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GNU Poke 4.0 & Poke-ELF 1.0 Released For Dealing With Binary Data

Phoronix - Sun, 03/31/2024 - 18:52
GNU Poke 4.0 has been released after a year in development for enhancing this open-source software that serves as an interactive editor for binary data accompanied by its own procedural programming language...

Flowblade 2.14 Video Editor Released, GTK4 Port Hopefully Ready Next Year

Phoronix - Sun, 03/31/2024 - 18:37
Released this weekend is a new version of Flowblade, an open-source video editor for Linux systems. Flowblade brings some new features while the work to upgrade against the GTK4 toolkit remains ongoing and will hopefully be ready in 2025...

NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 03/31/2024 - 04:37
After being in development since 2019, the huge NetBSD 10.0 is out today as a wonderful Easter surprise...

Servo Web Engine Adds WOFF2 Web Fonts, HTML Tables By Default

Phoronix - Sun, 03/31/2024 - 02:22
The Servo Web Engine under the stewardship of Linux Foundation Europe and with ongoing contributions by the likes of Igalia and other developers continues having a very vibrant year. The open-source developers involved remain very busy getting this Rust-written web layout engine into good shape for possible use as an embed-friendly solution for other software...

Tiny Corp Details More Of Their Planned Tinybox System Specs

Phoronix - Sun, 03/31/2024 - 01:23
After putting their AMD GPU powered Tinybox "on hold" only to decide a few days later to offer both AMD and NVIDIA graphics options for Tinybox compute systems, George Hotz' Tiny Corp has now shared more specifications for these planned "green" and "red" Tinybox designs...

Microsoft Helping Out In Making The Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive

Phoronix - Sun, 03/31/2024 - 01:07
With time Microsoft's Linux kernel contributions have extended beyond just the initial business focus on Hyper-V support and other needs for Azure as well as around Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to more general contributions. Microsoft has also hired more key Linux contributors along with stakes in other projects like systemd. Earlier this week were patches from a Microsoft engineer working out Rust language improvements for the Linux kernel while now in ending out the holiday weekend are patches for making the Linux kernel language more inclusive...

Flax Engine 1.8 Brings ASTC Textures, New UI Editor & New Vehicle Features

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 21:14
A new version of Flax Engine 1.8 has been released, the open-source game engine that's available for free for non-commercial and education use but with a 4% royalty for commercial games...

KDE Introduces New Marknote App

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 20:56
KDE developers have announced the first release of Marknote, a new note-taking application for the KDE Plasma desktop...

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