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Kubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released — a stable version of Ubuntu based on the KDE Plasma 5.18 desktop environment and the KDE Applications 19.12.3 suite. Key packages and updates include: KDE Plasma 5.18, KDE Applications 19.12.3, Linux Kernel 5.4, Qt LTS 5.12.8, Firefox 75, Krita 4.2.9, KDevelop 5.5.0, LibreOffice 6.4, Latte Dock 0.9.10, and KDE Connect 1.4.0. Thunderbird now […]
NTC IT Rosa and the community of developers of the distribution have presented a corrective release of ROSA Fresh R11.1. The release is based on the 2016.1 platform, which will be supported until the end of 2021. It includes all updates and fixes released since the Fresh R11 release in accordance with the adopted 'soft rolling' policy. Builds for the i586 and x86_64 platforms have been prepared for free download […]
Nightly builds of Firefox now support the WebGPU specification, providing an interface for 3D graphics rendering and computations on the GPU, conceptually similar to the Vulkan, Metal, and Direct3D 12 APIs. The specification is being developed by Mozilla, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and community representatives in a working group created under the W3C organization. The key goal of WebGPU is to create a secure, convenient, portable, and high-performance program […]
Cisco has introduced the final beta version of the completely revamped Snort 3 intrusion prevention system, also known as the Snort++ project, which has been in development intermittently since 2005. A release candidate is expected to be published later this year. The new branch has rethought the product's concept and redesigned its architecture. Emphasis was placed on several areas during the preparation […]
A new release of QuiteRSS 0.19.4 is available, a program for reading news feeds in RSS and Atom formats. QuiteRSS features an integrated browser based on the WebKit engine, a flexible filtering system, support for tags and categories, multiple viewing modes, an ad blocker, a file download manager, and OPML import and export. The project's code is released under the GPLv3 license. Key changes include: […]
The NixOS project has announced the release of NixOS 20.03, the latest stable version of its independently developed Linux distribution, notable for its unique approach to package management and configuration, along with its own package manager called 'Nix'. New features include: Support is planned until the end of October 2020. Changes in the kernel version include GCC 9.2.0, glibc 2.30, Linux kernel 5.4, Mesa 19.3.3, OpenSSL 1.1.1d. […]
Microsoft has released an update for the Word text editor with a single new feature — the program now marks double spaces after a period as a mistake. From now on, if there are two spaces at the beginning of a sentence, Microsoft Word will underline them and suggest replacing them with a single space. With this update, Microsoft has settled a long-standing debate among users about whether double spaces are considered an error or not, […]
The AV1 codec, presented in 2018, received backing from major players in the streaming market. Hardware suppliers confirmed support for the new codec, with devices featuring AV1 hardware decoding expected to arrive by the end of the year. In this context, patent trolls have become active with financial demands. The open-source video codec AV1 has been under development since 2015 by engineers from several companies, including Amazon, […]
The release of Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa' has taken place, categorized as a long-term support (LTS) release, with updates being provided for 5 years until April 2025. Installation and boot images have been created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and UbuntuKylin (the China edition). Key changes: The desktop […]
Collabora announced the enhancement of the Panfrost driver functionality on devices with Bifrost GPUs (Mali G31) to a state suitable for running 3D rendering systems, including basic texture support. Initially, the Panfrost driver primarily focused on implementing support for Midgard chips, but attention is now turning to Bifrost chips, which are similar to Midgard in terms of stream […]
On April 23, 2020, at 18:20 Moscow time, Canonical released Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, codenamed 'Focal Fossa'. The word 'Focal' in the name is associated with the phrase 'focal point', as well as the idea of something being in focus or at the forefront. Fossa is a cat-like predator native to the island of Madagascar. The support period for the main package (section main) lasts for five […]
Roman Gushchin from Facebook published a set of patches in the Linux kernel developers mailing list, implementing a new slab memory controller. This new controller is notable for transferring slab accounting from the memory page level to the kernel object level, allowing for the shared use of slab pages across different cgroups instead of allocating separate slab caches for […]
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