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The release of the Qbs 1.16 build tool has been announced. This is the third release after the Qt Company stepped away from development, prepared by a community interested in continuing the development of Qbs. Qt is required to build Qbs, although Qbs itself is designed to facilitate the build of any projects. Qbs uses a simplified version of the QML language to define project build scripts, which allows for […]
Drew DeVault, the author of the Sway user environment and the Aerc email client, announced the implementation of a project hub in his developing collaborative platform, SourceHut. Developers can now create projects that combine multiple services, as well as view a list of existing projects and search among them. The SourceHut platform is notable for its full functionality without JavaScript, high performance, and organization […]
Mozilla is enhancing the Firefox Private Relay service, allowing users to generate temporary email addresses for website registrations to keep their real addresses private. With a one-click extension, users can obtain a unique anonymous pseudonym, with messages sent to it being forwarded to the user's actual address. To use the service, users are encouraged to install the extension, which requests an email […]
Valve has released Proton 5.0-7, which is based on the developments from the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of Windows-based games on Linux through the Steam catalog. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows users to run Windows-only games directly within the Steam client for Linux. The package includes an implementation of DirectX […]
System76, a company specializing in producing laptops, PCs, and servers pre-installed with Linux, has launched the Pop!_OS 20.04 distribution, designed to be shipped on System76 hardware instead of the previously offered Ubuntu distribution and comes with a redesigned desktop environment. Pop!_OS is based on the Ubuntu 20.04 package base and is also touted as a long-term support (LTS) release. The project developments are distributed […]
A new version of the QtProtobuf library has been released. QtProtobuf is a free library distributed under the MIT license. It enables easy use of Google Protocol Buffers and gRPC in your Qt project. Changes include: support for JSON serialization has been added, static compilation for Win32 platforms has been introduced, migration to camelCase for field names in messages has been implemented, and release RPM packages and the capability to […]
Microsoft has released the Rust/WinRT toolkit, enabling the use of the Rust language for developing applications based on the WinRT (Windows Runtime) architecture. The code associated with the project is published under the MIT license. Rust/WinRT allows developers to create applications similarly to C++/WinRT using the standard tools of Rust, enabling calls to any existing or future WinRT APIs using code generated on-the-fly from metadata, […]
An experimental version of the Firefox Preview 5.0 browser has been released for the Android platform, developed under the codename Fenix as a replacement for the Firefox edition for Android. The release will soon be available in the Google Play catalog (requires Android 5 or later). Firefox Preview uses the GeckoView engine built on Firefox Quantum technologies and a set of Mozilla Android libraries […]
The developers of the Xfce project have announced the completion of the transition to a new development infrastructure based on the GitLab platform. Previously, access to the code repositories was provided through a combination of cgit and gitolite. The old server git.xfce.org has been switched to read-only mode, and it is recommended to use gitlab.xfce.org instead. The migration to GitLab will not result in changes affecting users and package maintainers, but […]
Today, the scripting language Tcl/Tk is used not only on computers but has also been successfully ported to the Android platform. However, it is precisely on this platform that all the shortcomings of the file selection dialog in tcl/tk (tk_getSaveFile, tk_getOpenFile, or tk_chooseDirectory) have become particularly evident. What are the issues with this dialog? The lack of basic operations for folders/files: create, destroy, rename. No, don't get me wrong, in […]
The release of the desktop-oriented GhostBSD 20.04 distribution is now available, built on the TrueOS platform and offering the MATE desktop environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC initialization system and the ZFS file system. It supports both live mode operation and installation on a hard drive (using a custom installer ginstall written in Python). Bootable images are available for the x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB). […]
The release of the Parrot 4.9 distribution is now available, based on the Debian Testing package base and including a collection of tools for system security testing, forensic analysis, and reverse engineering. Several ISO images are offered for download with the MATE environment (full 3.9 GB and lightweight 1.7 GB) and with the KDE desktop (2 GB). The Parrot distribution is positioned as a portable lab with the environment […]
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