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Release of Zorin OS 15.3

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The release of the Zorin OS 15.3 Linux distribution has been announced, based on the Ubuntu 18.04.5 package base. The target audience for the distribution is beginner users accustomed to working in Windows. To customize the appearance, the distribution offers a special configurator that allows the desktop to resemble different versions of Windows, and it includes a selection of applications similar to those familiar to Windows users. The size of the bootable iso image […]

Podcast with a contributor to the OpenZFS and ZFS on Linux projects.

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In episode 122 of the SDCast podcast (mp3, 71 MB, ogg, 52 MB), there was an interview with Georgy Melikov, a contributor to the OpenZFS and ZFS on Linux projects. The podcast discusses how the ZFS file system is structured, its features and differences from other file systems, what components it consists of, and how it operates. Source: opennet.ru

Stable release of Portage 3.0

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Stabilized release 3.0 of the Portage package manager for the Gentoo distribution. New features: Support for Python 2.7 has been removed. Now only version 3.2 and higher is supported. Calculations have been significantly accelerated due to optimizations and caching results of the catpkgsplit and use_reduce functions. Reports indicate approximately 50-60% gains when building the "world". Source: linux.org.ru

The multimedia framework GStreamer 1.18.0 is available.

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After a year and a half of development, GStreamer 1.18 has been released. This cross-platform set of components is written in C for creating a wide range of multimedia applications, from media players and audio/video file converters to VoIP applications and streaming systems. The GStreamer code is distributed under the LGPLv2.1 license. Updates for the plugins gst-plugins-base 1.18, gst-plugins-good 1.18, gst-plugins-bad 1.18, gst-plugins-ugly 1.18, as well as the gst-libav wrapper, are also available […]

Release of the vector graphics editor Inkscape 1.0.1

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An update for the free vector graphics editor Inkscape 1.0.1 is available, addressing bugs and issues identified in the significant 1.0 release. The editor provides flexible drawing tools and supports reading and saving images in SVG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, WMF, EMF, sk1, PDF, EPS, PostScript, and PNG formats. Ready-made builds of Inkscape are prepared for Linux (AppImage, Snap, Flatpak), […]

Call recording feature in the Google Phone app has become available on Xiaomi smartphones

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The Google Phone app is quite popular, but it is not available on all Android smartphones. However, developers are gradually expanding the list of supported devices and adding new features. This time, online sources reported that the Google Phone app on Xiaomi smartphones has gained support for call recording. Google has been working on this feature for quite some time. The first mentions of it […]

C++20 standard approved

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The ISO committee for the standardization of the C++ language has approved the international standard 'C++20'. The features introduced in the specification, except for a few cases, are supported in GCC, Clang, and Microsoft Visual C++ compilers. Standard libraries supporting C++20 have been implemented within the Boost project. In the next two months, the approved specification will be in the stage of preparing the document for publication, during which work will be conducted […]

Release of libtorrent 2.0 with support for the BitTorrent 2 protocol

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A significant release of the libtorrent 2.0 library (also known as libtorrent-rasterbar) has been introduced, offering an efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol in terms of memory usage and CPU load. The library is utilized in torrent clients like Deluge, qBittorrent, Folx, Lince, Miro, and Flush (not to be confused with another libtorrent library used in rTorrent). The libtorrent code is written in C++ and is distributed […]

Gentoo Project has introduced Portage 3.0 package management system

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The stabilizing release of the Portage 3.0 package management system used in the Gentoo Linux distribution has been announced. This release concludes a lengthy effort to transition to Python 3 and discontinue support for Python 2.7. Besides the end of support for Python 2.7, another significant change includes optimizations that allowed computations related to dependency resolution to be accelerated by 50-60%. Interestingly, some developers proposed rewriting the code […]

Release of Hotspot 1.3.0, a GUI for performance analysis in Linux

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The release of Hotspot 1.3.0 has been introduced, providing a graphical interface for visually examining reports during profiling and performance analysis using the perf kernel subsystem. The program's code is written in C++ using the Qt and KDE Frameworks 5 libraries and is distributed under the GPL v2+ license. Hotspot can serve as a transparent replacement for the 'perf report' command when analyzing files […]

torxy — a transparent HTTP/HTTPS proxy that allows traffic to be redirected to selected domains through a TOR server

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I present the first public version of my development — a transparent HTTP/HTTPS proxy that enables traffic redirection to selected domains via a TOR server. The project was created to enhance accessibility from a home local network to websites that may be restricted for various reasons. For example, the store homedepot.com is unavailable due to geographical restrictions. Features: Works exclusively in transparent mode, configuration is only required on the router; […]

CCZE 0.3.0 Phoenix

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CCZE is a utility for highlighting logs. The original project ceased development in 2003. In 2013, I compiled the program for personal use, but it turned out to be quite slow due to a suboptimal algorithm. I fixed the most obvious performance issues, after which I successfully used it for 7 years, but was too lazy to issue a release. So, […]

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