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On November 6, the Inkscape project (a free vector graphics editor) turned 20 years old. In the fall of 2003, four active participants in the Sodipodi project could not agree with its founder, Lauris Kaplinski, on a number of technical and organizational issues and forked the original. At the start, they set themselves the following tasks: Full support for SVG Compact core in C++, loaded with extensions (modeled [β¦]
If playing Baldur's Gate 3 on Tactical difficulty hasn't brought you to tears often enough, there's good news. It's likely that Larian Studios' fantasy RPG will soon feature an even more hardcore mode. Image source: Steam (ESILL)Source: 3dnews.ru
At the beginning of this year, Apple updated its MacBook Pro laptops with M2 Pro and M2 Max processors, so few expected the company to decide on another update by the end of the year. However, Apple still introduced the M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max chips and computers based on them. Deliveries of the updated laptops will start on November 7, and today [β¦]
Google's second antitrust trial in two months began today. This time, the Google Play application store needed protection. The lawsuit brought by Epic Games is due to the fact that Google prohibits paying for in-app purchases by bypassing its payment system, and this system takes a commission of 15 or 30%. Behind the process [β¦]
On November 5, the release of 1.6.4 of the virtual three-dimensional planetarium Celestia, written in C++ and distributed under the GPL-2.0 license, took place. List of changes: the link to the project website has been changed: https://celestiaproject.space; Fixed build error with Lua 5.4. Source: linux.org.ru
Developers from Mozilla have announced their decision to stop using the Mercurial version control system for Firefox development in favor of Git. So far, the project has provided the option of using Mercurial or Git for developers to choose from, but the repository has primarily used Mercurial. Due to the fact that providing support for two systems at once creates a large load on the teams responsible for [β¦]
The developer of the gothic roglite action game with elements of the survival simulator Vampire Survivors, Luca Galante, known as poncle, announced an update that will add numerous plot elements to the game. Image source: poncleSource: 3dnews.ru
The recently released philosophical puzzle The Talos Principle 2 was warmly received by the press (87% on Metacritic), but GLaDOS criticized the game in a comic video from Devolver Digital. Image source: DeviantArt (VLSN)Source: 3dnews.ru
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, released this week, is firmly positioned by Activision as a premium product at full ($70) price, but early reviews of the game's story campaign paint a completely different picture. Image source: ActivisionSource: 3dnews.ru
The release of 3.0 C++ (C++17 dialect) header-only library for parsing command line arguments argparse, distributed under the MIT license. What's new: Added support for mutually exclusive arguments: auto &group = program.add_mutually_exclusive_group(); group.add_argument("βfirst"); group.add_argument("βsecond"); added C++20 module; added support for selecting from multiple values: program.add_argument("input") .default_value(std::string{"baz"}) .choices("foo", "bar", "baz"); program.add_argument("count") .default_value(0) .choices(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); added support for binary [β¦]
The release of the free bootable firmware Libreboot 20231106 has been presented. The update has been assigned the status of a test release (stable releases are published approximately once a year, the last stable release was in June). The project develops a ready-made assembly of the coreboot project, which provides a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware, responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals and other hardware components, while minimizing binary inserts. Libreboot aims [β¦]
The Fedora Project is celebrating 20 years since the project's first release, published on November 6, 2003. The project was formed after Red Hat divided the Red Hat Linux distribution into two projects - Fedora Linux, developed with the participation of the community, and commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora Linux was focused on intensive development of new Linux technologies, early promotion of innovations [β¦]
