Polish publisher and developer 11 bit studios, as part of the Xbox Partner Preview presentation, revealed the release date of its urban strategy with survival elements Frostpunk 2. The announcement was accompanied by a new trailer. Image source: 11 bit studiosSource: 3dnews.ru
In fact, testing the Redmi Note series smartphone is like a cross-section of public opinion or a population census: it seems like you are testing one individual smartphone, but you understand where and at what speed the industry is moving. What functions are moving to the middle price category, what new to expect in the mass segment, what consumer aspirations are manufacturers responding to? Source: 3dnews.ru
Organic Maps encourages everyone to participate in the annual Google Summer of Code 2024 (GSoC) program, where contributors (not just students!) from around the world participate in open source software development under the guidance of experienced mentors from various organizations. We are participating in the program for the third year in a row. We make open mobile offline maps […]
On March 5th, the developers of postmarketOS, a Linux distribution for smartphones based on Alpine Linux, announced the addition of support for the system manager systemd in place of the previously used OpenRC. Support for the old init system will be retained at least as long as it is used in the original Alpine Linux. Also, when building images, the ability to select an initialization system has been added. The reason for this [...]
The developers of the Linux Mint distribution have announced the development of a new application, Jargonaut, which attempts to create a simple chat implementation based on the use of the IRC protocol, but is not an IRC client in the traditional sense. Jargonaut provides a simple interface for users to chat, abstracted from IRC. The project code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. For […]
Microsoft has renamed the CBL-Mariner distribution to Azure Linux. Previously, the name Azure Linux was used for a specialized build installed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and the general platform for creating distributions was developed under the name CBL-Mariner (Common Base Linux Mariner). A few days ago, Microsoft renamed the CBL-Mariner repository to azurelinux, changed the names of the utilities, and replaced the mention of CBL-Mariner in the documentation with […]
Yandex has added to the Masterpiece image generator, based on artificial intelligence algorithms, the ability to edit images by text request - the YandexART neural network solves the problem. Image source: YandexSource: 3dnews.ru
American legislators have introduced a bill requiring ByteDance to sell the short video app TikTok within six months - otherwise the platform will be blocked in the United States, Reuters reports. Parliamentarians linked the drastic measure to a threat to national security allegedly posed by the Chinese owner of the platform. Image source: Alexander Shatov / unsplash.comSource: 3dnews.ru
About three years have passed since Microsoft announced the ability to run Android applications in Windows 11, for which the Windows Subsystem for Android was integrated into the software platform. Now the software giant has decided to stop supporting this subsystem from March 5, 2025. Image source: MicrosoftSource: 3dnews.ru
According to the Statcounter service, which tracks the market share of web browsers, operating systems, search engines, etc., the share of Linux OS on PCs has reached record levels, exceeding 4%. Although at first glance this is not much, in reality we are talking about tens of millions of users around the world. At the same time, the service separately takes into account data from ChromeOS, also built on Linux. It may also be noted [...]
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (for now as an option) introduces support for the systemd-boot boot loader as an alternative to GNU GRUB. According to the official version of the developers, the transition to Systemd-Boot will make it possible to increase download speed and enhance the security of the boot process. The developers also expect that the transition to systemd-boot will simplify and increase the efficiency of working with full-disk encryption, as well as simplify the work with […]
Release information for CBL-Mariner 2.0.20240301 (CBL-Mariner, Common Base Linux, a Linux distribution for Microsoft's internal infrastructure) is now forwarded to the Microsoft/AzureLinux project on GitHub. The CBL-Mariner repository has been renamed to "AzureLinux" and other links to CBL-Mariner have also been rebranded as Azure Linux. PS Do not confuse AzureLinux (formerly CBL-Mariner) with the Linux-based Microsoft Azure Sphere OS - […]
