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Quietly and unnoticed, after 3.5 years of development, the first major release of Buttplug has taken place – a comprehensive solution for developing software in the field of remote control of intimate devices, supporting various connection methods: Bluetooth, USB, and serial ports using programming languages Rust, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Starting from this version, Buttplug implementations in C# and […]
A new release of the dynamic reflective interpreted high-level object-oriented programming language Ruby version 3.0.0 has been released. According to the authors, a threefold performance increase has been recorded (according to the Optcarrot test), thus achieving the goal set in 2016 described in the Ruby 3×3 concept. In achieving this goal, special attention was paid to the following areas: Performance — performance MJIT — reduction of time and decrease in the size of the generated code […]
Redox is a UNIX-like open-source operating system written in Rust. Changes in 0.6: The memory manager rmm has been rewritten. This has eliminated memory leaks in the kernel, which had become a serious problem with the previous memory manager. Additionally, support for multi-core processors has become more stable. Many contributions from students of the Redox OS Summer of Code have been included in this release. Including work […]
One of the changes planned for Fedora 34 is the use of dnf-plugin-cow, which speeds up DNF/RPM operations through the Copy on Write (CoW) technique implemented on top of the Btrfs file system. A comparison of the current and future methods of installing/updating RPM packages in Fedora. Current method: Break down the installation/update request into a list of packages and actions. Download and verify the integrity of new packages. Sequentially install/update packages using […]
Over the last few days, the FreeBSD operating system has migrated from its development using Subversion to utilizing the distributed version control system Git, which is used in most other open-source projects. The transition of FreeBSD from Subversion to Git has taken place. The migration was completed recently, and now the new code is being introduced into their main Git repository […]
Heroic greetings to the fans of Might and Magic! At the end of the year, we are releasing a new version 0.8.4, in which we continue our work on the fheroes2 project. This time, our team focused on the logic and functionality of the interface: list scrolling has been adjusted; unit separation now works more conveniently, and it is now possible to use keyboard shortcuts for quick and easy grouping […]
After a year and 4 months of development, Xfce 4.16 has been released. Many changes occurred during the development, including the project's migration to GitLab, which made it more welcoming to new contributors. A Docker container has also been created https://hub.docker.com/r/xfce/xfce-build and CI has been added to all components to ensure that the build does not break. None of this would have been possible […]
A Reddit user reported slow I/O operations on their system with btrfs after upgrading the kernel to version 5.10. I found a very simple way to reproduce the regression, namely extracting a huge tarball, for example: tar xf firefox-84.0.source.tar.zst. On my external USB3 SSD with Ryzen 5950x, this took ~15 seconds on kernel 5.9, but almost 5 minutes on 5.10! […]
On December 14th, the search functionality in PyPi using pip search was disabled due to increased load on the servers. Now the console kindly informs: PyPI’s XMLRPC API has been temporarily disabled due to unmanageable load and will be deprecated in the near future. Load schedule Last year Source: linux.org.ru
The release included a significant number of features for working with game controllers and joysticks, new platform-dependent hints, and some high-level queries. Support for PS5 DualSense and Xbox Series X controllers was added to the HIDAPI driver; constants for new keys were introduced. The value of SDL_HINT_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS is now false by default, which will improve compatibility with modern window managers. New features were added […]
The new release of WindTerm has been launched – a professional SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client for DevOps. This release adds support for running the client on Linux. Please note that X Forwarding is not yet supported in the Linux version. WindTerm is completely free for both commercial and non-commercial use without restrictions. All currently published source codes (except for third-party codes) are provided […]
On December 1st, an emulator of old systems, pcem, was released. The changes are few: New machines: Amstrad PC5086, Compaq Deskpro, Samsung SPC-6033P, Samsung SPC-6000A, Intel VS440FX, Gigabyte GA-686BX New video cards: 3DFX Voodoo Banshee, 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000, 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000, Creative 3D Blaster Banshee, Kasan Hangulmadang-16, Trident TVGA9000B New processors: Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Celeron, Cyrix III Support for images […]