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A heroic hello to all fans of the game 'Heroes of Might and Magic 2'! I'm happy to announce that the free engine has been updated to version 0.8! This release was dedicated to the unequal struggle for improving the graphical component, which has ultimately undergone significant enhancements on all fronts: missing animations for units, spells, and heroes have been fixed and added, and spell animations that were previously absent have been recreated […]
The first public release of the Pi-KVM project has taken place: a set of software and instructions that allow you to turn a Raspberry Pi into a fully functional IP-KVM. This device connects to the HDMI/VGA and USB ports of the server to manage it remotely, regardless of the operating system. You can power on, power off, or reboot the server, configure the BIOS, and even fully reinstall the operating system from a loaded image: Pi-KVM can emulate a virtual […]
Developers of the Chrome browser have reported an expansion of tools for lazy loading elements of web pages, allowing content that is outside the visible area not to load until the user scrolls to the point immediately preceding the element. Previously, this mode had already been implemented in Chrome 76 and Firefox 75 for images. Now, Chrome developers have taken another step and […]
After a year of development, the release of the photo collection management program digiKam 7.0.0 has occurred, which is being developed as part of the KDE project. The program provides a comprehensive set of tools for importing, managing, editing, and publishing photos, as well as images from digital cameras in raw format. The code is written in C++ using Qt and KDE libraries and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Installation […]
As of now, over 500,000 developers worldwide are using Flutter — an open-source framework from Google designed for mobile app development. This technology is often presented as a replacement for React Native. Until recently, the Flutter SDK was only available on Linux as a solution for developing applications for other platforms. The new Flutter SDK […]
Jeremy Soller (engineer at system76) announced that he is starting work on porting coreboot (LinuxBIOS) for modern AMD Ryzen systems (Matisse and Renoir series), with support from Lisa Su (AMD CEO). The project represents a free alternative to proprietary and closed BIOS and UEFI systems. Source: linux.org.ru
The release of the Mir 2.0 display server has been announced, which continues to be developed by Canonical despite the discontinuation of the Unity shell and Ubuntu editions for smartphones. Mir remains in demand for Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a compositing server for Wayland, allowing it to run in environments […]
The Booty program has been introduced, which allows users to create bootable initrd images, ISO files, or drives with any GNU/Linux distribution in a single command. The code is written in POSIX shell and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. All distributions loaded using Booty operate either in SHMFS (tmpfs) or in SquashFS + Overlay FS, at the user's choice. The distribution is created once, […]
The release of the GNU Binutils 2.35 system utility set has been announced, which includes programs such as the GNU linker, GNU assembler, nm, objdump, strings, and strip. In the new version: The assembler has added the option "—gdwarf-5" for generating ".debug_line" debug tables with line number information in DWARF-5 format. Support for Intel SERIALIZE and TSXLDTRK instructions has been added. New options "-mlfence-after-load=", ‘-mlfence-before-indirect-branch=" […
At the GUADEC 2020 conference, a report was presented on the development of the "GNOME OS" project. Initially conceived plans for developing "GNOME OS" as a platform for creating operating systems have now transformed into viewing "GNOME OS" as a build that can be used for continuous integration, simplifying the testing of applications in the codebase being developed for the next release of GNOME, assessing the progress of development, […]
Philip Withnall from Endless spoke at the GUADEC 2020 conference about introducing tracking of the environmental impact of GNOME application development. For each application, it is proposed to display a 'Carbon Cost' parameter, showing the estimated level of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere and allowing assessment of how development affects global warming. According to the speaker, despite this idea, […]
The NoiseTorch application has entered the beta testing phase. It provides an interface for real-time microphone noise suppression. The program is equipped with a graphical interface for parameter settings and uses PulseAudio to redirect audio streams. To enable noise suppression in any audio application, simply select the NoiseTorch virtual microphone from the list of audio input devices. The code is written in Go and is distributed […]