Author: ProHoster

Learning Docker, Part 6: Working with Data

In today's part of the translation of a series of materials about Docker, we will talk about working with data. In particular, about Docker volumes. In these materials, we constantly compared Docker programming mechanisms with various edible analogies. Let us not deviate from this tradition here either. Let the data in Docker be the spice. There are many types of spices in the world, and […]

Wio - implementation of Plan 9 Rio on Wayland

Drew DeVault, an active developer of the Wayland protocol, creator of the Sway project and the accompanying wlroots library, announced on his microblog a new Wayland composer - Wio, an implementation of the Rio window system, which is used in the Plan 9 operating system. Externally, the composer repeats the design and behavior of the original Rio, creating, moving and deleting terminal windows with the mouse, running graphical programs inside them (port […]

Rest 1.34

Release 1.34 of the Rust system programming language, developed by the Mozilla project, has been released. Key-long-awaited: Starting with this release, Cargo can support alternative registries. (These registries co-exist with crates.io, so you can write programs that depend on both crates.io and your registry.) The TryFrom and TryInto traits have been stabilized to support type conversion errors. Source: linux.org.ru

Beta testing of Oracle Linux 8 has begun

Oracle has announced the start of testing a beta version of the Oracle Linux 8 distribution, created on the basis of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 package base. The assembly is supplied by default based on the standard package with the kernel from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (based on the 4.18 kernel). The proprietary Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is not yet offered. An installation ISO image of 4.7 in size has been prepared for download […]

Release of Chrome OS 74

Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome OS 74 operating system, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild/portage assembly tools, open components and the Chrome 74 web browser. The Chrome OS user environment is limited to a web browser, and instead of standard programs, web browsers are used. apps, however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop, and taskbar. Building Chrome […]

Critical vulnerability in the Librem One service, identified on the day of its launch

The Librem One service, aimed at use in the Librem 5 smartphone, immediately after its launch surfaced a critical security issue that discredits the project, which is touted as a secure platform for ensuring privacy. The vulnerability was found in the Librem Chat service and made it possible to enter the chat as any user, without knowing the authentication parameters. In the used LDAP authorization backend code (matrix-appservice-ldap3) […]

Windows 10 May 2019 Update will keep pre-installed apps

Microsoft will continue to pre-install a standard package of applications and, in particular, games. This applies, at a minimum, to the future build of Windows 10 May 2019 Update (1903). Previously, there were rumors that the corporation would abandon presets, but it seems that not this time. It is reported that Candy Crush Friends Saga, Microsoft Solitaire Collection, Candy Crush Saga, March of Empires, Gardenscapes […]

Unisoc Tiger T310 Chip Designed for Budget 4G Smartphones

Unisoc (formerly Spreadtrum) introduced a new processor for mobile devices: the product was designated Tiger T310. It is known that the chip includes four computing cores in the dynamIQ configuration. This is one high-performance ARM Cortex-A75 core clocked at up to 2,0 GHz and three energy-efficient ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at up to 1,8 GHz. Graphics node configuration […]

The Moscow Metro will begin testing fares with facial recognition technology

Online sources report that the Moscow Metro will begin testing a fare payment system using facial recognition technology by the end of 2019. The project is being implemented jointly with Visionlabs and other developers. The message also states that Visionlabs is just one of several participants in the project, which will test a new payment system […]

Faraday Future raises funds for its FF91 electric car

Chinese electric vehicle developer Faraday Future announced Monday it is ready to move forward with plans to release its premium electric car, the FF91. The past two years have not been easy for Faraday Future, which has struggled to survive. However, the latest round of investment, coupled with a major restructuring, has allowed the company to announce that it has resumed work on getting the FF91 into production. Who is […]

Driver support for legacy AMD and Intel GPUs is better on Linux than on Windows

With the major release of the 3D modeling system Blender 2.80, expected in July, the developers expected to work with GPUs released in the last 10 years and having working OpenGL 3.3 drivers. But during the preparation of the new release, it turned out that many OpenGL drivers for older GPUs had critical errors that did not allow them to provide high-quality support for all planned equipment. It is noted […]

Samsung quarterly results: sharp drop in profits and good sales of the Galaxy S10

The Galaxy S10 is selling well, but demand for last year's flagships has decreased more than before due to the popularity of the new mid-range Galaxy smartphones. The main problems are caused by a drop in demand for memory. Conclusions from the financial results of other divisions. The Galaxy Fold's release date will be announced in a few weeks, likely in the second half of the year. Some predictions for the future Previously, Samsung […]