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The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after Canonical stepped away, has released the OTA-3 Focal (over-the-air) firmware. This is the third release of Ubuntu Touch, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04 (previous releases were based on Ubuntu 16.04). The project is also developing an experimental port of the Unity 8 desktop, which has been renamed to Lomiri. […]
In early November, Google released a security patch for the Android 14 operating system aimed at resolving a critical data storage bug. The problem affected a series of Pixel devices, leading to access being blocked. The patch promises to fix the situation, but on some devices stuck in a reboot loop, data may be irretrievably lost. Source image: neotam / Pixabay Source: 3dnews.ru
Chuwi has unveiled the Freebook convertible laptop equipped with a 13.5-inch laminated IPS touchscreen that rotates 360Ā°, allowing the device to be used as a tablet with digital pen input support. The screen has a resolution of 2256 Ć 1504 pixels with an aspect ratio of 3:2 and supports up to 10 simultaneous touches. The Chuwi Freebook is an elegant and stylish device offering high performance […]
Google has presented the Open Se Cura hardware-software complex aimed at simplifying the creation of secure chips designed to address tasks related to machine learning and artificial intelligence. The project includes the CantripOS operating system and hardware based on the OpenTitan platform and a processor core based on the RISC-V architecture. During the development of Open Se Cura and CantripOS, progress was made […]
The release of the Fedora Linux 39 distribution has been announced. Available for download are the Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition, and Live builds supplied in the form of spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, Phosh, LXQt, Budgie, and Sway. The builds are for x86_64, Power64, and ARM64 (AArch64) architectures. The Fedora Silverblue builds will be published […]
The open automation system for assembly processes Cicada is available, allowing you to deploy an infrastructure similar to GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and GitLab CI on your own server, independent of cloud services. The project's code is written in Python and is distributed under the AGPLv3 license. The system can automatically trigger build and test scripts when certain events occur, such as the arrival of […]
The release of the OmniOS Community Edition r151048, based on the work of the Illumos project, is available, offering 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 for building scalable web systems as well as for creating storage systems. In this new release: Added support for NVMe 2.x devices. Added […]
The CADBase digital platform is designed for sharing 3D models, drawings, and other engineering data. As traditionally announced in the news on 02.10.22 and 02.10.23, I am excited to share information about the latest update of the CADBase platform. There are two significant changes I would like to begin with: A highlight of the platform is the introduction of a 3D file viewer. Since the viewer only works for […]
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 […]