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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 […
On February 23, 1993, Ruby was introduced — a dynamic, reflective, interpreted high-level programming language. The language features an OS-independent implementation of multithreading, strong dynamic typing, a garbage collector, and many other capabilities. In terms of syntax, it is similar to Perl and Eiffel, while its object-oriented approach is reminiscent of Smalltalk. Additionally, some characteristics of the language are derived from Python, Lisp, Dylan […
Google announced the release of a large machine learning language model named Gemma, built using the technologies developed for the chat bot model Gemini that aims to compete with ChatGPT. The model is available in four variants, covering 2 and 7 billion parameters, in both base and dialog system-optimized formats. The 2 billion parameter variants are suitable for use in consumer applications […
Claudio Jeker (Claudio Jeker (claudio@)) added the mwx driver for wireless cards based on Mediatek MT7921 and MT7922 chips (supporting the 802.11ax standard) to the OpenBSD kernel. In its current state, the driver is still under development and is not yet suitable for use on production systems. For example, scanning networks and receiving packets (scan + rx) works fine, but temporarily […
The release of the Wolvic 1.6 web browser, designed for use in augmented and virtual reality systems, is now available. The project continues the development of the Firefox Reality browser, previously developed by Mozilla. After the stagnation of the Firefox Reality codebase, its development has been continued under the Wolvic project by Igalia, which is known for its involvement in the development of free projects such as GNOME, GTK, WebKitGTK, Epiphany, GStreamer, Wine, Mesa […
The Linux distribution Armbian 24.2 has been released, providing a compact system environment for various single-board computers with processors based on ARM, RISC-V, and x86 architectures, including various models of Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi, and Cubieboard powered by Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa, and Samsung Exynos processors. For forming […]
The lightweight live distribution AntiX 23.1 has been released, built on a Debian package base and aimed at installation on outdated hardware. The release is based on Debian 12 but comes without the system manager systemd and uses eudev instead of udev. For initialization, runit or sysvinit can be chosen. The default user environment is formed using the IceWM window manager, but […]
American enterprise networking equipment supplier Cisco has begun layoffs, announced during its latest quarterly report, The Register reports. This measure, part of a restructuring effort, is intended to redirect the company's focus to more promising areas. Cisco plans to cut around 5% of its workforce, approximately 4,250 employees. The previous major layoff occurred just […]
An update for the Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS distribution has been formed, including changes related to improved hardware support, updates to the Linux kernel and graphics stack, and fixes for installer and bootloader issues. Also included are current updates for several hundred packages addressing vulnerabilities and problems affecting stability. Similar updates for Ubuntu Budgie 22.04.4 LTS, Kubuntu […]