Release 1.06 – April 5th, 2018 – Linux Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Alpha Support and Ray Tracing Interface used by DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR).
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gvSIG Desktop 2.4 is released
gvSIG Desktop 2.4, a popular open source Geographic Information System, is now available. You can access both the gvSIG Desktop 2.4 installable and portable versions from the download section of the project website, with distributions available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Read moreFlutter — 5 reasons why you may love it
On the Google I/O ’17 Google introduced us Flutter — a new open source library for creating mobile applications. As you may know, Flutter is a solution for creating cross-platform mobile applications with beautiful UI. Flutter’s way of designing views is similar
Read moreexo 0.12.0 released
Exo is an Xfce library targeted at application development. It contains various custom widgets and APIs extending the functionality of GLib and GTK+. It also ships utilities for defining preferred applications, mounting storage devices and more.
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Atom 1.24 released – Hackable Text Editor
GitHub’s Atom is billed as a hackable text editor for the 21st Century. It’s an open source desktop application based on web technologies, specifically HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Node.js integration. It runs on Electron, a framework for building cross platform apps using web technologies.
Read moreMenuLibre 2.1.5 Released
A FreeDesktop.org compliant menu editor for desktop environments implementing the Desktop Entry Specification. Some desktops are improperly configured and do not export the expected variables, and patches are included to infer the running environment in other ways. Some older desktops, such as IceWM, do not implement this specification and handle their menus in other ways.
Read moreElisa 0.0.81 Released
The Elisa team is happy to announce the second alpha release of the Elisa music player. Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use.
Read moreLKRG – Linux Kernel Runtime Guard
Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) is a loadable kernel module that performs runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel and detection of security vulnerability exploits against the kernel. As controversial as this concept is, LKRG attempts to post-detect and hopefully promptly respond to unauthorized modifications to the running Linux kernel (integrity checking) or to credentials (such as user IDs) of the running processes (exploit detection).
Read moreAnnouncing ncurses 6.1
The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0 (SVr4), and more. It uses terminfo format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key mapping, and has all the other SVr4-curses enhancements over BSD curses. SVr4 curses became the basis of X/Open Curses.
Read moreLinux Kernel Archive: Linux 4.15
Linus Torvalds writes:
“After a release cycle that was unusual in so many (bad) ways, this last week was really pleasant. Quiet and small, and no last-minute panics, just small fixes for various issues. I never got a feeling that I’d need to extend things by yet another week, and 4.15 looks fine to me.
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