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Release of multimedia package FFmpeg 6.1

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After ten months of development, the FFmpeg 6.1 multimedia package is available, which includes a set of applications and a collection of libraries for operations with various multimedia formats (recording, conversion, and decoding of audio and video formats). The package is distributed under LGPL and GPL licenses, and the development of FFmpeg is conducted alongside the MPlayer project. Notable changes added in FFmpeg 6.1 include: the implementation of the Vulkan API for hardware […]

The GNOME Foundation has received 1 million euros for development.

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The non-profit organization GNOME Foundation has received a grant of 1 million euros from the Sovereign Tech Fund. These funds are intended to be spent on the following: creating a new stack of assistive technologies for people with disabilities; encrypting user home directories; updating GNOME Keyring; improving hardware support; investing in QA and Developer Experience; expanding various freedesktop APIs; consolidating and enhancing components of the GNOME platform. The fund […]

Release of Wine 8.20

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An experimental release of the open implementation WinAPI — Wine 8.20 has taken place. Since the release of version 8.19, 20 bug reports have been closed and 397 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Continued development of the DirectMusic API. Expanded capabilities of the winegstreamer library. Added support for functions find_element_factories, factory_create_element, wg_muxer_add_stream, wg_muxer_start, wg_muxer_push_sample, ProcessSample. Bindings for running environments have been exported to the main user environment […]

A documentary film about the development of the eBPF kernel subsystem has been released

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Speakeasy Productions has filmed and published a documentary titled 'eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel', telling the story of the development of the eBPF subsystem in the Linux kernel. eBPF provides an in-kernel bytecode interpreter with JIT, allowing for on-the-fly changes to system behavior via user-space loadable handlers without the need to alter kernel code, enabling efficient handlers […]

Vortex 2.0 is available, an open GPGPU based on the RISC-V architecture.

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The second edition of the Vortex project has been released, developing an open GPGPU based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture, designed for performing parallel computations using the OpenCL API and the SIMT (Single Instruction, Multiple Threads) execution model. The project can also be used for research in 3D graphics and the development of new GPU architectures. Schematics, hardware block descriptions in Verilog, simulator, drivers […]

Release of BackBox Linux 8.1, a distribution for security testing.

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After a year of development, the release of the BackBox Linux 8.1 distribution has been published, based on Ubuntu 22.04 and shipped with a collection of tools for system security checks, exploit testing, reverse engineering, network traffic analysis, wireless networks, malware analysis, stress testing, and recovery of hidden or lost data. The user environment is based on Xfce. The size of the ISO image is 4.2 GB (x86_64). The new version features […]

The GNOME project has received one million euros for development

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The GNOME Foundation has announced the receipt of one million euros from the Sovereign fund, established in Germany to promote the development of open digital infrastructure and open-source ecosystems. The fund was created using resources provided by the German Ministry of Economy and is overseen by the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovations, SPRIND. The received funds are planned to be used for the modernization of the GNOME platform, enhancement of tools, and expansion of resources for people […]

LG has released the webOS Open Source Edition 2.24 platform

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The release of the open platform webOS Open Source Edition 2.24 has been presented, which can be used on various portable devices, boards, and automotive infotainment systems. The Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered as a reference hardware platform. The platform is being developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, and development is guided by the community following a collaborative development management model. Key changes in the new release: Conducted […]

Fedora 39

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The release of the Fedora Linux 39 operating system has quietly and unobtrusively occurred. Notable features include Gnome 45. Other updates include: gcc 13.2, binutils 2.40, glibc 2.38, gdb 13.2, rpm 4.19. Development tools have been updated to: Python 3.12, Rust 1.73. A disappointing note is that QGnomePlatform and Adwaita-qt are not included by default due to the stagnation of these projects. Now Qt applications in Gnome look like […]

The release of the Clonezilla Live 3.1.1 distribution.

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The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.1.1 has been announced, designed for rapid disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's ISO image is 417MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast. Booting from CD/DVD is possible […]

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