The release of the Mir 2.1 display server is presented, the development of which continues by Canonical, despite the refusal to develop the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, allowing it to run in […]
The Ubuntu GamePack 20.04 build is available for download, which includes tools for launching more than 85 thousand games and applications, both specifically designed for the GNU/Linux platform and games for Windows launched using PlayOnLinux, CrossOver and Wine, as well as old games for MS-DOS and games for various game consoles (Sega, Nintendo, PSP, Sony PlayStation, […]
Judging by the number of questions that began to arrive to us via SD-WAN, the technology began to take root thoroughly in Russia. Vendors, of course, do not sleep and offer their concepts, and some brave pioneers are already implementing them on their networks. We work with almost all vendors, and for several years in our laboratory, I managed to delve into the architecture of each […]
DevOps Live 2020 (September 29-30 and October 6-7) will be held online in an updated format. The pandemic has accelerated the time for change and has made it clear that entrepreneurs who are able to quickly redesign their product to work online are outperforming “traditional” businessmen. Therefore, on September 29-30 and October 6-7, we will look at DevOps from three sides: from the business, infrastructure, and service side. Let's talk more […]
Greetings to the readers of our blog from TS Solution, autumn has come, which means it's time to learn and learn something new for yourself. The regular audience is well aware that we pay great attention to products from Check Point, this is a large number of solutions for the comprehensive protection of your infrastructure. Today we will collect in one place the recommended and available series of articles […]
Mossmouth and BlitWorks have announced that action-platformer Spelunky 2 will not have online features when it launches on Steam. They will appear later and immediately with cross-platform multiplayer between the PC and PlayStation 4 versions. In a statement published on Steam, the developer said that Spelunky 2 on PlayStation 4 (it was released on the console on September 15) was […]
Bungie Studios is gradually revealing details of the upcoming expansion Destiny 2: Beyond Light. First of all, you will probably be interested to know that to install the add-on you will have to download the entire game. But there is good news: the overall installation size will be reduced by 30-40%, ranging from 59 to 71 GB depending on the platform. Beyond Light takes place on […]
Studio Systemic Reaction has published a 16-minute gameplay video for the upcoming co-op shooter Second Extinction. The project takes place in the future of the Earth, which has been captured by mutated dinosaurs. The video demonstrates the game from the perspective of Amir, a member of a team of three who landed on Earth in search of a research group. In the tutorial mission, you need to shoot down a drone to get map data and […]
Charlie Somerville, who develops the CrabOS operating system in the Rust language as a hobby, presented a comic, but quite working project, DOS Subsystem for Linux (DSL), presented as an alternative to the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) subsystem developed by Microsoft for those who prefers to work in DOS. Like WSL, the DSL subsystem allows you to directly run Linux applications, but not […]
The NetBSD project has announced that it is changing the default window manager in an X11 session from twm to CTWM. CTWM is a fork of twm, which was forked in 1992 and evolved towards creating a lightweight and fully customizable window manager that allows you to change the appearance and behavior to your taste. The twm window manager has been offered on NetBSD for the last 20 years and […]
The release of a utility for organizing data search in text files - GNU Grep 3.5 - has been presented. The new version brings back the old behavior of the "--files-without-match" (-L) option, which was changed in the grep 3.2 release to be consistent with the git-grep utility. If in grep 3.2 the search began to be considered successful when the file being processed is mentioned in the list, now the behavior has been returned in which […]
There is a crowdfunding campaign underway on Kickstarter to open source Sciter. Period: 16.09-18.10. Raised: $2679/97104. Sciter is an embedded cross-platform HTML/CSS/TIScript engine designed for creating GUIs for desktop, mobile and IoT applications, which has been used for a long time by hundreds of companies around the world. For all these years, Sciter has been a closed source project […]
