Author: ProHoster

Free Software Foundation plans to launch a new platform for joint development and code hosting

The Free Software Foundation has announced its intention to create a new code hosting facility that supports collaborative development tools and meets previously established ethical criteria for free software hosting. The new platform will complement the existing hosting of the year Savannah, the support of which will continue without changes. The purpose of creating a new hosting is the desire to solve the problem with the open source software development infrastructure. Currently, many [...]

Open Source Status Report in Enterprise

Red Hat has released its annual report on the state of Open Source in the Enterprise world. 950 IT company executives were surveyed about the reasons for their use of open source software. Survey participants were unaware that the survey was sponsored by Red Hat. Key Findings: 95% of respondents identified open source software as strategically important to their business […]

FOSS News #4 - Free and Open Source News Review February 17-23, 2020

Hi all! I continue my review of news about free and open source software (and some hardware). All the most important things about penguins and not only, in Russia and the world. In issue No. 4, February 17-23, 2020: RedHat Research: Open Source is displacing proprietary software from the corporate segment. Great review of Clear Linux from Intel. Big release of MyPaint 2.0. What's new in [...]

Making Python and Bash friends: smart-env and python-shell libraries

Good day to all. Today, Python is one of the most used languages ​​in the field of creating not only software products themselves, but also providing their infrastructure. As a result, many devops, whether by their will or against it, had to learn a new language for later use as a supplement to the good old Bash scripts. However, Bash and Python […]

Envoy. 1. Introduction

Greetings! This is a short article that answers the questions: “what is envoy?”, “why is it needed?” and "where to start?". What is it Envoy is an L4-L7 balancer written in C++, focused on high performance and availability. On the one hand, this is in some way an analogue of nginx and haproxy, comparable in performance to them. On the other hand, it is more focused on [...]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon to Add New Game+ and High Difficulty, But Not Free

The developers of Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Yakuza 7 for the Japanese market) announced plans to release paid additional content for the game on the official microblog of the series. High-quality DLC is always valued in the gaming community, but in this case, Sega is going to sell Yakuza: Like a Dragon buyers a New Game + mode and a high difficulty level. The set is called Additional Challenge […]

Huawei spoke about the success of the digital content store AppGallery

During a recent online conference, representatives of the Chinese company Huawei not only presented new products, but also talked about the success of their own ecosystem of mobile applications, which should ultimately become a full-fledged alternative to Google’s proprietary applications and services. It was noted that Huawei's application ecosystem currently has 1,3 million developers worldwide. More than 3000 engineers […]

BQ announced the pre-installation of Russian software on mobile devices

The Russian mobile electronics brand BQ supported the initiative to pre-install domestic software on mobile devices. At the end of last year, we recall, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law according to which smartphones, tablets, computers and smart TVs must come with pre-installed Russian software. According to the schedule developed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia), from July 1, 2020, pre-installation of domestic software […]

Engineering adventure Hazel Sky will be released before the end of the year

Another Indie publisher and Coffee Addict Game Studio have announced a joint project - the adventure game Hazel Sky for PC (Steam), PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Switch. In the description on Hazel Sky's Steam page, the developers call their creation "a heartwarming adventure about a young engineer facing fate and his own desires." A native of the city in the clouds, Gideon, a young […]

Granblue Fantasy: Versus will be released in Europe almost a month later than North America

Marvelous Europe has announced that the fighting game Granblue Fantasy: Versus will be released in Europe on March 27 - 24 days later than in North America. In addition, the publisher did not meet the production deadline for the Premium Edition Collector's Edition, so it is being cancelled. “To ensure the timely release of Granblue Fantasy: Versus, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the Premium Edition […]

NVIDIA Ampere Generation Gaming Graphics Cards Won't Launch Before End of August

There are certain hopes for the March GTC 2020 event in terms of possible announcements from NVIDIA, but some sources consider them to be in vain. A real revival of the company's activity in this area should be expected only by the end of August. The German resource Igor's LAB is trying to predict the schedule for the announcement of new NVIDIA products, relying on an already drawn up plan for business trips of specialists traditionally attracted […]

HAPS Alliance will promote the "Internet in balloons"

Loon's project to provide broadband Internet access using balloons has received widespread support from the technology sector. Let us recall that its implementation is carried out by a subsidiary of the Alphabet Inc holding, Loon LLC, and the company HAPSMobile, part of SoftBank Group Corp. Later this week, a group of telecommunications, technology, aviation and aerospace companies, including Airbus Defense and Space and […]