At its annual developer conference, Microsoft made several important announcements. We selected two of them. The first: in the summer update 19H2, Windows 10 will be shipped with a complete Linux kernel based on version 4.19 from October 22, 2018, for its own 'Windows Subsystem for Linux' (WSL). The second: future enterprise builds will feature a Chromium reincarnation […]
Over the past years, Microsoft has implemented several of its own Linux projects. There were Linux-based operating systems for network switches in data centers and Linux-based OS for microcontrollers created for the embedded security service Azure Sphere. And now there's news of another Linux-based project that Microsoft specialists have been working on for some time. In the first […]
Microsoft unveiled the updated WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) at the ongoing Microsoft Build 2019 conference, designed to run Linux executables on Windows. A key feature of the second edition is the delivery of a full Linux kernel, instead of a layer that translates Linux system calls to Windows system calls on the fly. The test release of WSL2 will be available at the end […]
Hiring IT specialists is a challenging task. Firstly, there is currently a shortage of experienced professionals in the market, and they know it. Candidates are often not willing to spend a lot of time on "selection activities" from employers unless they're initially interested. The previously popular practice of "giving a test for 8+ hours" is no longer effective. For an initial assessment of knowledge and screening candidates before conducting a full-scale […]
Today, we would like to share some of the latest updates from the Sherlock system [this is a high-performance cluster from Stanford University – Ed.], which significantly speeds up file listings in directories with large numbers of entries. Unlike regular articles, this is more of an insider report on the ongoing regular work on Sherlock to keep it in the best shape for our users. We hope […]
A carrier pigeon loaded with microSD cards can transmit large volumes of data faster and cheaper than almost any other method. Note: While the original article appeared on the IEEE Spectrum website on April 1st, all the facts cited in it are entirely accurate. In February, SanDisk announced the release of the world's first 1-terabyte microSD card. It, […]
The PIM protocol is a set of protocols for multicast transmission in networks between routers. Neighbor relationships are established similarly to dynamic routing protocols. PIMv2 sends Hello messages every 30 seconds to the reserved multicast address 224.0.0.13 (All-PIM-Routers). The message contains Hold Timers, usually equal to 3.5 times the Hello Timer, which is 105 seconds.
The release of the Firefox add-on LibreJS 7.20.1 has been announced, which allows users to avoid running non-free JavaScript code. Richard Stallman believes that the issue with JavaScript is that the code is loaded without the user's knowledge, leaving them unable to assess the level of its freedom before it is loaded and preventing the execution of proprietary JavaScript code. The license applied to the JavaScript code is determined through special markers on the website or through […]
Fedora developers have published a list of 170 packages that have remained unmaintained and are scheduled for removal from the repository after 6 weeks of inactivity unless maintainers are found for them soon. The list includes packages with libraries for Node.js (133 packages), python (4 packages), and ruby (11 packages), as well as packages such as gpart, system-config-firewall, thermald, pywebkitgtk, […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 3.13.2 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous internet access, is now available. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor network. By default, all connections other than traffic through the Tor network are blocked by a packet filter. User data is stored in persistent mode between sessions using […]
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