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The results of the effectiveness review of optimizations added to the VTE (Virtual Terminal library) and included in the GNOME 46 release have been published. During testing, the responsiveness of the interface was measured in the Alacritty, Console (GTK 4), GNOME Terminal (GTK 3 and 4), and VTE Test App (an example from the VTE repository) terminal emulators when run on Fedora 39 with GNOME 45 and […]
The developer of the PiVPN toolkit, designed for quickly setting up a VPN server on a Raspberry Pi board, has announced the release of version 4.6, marking the conclusion of 8 years of the project. After the release, the repository has been moved to an archived state, and the author has announced a complete cessation of project maintenance, citing a loss of interest in development with the feeling that the project has fulfilled its […]
The release of the apt-mirror2 tool version 4 has been published, designed for managing local mirrors of apt repositories for Debian and Ubuntu distributions. Apt-mirror2 can be used as a transparent replacement for the apt-mirror utility, which has not been updated since 2017. The primary distinction of apt-mirror2 is its use of the Python programming language with the asyncio library (the original apt-mirror code was written in Perl), along with the application of […]
The PumpkinOS project has made an attempt to create a reimplementation of the PalmOS operating system used in Palm's communicators. PumpkinOS allows applications created for PalmOS to run directly without the need for a PalmOS emulator, nor requiring the original PalmOS firmware. Applications compiled for the m68K architecture can run on systems with x86 and ARM processors. The project code is written in C […]
Almost five years after the last release, the GNU Stow 2.4 package management system has been presented, using symbolic links to separate the content of packages and associated data into individual directories. The Stow code is written in Perl and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Stow employs a straightforward approach that differs from traditional package managers […]
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 […]