Author: ProHoster

Huawei's smartphone business is in a fever: the company has almost curtailed its division in Bangladesh

Things are not going well for Huawei, including in the area of ​​smartphone production. This is all due to the increasingly stringent US sanctions that the Chinese manufacturer has to face. Outside of China, smartphone sales are falling sharply - and although this is offset by an increase in share in the company’s home market, the September package of sanctions caused new significant damage. Currently […]

Microsoft has fixed a bug in Windows 10 that caused notifications about the lack of an Internet connection

Microsoft has finally released an update that fixes a bug that has been causing problems for Windows 10 users for the past few months. This is an issue with Internet connection status notifications that some users experienced after installing one of the cumulative updates for Windows 10. As a reminder, earlier this year, some Windows 10 users reported problems connecting to the Internet. […]

Introduced the MyKDE identity service and the KDE startup mechanism with systemd

The MyKDE identification service has been launched, designed to unify user logins to various KDE project sites. MyKDE replaced the identity.kde.org single sign-on system, which was implemented in the form of a simple PHP add-on over OpenLDAP. The reason for the creation of the new service is noted to be identity.kde.org's reliance on outdated technologies that prevent the updating of some other KDE systems, as well as problems such as […]

The Free Software Foundation turns 35

The Free Software Foundation is celebrating its thirty-fifth anniversary. The celebration will take place in the form of an online event, which is scheduled for October 9 (from 19 to 20 MSK). Among the ways to celebrate the anniversary, it is also suggested to experiment with installing one of the completely free GNU/Linux distributions, try to master GNU Emacs, switch to free analogues of proprietary programs, participate in the promotion of freejs, or switch to using […]

Release of distribution kit Elbrus 6.0

The MCST company presented the release of the Elbrus Linux 6.0 distribution kit, built using the developments of Debian GNU/Linux and the LFS project. Elbrus Linux is not a rebuild, but an independent distribution developed by the developers of the Elbrus architecture. Systems with Elbrus processors (Elbrus-16S, Elbrus-12S, Elbrus-2S3, Elbrus-8SV, Elbrus-8S, Elbrus-1S+, Elbrus-1SK and Elbrus-4S), SPARC V9 (R2000, R2000+, R1000) and x86_64. Assemblies for Elbrus processors are supplied […]

heroes2 0.8.2

Hello to all fans of the game “Heroes of Might and Magic 2”! We are glad to inform you that the free fheroes2 engine has been updated to version 0.8.2, which is a small but confident step towards version 0.9. This time we focused our attention on something invisible at first glance, but one of the most integral elements of gameplay - artificial intelligence. Its code has been completely rewritten […]

Broot v1.0.2 (console utility for searching and manipulating files)

Console file manager written in rust. Features: Measures have been taken to ensure comfortable viewing of large catalogs. Search files and directories (fuzzy search is used). File manipulation. There is a multi-panel mode. Preview files. View occupied space. License: MIT Installed size: 5,46 MiB Dependencies gcc-libs and zlib. Source: linux.org.ru

Programmers, go to interviews

The picture is taken from a video from the Militant Amethysts channel. For about 10 years I worked as a system programmer for Linux. These are kernel modules (kernel space), various daemons and working with hardware from user space (user space), various bootloaders (u-boot, etc.), controller firmware and much more. Even sometimes it happened to cut the web interface. But more often it happened that it was necessary [...]

Back in the USA: HP starts assembling US servers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will be the first manufacturer to go back to the white box. The company announced a new campaign for the production of servers from components made in the United States. HPE will monitor supply chain security for US customers through the HPE Trusted Supply Chain initiative. The service is primarily intended for public sector, healthcare and […]

IT Boroda: Containerization in plain language. Interview with System Engineers from Southbridge

Today you will have a journey into the world of system engineers aka DevOps engineers: an issue about virtualization, containerization, orchestration using kubernetes, and setting up configs through. Docker, kubernetes, ansible, rulebooks, kublets, helm, dockersworm, kubectl, charts, pods - a powerful theory for clear practice. Nikolay Mesropyan and Marcel Ibraev are visiting System Engineers from the Slurm training center and Southbridge at the same time. […]

Against the backdrop of a pandemic in Russia, an explosive growth in online sales of smartphones was recorded

MTS has published statistics on the Russian smartphone market for the first three quarters of this year: the industry is undergoing a transformation provoked by the pandemic and self-isolation of citizens. From January to September inclusive, it is estimated that Russians purchased about 22,5 million “smart” cellular devices worth more than 380 billion rubles. Compared to the same period in 2019, the growth was 5% in units […]

We will have our own SpaceX: Roscosmos ordered the creation of a reusable spacecraft from a private company

Founded in May 2019, the private company Reusable Transport Space Systems (MTKS, authorized capital - 400 thousand rubles) signed a cooperation agreement with Roscosmos for 5 years. As part of the agreement, MTKS pledged to create a reusable spacecraft using composite materials capable of delivering and returning cargo from the ISS at half the cost of SpaceX. Apparently, the speech [...]