After a year of development and 28 experimental versions, a stable release of the open implementation of the Win32 API - Wine 5.0, which incorporated more than 7400 changes, was presented. The key achievements of the new version include the delivery of built-in Wine modules in PE format, support for multi-monitor configurations, a new implementation of the XAudio2 audio API and support for the Vulkan 1.1 graphics API. Wine has been confirmed to have full […]
Valve decided to make a small surprise - they made the Half-Life series games free to download and play on Steam. The promotion will last until the release date of Half-Life: Alyx in March, which is why the promotion was launched. The following listed games are eligible for the promotion: Half-Life Half-Life: Opposing Force Half-Life: Blue Shift Half-Life: Source Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2: Episode One […]
According to executive producer Marty Stratton, delaying the release of Doom Eternal to a later date had a positive effect on the game. Speaking to VG247, he explained that id Software worked overtime, which allowed the team to improve the quality of the project. “I say this is the best game we've ever made. I don't think I would have said this if […]
For the btrfs file system, an asynchronous implementation of the DISCARD operation (marking freed blocks that no longer need to be physically stored), implemented by Facebook engineers, is presented. The essence of the problem: in the original implementation, DISCARD is executed synchronously with other operations, which in some cases leads to performance problems, since the drives have to wait for the corresponding commands to complete, which requires additional time. This could become […]
A member of the Reddit forum under the pseudonym YeaQuarterDongIng (the user has already deleted his profile) posted the full version of the unpublished trailer for the Godfall action game, a few seconds of which he showed earlier. As with the teaser, the build of the game shown in the video dates back to early 2019, and therefore does not reflect the current appearance of the project. This fact was commented on by the developers themselves in [...]
The developers of the Kubuntu distribution announced the availability of the Kubuntu Focus laptop, produced under the project brand and offering a pre-installed working environment based on Ubuntu 18.04 and the KDE desktop. The device was released in collaboration with MindShareManagement and Tuxedo Computers. The laptop is designed for advanced users and developers who need a powerful portable computer that comes with a Linux environment optimized for […]
Following revelations about Resident Evil 8, an insider known under the pseudonyms Dusk Golem and AestheticGamer shared information about new parts of the Silent Hill horror series on his microblog. According to the informant, in 2018, the Japanese publisher began searching for a third-party studio to help develop two games in the Silent Hill universe - a “soft” reboot of the franchise and an adventure […]
The OASIS Consortium Technical Committee has approved the final version of the ODF 1.3 (OpenDocument) specification. After approval by the technical committee, the ODF 1.3 specification received the status of “Committee Specification”, which implies complete completion of the work, future immutability of the specification and readiness of the document for use by third-party developers and companies. The next step will be the approval of the submitted specification as an OASIS and ISO/IEC standard. The key differences between OpenDocument […]
SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) is an approach to ensuring the availability of web projects. It is considered a framework for DevOps and talks about how to achieve success in applying DevOps practices. This article is a translation of Chapter 6 Monitoring Distributed Systems of the book Site Reliability Engineering from Google. I prepared this translation myself and relied on my own experience in understanding monitoring processes. In the telegram channel @monitorim_it and the blog […]
The state corporation Roscosmos, according to RIA Novosti, spoke about the flight program of the Soyuz MS-16 manned spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The said device was delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome for pre-flight training in November last year. The ship will deliver participants of the 63rd and 64th long-term expeditions to the orbital station. The core team includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai […]
Xbox CEO Phil Spencer and his team are currently in Japan to discuss plans for game publishers and studios in 2020 and beyond. Spencer shared this on Twitter tonight. “It's great to be back in Japan with the team to talk and hear about what the amazing studios and publishers are planning for 2020 […]
Have you ever wondered how much information is lost without a trace? After all, information is what Habr exists for. Do you know what most often happens with resources based on user posts? The authors insert images, pictures and videos from third-party sites and after some time they are no longer available. This is exactly why Habrastorage was once created. Practice has shown that no one [...]
