Android Studio 3.5, an integrated development environment (IDE) for working with the Android 10 Q platform, has been stable released. Read more about the changes in the release description and in the YouTube presentation. The developments received as part of the Project Marble initiative are presented. Source: linux.org.ru
The developers of yaxim, a free XMPP client for the Android platform, are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the project. Ten years ago, on August 23, 2009, the first yaxim commit was made, which means that today this XMPP client is officially half the age of the protocol it runs on. Since those distant times, many changes have occurred both in XMPP itself and in the Android system. 2009: […]
Bastien Nocera has announced a new out-of-memory handler for the GNOME desktop, low-memory-monitor. The daemon evaluates the lack of memory through /proc/pressure/memory and, if the threshold is exceeded, sends a proposal via DBus to processes about the need to moderate their appetites. The daemon may also try to keep the system responsive by writing to /proc/sysrq-trigger. In combination with the work done at Fedora on the use of zram […]
After almost two years of development, the Enlightenment 0.23 user environment was released, which is based on a set of EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Library) libraries and Elementary widgets. The release is available in source code; distribution packages have not yet been created. The most notable innovations in Enlightenment 0.23: Significantly improved support for working under Wayland; The transition to the Meson assembly system has been carried out; A new Bluetooth module has been added […]
On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced on the comp.os.minix teleconference that a working prototype of the new Linux operating system had been completed, porting bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40 had been completed. The first public release of the Linux kernel was introduced on September 17th. The 0.0.1 kernel was 62 KB compressed and contained […]
Publisher Way Down Deep and developers from the Galvanic Games studio presented the project Some Distant Memory (in Russian localization - "Vague memories") - a story-driven game about exploring the world. The release is scheduled for the end of 2019 in versions for PC (Windows and macOS) and the Switch console. The Nintendo eShop does not yet have a corresponding page, but it already exists on Steam, […]
Red Hat developer Bastien Nocera has announced a possible solution to the problem of low RAM in Linux. This is an application called Low-Memory-Monitor, which is supposed to solve the problem of system responsiveness when there is a lack of RAM. This program is expected to improve the experience of the Linux user environment on systems where the amount of RAM is small. The operating principle is simple. The Low-Memory-Monitor daemon monitors the volume […]
The Game Awards host and host of the recent Opening Night Live at gamescom 2019, Geoff Keighley, commented on the latest Death Stranding trailers. Hideo Kojima presented the videos as part of the aforementioned show and everyone was surprised at the growing mushroom in the place where the main character defecates. And Jeff Keely suggested thinking about this […]
According to CNET, the Disney+ streaming service will launch on November 12 and will offer four simultaneous streams and 6,99K support for a base price of $4 per month. Subscribers will be able to create and configure up to seven profiles on one account. This will make the service highly competitive with Netflix, which raised prices at the beginning of the year and set stricter […]
The company inXile Entertainment announced the system requirements for the post-apocalyptic role-playing game Wasteland 3. Compared to the previous part, the requirements have changed quite a lot: for example, now you need twice as much RAM, and you will have to allocate 25 GB more free disk space. The minimum configuration is as follows: operating system: Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 […]
Valve presented the new 2th hero at the Dota 119 World Championship - Void Spirit. As the name suggests, he will be the fourth spirit in the game. Currently it contains Ember Spirit, Storm Spirit and Earth Spirit. Void Spirit has come from the void and is ready to fight with enemies. At the presentation, the character conjured a double-sided glaive for himself, which hints at […]
The developers from the Deck13 studio reacted to the information about the possible presence in the action game The Surge 2 of Denuvo protection, which is so unloved by many players. So, in the release version it will not be. It all started with the fact that one of the participants in the closed beta shared a screenshot on reddit with information about the game's executable file. The size of 337 MB is unambiguously […]
