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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 […]
A major new update of digiKam has been released – a program for working with digital photos, a cataloger, and editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows. With digiKam, you can easily transfer photos, raw files, and videos directly from your camera or external storage devices (SD cards, USB drives, etc.). The application allows you to customize import settings and rules that handle […]
The first release of a new network port scanning utility, RustScan, is available, optimized for significantly increasing scanning speed. High speed is achieved through intensive parallelization of checks. In tests, scanning 65,000 ports took only 8 seconds while performing 10,000 simultaneous checks. The project code is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Pre-built packages are available for […]
As part of the Issuer project, a GitHub bot has been developed to tackle repository users' self-service tasks. On GitHub, there are repositories whose sole purpose is coordinating people through the Issue system. In some of them, those leaving Issues are asked to fill out a form. Then a moderator comes in, checks the accuracy of the form completion, and assigns tags according to those specified in the form (tags […]
Five years after the release of the previous version, a new release of the specialized Linux distribution REMnux 7.0 has been formed, designed for studying and reverse engineering malicious software code. During the analysis, REMnux provides a controlled laboratory environment where one can emulate the operation of a specific targeted network service to study the behavior of malware in conditions close to real-life scenarios. Another area […]
The release of the cross-platform toolkit wxWidgets 3.1.4 has taken place, allowing the creation of graphical interfaces for Linux, Windows, macOS, UNIX, and mobile platforms. wxWidgets 3.1 is positioned as a branch for developers, in which new features are being developed for the next stable release 3.2.0. Compared to the 3.0 branch, a number of API-level incompatibilities are observed, and ABI stability between intermediate 3.1.x releases is not guaranteed. […]
Jellyfin is a free-licensed media server. It serves as an alternative to Emby and Plex, enabling media streaming from a dedicated server to end-user devices through several applications. Jellyfin is a fork of Emby 3.5.2 and has been ported to the .NET Core framework for complete cross-platform support. It does not feature any premium licenses, paid functions, or hidden plans: its […]
On Monday, July 20, the release of re2c — a generator of fast lexical analyzers — was announced. Key changes include the addition of support for the Go language (which can be enabled using the —lang go option for re2c or as a separate re2go program). Documentation for both C and Go is generated from the same text but with different code examples. The code generation subsystem in re2c has been completely redesigned.