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Darkglass Electronics, a Finnish manufacturer of bass guitar equipment, has released Anagram— its first Linux-based guitar processor.
Anagram uses Buildroot (via a layer), the JACK2 sound server, the LV2 plugin host, a neural network amplifier emulator (open source NAM and AIDA-X), and several free/open plugins (fil4.lv2 for a global equalizer, sooperlooper for a built-in looper, etc.). The choice of LV2 is not accidental: this is a stable SDK that allows you to separate logic and interface (Anagram draws its own via LVGL). The company has ported digital versions of its pedals to it.
A decent part of the developments came to them from MOD Devices, which produced similar devices, but "folded" in half a few years ago due to the pandemic and the associated disruption of supply chains. A couple of years ago, the company sold Darkglass part of its intellectual property, and one of the developers, Filipe Coelho, is now partially involved in the Anagram project. Together with the founder of MOD, Gianfranco Ceccolini, he can be seen in the video about the history of Anagram:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzaVPM_Ja3U.
Unlike MOD, Darkglass Electronics does not publish the entire circuitry and firmware under an open license, but honestly posts changes in open code on GitHub.
There is no information yet on whether Anagram will become an open platform for plugin developers. However, MOD and Korg, which owns Darkglass Electronics, have the necessary experience.
The cost of the device is about 1000 euros. This is exactly in the middle between Quad Cortex and Nano Cortex (the co-founder of Neural DSP Technologies, Douglas Castro, is also the founder of Darkglass Electronics, but after selling his company, Korg retired).
гитара, музыка AP (24.04.25 16:12:16 MSK) 186 comments (page 234)
"Group Astra", Axiom JDK and Haulmont present an open source integrated development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition.
The need to create a new product is due to the fact that some proprietary IDEA components are unavailable in Russia. For example, Docker and Spring support are missing in the free version of IntelliJ IDEA.
OpenIDE has removed JetBrains telemetry, and all proprietary components have been excluded. Support for Russian JDKs and code hosting has been added.
The source code is available on Gitflic.
At the same time, the developers opened an extension marketplace for OpenIDE, currently numbering more than 300 extensions.
intellij idea, java, openide Aceler (24.04.25 13:43:09 MSK) 146 comments (page 23)
Quietly and unnoticed, five years after the release of version 20.03, the integrated development environment Code::Blocks version 25.03 has been released.
This version introduces many improvements, additions and fixes, here are just a few of them:
c, c++, codeblocks, ide anonymous (23.04.25 21:38:46 MSK) 25 comments
After more than two years of development, the release of the 3.8 distribution CRUX has taken place.
Important libraries that are not ABI-compatible with older versions have been updated to new major versions. It is strongly recommended not to update CRUX 3.8 manually through the ports, as these changes will lead to a temporary system crash. Please note that packages that are not included in the ISO may need to be updated. These packages will need to be updated/rebuilt manually using prt-get sysup and revdep (from the opt/prt-utils package).
Among the 268 updated packages:
crux, дистрибутив dataman (22.04.25 15:36:00 MSK) 98 comments (page 2)
The update to Ubuntu 25.04 has been suspended due to a serious error affecting Kubuntu users.
The reason is the absence of PyQt6 and an error in the update activation process. After installing the update, users face an incorrect login screen, which makes the desktop unusable.
Users who encounter a non-working desktop are recommended to make sure that the kubuntu-desktop package is installed. Official Ubuntu and Kubuntu support channels are available for additional help.
Developers emphasize the importance of feedback from users, as timely reports of errors in beta versions help identify and fix problems before the release.
kubuntu, ubuntu DrRulez (19.04.25 15:40:04 MSK) 151 comments (page 234)
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