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The release of DXVK 1.9.3 is available, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10, and 11, working through call translation to the Vulkan API. To use DXVK, drivers supporting Vulkan API 1.1 are required, such as Mesa RADV 20.2, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games in […]
The release of the Firefox 96 web browser has taken place. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch — 91.5.0 — has been formed. The Firefox 97 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for February 8. Key innovations: The ability to force-enable dark or light themes for websites has been added. The color scheme is changed by the browser and does not require support from the website, which […]
Solo.io, a company developing products for the operation of cloud systems, microservices, isolated containers, and serverless computing, has published an open toolset called BumbleBee, aimed at simplifying the preparation, distribution, and execution of eBPF programs that run in a special virtual machine inside the Linux kernel and allow for network operation processing, access control, and system monitoring. The code is written in Go and is distributed under the […]
Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of the open messenger Signal and co-author of the Signal protocol, which is also used for end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp, has announced his departure from the position of head of Signal Messenger LLC, overseeing the development of the Signal app and protocol. Until a new leader is selected, the responsibilities of interim CEO will be taken on by Brian Acton, co-founder and head of […]
After seven months of development, the release of DragonFlyBSD 6.2 has been published, an operating system with a hybrid kernel created in 2003 for the alternative development of the FreeBSD 4.x branch. Features of DragonFly BSD include the distributed versioning file system HAMMER, support for booting 'virtual' system kernels as user processes, and the ability to cache file system data and metadata on SSDs, considering contextual variant symbolic […]
The Latin American Free Software Foundation has released the fully free version of the Linux kernel 5.16 — Linux-libre 5.16-gnu, which is cleared of firmware and driver elements containing non-free components or code segments restricted by the manufacturer. Additionally, Linux-libre disables kernel functions for loading non-free components not included in the kernel distribution and removes mentions of using non-free components.
After nearly 8 months of development, a significant release of the OpenIPC 2.2 project has been published, which develops a Linux distribution for installation in surveillance cameras instead of the default firmware. Firmware images have been prepared for IP cameras based on Hisilicon Hi35xx, SigmaStar SSC335/SSC337, and XiongmaiTech XM510/XM530/XM550 chips. The oldest supported chip is the 3516CV100, which was discontinued by the manufacturer back in 2015. The project's developments include...
Marak Squires, the author of the popular packages colors (node.js console colorization) and faker (a fake data generator for input fields), which have 2.8 and 25 million weekly downloads, has released new versions of his products in the NPM repository and on GitHub, which include destructive changes aimed at causing failures during the build and execution stages of dependent projects. As a result of Marak's actions...
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel 5.16. Among the most notable changes are: the futex_waitv system call to enhance the performance of Windows games in Wine, error tracking in the filesystem through fanotify, the concept of folios in memory management, support for AMX processor instructions, the ability to reserve memory for network sockets, support in netfilter for packet classification at the egress stage, and the involvement of...
TIOBE Software has published its January programming language popularity ranking, highlighting the rise of Python from third to first place compared to January 2021. C and Java have dropped to second and third places, respectively. The TIOBE Index determines its conclusions based on the analysis of search query statistics from systems such as Google, Google […]
The release of the Clonezilla Live 2.8.1 Linux distribution has been announced, designed for quick disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to those of the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the ISO image of the distribution is 339 MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizes code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast. Downloading is possible […]
Ingo Molnar has introduced the second version of a patch set that significantly reduces the time needed to rebuild the kernel by restructuring the hierarchy of header files and minimizing cross-dependencies. This new version, adapted for kernel 5.16-rc8, features additional optimizations and support for building with the Clang compiler, differing from the first version proposed a few days ago. When using Clang, the application […]