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Released on December 27, 2019. We are pleased to present the Calculate Linux 20 release! The new version transitions to Gentoo profile 17.1, packages in the binary repository have been rebuilt with GCC 9.2, official support for 32-bit architectures has been discontinued, and the eselect utility is now used to connect overlays. The following editions of the distribution are available for download: Calculate Linux Desktop with KDE desktop […]
The release of Unigine SDK 2.10 has occurred. Unigine Engine is a cross-platform 3D engine developed by the company of the same name, UNIGINE. The engine is utilized to create games, virtual reality systems, interactive visualization programs, and various three-dimensional simulators (educational, medical, military, transport, etc.). Additionally, based on Unigine, a series of popular GPU benchmarks have been created: Heaven, Valley, Superposition. Key changes include a new landscape system—more detailed, […]
Canonical has released the first stable version of the multipass 1.0 tool, designed to simplify the installation of various versions of Ubuntu in virtual machines running on Linux, Windows, and macOS virtualization systems. Multipass allows developers to launch the desired version of Ubuntu in a virtual machine with a single command, without additional configuration, for experimentation or testing their applications. To start a virtual machine in […]
The release of Calculate Linux 20 has seen the light, developed by the Russian-speaking community, built on Gentoo Linux, supports a continuous update release cycle, and is optimized for quick deployment in corporate environments. The following editions of the distribution are available for download: Calculate Linux Desktop with KDE (CLD), MATE (CLDM), Cinnamon (CLDC), LXQt (CLDL), and Xfce (CLDX and CLDXE), Calculate […]
Ah, this wonderful pre-New Year period. The time of annual reports, burning deadlines, frantic hustle, and flickering garlands that could induce an epileptic seizure even in a healthy person. The season of corporate parties and a fresh harvest of articles with tips on how to have an exemplary good time and not embarrass oneself. A period of spending money on events that offer no long-term benefits and little […]
The next major update for Windows 10, scheduled for release in 2020, will feature a new method for updating and installing additional drivers. In the change log for build 19536 of the Windows 10 platform, Microsoft confirmed that it is still working on a simpler way to install drivers and monthly updates that are not security-related. Microsoft states that users will be provided with a new […]
Derpibooru is the largest image board for the My Little Pony fan community in the world, serving hundreds of thousands of users for nine consecutive years. Until recently, the platform used the proprietary Booru-on-Rails engine, built on Ruby on Rails and MongoDB. However, the site has now migrated to the Philomena engine, written in Elixir using the Phoenix framework, Elasticsearch, and PostgreSQL. […]
Mojolicious is a modern web framework in Perl. Mojo is a subsidiary project that develops a set of tools for the framework. Modules from the Mojo::* family are widely used in third-party projects. Example code: use Mojo::Base -strict, -async; async sub hello_p { return 'Hello Mojo!'; } hello_p()->then(sub { say @_ })->wait; More examples can be found in the documentation. Previously, the Perlfoundation allocated a grant for the development of the Future::AsyncAwait module. Some […]
The release of the open billing system ABillS 0.82 is now available, with components provided under the GPLv2 license. New features include: An Android application ABillS Lite has been created. Internet+ module. An option has been added that allows for duplicating CPE MAC. The linkupdown script has been updated to handle Service ID. The linkupdown script has been updated to work with subscribers' multi-services. Manual activation for negative sessions. Creation of pools for quick authorization […]
The ntop project, which develops tools for traffic capture and analysis, has released the nDPI 3.0 package inspection toolkit, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was founded after an unsuccessful attempt to contribute changes to the OpenDPI repository, which is no longer maintained. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The project allows for identifying the protocols used in the traffic […]
In 2013, Microsoft had dominated the technology industry for three decades, achieving incredible success with its OS. The company gradually lost its leading positions, not because the model stopped working, but because Google's Android followed the precepts of Windows while being completely free. It seemed that it would become the leading OS for smartphones. This, obviously, did not […]
The release of an email client with end-to-end encryption has taken place. In the new version ElectronMail 4.0.0, support for the Tutanota service has been removed, leaving support for ProtonMail. The program was developed by Vladimir Yakovlev on the Electron framework and has open source code (MIT license). The main difference from the free versions of official clients is the search capability, no volume restrictions, and additional features in offline mode. Package builds are available […]