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The possibility of changing the numbering and the method of forming X.Org Server releases is being considered

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Adam Jackson, who was responsible for preparing several past releases of X.Org Server, proposed in his report at the XDC2019 conference to switch to a new release numbering scheme. In order to more clearly see how long ago a particular release was published, by analogy with Mesa, it was proposed to reflect the year in the first number of the version. The second number will indicate the serial number of the significant […]

The Pegasus project could change the look of Windows 10

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As you know, at the recent Surface event, Microsoft introduced a version of Windows 10 for a completely new category of computing devices. We are talking about dual-screen foldable devices that combine the features of laptops and tablets. At the same time, according to experts, the Windows 10X operating system (Windows Core OS) is intended not only for this category. The fact is that Windows […]

"Yandex" fell in price by 18% and continues to get cheaper

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Today, Yandex shares fell sharply in price amid discussion in the State Duma of a bill on significant information resources, which involves introducing restrictions on the rights of foreigners to own and manage Internet resources that are important for the development of infrastructure. According to the RBC resource, within an hour from the start of trading on the American NASDAQ exchange, Yandex shares fell in price by more than 16% and their value […]

A farm simulator about a robot cat and his friend Doraemon Story of Seasons has been released

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Bandai Namco Entertainment has announced the release of farming simulator Doraemon Story of Seasons. Doraemon Story of Seasons is a heart-warming adventure based on the well-known manga and anime Doraemon for children. According to the plot of the work, the robot cat Doraemon moved from the 22nd century to our time to help a schoolboy. In the game, the mustachioed man and his friend […]

“Golden ratio” in economics - 2

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This complements the topic of the “Golden Ratio” in economics - what is it?”, raised in the previous publication. Let us approach the problem of preferential distribution of resources from an angle that has not yet been touched upon. Let's take the simplest model of event generation: tossing a coin and the probability of getting heads or tails. At the same time, it is postulated that: The loss of “heads” or “tails” with each individual throw is equally probable – 50 […]

Astra Linux "Eagle" Common Edition: is there life after Windows

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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 - [...]

NASA's Curiosity rover discovers evidence of ancient salt lakes on Mars

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NASA's Curiosity rover, while exploring Gale Crater, a vast dry ancient lake bed with a hill in the center, discovered sediments containing sulfate salts in its soil. The presence of such salts indicates that there were once salt lakes here. Sulfate salts have been found in sedimentary rocks formed between 3,3 and 3,7 billion years ago. Curiosity analyzed other […]

No radical changes to the GNU Project

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Richard Stallman's response to the GNU Project Joint Statement. As the director of GNU, I would like to assure the community that there will be no radical changes to the GNU Project, its goals, principles and policies. I would like to make consistent changes in decision-making processes because I won't be here forever and we need to prepare others to make decisions […]

Ken Thompson Unix Password

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Sometime in 2014, in the BSD 3 source tree dumps, I found a file /etc/passwd with the passwords of all the veterans such as Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian W. Kernighan, Steve Bourne and Bill Joy. These hashes used the DES-based crypt(3) algorithm - known to be weak (and with a maximum password length of 8 characters). So I thought that […]

Global tablet shipments will continue to decline in the coming years

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Analysts from Digitimes Research believe that global shipments of tablet computers will decline sharply this year amid declining demand for branded and educational devices in this category. According to experts, by the end of next year the total number of tablet computers supplied to the world market will not exceed 130 million units. In the future, supplies will be reduced by 2–3 […]

20 years since the beginning of Gentoo development

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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 […]

Madagascar - an island of contrasts

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Having come across a video on one of the information portals with the approximate title “The speed of Internet access in Madagascar is higher than in France, Canada and the UK,” I was sincerely surprised. One has only to recall that the island state of Madagascar, unlike the above-mentioned northern countries, is geographically located on the very outskirts of the not very prosperous continent - Africa. IN […]

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