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Collabora has announced full support for the Mali T720 and T820 GPUs in the open-source Panfrost driver, which is part of Mesa and the Linux kernel. These GPUs are used in SoCs like the Allwinner H6 and Amlogic S912. All the prepared changes have been submitted to the Mesa codebase and will be included in the next significant release. It is noted that in […]
The second release candidate for Wine 5.0, the open-source implementation of the Win32 API, is now available for testing. The codebase is in freeze mode ahead of the release expected in early January. Compared to the Wine 5.0-RC1 release, 36 bug reports have been closed, and 69 fixes have been made. Bug reports related to the operation of games and applications such as Age of Wonders 2 have been resolved: […]
A new version of the LV2 effects package LSP Plugins has been released, intended for audio processing during mixing and mastering of recordings. The changes in version 1.1.11 primarily involved the user interface and performance in signal processing. Firstly, additional features were added to the UI, such as support for drag & drop, bookmarks, and other enhancements. On the other hand, the low-level DSP code has been further optimized using instructions […]
SUSE has released the industrial distribution of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5. Based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension have also been developed. The distribution can be downloaded and used for free, […]
A new stable branch of the Flatpak toolkit 1.6 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 that isolates the application from the rest of the system. Support for running Flatpak packages 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 […]
The company Jolla has released the Sailfish OS 3.2.1. The builds are prepared for Jolla 1, Jolla C, Sony Xperia X, Xperia XA2, Gemini, Sony Xperia 10 devices, and are already available as OTA updates. Sailfish uses a graphical stack based on Wayland and Qt5 libraries, with its system environment built on Mer, which has been developed as part of Sailfish since April, […]
One way to change your appearance is by dyeing your hair. However, it's difficult to envision the final result of hair dyeing in advance. Soon, deciding on a shade will become easier. A pilot project organized by the Google Lens platform in collaboration with L’Oréal offers a quick way to virtually 'dye' your hair. Currently, the pilot project is being implemented in […]
We publish an article by our colleague ITBotanik In the recent past, I led many retail projects at Gazpromneft gas stations, focusing on loyalty, franchising, retail automation systems, and more. Now, I head the sales architecture direction, developing the corporate IT landscape. Additionally, I am passionate about classical education; specifically, I have defended a PhD in technical sciences and I possess […]
On December 22, a new version of the popular free planetarium Stellarium was released, visualizing a realistic night sky as if you were viewing it with the naked eye or through binoculars or a telescope. A total of about 100 changes have been made compared to the previous version. Among the key changes, direct support for ASCOM in the telescope control plugin can be highlighted […]
After a 24-hour pause, Microsoft has restored the operation of the previously forcedly blocked GitHub repository for Visual Studio Code (the source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS, distributed as open source but under a non-free license). The issue arose due to SantaGate—a complaint regarding an 'Easter egg' feature in the editor's interface featuring a Santa Claus hat, along with about 50 other complaints about […]
An update to the Solaris 11.4 OS, SRU 16 (Support Repository Update), has been released, introducing a series of further fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the suggested fixes from the update, simply run the command ‘pkg update’. In the new release: Oracle VM Server for SPARC has been updated to version 3.6.2. The add-vsan-dev command has been enhanced with support for migrating domains with guest […
Gentoo developers are discussing the provision of universal packages with the Linux kernel that do not require manual configuration of parameters during compilation and are similar to the kernel packages provided in traditional binary distributions. An example of a problem that arises from the manual tweaking of kernel parameters practiced in Gentoo is the lack of a unified set of default options that guarantees functionality after an update (when manually configured, […