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On December 28, version 0.20.4 of the popular open-source planetarium Stellarium was released, visualizing a realistic night sky as if you were observing it with the naked eye, or through binoculars or a telescope. In total, 95 changes have been made between versions 0.20.3 and 0.20.4, of which the following can be highlighted (major changes): Added the "Calendars" plugin; Numerous changes to the "Astronomical […]
LibreOffice (free, open-source, cross-platform office suite) uses AVMedia components internally to support audio and video playback and embedding in documents or slide presentations. It also supported VLC integration for audio/video playback, but after many years without development of this originally experimental feature — VLC has now been removed, with approximately 2k lines of code deleted. GStreamer and others […]
A new release has arrived for one of the very few free open-source high-level (ERP-level) development platforms for information systems, lsFusion. The main focus in the new fourth version has been on the logic of presentations — the user interface and everything related to it. Thus, the fourth version includes: New list views of objects: Grouping (analytical) views, where users can group themselves […]
Parted Magic is a lightweight live distribution intended for disk partitioning. It comes pre-installed with GParted, Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue. This version has a large number of packages updated. Major changes include: ► Update of xfce to 4.14 ► Change of overall appearance ► Change of boot menu Source: linux.org.ru
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! […]