The translation of the article was prepared specifically for students of the “DevOps practices and tools” course, which starts today! Have you ever released a new service into production? Or maybe you were involved in supporting such services? If yes, what motivated you? What is good for production and what is bad? How do you train new team members on releases or maintenance of existing services. Most companies in […]
Stormy Peters has taken over as director of Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office. Previously, Stormy led the community engagement team at Red Hat, and previously served as director of developer engagement at Mozilla, vice president of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, and chair of the GNOME Foundation. Stormi is also known as the creator of […]
Today, August 30, a new enrollment at Yandex.Lyceum has started: those wishing to undergo training will be able to submit applications until September 11. "Yandex.Lyceum" is an educational project of "Yandex" to teach programming to schoolchildren. Applications are accepted from eighth and ninth grade students. The curriculum lasts two years; Moreover, training is free. This year, the geography of the project has expanded by more than [...]
The Humble Bundle store regularly gives away games to visitors. Not long ago the service offered free Guacamelee! and Age of Wonders III, and now it’s DiRT Rally’s turn. The Codemasters project was initially released in Steam Early Access, and the full PC version went on sale on December 7, 2015. The rally simulator features a large fleet of vehicles, where […]
The Coalition studio spoke about plans for the release of the shooter Gears 5. According to the developers, at launch the game will have 11 maps for three game modes - “Horde”, “Confrontation” and “Escape”. Players will be able to fight in the arenas Asylum, Bunker, District, Exhibit, Icebound, Training Grounds, Vasgar, as well as in four “hives” - The Hive, The Descent, The Mines […]
SpaceX announced the successful completion of the second test of the Starhopper rocket prototype, during which it soared to an altitude of 500 feet (152 m), then flew about 100 m to the side and made a controlled landing in the center of the launch pad. The tests took place on Tuesday evening at 18:00 CT (Wednesday, 2:00 Moscow time). Initially they were planned to be held [...]
What's new in this version: a number of crashes and regressions have been fixed - in particular, a crash of the X server due to HardDPMS, as well as a libnvcuvid.so segfault when using the Video Codec SDK API; added initial support for RTD3, a power management mechanism for Turing-based laptop video cards; support for Vulkan and OpenGL+GLX has been implemented for PRIME technology, which allows rendering to be offloaded to other GPUs; […]
A new version of the program has been released for viewing stereoscopic 3D photos and video files with the ability to quickly edit them. MPO, JPEG, JPS images and video files are supported. The program is written in C++ using the Qt framework and the FFmpeg and OpenCV libraries. The update was released for all supported platforms, including binary builds for Windows, Ubuntu and ArchLinux. Main changes in version 1.13.0: Settings […]
Release 8.6 of the first live distribution KNOPPIX has been released. Linux kernel 5.2 with cloop and aufs patches, supports 32-bit and 64-bit systems with automatic detection of CPU bit depth. By default, the LXDE environment is used, but if desired, you can also use KDE Plasma 5, Tor Browser has been added. UEFI and UEFI Secure Boot are supported, as well as the ability to customize the distribution directly on the flash drive. Additionally […]
A significant release of the Trac 1.4 project management system has been introduced, providing a web interface for working with Subversion and Git repositories, a built-in Wiki, an issue tracking system and a functionality planning section for new versions. The code is written in Python and distributed under the BSD license. SQLite, PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB DBMS can be used to store data. Trac takes a minimalist approach to handling […]
New builds of BlackArch Linux, a specialized distribution for security research and studying the security of systems, have been published. The distribution is built on the Arch Linux package base and includes about 2300 security-related utilities. The project's maintained package repository is compatible with Arch Linux and can be used in regular Arch Linux installations. The assemblies are prepared in the form of a 15 GB Live image [...]
I have long wanted to share my script for automating the setup of Windows 10 (currently the current version is 18362), but I never got around to it. Perhaps it will be useful to someone in its entirety or only part of it. Of course, it will be difficult to describe all the settings, but I will try to highlight the most important ones. If anyone is interested, then welcome to cat. Introduction I have long wanted to share [...]
