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The Lutris development team announced on their Patreon page that they received a monetary donation of $25,000 from Epic MegaGrants. Through Epic MegaGrants, Epic Games allocates funds to various gaming and 3D graphics-related projects to develop the associated ecosystems. Lutris is an open-source gaming platform for Linux that establishes […]
The Firefox 71 release is now available. Key changes include: The Lockwise password manager can now suggest autofill for passwords saved for the main domain on subdomains. Notifications of password compromises can now be read by screen readers. Native MP3 decoding is now used across all major platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows). A kiosk mode has been implemented. The about:config service page has been rewritten from XUL to standard web technologies HTML5, […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 71 and the mobile version Firefox 68.3 for the Android platform has taken place. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch 68.3.0 has been formed. Soon, the Firefox 72 branch will enter beta testing, with release scheduled for January 7 (the project is moving to a new 4-week development cycle). Key innovations: A new interface for the "about:config" page has been proposed […]
The release of the classic desktop environment CDE 2.3.1 (Common Desktop Environment) has been published. CDE was developed in the early 1990s through a joint effort by Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu, and Hitachi, and for many years served as the default graphical environment for Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Digital UNIX, and UnixWare. In 2012, the code […]
Mozilla has removed four Avast extensions — Avast Online Security, AVG Online Security, Avast SafePrice, and AVG SafePrice — from the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) directory due to the organization of a user data leak. Google has not yet responded to the incident, and the extensions remain in the Chrome App Store. Code within the extensions has been identified with inserts for uploading to the website […]
In addition to content inspired by the movie 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker', Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will also receive a new edition this month — the Celebration Edition will launch on December 5. Initially, the festive version of the game was revealed by the True Achievements service, and today a mention of the project could be seen in the European PlayStation blog. The Celebration Edition includes […]
The long-awaited day has finally arrived when I can present this development. The project was started exactly one year ago, on September 1, 2018; at least in the RRS repository on GitHub, the first commit has that date. Passenger train at Rostov-Glavny station (clickable) What is RRS? It is an open cross-platform simulator of 1520 mm gauge rolling stock. […]
The theory of 'management' has greatly succeeded in analyzing leadership behavior, studying the reasons for their successes and failures, and systematizing knowledge on how to develop strong qualities in themselves and combat weak ones. Foreign theorists receive particular attention from us. Ask your boss what to read on this topic or request them to name their 'favorite book'. You will surely hear the names Goldratt, Adizes, […]
After two and a half years of development, the release of emulator Bochs 2.6.10 has been announced. Bochs supports CPU emulation based on x86 architecture, from i386 to current x86-64 models of Intel and AMD processors, including the emulation of various processor extensions (VMX, SSE, AES, AVX, SMP, etc.), standard input/output devices, and peripherals (emulating video cards, sound cards, Ethernet, USB, etc.). […]
The Linux-Hardware.org project has published statistics on hardware used in Linux over the past five years. The study involved users who uploaded hardware samples during this period using the hw-probe program. The results correlate with the yearly Ubuntu User Statistics report from Canonical. Despite the fact that in most parameters, the statistics from Canonical and Linux-Hardware.org differ within 10 […]
A new release of the open-source PCB design automation package LibrePCB 0.1.3 is now available. The program is provided in builds for Linux (Flatpak, AppImage), macOS, and Windows. The project code is written in C++ (interface on Qt) and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. LibrePCB includes: Project management interface; Schematic editor; Multi-layer PCB editor with cloning support […]
The kinetic energy of the Sapsan at maximum speed exceeds 1500 megajoules. To come to a complete stop, all of it must be dissipated by the braking systems. I was asked to elaborate on this topic right here on Habr. There are quite a few overview articles published on railway topics, but this particular theme has not yet been covered in detail. I think it would be quite interesting […]
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