Antonio Ceballos from the GNU Chess engine team is "glad" to announce a new GNU Chess release with "Bug fixes mainly in the input processing". That's the entirety of the changelog since version 6.2.7 was released almost one year ago. The GNU Chess engine was initially released in 1984. It has grown smart during it's 37 years, and you may find that you will have a very hard time beating it. written by 윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung) 2021-05-10 - last edited 2021-05-10.© CC BY The Knights chess...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
Video from DistroTube: The popular VTE-based terminal emulator known as Termite is now officially dead. The main dev has decided to stop working on Termite. He is telling everyone to switch to Alacritty and help contribute to that project. He also has some not-so-nice things to say about the GNOME project, which maintain VTE. Original story by Distrotube. Published 2021-05-09, Originally published 2021-05-08. This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. REFER...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
The latest Wine Is Not An Emulator Windows API re-implementation supports the Map object in JavaScript, libraries are now installed into architecture-specific subdirectories and there are 35 application-specific bug fixes for games and applications like Stone Giant, Age of Empires II, Fifa 11 and Diablo 1. written by 윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung) 2021-05-09 - last edited 2021-05-09.© CC BY The Phosphorysation demo scene demo by Amnesty recorded in Wine 6.8 at 1080p 30fps. Wine lets GNU/Linu...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
The handy rmw (ReMove to Waste) shell utility for moving files to a waste folder, instead of immediately deleting them, got another minor bug-fix release today. Filenames now display correctly when using the -vvg option. That's it, that's all there is to rmw v0.7.09. written by 윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung) 2021-05-07 - last edited 2021-05-07.© CC BY rmw deleting a file, listing the last removed file (rmw -m and restoring that file (rmw -u. rmw can be a very handy alternative to the rm comm...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
Zile is a very minimal Emacs clone that is described in the brief manual page as "Zile Is Lossy Emacs". Zile developer Reuben Thomas is "happy to announce a shiny new 2.6.2 release of GNU Zile" is exactly one bug-fix. And that's it. written by 권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri) 2021-05-05 - last edited 2021-05-05.© CC BY Zile 2.6.2 editing a random text file named "interject.txt". Zile is a very minimal console text editor with many of the usual Emacs keys such as ctrl+x+f to visit a new file, ctrl+x...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
The latest version of the GNU Nano text editor has more stable output when it is started with the --constantshow option, the indicator (-q or --indicator) now follows actual lines instead of virtual lines in softwrap mode, there's 10 bug-fixes and there is lots and lots of small tweaks implemented by GNU Nano maintainer Benno Schulenberg.| LinuxReviews
The latest Mousepad text editor for Xfce brings client side decorations, plugin support with a new spell check plugin that uses gspell to provide long-missing spell check functionality to mousepad and integration with the Xfce settings manager. There's also some code refactoring and minor changes beneath the hood. written by 권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri) 2021-05-12 - last edited 2021-10-07.© CC BY Mousepad 0.5.5 with client side decorations editing the Makefile from linus.git. Mousepad does supp...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
The GNU project has released several new versions of libraries that are a part of a mysterious project of theirs called "GNUstep". The "GNUstep" is not a desktop environment or a window manager or an application suite, it is, apparently, just a collection libraries you could use to make those things. The latest GNUstep libraries may be worth exploring if you are a developer who wants to use a graphical toolkit that's not Qt or GTK to create applications that are suitable for those square comp...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
AMD has released new binary versions their AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 driver that was originally released on April 28th. We have no idea what, if anything, is different in the new re-release, We can only speculate that the only change in the re-release is that the "new" version is compiled with an updated version of AMD's LLVM compiler fork. written by 권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri) 2021-05-13 - last edited 2021-05-13.© CC BY AMD driver developers at a trade show. AMD has made new, updated binary Debian an...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
The latest AMD ROCm compute stack has nothing new for Linux desktop users, and there is no mention of OpenCL in the release notes. It is still incapable of providing compute capabilities to desktop applications like Blender. Data center customers can enjoy new platform macros and several other improvements to the ROCm tools and libraries. written by 권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri) 2021-05-13 - last edited 2021-05-13.© CC BY ethminer benchmarking with Radeon Open Compute 4.2. AMDs Radeon Open Compu...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
Mesa is a swiss army knife of graphics drivers and libraries that are used to provide graphics functionality on all the major GNU/Linux distributions. Mesa 21.1.0 brings Vulkan Variable Rate Shading support for AMD RX 6000 series GPUs, performance increasing graphics optimizations for the OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for both Intel and AMD GPUs, OpenGL 4.6 support in the Zink OpenGL-to-Vulkan translation layer, shader caching for the Lima driver for ARM Mali GPUs and a lot more. written by 윤...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
QEMU 6.0 is a huge release with a very long list of improvements for everyone using this powerful multi-platform full system emulator to run operating systems for Arm, PowerPC, RISC-V, s390, SPARC, x86 and other systems QEMU supports on Linux, Windows or macOS. Gentoo Linux in QEMU 5.2.0. QEMU is a multi-platform full system emulator capable of hardware virtualization on Intel and AMD x86-64 machines thanks to the Linux kernel's KVM facility. It is more like DOSBox and MAME in capabilities, e...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
The latest Bitcoin Core wallet for the Bitcoin network and BTC currency on it contains speedy trial activation code for a technology called Taproot that aims to make different kinds of Bitcoin transactions look mostly the same. Taproot requires a "soft fork" which will take place at block 709632 if enough Bitcoin miners adopt this or other versions signaling Taproot activation. written by 권유리 (Kwon Yu-ri) 2021-05-03 - last edited 2021-05-03.© CC BY The Bitcoin Core wallet (git as of...| LinuxReviews News (RSS/English)
Microsoft GitHub has published a announcement of new rules around security research, proof of concept exploits, "malware", "harmful content" and code that could be used to circumvent copyright restrictions. A wide range of general-purpose software could fall afoul of the updated censorship policy. The rules new rules will take effect on June 1st, 2021.| LinuxReviews
Xfdashboard is a nice optional application launcher and switcher for the Xfce desktop environment with a look and feel similar to the GNOME and macOS launchers. The latest release adds a new "recently used" search provider plugin, better window placement for the window overview and some code cleanups.| LinuxReviews
The latest version of P2Pool, a decentralized Monero mining pool has released. This is the first official release, signaling an invitation for more users to try out the new software.| LinuxReviews
GIMP 2.99.6 is another development release on the road to a big GIMP 3.0 release with a graphical interface based on GTK 3, a brand new API, a new extension format, Wayland support, year 2038+ compatibility, multi-layer selection and much more. It may be worth a try if you want to know what GIMP 3.0 will be like, but it is nowhere near ready to replace the stable GIMP 2.10.xx branch.| LinuxReviews
The latest Tor daemon has two minor fixes, one for compatibility with the Linux kernels seccomp sandbox and one for newer versions of GNU Autoconf. Tor relay operators who are still haven't upgraded from a Tor version prior to Tor 0.4.5.7 should upgrade to 0.4.5.8 since Tor <=0.4.5.6 has two different denial of service issues. | LinuxReviews
I use both Linux (Arch) and MacOS for different things, and while I admit Apple products are not without their faults, this whole article and thread is a bit much to be honest. The advantages are glossed over, and a lot of the complaints are nit-picky, or about things most people would never encounter, care about, or even notice at all.| LinuxReviews
Freedom means “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint” and liberty means “the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.” As a Middle Eastern, I understand how much my freedom is valuable and important. Us Middle Easterners are very much familiar with struggles one can have to gain freedom.| LinuxReviews
