The first public release of the Pi-KVM project took place - a set of programs and instructions that allow you to turn a Raspberry Pi board into a fully functional IP-KVM switch. The board connects to the HDMI/VGA and USB port of the server to control it remotely, regardless of the operating system. You can turn on, turn off or reboot the server, configure the BIOS and even completely reinstall the OS from the downloaded image: Pi-KVM can emulate […]
Jeremy Soller, founder of the Redox operating system written in the Rust language, and serving as Engineering Manager at System76, announced the start of porting CoreBoot to laptops and workstations shipped with AMD Matisse (Ryzen 3000) and Renoir (Ryzen 4000) chipsets ) based on the Zen 2 microarchitecture. To implement the project, AMD transferred […]
The xfwm4 4.14.3 window manager has been released, used in the Xfce user environment to display windows on the screen, decorate windows, and manage their movement, closing, and resizing. The new release adds support for the X11 extension XRes (X-Resource), which is used to query the X server for information about the PID of an application launched using sandbox isolation mechanisms. XRes support solves the problem […]
Heroic greetings to all fans of the game “Heroes of Might and Magic 2”! I'm glad to announce that the free engine has been updated to version 0.8! This release was dedicated to the unequal struggle to improve the graphical component, which ultimately underwent significant improvements on all fronts: missing animations of units, spells and heroes were corrected and supplemented; animations of spells that were previously missing, but were […]
The first public release of the Pi-KVM project took place: a set of software and instructions that allow you to turn the Raspberry Pi into a fully functional IP-KVM. This device connects to the HDMI/VGA and USB port of the server to control it remotely, regardless of the operating system. You can turn on, turn off or reboot the server, configure the BIOS and even completely reinstall the OS from a downloaded image: Pi-KVM can emulate a virtual […]
Text clarification: Members of the US House of Representatives have approved an amendment that would ban government officials from using the TikTok app. According to congressmen, the Chinese application TikTok may "pose a threat" to the national security of the country - in particular, to collect data from American citizens in order to carry out cyber attacks on the United States in the future. One of the most pernicious errors surrounding the controversy over […]
The Chinese tech leader has been accused of political espionage, but he is determined to maintain and even increase his profits in the international market. Ren Zhengfei, a former officer in the People's Liberation Army of China, founded Huawei (pronounced Wah-Way) in 1987. Since then, the Shenzhen-based Chinese company has become the world's largest smartphone maker alongside Apple and Samsung. The company also […]
Translation of the podcast transcription prepared ahead of the launch of the Linux Administrator course Docker Compose is an amazing tool for creating a working environment for the stack used in your application. It allows you to define each component of your application following a clear and simple syntax in YAML files. With the advent of docker compose v3, these YAML files can be used directly in production, […]
At the moment, NVIDIA has introduced only one new generation Ampere graphics processor - the flagship GA100, which formed the basis of the NVIDIA A100 computing accelerator. And now the head of OTOY, a company specializing in cloud rendering, has shared the first test results of this accelerator. The Ampere GA100 graphics processor used in the NVIDIA A100 includes 6912 CUDA cores and 40 […]
The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation included 65 new products from domestic developers in the register of Russian software. Let us recall that the register of Russian programs for electronic computers and databases started working at the beginning of 2016. It was formed for the purpose of import substitution in the field of software. In accordance with current legislation, foreign software should not be purchased […]
Registration is now open for the international conference of free software developers and users “Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe”, which will be held on August 27-30. This year the conference will be held online and will take four half days. Participation in the online version of LVEE 2020 is free. Proposals for reports and blitz reports are accepted. To apply for participation, you must register on the conference website: lvee.org. After […]
After just six months of development, the next version of FreeOrion was released - a free space 4X parallel-turn-based strategy based on the Master of Orion series of games. It was supposed to be a “quick” (by the team’s standards) release with the main goal of changing the dependency from Python2 to Python3 (which was done very late). Thus, although the change in Python version was not […]
