Michael G

Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.30.0.0 (JRuby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Framework) is the quarterly major release that supports a new version of Eclipse SWT (version 4.30, released in December 2023). Happy New Year!

Following the
recent CFT,
Marcus Glocker (mglocker@) has
committed
[to -current]
TSO for
em(4):

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	mglocker@cvs.openbsd.org	2023/12/31 01:42:33

Modified files:
	sys/dev/pci    : if_em.c if_em.h if_em_hw.h 

Log message:
Add TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) support for em(4).  Following chip-sets
are currently known to support TSO;  82575, 82576, 82580, I350, and I210.

Suggested by claudio@.  Feedback and testing from many on tech@.

This means that those of us with supported em(4) variants can look forward to measurably improved network performance.

Well done, mglocker@ and all those who tested!

Dear CTT translators:

Thank you very much for your contribution in the past year.

We have done a good job as always.

1. keep on localizing www.gnu.org to Simplified Chinese

2. help review the new translation of GNU licence: GFDL

3. welcomed several new members, including Jing

4. welcomed several contributors: Ventus Uta, Peaksol, and Chen Jingge

The following is the summary from GNU. Please take you time to read.

Dear GNU translators!

2023 was a very quiet year; the total number of new translations

was four times as low as in 2022, and in terms of size the amount

was twice as low.  Most translations were made in the “Simplified”

Chinese and in the Turkish team.  A few unmaintained translations

were decommissioned this year, so the total number of translations

didn’t grow, for the first time since the start of CVS logs in 2001.

      General Statistics

In most working teams, the amount of outdated translations was

unprecedently close to zero.  We could only wish more teams were

active; as a result, the average percentage of outdated translations

remained as high as in 2022, and grew slowly.

The table below shows the number and size of newly translated

articles in important directories and typical number of outdated

GNUNified translations throughout the year.

+–team–+——new—–+–outdated—+

|  es    |  0 (  0.0Ki) | 0.4 ( 0.2%) |

+——–+————–+————-+

|  fa    |  2 ( 29.1Ki) |  25 (  81%) |

+——–+————–+————-+

|  fr    |  2 ( 46.8Ki) | 0.1 (0.04%) |

+——–+————–+————-+

|  ja    |  0 (  0.0Ki) |  35 (  25%) |

+——–+————–+————-+

|  pl    |  0 (  0.0Ki) |  67 (  45%) |

+——–+————–+————-+

|  ru    |  4 ( 68.6Ki) | 0.3 ( 0.1%) |

+——–+————–+————-+

|  sq    |  0 (  0.0Ki) | 1.5 (   2%) |

+——–+————–+————-+

|  tr    |  5 (195.1Ki) | 0.3 ( 0.2%) |

+——–+————–+————-+

|  zh-cn | 12 (214.7Ki) | 0.8 ( 0.3%) |

+——–+————–+————-+

+——–+————–+

| total  | 25 (554.3Ki) |

+——–+————–+

For the reference: 2 new articles were added, amounting to 47Ki

(which is considerably less than in 2022); the number of commits

(about 400 changes in approximately 100 English files) was just

a little lower than in 2022.

      Orphaned Teams, New and Reformed Teams

No teams were orphaned, and no new teams were established.

Volunteers requested taking over the teams for Esperanto, Punjabi,

Marathi, Indonesian, Brazilian Portuguese, Arabic—in all cases

with little further outcome.

      Changes in the Page Regeneration System

GNUN 1.4 was released this year, fixing a few minor bugs, updating

the HTML validation script for new xmllint, supporting localized

URLs in templates, and a configure option to reduce the number

of generated locales used for the sorting feature.

Happy GNU year, and thank you for your contributions!

Happy Hacking

wxie

I grew up learning to program in the late 1980s / early 1990s. Back then, I did not fully comprehend what I was doing and why the tools I used were impressive given the constraints of the hardware we had. Having gained more knowledge throughout the years, it is now really fun to pick up DOSBox to re-experience those programs and compare them with our current state of affairs. This time around, I want to look at the pure text-based IDEs that we had in that era before Windows eclipsed the PC industry. I want to do this because those IDEs had little to envy from the IDEs of today—yet it feels as if we went through a dark era where we lost most of those features for years and they are only resurfacing now. If anything, stay for a nostalgic ride back in time and a little rant on “bloat”. But, more importantly, read on to gain perspective on what existed before so that you can evaluate future feature launches more critically. ↫ Julio Merino Fast forward to today, and the most popular text editor among programmers is a website running in Chrome in a window. No wonder most popular applications are Electron trashfires now. Times sure have changed.