Author: Yuri Gagarin

Why Mr. Robot is the Best Show About the IT Industry

Good afternoon, dear Habr readers! On December 23, 2019, the final episode of one of the most popular IT shows — Mr. Robot — was released. After watching the series to the end, I firmly decided to write an article about it on Habr. The release of this article coincides with my anniversary on the portal. My first article appeared exactly 2 years ago. […]

The new call recording feature on Android may be restricted in certain regions

In January of this year, APK analysis showed that Google is working on a call recording feature for the 'Phone' app. This week, XDA Developers reported that support for this feature has already appeared on some Nokia phones in India. Now Google itself has published information on how to use the 'Phone' app to record calls. After a while, the page was […]

The ODROID-C4 single-board computer can compete with the Raspberry Pi 4

A new single-board computer for developers has arrived: the ODROID-C4 has been announced and is already available for order at an estimated price of $50. This product may compete with the popular mini-computer Raspberry Pi 4. The new device is based on the Amlogic hardware platform featuring the S905X3 processor. This chip contains four ARM Cortex-A55 computational cores clocked at up to 2.0 GHz […]

The founder of Void Linux left the project in a scandal and was banned on GitHub.

A conflict has erupted within the Void Linux developer community, resulting in Juan Romero Pardines, the founder of the project, announcing his departure and entering into a confrontation with other members. Judging by reports on Twitter and the abundance of offensive comments and threats towards other developers, Juan experienced a nervous breakdown. He also deleted his repositories […]

Release of the graphical environment LXQt 0.15.0

After more than a year of development, the LXQt 0.15 (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) release has occurred, developed by a combined team of developers from the LXDE and Razor-qt projects. The LXQt interface continues to follow the principles of classic desktop organization while introducing modern design and methods that enhance usability. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast, and user-friendly continuation of the development of the Razor-qt and LXDE desktops, incorporating […]

Release of Kubuntu 20.04 LTS

Kubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released — a stable version of Ubuntu based on the KDE Plasma 5.18 desktop environment and the KDE Applications 19.12.3 suite. Key packages and updates include: KDE Plasma 5.18, KDE Applications 19.12.3, Linux Kernel 5.4, Qt LTS 5.12.8, Firefox 75, Krita 4.2.9, KDevelop 5.5.0, LibreOffice 6.4, Latte Dock 0.9.10, and KDE Connect 1.4.0. Thunderbird now […]

What's New in Ubuntu 20.04

On April 23, the release of Ubuntu version 20.04 with the codename Focal Fossa took place, marking the next long-term support (LTS) release of Ubuntu and a continuation of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which was released in 2018. A little about the codename: The word 'Focal' means 'central point' or 'most important part,' thus relating to the concept of focus, the center of certain properties, phenomena, events, and […]

A corrective release of the ROSA Fresh R11.1 distribution has been published.

NTC IT Rosa and the community of developers of the distribution have presented a corrective release of ROSA Fresh R11.1. The release is based on the 2016.1 platform, which will be supported until the end of 2021. It includes all updates and fixes released since the Fresh R11 release in accordance with the adopted 'soft rolling' policy. Builds for the i586 and x86_64 platforms have been prepared for free download […]

Quick deployment of ESXi VMs using Terraform

Hello everyone, my name is Ivan and I am a solutions architect (OPS). I would like to share how I deploy virtual machines on ESXi without vCenter using Terraform. Quite often, I need to deploy/recreate virtual machines to test various applications. Due to laziness, I thought about automating the process. My search led me to a wonderful product from Hashicorp, […]

WebGPU support has been added to the night builds of Firefox

Nightly builds of Firefox now support the WebGPU specification, providing an interface for 3D graphics rendering and computations on the GPU, conceptually similar to the Vulkan, Metal, and Direct3D 12 APIs. The specification is being developed by Mozilla, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and community representatives in a working group created under the W3C organization. The key goal of WebGPU is to create a secure, convenient, portable, and high-performance program […]

Final beta release of the Snort 3 attack detection system

Cisco has introduced the final beta version of the completely revamped Snort 3 intrusion prevention system, also known as the Snort++ project, which has been in development intermittently since 2005. A release candidate is expected to be published later this year. The new branch has rethought the product's concept and redesigned its architecture. Emphasis was placed on several areas during the preparation […]

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