Author: ProHoster

Release of virt-manager 3.0.0, interface for managing virtual environments

Red Hat has released a new version of the graphical interface for managing virtual environments - Virt-Manager 3.0.0. The Virt-Manager shell is written in Python/PyGTK, is an add-on to libvirt and supports management of systems such as Xen, KVM, LXC and QEMU. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The program provides tools for visually assessing statistics on the performance and resource consumption of virtual machines, […]

Release of Stratis 2.2, a toolkit for managing local storage

The release of the Stratis 2.2 project has been published, developed by Red Hat and the Fedora community to unify and simplify the means for configuring and managing a pool of one or more local drives. Stratis provides features such as dynamic storage allocation, snapshots, integrity and caching layers. The project code is written in Rust and is distributed under the […]

History of the Dodo IS Architecture: An Early Monolith

Or every unhappy company with a monolith is unhappy in its own way. The development of the Dodo IS system began immediately, like the Dodo Pizza business, in 2011. It was based on the idea of ​​complete and total digitization of business processes, and on their own, which even then in 2011 raised many questions and skepticism. But for 9 years now we have been going […]

History of the Dodo IS Architecture: The Back Office Path

Habr is changing the world. We have been blogging for over a year. About six months ago we received quite logical feedback from Khabrovsk residents: “Dodo, you say everywhere that you have your own system. What kind of system is this? And why does the pizzeria chain need it?” We sat and thought and realized that you are right. We try to explain everything with our fingers, but [...]

Setting up the Linux kernel for GlusterFS

The translation of the article was prepared on the eve of the start of the course “Administrator Linux. Professional". From time to time, here and there questions arise about Gluster's recommendations regarding kernel customization and whether it is necessary. This need rarely arises. The core performs very well under most workloads. Although there is a downside. Historically, the Linux kernel tends to consume a lot of memory when given […]

Vivo X50 Pro+ hits top XNUMX in DxOMark camera phone rankings

The camera capabilities of the Vivo X50 Pro+ smartphone were tested by professionals from DxOMark. As a result, the device took third place in the rating with a total score of 127, only slightly behind Huawei P40 Pro, which currently holds second position with 128 points. The leader at the moment is Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra, which was awarded 130 points. The camera received a score of 139 […]

In the fighting game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will appear characters from Minecraft

Nintendo has introduced new fighters in the fighting game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which is only available on Nintendo Switch. They were Steve and Alex from Minecraft. The characters will be included in the second Fight Card. Look at the characters' capabilities and listen to a short message from the director of Super Smash Bros. You can watch Masahiro Sakurai's Ultimate in the trailer below. Besides Steve and Alex, […]

Britain called Huawei equipment not secure enough for its cellular networks

Britain has officially stated that the Chinese company Huawei has failed to properly address security gaps in telecommunications equipment used in the country's cellular networks. It was noted that the “national scale” vulnerability was discovered in 2019, but it was fixed before it became known that it could be exploited. The assessment was given by a supervisory board chaired by a member of the Center […]

Fedora Linux edition for smartphones introduced

After ten years of inactivity, the Fedora Mobility group has resumed its work to develop an official edition of the Fedora distribution for mobile devices. The currently developed version of Fedora Mobility is designed for installation on the PinePhone smartphone, developed by the Pine64 community. In the future, editions of Fedora and other smartphones such as Librem 5 and OnePlus 5/5T are expected to appear, once support for them […]

SFC is preparing a lawsuit against GPL violators and will develop alternative firmware

The advocacy organization Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has introduced a new strategy for ensuring GPL compliance in devices whose firmware is built on Linux. To implement the proposed initiative, the ARDC Foundation (Amateur Radio Digital Communications) has already allocated a grant of $150 thousand to the SFC organization. The work is planned to be carried out in three directions: Forcing manufacturers to comply with the GPL and […]

Gitter becomes part of the Matrix Network

Element acquires Gitter from GitLab to adapt the service to work within the Matrix federated network. This is the first major messenger that is planned to be transparently transferred to a decentralized network, along with all users and message history. Gitter is a free, centralized tool for group communication between developers. In addition to the typical functionality of team chat, which is essentially similar to proprietary […]

Slowly but surely: Yandex's secret influence on Runet

There is an opinion that Yandex, occupying a leading position in the Internet search market in Russia, does not just promote its services in publicly accessible ways. And that, with the help of “sorcerers,” he is pushing sites with behavioral indicators better than those of his own services into the back rows. And that he, taking advantage of the trust of his own audience, misleads users and offers not the most relevant sites […]