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Quietly and unnoticed, a new version of the famous Haskell language compiler has been released. Among the changes: Support for profiling on 64-bit Windows systems. GHC now requires LLVM version 7. The fail method has been permanently moved out of the Monad class and is now in the MonadFail class (the final part of the MonadFail Proposal). Explicit type application now works for types themselves, rather than [β¦]
New drivers released: Radeon Software for Linux 19.30 12.08.2019/5700/18.04.3 Added support for: Radeon RX 15 Ubuntu 1 SLED/SLES XNUMX SPXNUMX Includes: AMDGPU All-Open AMDGPU-Pro Driver Source: linux.org.ru
Bastien Nocera has announced a new low-memory handler for the Gnome desktop. Written in C. Licensed under GPL3. The daemon requires kernel 5.2 or later to run. The daemon checks memory pressure via /proc/pressure/memory and, if the threshold is exceeded, sends a proposal via dbus to processes about the need to moderate their appetites. The daemon can also try to keep the system responsive by writing to /proc/sysrq-trigger. [β¦]
A group of activists, dissatisfied with the negative associations arising from the word "gimp", founded a fork of the graphics editor GIMP, which will be developed under the name Glimpse. It is noted that the fork was created after 13 years of attempts to convince developers to change the name, who resolutely refused to do so. The word gimp in some social groups of English speakers is perceived as an insult and also has a negative connotation associated [β¦]
Back in October last year, Disney and Jon Favreau announced that the Disney+-exclusive Star Wars series The Mandalorian would take place after the fall of the Empire and before the rise of the First Order. The plot will tell about a lone gunfighter in the spirit of Jango and Boba Fett, who will appear on the outskirts of the galaxy, beyond the control of the New Republic. [β¦]
Disney intends to push its subscription service Disney+ very aggressively and will bet on universes like Marvel comics and Star Wars. The company spoke about its plans for the latter at the D23 Expo event: the final season of the animated series βClonic Warsβ will be released in February, future seasons of the fresh animated series βStar Wars Resistanceβ will also be exclusively released on this service, [β¦]
After nearly five years in development, Seattle tech startup Human has released wireless headphones, promising superior audio quality with 30mm drivers, 32-point touch controls, digital assistant integration, real-time foreign language translation, 9 hours of battery life, and range 100 feet (30,5 m). An array of four microphones forms an acoustic beam for [β¦]
Bastien Nocera has announced a new out-of-memory handler for the GNOME desktop, low-memory-monitor. The daemon evaluates the lack of memory through /proc/pressure/memory and, if the threshold is exceeded, sends a proposal via DBus to processes about the need to moderate their appetites. The daemon may also try to keep the system responsive by writing to /proc/sysrq-trigger. In combination with the work done at Fedora on the use of zram [β¦]
A stable release of the composite server Weston 7.0 has been published, developing technologies that contribute to the emergence of full support for the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE and other user environments. Weston's development aims to provide a high-quality code base and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, TVs and other consumer devices. [β¦]
On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced on the comp.os.minix teleconference that a working prototype of the new Linux operating system had been completed, porting bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40 had been completed. The first public release of the Linux kernel was introduced on September 17th. The 0.0.1 kernel was 62 KB compressed and contained [β¦]
The developers of yaxim, a free XMPP client for the Android platform, are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the project. Ten years ago, on August 23, 2009, the first yaxim commit was made, which means that today this XMPP client is officially half the age of the protocol it runs on. Since those distant times, many changes have occurred both in XMPP itself and in the Android system. 2009: [β¦]
Red Hat developer Bastien Nocera has announced a possible solution to the problem of low RAM in Linux. This is an application called Low-Memory-Monitor, which is supposed to solve the problem of system responsiveness when there is a lack of RAM. This program is expected to improve the experience of the Linux user environment on systems where the amount of RAM is small. The operating principle is simple. The Low-Memory-Monitor daemon monitors the volume [β¦]
