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RED SOFT has released a new version of the Linux distribution called RED OS 8. The main features of the release include: The distribution is currently available for 64-bit x86-compatible processors. It includes the Linux kernel 6.6.6. The graphical shells GNOME 44, KDE (Plasma 5.27), MATE 1.26, and Cinnamon 4.8.1 are available. Unlike many distributions, various versions of one and the same […]
The ksmbd module, which offers a kernel-integrated implementation of a file server based on the SMB protocol, has revealed two vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution with kernel privileges without authentication or the ability to read kernel memory on systems with the ksmbd module enabled. The issues have been present since kernel 5.15, which included the ksmbd module. […]
On February 23, 2024, the KiCad project released the new version 8.0.0. New features have been added, along with numerous fixes. Change log: Over 1500 symbols and 760 footprints have been added to the component library. The style of the first output indication of chips has been changed. Data import has been added for the following formats: EasyEDA (JLCEDA) project and library; CADSTAR symbol and footprint libraries; Solidworks PCB files; symbols […]
After two years of development, a new major version of MClient has been released — a program for viewing electronic dictionaries. It is aimed at professional linguists but can also be used by anyone studying foreign languages. Status — beta, but stable enough for daily use. Screenshot What makes this program different from GoldenDict and most others? Table view; sorting of dictionary entries by various […]
The release of the minimalist Linux distribution Tiny Core Linux 15.0 has been published, capable of running on systems with 48 MB of RAM. The graphical environment of the distribution is based on the Tiny X server, the FLTK toolkit, and the FLWM window manager. The distribution loads entirely into RAM and operates from memory. The bootable ISO image occupies only 18 MB. A version for 64-bit systems, CorePure64, has been prepared, with a size of […]
The release of the CoreBoot project 24.02 has been published, developing a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. The project's code is released under the GPLv2 license. A total of 111 developers participated in creating the new version, preparing 814 changes. Starting with this release, the project switched to a new version naming scheme that ties to the date (year.month.update), so in February 2024 instead of version 4.23, formed […]
Intel has released the OSPRay Studio 1.0 project, developing an application for interactive 3D visualization using the OSPRay distributed ray tracing engine. Among other things, the program can be used for high-precision rendering of complex scenes and processing very large scenes that require distributed computation in a cluster of several computers. The application code is written in C++ and is distributed under the Apache […]
After four months of development, the release 0.7 of the text editor NotepadNext has occurred, written in C++ using the Qt, Scintilla libraries, and others, and distributed under the GPL-3.0 license. Changes: improvements for Python: added match and case keywords; support for decorator attributes; added the ability to select the localization language in the settings dialog; added a visual indicator for zoom level; added the ability to save […]
After 14 months of development, the release of the composite manager Sway 1.9 has been published, built using the Wayland protocol and fully compatible with the tiling window manager i3 and the i3bar panel. The project's code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project aims to be used in Linux and FreeBSD. Compatibility with i3 is ensured at the command level, configuration files, and […]
After three months of development, the release of the distributed version control system Git 2.44 has been published. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible means of non-linear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resilience to changes made 'retroactively', implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 9.3 has been made. Since the release of 9.2, 23 bug reports have been closed and 295 changes have been made. The most significant changes include the addition of proxy support in the Windows Internet API (WinINet). A new driver mouhid.sys has been added for pointer control devices (touchpads, mice) using the HID (Human Interface Device) protocol. The data has been updated […]
When discussing the issue related to relatively high power consumption compared to Windows on AMD APUs with hardware video decoding support, AMD engineer Alex Deucher (the lead developer of the amdgpu driver) acknowledged that video playback on Linux is fundamentally inefficient. Currently, the following chain is used for video output on Linux: Compressed video stream VCN (hardware module […