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In his speech at the Open Source Summit China, Linus Torvalds mentioned that he expected a faster integration of components written in Rust into the kernel. Part of the problem is that older developers are accustomed to the C language and do not see the need to learn a new language that differs significantly from C in several aspects. Similar […]
Nate Graham, a developer involved in quality control for the KDE project, has published another development report for KDE. The most notable changes that will be included in KDE Plasma 6.2.0 are: Brightness control widgets now have sliders for separately adjusting brightness on each connected monitor. A hotkey or scroll can be used for synchronized brightness adjustment across all monitors […]
After seven months of development, the release of the console file manager Midnight Commander 4.8.32 has been published, a project that has been in development since 1994 and provides a dual-pane interface similar to Norton Commander. Midnight Commander features include mouse support, a built-in file viewer, and a text editor with syntax highlighting, utilizing virtual file systems to navigate within archives, packages, and network storage (SFTP, SSH), connection […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.16 has been published. Since the release of 9.15, 25 bug reports have been closed, and 281 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: initial support for a separately managed driver store (Driver Store). Support for pixel buffers (pBuffer) has been added in the driver for Wayland-based environments. The implementation of prototype support continues in the MSHTML engine […]
Mozilla is developing the Whisperfile speech recognition toolkit, which includes an independent high-performance implementation of the Whisper machine learning model developed and open-sourced by OpenAI. The toolkit is based on whisper.cpp, an implementation of the Whisper model in C/C++ created by Georgi Gerganov (the author of llama.cpp). The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the MIT license. Whisperfile is being developed by the Mozilla Ocho team and complements the llamafile project […]
Forbes has published the results of a performance assessment of computer games on Windows 11 Home and Fedora 40 with the standard Linux kernel 6.10, drivers, and the Proton package from the distribution repositories. In both systems, a power management mode aimed at achieving maximum performance was enabled. The purpose of the experiment was to verify claims that Linux capabilities have significantly improved over the last few years […]
The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at promoting open AI models. Last week, the Open Model Initiative (OMI) was officially introduced, and it now operates under the auspices of The Linux Foundation. Together, they aim to stimulate innovations in the development of open AI models. OMI was established by three organizations specializing in AI: Invoke, Comfy […]
On August 16 and 19, releases 4.0 and 4.0.1 of the multithreaded console file search utility bfs (Breadth-First Search) written in C and distributed under the BSD license took place. Changes include: to comply with BSD find (and POSIX Utility Syntax Guidelines), multiple options can now be specified in a single argument, for example -LEXO2; explicit timestamps can now be recorded […]
Matthew Garrett, a renowned Linux kernel developer who received an award from the Free Software Foundation for his contributions to free software, discussed the essence of the SBAT (Secure Boot Advanced Targeting) mechanism, designed to block vulnerabilities in boot loaders without revoking digital signatures, as well as its role in a recent incident involving an update for Windows that led to […]
As part of the Google Summer of Code 2024 project, the Haiku operating system has made significant progress in virtualization. Thanks to the work of a developer known as dalme, QEMU on Haiku now supports hardware acceleration. The project focused on porting the NVMM hypervisor from DragonFlyBSD to Haiku. This allows QEMU to utilize hardware virtualization extensions like Intel VT-x, which potentially […]
The Document Foundation has announced the release of the LibreOffice 24.8 office suite. Ready-to-use installation packages have been prepared for various Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. The release involved the contributions of 166 developers, 108 of whom are volunteers. 57% of the changes were made by 49 employees from three sponsoring project companies — Collabora, Red Hat, and Allotropia, with 20% contributed by eight employees of The Document […]
Oracle has started testing the second beta version of the VirtualBox 7.1 virtualization system. The release is expected in the fall. Beta builds of VirtualBox 7.1 have been prepared for RHEL 7/8/9, Fedora 35/36/40, openSUSE 15.3, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04/24.04, Debian 10/11/12, macOS, and Windows. Major changes compared to the first beta version include initial support for file transfers through the clipboard on platforms in the shared clipboard mode […]