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Alpha release of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 distribution

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The alpha release of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 distribution has been formed. The project is being developed by the community after Mandriva S.A. handed over project management to the non-profit organization 'OpenMandriva Association.' A Live build of size 2.7 GB (x86_64) is available for download. In this new version, the Clang compiler used for building packages has been updated to the LLVM 9.0 branch. In addition to the standard Linux kernel, for the compiled […]

LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 in Career Guidance

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Image — roboconstructor.ru A well-known parable states that when a young mother with a child in her arms approached the sage and asked at what age she should start raising her offspring, the elder replied that she was late by as many years as the child had already lived. The situation with choosing a future profession is quite similar. It's difficult to expect an infant to be aware of their inclinations and interests, […]

Release of OmniOS Community Edition r151032

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The distribution is based on the codebase of the Illumos project, which continues the development of OpenSolaris in areas such as the kernel, networking stack, file systems, drivers, and other components of the operating system. The distribution can be used both as a general-purpose OS and for building highly scalable storage systems. The system has full support for KVM and Bhyve hypervisors, as well as the Crossbow virtual networking stack and the file system […]

Proton 4.11-8 update, a package for running Windows games on Linux

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Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 4.11-8, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the running of Linux gaming applications created for Windows and available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows Linux users to directly run Steam gaming applications that are provided only for Windows. The package includes […]

Google will allow third-party extensions access to the context menu of tabs

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In August, it was reported that Google developers removed some elements from the context menu of tabs in the Chrome browser. Currently, only the options 'New Tab,' 'Close Other Tabs,' 'Reopen Closed Tab,' and 'Bookmark All Tabs' remain. However, the company intends to compensate for the reduced number of items by allowing third-party extensions to add their options to the context […]

RCS is replacing SMS. A long-awaited progress, or a step forward and two steps back?

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A recent news article titled 'America's Major Mobile Operators to Discontinue SMS Messaging Format' is unlikely to leave any of us indifferent, as we all own mobile devices that support these very SMS messages. It is clear that the discussion revolves around the implementation of a new (essentially, well-forgotten) RCS platform; nobody intends to completely eliminate the good old SMS […]

LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 + MicroPython: programming a children's constructor with an adult language

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Hello, Habr! We have already talked about the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 platform. The primary tasks of this platform are practical learning, the development of STEAM skills, and fostering engineering thinking. It allows for laboratory work to study mechanics and dynamics. Laboratory stands made of LEGO bricks and utilities for registering and processing data make experiments even more interesting […]

Change of the openSUSE distribution name: voting results

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Today, the results of the voting that began on October 10 and ended on November 7, 2019, were published in the mailing list (one of the officially announced channels). In response to the question "Should we change the project name?" the votes were distributed as follows: In favor — 42 Against — 225 The total number of voters was 491. It should be noted that there was no option for "Abstained" […]

The first official release of rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust

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The first release of the new high-performance AV1 video encoding format encoder — rav1e 0.1, collaboratively developed by the Xiph and Mozilla communities, has taken place. The encoder is written in Rust and significantly outpaces the reference encoder libaom in terms of encoding speed and has increased attention to security. The project code is released under the BSD license. The AV1 format notably outperforms x264 and libvpx-vp9 in terms of […]

The Windows 10 Disk Cleanup utility will no longer delete important files

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The Disk Cleanup utility has been a part of all versions of Windows and is a useful tool integrated into the OS. It allows users to delete temporary files, old and cached data without resorting to manual cleanup or third-party programs. However, Windows 10 introduced a more modern version called Storage Sense, which addresses this same task more flexibly. It […]

34 open source Python libraries (2019)

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We reviewed and compared 10,000 open source libraries for Python and selected the 34 most useful ones. We categorized these libraries into 8 groups. The article was translated with the support of EDISON Software, which specializes in search engine optimization and SEO, as well as developing mobile applications for Android and iOS. Python Toolkit 1. Pipenv: Python Development Workflow for Humans. 2. Pyxel: […]

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