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Release of systemd 244

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After three months of development, the release of systemd 244 is presented. Key changes: Support for the cpuset resource controller based on cgroups v2 has been added, providing a mechanism for binding processes to specific CPUs (setting "AllowedCPUs") and NUMA memory nodes (setting "AllowedMemoryNodes"); Support for loading settings from the EFI variable SystemdOptions for systemd configuration has been added, allowing configuration of systemd's behavior in situations where it is problematic […]

The mobile browser Firefox Preview 3.0 has been released

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Mozilla has released the third version of its mobile browser, Firefox Preview, which includes a number of new features. Reports indicate that the new version is now safer and easier to use. Among the features of the new version is an enhanced protection against data collection by websites. Links now open in private tabs by default, and the browser history can be automatically cleared upon exit. [ … ]

Scientists from MIPT have taken a step towards the creation of a new "flash drive"

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The creation and development of devices for non-volatile digital data storage has been ongoing for many decades. A major breakthrough occurred just less than 20 years ago with NAND memory, although its development started about 20 years earlier. Today, about half a century after the beginning of large-scale research, production, and continuous efforts to improve NAND, this type of memory is close to [ … ]

Release of systemd 244

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Among the changes: new logo; services can now be bound to CPU through cgroup v2, i.e., support for cpuset cgroups v2; it is now possible to define a signal for service restart (RestartKillSignal); systemctl clean now works for units of type socket, mount, and swap; systemd now attempts to read configuration from the EFI SystemdOptions variable as an alternative to changing kernel parameters from the bootloader; systemd cancels […]

Linux kernel 5.4 is ready for mass deployment

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Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has released a full stable version of the Linux kernel 5.4, which is ready for mass deployment. It was previously announced by Linus Torvalds. This version is known to have added support for the Microsoft exFAT file system, a new 'lock' feature that restricts access to the kernel by software even with root privileges, as well as many other improvements […]

Report on the development of FreeBSD for the third quarter of 2019

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The report on the development of the FreeBSD project from July to September 2019 has been published. Among the changes, it is worth noting: General and system issues The Core team generally approved the inclusion of code in the system licensed under the BSD license with an additional patent use agreement (BSD+Patent), but the decision to include each component under this license must be approved […]

How to Find a Job with a Good Contract

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Hello, Habr readers! Recently, I had the opportunity to attend quite a few interviews and even receive offers from some well-known, and a few lesser-known, European companies. However, today I'm not going to discuss how to prepare for tricky programming tasks or how to better demonstrate soft skills. Today, we'll talk about open source and employment contracts, […]

Work 'not in vain': which projects truly ignited after pre-acceleration?

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On November 22, the jury and experts of the 'Senezh' Management Workshop announced their final verdict on the teams that have been developing projects for two months as part of the pre-acceleration program. They slept little and worked a lot — but that's always the case when ... In this post, we will summarize the key results of the pre-acceleration program — did we manage to achieve all the goals we set for the completion of […]

Updated plans for providing 32-bit libraries in Ubuntu 20.04

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Steve Langasek from Canonical summarized the results of discussions with the community regarding the list of libraries for the i386 architecture, which will be provided in a layer to ensure compatibility with 32-bit applications in Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa'. Out of more than 30,000 source packages, about 1,700 were selected for which 32-bit builds for the i386 architecture will continue to be formed. Mostly […]

Release Bubblewrap 0.4.0, a layer for creating isolated environments

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A new release of the Bubblewrap 0.4.0 toolkit is available, designed for creating isolated environments in Linux and operating at the application level for unprivileged users. In practice, Bubblewrap is used by the Flatpak project as a layer for isolating applications launched from packages. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2+ license. Traditional Linux container isolation technologies are used […]

A new version of Open CASCADE Technology has been released — 7.4.0

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The release of Open CASCADE Technology (OCCT) 7.4.0 is now available, a software product with a twenty-year history, combining a set of libraries and tools for software development focused on 3D modeling, especially for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems. Starting from version 6.7.0, the source code is distributed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 license. OCCT primarily represents a single, up-to-date core for geometry […]

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