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On November 5, the 1.6.4 release of the virtual three-dimensional planetarium Celestia was made available, written in C++ and distributed under the GPL-2.0 license. Change log: updated the project website link: https://celestiaproject.space; fixed a build issue with Lua 5.4. Source: linux.org.ru
Developers at Mozilla have announced the decision to discontinue the use of the Mercurial version control system for Firefox development in favor of Git. Until now, the project provided the option to use Mercurial or Git at the developers' choice, but Mercurial was primarily used in the main repository. As maintaining support for both systems places a significant burden on the teams responsible for […]
The release of version 3.0 of the C++ (C++17 dialect) header-only library for parsing command-line arguments, distributed under the MIT License, has occurred. What's new: support for mutually exclusive arguments has been added: auto &group = program.add_mutually_exclusive_group(); group.add_argument(Ā«āfirstĀ»); group.add_argument(Ā«āsecondĀ»); a C++20 module has been added; support for selecting from multiple values has been added: program.add_argument(Ā«inputĀ») .default_value(std::string{Ā«bazĀ»}) .choices(Ā«fooĀ», Ā«barĀ», Ā«bazĀ»); program.add_argument(Ā«countĀ») .default_value(0) .choices(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); support for binary […]
The release of the free boot firmware Libreboot 20231106 has been announced. The update has been assigned the status of a testing release (stable releases are published approximately once a year, with the last stable release in June). The project develops a ready-to-use build of the coreboot project, providing a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripheral devices, and other hardware components, with minimal binary inserts. Libreboot aims to […]
The Fedora project is celebrating its 20th anniversary since the first release of the project, published on November 6, 2003. The project was formed after Red Hat split the Red Hat Linux distribution into two projects ā the community-driven Fedora Linux and the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora Linux was focused on intensive development of new Linux technologies, promoting innovations early […]
Three vulnerabilities have been identified in the developing Kubernetes ingress controller ingress-nginx that allow access to the Ingress object settings in the default configuration, which, among other things, store the credentials for accessing Kubernetes servers, enabling privileged access to the cluster. These issues only affect the ingress-nginx controller from the Kubernetes project and do not impact the kubernetes-ingress controller being developed by […]
Unlike their 16 GB counterparts, 32 GB DDR5 modules feature a dual-rank architecture. But how does this affect performance? We analyze this by comparing identical DDR5-6400 kits of 32 and 64 GB in terms of specifications. Source: 3dnews.ru
The release of LXQt 1.4 (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) has been presented, developed by a combined team of LXDE and Razor-qt project developers. The LXQt interface continues to follow the principles of classic desktop organization, bringing modern design and techniques that enhance usability. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast, and user-friendly evolution of the Razor-qt and LXDE desktops, incorporating the best features of both shells. […]
Artist David Revua complained in his blog that after upgrading the Linux kernel to version 6.5.8 on Fedora Linux, the right button on his tablet stylus started behaving like an eraser. The model of the tablet used by Revua has an eraser that is pressure-sensitive on the back, while the right button on the stylus has been configured in Krita for […]
An update for the Static Linux distribution has been released, based on the Alpine Linux package base and offering an environment based on the Linux 6.1.60 kernel, the standard Musl library, and BusyBox tools. The graphical environment is built on the Labwc compositor server using Wayland, featuring the CoreFM file manager, CoreImage image viewer, CorePad text editor, CoreTerminal terminal emulator, and mpv media player. It also includes utilities for […]
The release of the dynamic tracing system SystemTap 5.0 has been published, providing debugging tools for the Linux platform similar to the DTrace technology. SystemTap allows for in-depth monitoring of a running Linux system, collecting statistics on application performance, profiling, and controlling system calls. Management is performed through a command-line interface and a special C-like scripting language. The system is compatible with Linux kernels starting from version […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, on which version 121 will be based and released on December 19, a new option has been added to the context menu, allowing users to copy the URL of the selected link to the clipboard while removing tracking options used for transitions between sites. For example, when copying a link, the mc_eid and fbclid parameters used during transitions from the pages will be removed […]