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After a year of development, the third beta release of the Haiku R1 operating system has been published. Initially, the project was created in response to the closure of the BeOS OS and developed under the name OpenBeOS, but was renamed in 2004 due to trademark claims related to the use of the BeOS name. To assess the performance of the new release, several bootable Live images (x86, x86-64) have been prepared. The source code largely […]
At the GUADEC 2021 conference, Cambalache, a new rapid interface development tool for GTK 3 and GTK 4, was introduced, utilizing the MVC paradigm and a philosophy emphasizing the importance of the data model. One of the most noticeable differences from Glade is the support for maintaining multiple user interfaces within a single project. The project code is written in Python and is licensed under GPLv2. To ensure support […]
An open beta test for the upcoming release of Debian 11 has been launched by the community, which even inexperienced beginners can participate in. Full automation has been achieved by including the hw-probe package in the new version of the distribution, which can autonomously determine the performance of individual devices from logs. A daily updated repository of tested hardware configurations has been organized. The repository will continue to be updated until […]
The release of the decentralized platform for video hosting and broadcasting PeerTube 3.3 has taken place. PeerTube offers an independent alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion, and Vimeo, utilizing a peer-to-peer communication-based content distribution network that connects users' browsers. The project's developments are distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Key innovations: The ability to create a personalized homepage for each instance of PeerTube has been provided. On the homepage […]
With the support of the FreeBSD Foundation, a new installer is being developed for FreeBSD, which, unlike the currently used bsdinstall installer, will be able to operate in graphical mode and will be more user-friendly. Currently, the new installer is at the experimental prototype stage but can already perform basic installation operations. An installation […] has been prepared for those interested in participating in testing.
An updated report has been prepared detailing the impact of the performance of the browser and user experience caused by a thousand of the most popular Chrome extensions. Compared to the check performed last year, the new study assessed performance changes not only on a simple placeholder page but also when opening sites like apple.com, toyota.com, The Independent, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The conclusions of the study have not changed: many popular extensions, such […]
Google has released an update for Chrome OS 91.0.4472.165, which contained a bug that caused users to be unable to log in after rebooting. Some users experienced a boot loop where the login screen did not appear, and even when it did, it wouldn’t allow them to connect using their account. A fix for Chrome OS has been released shortly after […]
The developers of Gentoo have announced an expansion of the range of ready-made stage files available for download. Stage archives based on the Musl C library and builds for the ppc64 platform, optimized for POWER9 processors, have started being published. Builds with the system manager systemd have been added for all supported platforms, in addition to the previously available OpenRC-based builds. The delivery of stage files has begun through the official download page for the amd64 platform […]
The release of the dynamically managed firewall firewalld 1.0 has been introduced, implemented as a wrapper over the nftables and iptables packet filters. Firewalld runs as a background process, allowing rules to be changed dynamically through D-Bus, without the need to restart the packet filter rules and without breaking established connections. The project is already used in many Linux distributions, including RHEL 7+, Fedora 18+ […]
A corrective release for Firefox 90.0.2 is available, which includes several fixes: The menu display style has been corrected for certain GTK themes (for example, when using the GTK theme Yaru Colors in Firefox's Light theme, the text in the menu appeared white on a white background, and in the Minwaita theme, context menus became transparent). An issue with truncated output when printing has been fixed. Changes have been made to include DNS-over-HTTPS […]
A new release of the cross-platform library for creating graphical interfaces SixtyFPS 0.1.0 has been published, aimed at use on embedded devices and in desktop applications on Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms, as well as for use in web browsers (WebAssembly). The library's code is written in Rust and is distributed under the GPLv3 license or a commercial license allowing use in proprietary products without disclosing […]
Google has released version 92 of its web browser Chrome. Simultaneously, a stable release of the free project Chromium, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is available. Chrome features Google's branding, a crash notification system, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), an automatic update installation system, and the transmission of RLZ parameters during searches. The next release, Chrome 93, is scheduled for August 31. Key changes […]