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The release of Q4OS 4.10 distribution, based on the package base, has been published Debian and comes with the KDE Plasma and Trinity desktops. The distribution is positioned as being lightweight and offering a classic desktop experience. It includes several in-house applications, including a 'Desktop profiler' for quickly installing themed software suites, a 'Setup utility' for installing third-party applications, and a 'Welcome […]
Rust project developers have warned users about upcoming increases in environment requirements. Linux in the compiler, the Cargo package manager, and the libstd standard library. Starting with Rust 1.64, scheduled for September 22, 2022, the minimum Glibc requirements will be raised from 2.11 to 2.17, and the kernel Linux from 2.6.32 to 3.2. The restrictions also apply to executable […]
A patch release of Firefox 103.0.1 is available that enables hardware acceleration for newer AMD graphics cards and fixes a bug in the audio engine that caused a crash on shutdown. Additionally, we can note the beginning of testing in the nightly builds of Firefox, on the basis of which the release of Firefox 104 will be formed, the QuickActions system that allows you to perform various typical actions with the browser from the address bar. […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds released the kernel. Linux 5.19. Among the most notable changes: support for the LoongArch processor architecture, integration of "BIG TCP" patches, "on-demand" mode in fscache, removal of code for the a.out format support, the ability to use ZSTD for firmware compression, an interface for managing memory displacement from user space, increased reliability and performance of the pseudo-random number generator, support […]
The distribution release has been released Linux Mint 21, which has moved to a package base Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. The distribution is fully compatible with Ubuntu, but differs significantly in its approach to organizing the user interface and the selection of default applications. Developers Linux Mint provides a desktop environment that follows the classic canons of desktop organization, which is more familiar to users who are not accustomed to new interface design methods […]
A group of researchers from Tsinghua University (China) has developed a technique for listening to conversations in a room where an optical cable runs, for example, used to connect to the Internet. Sound vibrations create air pressure drops, due to which microvibrations occur in the optical cable, modulated with a light wave transmitted through the cable. The resulting distortions can be analyzed at a sufficiently large distance using a laser interferometer […]
Release 4M is presentedLinux 40.0, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be used not only as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user problems, but also as a system for recovery from failures and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and […]
The release of the machine translation system OpenNMT 0.28.0 (Open Neural Machine Translation), which uses machine learning methods, has been published. To build a neural network, the project uses the capabilities of the TensorFlow deep learning library. The code of the modules developed by the OpenNMT project is written in Python and distributed under the MIT license. Ready-made models are prepared for English, German and Catalan, for other languages you can […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.14. Since the release of version 7.13, 19 bug reports have been closed and 260 changes have been made. The most important changes: Continued translation of the USER32 library to a program interface based on system calls. DirectWrite has improved font handling when a missing font is accessed. Fixed issues with closing sockets. […]
A new release of Paperless-ngx, a web application for working with documents, is now available. It transforms paper documents into electronic ones, accessible for full-text searching, downloading, and online storage. The code is written in Python using the Django framework and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. A demo site, demo.paperless-ngx.com (login/password: demo/demo), is available for exploring the system's capabilities. Paperless-ngx is a fork of the paperless-ng project, […]
Google and SkyWater announced an upgrade to their initiative, which allows open-source hardware developers to manufacture a trial batch of their chips for free, eliminating the cost of initial prototypes. Google covers all manufacturing, packaging, and shipping costs. Applications are accepted only from projects fully licensed under open source licenses and unencumbered by non-disclosure agreements.
The QuasarApp development team has introduced CheatCard, a free loyalty program for small and medium-sized businesses. The app's concept revolves around creating loyalty cards. The merchant defines the rules by which their customers will earn bonuses. Interaction with customers occurs through scanning a universal QR code with the merchant's device. The app is written in C++/QML and is distributed free of charge under a […]