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Pale Moon 28.10, a web browser forked from the Firefox codebase, is now available. It offers improved performance, maintains the classic interface, minimizes memory consumption, and provides additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are created for Windows и Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project's code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to a classic interface organization, without […]
LTS kernel support period Linux 5.4 and 4.19, maintained by Greg Kroah-Hartman and Sasha Levin, have been extended to December 2025 and 2024, respectively. Core Linux 4.19 is used in Debian 10, is considered by Google as the basis for a basic universal core Android and comes in a platform Android 10, and kernel 5.4 is used in Ubuntu [...]
Wine 5.10 was released on June 5th. Wine is an application compatibility layer for Windows with POSIX-compliant OS, broadcasting calls Windows API into POSIX calls on the fly instead of logic emulation Windows Like a virtual machine. In addition to over 47 bug fixes in the bug tracker, the new release includes: Development of the WineD3D backend on Vulkan continues. Work has begun on a separate UNIX library for NTDLL. Improved […]
Recently, Bandai Namco Entertainment and Slightly Mad Studios unexpectedly unveiled Project Cars 3, a sequel to the racing simulator, due out this summer. Yesterday, Austin Ogonoski and GameRiot shared the first gameplay footage on YouTube. These videos give a glimpse of what to expect from the new racing game. Project Cars […]
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian announced his resignation from the company. This was announced on his personal website. He published a video message asking for an African-American to replace him. Ohanian explained that he was leaving the company for the sake of his wife (he is married to Serena Williams), his daughter, and his country. He emphasized that he wanted to have an answer when […]
Longsys, China's largest SSD controller and storage device developer, has begun shipping 100% Chinese-made solid-state drives. These new products are marketed under the FORESEE brand, which is more or less well-known outside of China, in the G500 product family. These Chinese SSDs rely on controllers, firmware, and flash memory developed in China, without the help of foreign companies. About a year ago, Longsys celebrated its 20th anniversary […]
Fedora 33 is slated to implement a change to the distribution's compiler usage policy, allowing the compiler used to build a package to be selected based on the recommendations and preferences of the upstream project. Currently, Fedora strictly mandates the use of GCC for all packages, except for those that can only be built with Clang/LLVM. […]
The codebase that will be used for Firefox 78 now includes the ability to export saved password manager credentials in CSV format (delimited text fields that can be imported into a spreadsheet program). Future plans also include implementing a feature for importing passwords from a previously saved CSV file (assuming the user may need to back up and restore saved […]
The release of the system programming language Rust 1.44, founded by the Mozilla project, has been published. The language focuses on memory safety, provides automatic memory management, and provides a means to achieve high task parallelism without using a garbage collector or runtime. Automatic memory management in Rust saves the developer from errors when manipulating pointers and protects against problems […]
A new client version for the decentralized Tox protocol (toktok) has been released. Currently, only OS is supported. Android, but since the application is written using the cross-platform Qt framework, porting to other platforms is possible. The project code is distributed under the MIT license. Application builds are distributed under the GPLv3 license. List of changes: Avatars have been added. Support for file transfer streams has been added, which […]
Dropbox quietly published a program designed to manage user passwords in the Google Play app store. Called Dropbox Passwords, the app is a password manager that is currently in closed beta and available by invitation only to existing Dropbox customers. The app's interface is reminiscent of most other password managers, such as LastPass or […]
Twitter user @momomo_us discovered images of two roadmaps for Intel's NUC and NUC Element families of compact systems, announcing plans to announce new models based on Tiger Lake-U and Elk Bay processors before 2021. As one of the images indicates, sales of the NUC 9 Extreme series of compact computers (Ghost Canyon generation) will continue until the end of 2021 […]