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After six months of development, the release of the Cinnamon 5.0 desktop environment has been formed, within which the Linux Mint community is developing a fork of the GNOME Shell, Nautilus file manager, and Mutter window manager, aimed at providing a classic GNOME 2 style environment with successful interaction elements from GNOME Shell. Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components […]
A new version of the Util-linux system utilities package 2.37 has been released, which includes both utilities closely related to the Linux kernel and general-purpose utilities. For example, the package includes the mount/umount, fdisk, hwclock, cal, blkid, fsck/cfdisk/sfdisk, blockdev, chrt, mkfs, ionice, more, renice, su, kill, setsid, login, shutdown, dmesg, lscpu, logger, losetup, setterm, mkswap, swapon, taskset utilities, etc. In […]
The release of the Firefox 89 web browser has occurred. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch 78.11.0 has been formed. The Firefox 90 branch will soon enter beta testing, with its release scheduled for July 13. Key innovations: A significant modernization of the interface has been conducted. Icons have been updated, the style of various elements has been unified, and the color palette has been redesigned. The tab panel design has changed — the angles […]
The development package in Ada language — GNAT Community Edition 2021 has been released. It includes the compiler, integrated development environment GNAT Studio, static analyzer for the SPARK language subset, GDB debugger, and a set of libraries. The package is distributed under the GPL license. The new version of the compiler uses the GCC 10.3.1 backend and provides a number of new features. Implementation of the following innovations of the upcoming Ada standard has been added […]
The release of JingOS 0.9, providing an environment specifically optimized for installation on tablet PCs and laptops with touch screens, has been published. The project is developed by the Chinese company Jingling Tech, which has representation in California. The development team includes employees who previously worked at Lenovo, Alibaba, Samsung, Canonical/Ubuntu, and Trolltech. The size of the installation image is 3 GB (x86_64). Project developments are distributed under the license […]
A new release of OpenRGB 0.6, a free tool for controlling RGB-lit devices, has been published. The package supports motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI with RGB subsystems for case lighting, memory modules with lighting from ASUS, Patriot, Corsair, and HyperX, graphics cards ASUS Aura/ROG, MSI GeForce, Sapphire Nitro, and Gigabyte Aorus, and various LED strip controllers (ThermalTake, Corsair, NZXT Hue+), […]
Dylan Graham introduced a lightweight runtime LWDR for programming in the D language for microcontrollers equipped with real-time operating systems (RTOS). The current version targets ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers. The development does not aim for full coverage of all D capabilities but provides basic tools. Memory allocation is done manually (new / delete), a garbage collector is not implemented, but there are various hooks for […]
The release of the NGINX Unit 1.24 application server has taken place, which develops a solution for running web applications in various programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js, and Java). Under the management of NGINX Unit, multiple applications in different programming languages can run simultaneously, with their launch parameters dynamically adjustable without the need to edit configuration files and restart. Code […]
The release of Electron platform 13.0.0 has been prepared, which provides a self-sufficient framework for developing cross-platform user applications, based on Chromium, V8, and Node.js components. The significant version number change is due to the update to the Chromium 91 codebase, Node.js 14.16 platform, and JavaScript engine V8 9.1. Among the changes in this release: Added the property process.contextIsolated to determine the execution of the current […]
The release of the PCRE2 library 10.37, which provides a set of functions in the C language with implementations of regular expressions and pattern matching close in syntax and semantics to Perl 5 regular expressions, has been released. PCRE2 is a redesigned implementation of the original PCRE library with an incompatible API and extended capabilities. The library is based on developers of the Exim mail server and is distributed […]
Microsoft has released the Windows Package Manager 1.0 (winget), providing tools for installing applications using the command line. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the MIT license. Packages are installed from a repository supported with community participation. Unlike installing programs from the Microsoft Store catalog, winget allows for the installation of applications without unnecessary marketing and […]
New releases of the Pacman package manager version 6.0.0 and the Archinstall installer version 2.2.0, used in the Arch Linux distribution, are available. The key changes in Pacman 6.0 include: support for downloading files in multiple parallel streams. A progress indicator string for data download has been implemented. To disable the progress indicator, the option "--noprogressbar" can be specified in pacman.conf. Automatic skipping of mirrors that are unresponsive has been ensured, when accessing them […]