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Lennart Poettering is pleased to introduce his new project called systemd-homed — a new component of systemd designed to simplify users' lives by allowing them to easily migrate home directories. The main feature of the project is the creation of a self-contained environment for user data and the separation of home directories from system settings, ultimately resulting in a mountable image file with encrypted […]
The developers of the Mir display server and the MATE desktop have joined forces to port MATE applications to environments based on Wayland. Currently, a demo snap package mate-wayland with MATE on Wayland has been prepared, but significant work still needs to be done to make it ready for everyday use, primarily regarding the porting of […]
Mozilla has released the second significant version of the experimental browser Firefox Preview, developed under the codename Fenix. This release will soon be available in the Google Play store (requires Android 5 or newer). The code is available on GitHub. After stabilizing the project and implementing all planned functionality, the browser will replace the existing Firefox edition for Android, with new releases of […]
While most games on Apple's Arcade launch as exclusives, Jenny LeClue – Detectivu from Mografi was designed with PC in mind and was released simultaneously on Apple, GOG, and Steam. This is a hand-drawn adventure detective game that tackles the theme of growing up. The game is set in the sleepy town of Arthurton. Players can expect many memorable challenges […]
At the end of each interview, candidates are asked if they have any questions left. According to a rough estimate from my colleagues, 4 out of 5 candidates ask about the team size, what time to arrive at the office, and less frequently about the equipment. Such questions work in the short term because, after a couple of months, they care less about the quality of the gear and more about the team atmosphere, the number of meetings […]
Microsoft has published an open-source monospaced font called Cascadia Code, which is intended for use in terminal emulators and code editors. The font is distributed under the OFL 1.1 (Open Font License), allowing for unlimited modification, commercial use, printing, and web application. The font is available in ttf format. Download from GitHub Source: linux.org.ru
On September 21, 2019, the Apache Foundation announced the release of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7. Key changes include: Added support for AdoptOpenJDK. Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when executing Freetype code. Fixed a crash in the Writer application when using 'Frame' in OS/2. Fixed an issue where the Apache OpenOffice TM logo on the splash screen had a different background. […]
The first beta release of FreeBSD 12.1 has been prepared. The release FreeBSD 12.1-BETA1 is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64, and armv6, armv7, and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. The FreeBSD 12.1 release is scheduled for November 4. Notable changes include: The inclusion of the libomp library (OpenMP runtime implementation); […]
Experimental builds of Chrome Canary have added support for the HTTP/3 protocol, which implements a layer for enabling HTTP over the QUIC protocol. The QUIC protocol was directly added to the browser five years ago and has since been used to optimize work with Google's services. Notably, the variant of QUIC used in Chrome differs in some details from the version in […]
An update to the Solaris 11.4 SRU 13 operating system has been published, which includes a series of new fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes in the update, simply run the command ‘pkg update’. The new release includes: A Hotplug framework for the hot removal of SR-IOV PCIe devices. The commands "evacuate-io" and "restore-io" have been added for the removal and replacement of devices in ldm; […]
A study conducted by ESET indicates that the vast majority of users of the World Wide Web continue to prefer pirated materials. According to the survey, 75% of users shy away from legal content due to its high price. Another drawback of legal services pointed out by one in three respondents (34%) is their incomplete range of offerings. Approximately 16% of those surveyed reported inconvenient payment systems. […]
One of our teams at the semifinals in Novosibirsk had to learn the principles of mobile development from scratch in order to complete the hackathon task. When we asked them, 'How do you find such a challenge?', they shared that the hardest part was fitting what they had worked on for 36 hours into a five-minute presentation and a few slides. Publicly defending their project is tough. Even harder is […]