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The release of BusyBox 1.32 has been announced, featuring a set of standard UNIX utilities packaged as a single executable file and optimized for minimal system resource consumption with a package size of less than 1 MB. The first release of the new 1.32 branch is positioned as unstable, with full stabilization expected in version 1.32.1, which is anticipated in about a month. The project's code is distributed under the license […]
In the codebase used to produce the Mesa 20.2 release, the RADV Vulkan driver for AMD chips has switched to the default backend for shader compilation, "ACO", developed by Valve as an alternative to the LLVM shader compiler. This change will lead to improved game performance and reduced loading times. To revert to the old backend, the environment variable "RADV_DEBUG=llvm" is provided. […]
A new version of the utility for receiving and sending data over the network — curl 7.71.0 — is now available, enabling flexible request formation with parameters such as cookie, user_agent, referer, and any other headers. cURL supports HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2.0, HTTP/3, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, Telnet, FTP, LDAP, RTSP, RTMP, and other network protocols. Simultaneously, an update was released for the concurrently developed library […]
According to a new leak, the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra will feature a main camera with 50x zoom capability. This appears to be a step back from the 100x zoom boasted by the Galaxy S20 Ultra. However, sources report that this time the company has decided to focus on image quality and user experience rather than just numbers in the specifications. This news […]
Mozilla has reached an agreement with a third DNS provider for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for Firefox. Alongside the previously offered DNS servers from CloudFlare ("https://1.1.1.1/dns-query") and NextDNS (https://dns.nextdns.io/id), Comcast's service (https://doh.xfinity.com/dns-query) will also be included in the settings. You can activate DoH and choose a provider in the network connection settings. Recall that experimental DNS over HTTPS checks were enabled in Firefox 77 […]
The PhotoGIMP project release is now available, developing an add-on for the GIMP 2.10.x graphics editor that makes its interface and behavior more familiar for users acquainted with Adobe Photoshop. Changes include a redesign of settings, menu and control panel layouts, the inclusion of extended fonts, replacement of some icons, additional filters (for instance, the Heal Selection filter has been added), and modifications to keyboard shortcuts. A package is available for download […]
For Fedora 33, a change is planned to switch the default text editor to nano. The proposal was submitted by Chris Murphy from the Fedora Workstation development team but has not yet been approved by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical aspects of Fedora's development. The motivation for using nano as the default instead of vi […]
Last night at the 'Perl and Raku Conference in the Cloud', Sawyer X announced the major version change of Perl from 5 to 7. Work is already underway, and the new version will be released within a year. Don't expect a lot of changes; briefly put, Perl 7 is still the same Perl 5.32 with modern default settings. You no longer have to […]
On July 1, the support period for Mercurial repositories on the Bitbucket collaborative development platform expires. The announcement to discontinue Mercurial in favor of Git was made last August, after which, on February 1, 2020, the creation of new Mercurial repositories was prohibited. The final phase of phasing out Mercurial is scheduled for July 1, 2020, which entails disabling all related support in Bitbucket […]
Recently, Apple has been offering a new exclusive option for the MacBook Pro 16 laptop: the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M mobile graphics card, which combines the Navi 12 (RDNA) GPU and HBM2 memory. You will have to pay an additional $700 for its installation on top of the base laptop price. It's not cheap, but in this case, the buyer will get a true gaming monster. Previously […]
A new stable branch of the Flatpak 1.8 toolset has been released, providing a system for building self-contained packages that are not tied to specific Linux distributions and run in a special container isolating the application from the rest of the system. Flatpak package support is provided for Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mageia, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu. Flatpak packages are included in the Fedora repository and are supported […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of the Live distribution grml 2020.06, based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base, has been published. The distribution includes a collection of tools for processing text data with the texttools package and for performing tasks that arise in the practice of system administrators (data recovery after failure, incident analysis, etc.). The graphical environment is built using the Fluxbox window manager. The size […]