolkit compared to last month, as well as a significant decrease in the number of messages regarding critical issues. As a result of the work done, the overall code quality has improved, and the error flow has begun to decline. The Syzbot testing robot caught most trivial […]
Broadcom, which acquired VMware's business a year ago, has proposed several changes to be included in the Linux kernel that add the capability to redirect VMware hypercalls to user space within the KVM hypervisor and provide functionality for selectively enabling the 'VMWare backdoor' interface, used in paravirtualization for sending requests from the guest system to the host environment. It is noted that these changes will enable the transition of VMware products […]
A new version of dd_rescue 1.99.17 has been released, a utility for recovering data from failing drives, backing up, and deploying disk images. It should not be confused with the GNU ddrescue utility; unlike dd_rescue, it has additional useful features, such as support for sparse files, direct input/output bypassing the cache, and transparent compression and encryption. The dd_rescue utility is included with many […]
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