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Fedora Desktop transition to Btrfs and replacement of vi editor to nano approved

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The FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical part of the development of the Fedora distribution, has approved the proposal to use the Btrfs file system by default in the desktop and laptop editions of Fedora. The committee also approved switching the distribution to use the default text editor nano instead of vi. Using the built-in Btrfs partition manager will solve problems with the exhaustion of free […]

Sway 1.5 (and wlroots 0.11.0) i3 compatible compositor for Wayland

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A new version of the i3-compatible frame window manager Sway 1.5 has been released (for Wayland and XWayland). Updated wlroots 0.11.0 composer library (allowing you to develop other WM for Wayland). 78 developers contributed 284 changes, providing many new features and bug fixes. Main changes: Headless mode to run the environment without displaying an image, can be used together with WayVNC; Support for new […]

Audio Effects LSP Plugins 1.1.24 released

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A new version of the LSP Plugins effects package has been released, designed for sound processing during mixing and mastering of audio recordings. The most significant changes: Added a plugin for loudness compensation using equal volume curves - Loudness Compensator. Added a plugin to protect against sudden signal surges at the start and end of playback - Surge Filter. Significant changes to the Limiter plugin: several […]

Google has invested $4,5 billion in the Indian operator Reliance Jio and will make a very cheap smartphone for it

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Mukesh Ambani, a representative of the Indian cellular operator Reliance Jio, a subsidiary of Jio Platforms Ltd. — announced a partnership with Google. In addition to providing communication services, Jio Platforms is developing a national online trading platform and online services in the Indian market, but the result of its cooperation with Google should be a completely new entry-level smartphone. Jio is already known […]

Mobile Intel Tiger Lake processors will be presented on September 2

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Intel has begun sending out invitations to journalists from around the world to attend a private online event, which it plans to host on September 2 this year. “We invite you to an event where Intel will talk about new opportunities for work and leisure,” the invitation text says. Obviously, the only true guess as to what exactly this planned event is going to present […]

Riot Matrix client changed its name to Element

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The developers of the Matrix client Riot announced that they have changed the name of the project to Element. The company developing the program, New Vector, created in 2017 by the key developers of the Matrix project, was also renamed Element, and the hosting of Matrix services in Modular.im became Element Matrix Services. The need to change the name is due to overlaps with the existing Riot Games trademark, which does not allow registering Riot's own trademark for […]

Glibc includes a memcpy vulnerability fix prepared by Aurora OS developers

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The developers of the Aurora mobile operating system (a fork of the Sailfish OS developed by the Open Mobile Platform company) shared an illustrative story about the elimination of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-6096) in Glibc, which appears only on the ARMv7 platform. Information about the vulnerability was disclosed back in May, but until recent days, fixes were not available, despite the fact that the vulnerability was assigned a high level of severity and […]

Riot Matrix Messenger renamed to Element

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The parent company developing reference implementations of Matrix components was also renamed - New Vector became Element, and the commercial service Modular, which provides hosting (SaaS) of Matrix servers, is now Element Matrix Services. Matrix is ​​a free protocol for implementing a federated network based on a linear history of events. The flagship implementation of this protocol is a messenger with support for signaling VoIP calls and […]

British Graphcore has released an AI processor that outperforms NVIDIA Ampere

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Created eight years ago, the British company Graphcore has already been noted for the release of powerful AI accelerators, warmly received by Microsoft and Dell. Accelerators developed by Graphcore are initially aimed at AI, which cannot be said about NVIDIA GPUs adapted for solving AI problems. And the new development of Graphcore, in terms of the number of transistors involved, eclipsed even the recently introduced king of AI chips, the NVIDIA A100 processor. NVIDIA A100 solution […]

Sharkoon Light2 100 backlit gaming mouse is an entry-level gaming mouse

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Sharkoon has released the Light2 100 computer mouse, designed for users who enjoy gaming. The new product is already available for order at an estimated price of 25 euros. The entry-level manipulator is equipped with a PixArt 3325 optical sensor, the resolution of which is adjustable in the range from 200 to 5000 DPI (dots per inch). A wired USB interface is used to connect to a computer; polling frequency […]

From the basic delivery Ubuntu The component for sending information about packages will be removed

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Michael Hudson-Doyle of Team Ubuntu Foundations Team announced the decision to remove from the main roster Ubuntu The popcon (popularity-contest) package was used to transmit anonymized telemetry about package downloads, installations, updates, and removals. The collected data was used to generate reports on application popularity and architectures, which were used by developers to make decisions about which apps to include […]

Mozilla VPN officially launched

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Mozilla has launched the Mozilla VPN service, which allows users to connect to up to five devices via VPN for $4.99 per month. Mozilla VPN is currently available to users in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, and Malaysia. The VPN app is only available for Windows, Android and iOS. Support Linux и macOS They promise to add it later. […]

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