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After several years of development since the previous major release (almost three years), the next OpenMandriva release – Lx 4.0 – has been introduced. The distribution has been developed by the community since 2012, after Mandriva S.A. abandoned its continued development. A new name was chosen through a user vote, as the company refused to transfer rights to the previous name. Today, OpenMandriva's distinctive feature is the use of LLVM/clang with a focus on […]
Almost three years after the last significant branch was formed, the OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 distribution has been released. The project is developed by the community after Mandriva S.A. handed over project management to the non-profit organization, the OpenMandriva Association. A Live build is available for download, sized at 2.6 GB (x86_64 and a 'znver1' build optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper, and EPYC processors). Release […]
Graphs are a schematic representation in many fields. A model of real objects. Circles are vertices, lines are arcs of the graph (connections). If there's a number next to an arc, it's the distance between points on a map or the cost on a Gantt chart. In electricity and electronics, vertices are components and modules, lines are conductors. In hydraulics, boilers, water heaters, fittings, radiators, and […]
After more than a year of development, the Kwort 4.3.4 Linux distribution has been released, based on the CRUX project and offering a minimalist user environment based on the Openbox window manager. The distribution differs from CRUX by using its own package manager, kpkg, which allows installing binary packages from the repository maintained by the project. Kwort also develops its own set of GUI applications for configuration (Kwort user manager for managing […]
A new release of the image processing and transformation package GraphicsMagick 1.3.32 has been presented, in which 52 potential vulnerabilities identified during fuzz testing by the OSS-Fuzz project have been fixed. Since February 2018, a total of 343 issues have been identified with the help of OSS-Fuzz, of which 331 have already been resolved in GraphicsMagick (the remaining 12 have not yet passed the 90-day deadline for fixes). It is separately noted […]
8.1 Creative Approach "Although such a machine could do many things as well or perhaps better than we can, in other respects it would necessarily fall short, and it would turn out that it operates not consciously, but merely by virtue of the arrangement of its organs." — Descartes. Discourse on the Method. 1637. We are used to using machines that are stronger and faster than humans. […]
In the first part, I attempted to explain to hobbyist electronics enthusiasts who have grown out of Arduino overalls why and how they should read datasheets and other documentation on microcontrollers. The text became lengthy, so I promised to show practical examples in a separate article. Well, here I am. Today, I will show how to use datasheets to solve some quite simple yet necessary tasks for many projects […]
Or what to keep in mind when developing a dark mode for an application or website. The year 2018 showed us that dark modes are on the way. Now that we're already halfway into 2019, we can confidently say: they are here, and they are everywhere. An example of an old 'green-on-black' monitor. Let's start by noting that dark mode is not a new concept at all. It has been used […]
On June 6, 2019, after four years of development, Exaile 4.0.0 was released — an audio player with extensive music management capabilities, extendable with plugins, of which there are over fifty. Changes: The playback engine has been rewritten. The graphical interface has been rewritten using GTK+3. The speed of processing large music libraries has been improved. The placement of some buttons has been fixed for RTL localization. The tag editor's response to scrolling has been fixed […]
In the Firefox 68 release, expected on July 9, the inclusion of a new default add-ons manager (about:addons), completely rewritten in HTML/JavaScript using standard web technologies, has been approved. The new interface for managing add-ons has been developed as part of an initiative to eliminate XUL and XBL-based components from the browser. To evaluate the functionality of the new interface before Firefox 68, you can adjust settings in about:config […]
WARNING Judging by the record-high ratio of silently dissatisfied individuals to commentators who have something to say, it's not obvious to many readers that: 1) This is purely a theoretical discussion article. There won't be practical recommendations for choosing cryptocurrency mining tools or assembling a multivibrator to blink two bulbs. 2) This is not a popular science article. There won't be an explanation for beginners […]
Hello, Habr! After several months of waiting, we finally received it: ONYX BOOX has released its first reader of the 2019 model year, and this is the professional version of the electronic book Nova, which was very successful last year. The advantage of the new device is that it has an additional WACOM touch layer (along with a stylus, of course) and an application for creating […]