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Quantum has announced the ActiveScale Z200 object storage system, designed for AI applications and tasks that require intense information exchange. With flexible scaling, the new system is suitable for forming large data lakes. The ActiveScale Z200 is part of the All-Flash solutions. The device is built in a 1U form factor and is designed to accommodate ten 15.36 TB NVMe SSDs. Thus, the total capacity […]
Kent Overstreet, the developer of the Bcachefs file system, proposed patches that allow the Linux kernel to work with the Bcachefs file system even after significant metadata corruption, rebuilding the damaged b-trees from inode and dirent structures as needed. The changes have been accepted by Linus Torvalds and included in today’s test update of kernel 6.9-rc3. The modifications enable the mounting of damaged file systems and provide access […]
On April 5, 2024, Cloudflare released the first public version of the open-source project Pingora v0.1.0 (now v0.1.1). This asynchronous multithreaded framework in Rust helps create HTTP proxy services. The project is used to build services that account for a significant portion of traffic on Cloudflare (as opposed to using Nginx). The source code for Pingora is published on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. Pingora provides libraries and APIs […]
Alexander Schwinn, who is involved in the development of the Xfce desktop environment and the Thunar file manager, attempted to estimate the approximate number of Xfce users. By assessing the popularity of major Linux distributions, it was concluded that about 14 million users work with Xfce. The following assumptions were made in the calculation: The total number of Linux users is estimated at 120 million. Approximately 33% of Linux users […]
Google implemented desktop mode back in 2019 with Android 10. However, at that time, this mode lacked features and was mainly intended for developers testing their products in multi-screen usage scenarios. It seems that this may soon change, and Android will feature a full desktop mode. […]
Hailo has announced the specialized Hailo-10 module designed for servicing generative AI. This energy-efficient accelerator can be installed, for example, in a workstation or edge system. The product is made in an M.2 Key M 2242/2280 form factor with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface. It includes the Hailo-10H chip and 8 GB of LPDDR4 memory. Compatibility with computers equipped with […]
After a year and a half of development, the release of Rsync 3.3.0 is now available, a tool for file synchronization and backup that minimizes traffic through incremental copying of changes. It can use ssh, rsh, or its own rsync protocol as transport. The organization of anonymous rsync servers is supported, which are optimally suited for ensuring the synchronization of mirrors. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. A significant change in the version number […]
The release of Dropbear 2024.84 is available, a compact SSH server and client primarily used in embedded systems such as wireless routers, and in distributions like OpenWrt. Dropbear is characterized by its low memory consumption, the ability to disable unnecessary features at the build stage, and support for building both the client and server in a single executable file, similar to busybox. When statically linked with uClibc, the executable […]
GNOME developers summarized the work completed in the project over the past week. The maintainer of the Nautilus file manager (GNOME Files) published plans for creating the implementation of a file chooser interface (Nautilus.org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser), which can be used in applications instead of the file open dialogs provided by GTK (GtkFileChooserDialog). Compared to the implementation in GTK, the new interface will ensure behavior more closely aligned with GNOME and […]
OpenBSD 7.5 has been released! The release does not bring any radical innovations or changes, but, as always, it incorporates a large number of real patches. Hurry to update! Among the notable points in the changelog are: even fewer kernel locks; updated to 6.6.19 drm; even more support for ARM64 and RISC-V; pinsyscalls(2), allowing syscalls to be "nailed down" to specific addresses […]
The experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.6 has taken place. Since the release of 9.5, 18 bug reports have been closed and 154 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the preservation of the state of registers used in the AVX extension in the system call dispatcher (wine_syscall_dispatcher). Improved support for effects has been added in the Direct2D API. Support for using OAEP padding has been introduced in the BCrypt implementation […]
After seven years of development, the release of the Netplan 1.0 toolkit has been published, enhancing the format for storing network interface settings and related utilities for managing network configurations. Netplan stores parameters in YAML format and provides backends that abstract access to configurations for NetworkManager and systemd-networkd. The project's code is written in Python and C, and is distributed under the […]