First governmental sponsor

The project blog FFmpeg has fantastic news to announce. The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first governmental sponsor. Their support will help sustain the maintenance of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source multimedia software component essential to delivering audio and video to billions of people around the world every day. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

May 16, 2024 · 1 min · 76 words

Raspberry Pi Connect

The Raspberry Pi developers will soon offer a free web-based remote desktop feature. Gordon Hollingworth writes in »Raspberry Pi Connect« for raspberrypi.com Our intention is that Raspberry Pi Connect will remain free (as in beer) for individual users with non-relayed connections, with no limit on the number of devices. We don’t yet know how many people will need to relay their traffic through our TURN servers; we’ll keep an eye on the use of bandwidth and decide how to treat these connections in future. ...

May 7, 2024 · 1 min · 105 words

nano 8.0

The command-line text editor nano has been updated to version 8.0. According to Releasenotes, this update includes significant changes to how it’s used. By default ^F is bound to starting a forward search, and ^B to starting a backward search, while M-F and M-B repeat the search in the corresponding direction. (See the documentation if you want the old bindings back.) Command-line option –modernbindings (-/) makes ^Q quit, ^X cut, ^C copy, ^V paste, ^Z undo, ^Y redo, ^O open a file, ^W write a file, ^R replace, ^G find again, ^D find again backwards, ^A set the mark, ^T jump to a line, ^P show the position, and ^E execute. Above modern bindings are activated also when the name of nano’s executable (or a symlink to it) starts with the letter “e”. To open a file at a certain line number, one can now use also nano filename:number, besides nano +number filename. <Alt+Home> and <Alt+End> put the cursor on the first and last row in the viewport, while retaining the horizontal position. When the three digits in an #RGB color code are all the same, the code is mapped to the xterm grey scale, giving access to fourteen levels of grey instead of just four. For easier access, M-" is bound to placing/removing an anchor, and M-’ to jumping to the next anchor. Whenever an error occurs, the keystroke buffer is cleared, thus stopping the execution of a macro or a string bind. The mousewheel scrolls the viewport instead of moving the cursor. ...

May 2, 2024 · 2 min · 303 words

Hyfetch

The tool neofetch‌ displays system information attractively on the command line. After development of Neofetch had stalled, the developer archived the repository on April 26, 2024, which means the tool is no longer being actively developed. A recommended alternative is hyfetch, a fork of Neofetch that is actively maintained. For more information, see Hyfetch. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 71 words

No longer

There were significant changes in RHEL 8.10 and 9.4. Drivers for legacy hardware are being disabled in the kernel. That’s not immediately a problem for you. But Red Hat has implemented a change that prevents them from being re-enabled later. ELRepo writes in »Some elrepo kmod packages will no longer be available for RHEL 8.10 and 9.4« on elrepoproject.blogspot.com ...

April 29, 2024 · 1 min · 183 words