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Creating a monolithic kernel in 1991 was a fundamental mistake. Thank your lucky stars that you're not my student: I wouldn't give a high grade for such a design. Professor Andrew Tanenbaum. Original message in the mailing list: I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, […]
After ten months of development, the release of the Wayfire 0.9 composite server, which uses Wayland and allows the creation of resource-friendly user interfaces with 3D effects similar to the 3D plugins of Compiz (screen switching via a 3D cube, spatial window layout, morphing with windows, etc.), has been presented. Wayfire supports extension through plugins and provides a flexible configuration system. The project's code is written in […]
During the discussion of another batch of changes proposed for inclusion in kernel 6.11-rc5 by Bcachefs author Kent Overstreet, Linus Torvalds mentioned that he is beginning to regret accepting the Bcachefs filesystem into the kernel. Torvalds' dissatisfaction stems from the fact that Overstreet is sending overly extensive fixes at the candidate release stage, which essentially do not […]
On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced in the comp.os.minix newsgroup the creation of a working prototype of the new operating system Linux, marking the completion of the porting of bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40. The first public release of the Linux kernel was presented on September 17. Kernel 0.0.1 was 62 KB in compressed form and contained […]
After nearly seven months of development, the release of version 4.8.32 of the console file manager Midnight Commander has been announced. Written in C and distributed under the GNU GPL 3 license, the changelog includes: the implementation of current directory transfer to the terminal emulator using the OSC 7 escape sequence, allowing new tabs to be opened in the terminal with this directory; preserving file attributes when copying or moving […]
After six months of development, the release of the Wolvic 1.7 web browser, designed for use in augmented and virtual reality systems, has been presented. The project continues the development of Firefox Reality, which was previously developed by Mozilla. After stagnation of the Firefox Reality codebase, its development continued under the Wolvic project by Igalia, known for their participation in creating free projects such as GNOME, GTK, WebKitGTK, Epiphany, […]
The developers of the collaborative development platform Forgejo announced a license change — starting with release 9.0, all new developments of the project will begin to be distributed under the copyleft GPLv3+ license instead of the previously used permissive MIT license. Old branches of Forgejo, as well as corrective versions based on them, will remain under the MIT license. It is noted that the change in licensing will simplify the involvement of code in the project that is distributed under […]
In his speech at the Open Source Summit China, Linus Torvalds mentioned that he expected a faster integration of components written in Rust into the kernel. Part of the problem is that older developers are accustomed to the C language and do not see the need to learn a new language that differs significantly from C in several aspects. Similar […]
Nate Graham, a developer involved in quality control for the KDE project, has published another development report for KDE. The most notable changes that will be included in KDE Plasma 6.2.0 are: Brightness control widgets now have sliders for separately adjusting brightness on each connected monitor. A hotkey or scroll can be used for synchronized brightness adjustment across all monitors […]
After seven months of development, the release of the console file manager Midnight Commander 4.8.32 has been published, a project that has been in development since 1994 and provides a dual-pane interface similar to Norton Commander. Midnight Commander features include mouse support, a built-in file viewer, and a text editor with syntax highlighting, utilizing virtual file systems to navigate within archives, packages, and network storage (SFTP, SSH), connection […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.16 has been published. Since the release of 9.15, 25 bug reports have been closed, and 281 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: initial support for a separately managed driver store (Driver Store). Support for pixel buffers (pBuffer) has been added in the driver for Wayland-based environments. The implementation of prototype support continues in the MSHTML engine […]
Mozilla is developing the Whisperfile speech recognition toolkit, which includes an independent high-performance implementation of the Whisper machine learning model developed and open-sourced by OpenAI. The toolkit is based on whisper.cpp, an implementation of the Whisper model in C/C++ created by Georgi Gerganov (the author of llama.cpp). The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the MIT license. Whisperfile is being developed by the Mozilla Ocho team and complements the llamafile project […]