We received a detailed review from one of our OS users that we would like to share with you. Astra Linux is a Debian derivative that was created as part of the Russian initiative to switch to open source software. There are several versions of Astra Linux, one of which is intended for general, everyday use - Astra Linux "Eagle" Common Edition. Russian operating system for everyone - [...]
Microsoft and Xbox corporate vice president Mike Ybarra announced that the latter is leaving the corporation after 20 years of service. "After 20 years at Microsoft, it's time for my next adventure," Ibarra tweeted. “It's been a great ride with Xbox and the future is bright.” Thank you to everyone on the Xbox team, I'm incredibly proud to […]
Microsoft is expected to release Windows 10 update number 1909 soon. But it looks like we'll have to be patient. Windows 10 Build 19H2 or 1909 was expected to release in October, but that appears to have changed. Observer Zac Bowden claims that the finished version will be built and tested this month, and the release update will begin […]
The theme of post-apocalypse has long been firmly established in all spheres of culture and art. Books, games, films, Internet projects - all this has long been firmly established in our lives. There are even particularly paranoid and fairly wealthy people who seriously build shelters and buy cartridges and stewed meat in reserve, hoping to wait out the dark times. However, few people thought about […]
Rostelecom and Russian Standard Bank presented a service for paying for purchases in stores, which involves the use of biometric technologies to recognize customers. We are talking about identifying users by face. Reference images for personal recognition will be downloaded from the Unified Biometric System. In other words, individuals will be able to make biometric payments after registering a digital image. To do this, the potential buyer needs to submit biometric […]
Electronic Arts announced that the FIFA 20 audience has reached 10 million players. FIFA 20 is available through subscription services EA Access and Origin Access, so 10 million players does not mean 10 million copies sold. Still, it's an impressive milestone that the project was able to achieve in less than two weeks since its release. Electronic Arts […]
The Gentoo Linux distribution is 20 years old. On October 4, 1999, Daniel Robbins registered the gentoo.org domain and began developing a new distribution, into which, together with Bob Mutch, he tried to transfer some ideas from the FreeBSD project, combining them with the Enoch Linux distribution that had been developing for about a year , in which experiments were conducted on building a distribution compiled from […]
A new version of the turn-based strategy Hedgewars has been released (similar games: Worms, Warmux, Artillery, Scorched Earth). In this release: Campaigns take into account the settings of the playing team. Single-player missions can now be completed by any team with progress saved. The sizes of hand-drawn maps can be adjusted using the slider. Quick game mode provides a greater range of parameters. The bee can be used as a secondary weapon. […]
After six months of development, the release of OpenSSH 8.1, an open implementation of a client and server for working over the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols, is presented. Special attention in the new release is the elimination of a vulnerability affecting ssh, sshd, ssh-add and ssh-keygen. The problem is present in the code for parsing private keys with the XMSS type and allows an attacker to trigger an integer overflow. The vulnerability is marked as exploitable, [...]
The release of the Meson 0.52 build system has been published, which is used to build projects such as X.Org Server, Mesa, Lighttpd, systemd, GStreamer, Wayland, GNOME and GTK+. Meson's code is written in Python and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. The key goal of Meson development is to provide high speed of the assembly process combined with convenience and ease of use. Instead of the make utility [...]
DrakonHub, an online editor of diagrams, mind maps and flowcharts in the DRAGON language, is open source. The code is open as public domain (Public Domain). The application is written in the DRAGON-JavaScript and DRAGON-Lua languages in the DRAKON Editor environment (most JavaScript and Lua files are generated from scripts in the DRAGON language). Let us recall that DRAGON is a simple visual language for describing algorithms and processes, optimized for […]
Hello, Habr! Previously, I complained about life in the Infrastructure as code paradigm and did not offer anything to solve the current situation. Today I’m back to tell you what approaches and practices will help you escape from the abyss of despair and steer the situation in the right direction. In the previous article “Infrastructure as code: first acquaintance” I shared my impressions of this area, […]
