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Well-known Russian IT giant Mail.ru Group has launched a new messenger using the branding of the once-popular ICQ messenger. Desktop versions of the client are available for Windows, Mac and Linux and mobile versions for Android and iOS. A web version is also available. Version for Linux It comes as a snap package. The website lists the following compatible distributions: Arch Linux CentOS Debian elementary OS […]
OpenTTD is a computer game whose goal is to create and develop a transport company to obtain maximum profits and ratings. OpenTTD is a real-time transport economic strategy created as a clone of the popular game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. OpenTTD version 1.10.0 is a major release. According to established tradition, major releases are released every year on April 1st. CHANGELOG: Corrections: [Script] Random […]
Some of the best side-scrolling mobile runners were definitely the bright and simple Rayman Jungle Run and Rayman Fiesta Run. And the Apple Arcade service, introduced in September last year, received a similar exclusive from the same series called Rayman Mini. This game is deservedly popular, and recently received a second season and version 1.2. Thanks to […]
Today saw the launch of the much-hyped Quibi app, which promises users entertaining videos to help them spend their free time. One of the features of the service is that it is initially aimed at mobile device users. The platform is the brainchild of DreamWorks Animation co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, a former executive at eBay […]
In the second half of this year, Intel plans to introduce Tiger Lake mobile processors, about which there are now more and more rumors and leaks. This time, in the 3DMark Time Spy performance test database, an entry was found about testing the Intel Core i7-1185G7 processor belonging to this family. According to the test, this processor has four cores and eight threads, […]
It is expected that Meizu will soon introduce a new smartphone, which will be named Meizu 17. In the past few weeks, leaks have periodically appeared on the Internet, revealing the features of the upcoming new product. This time, a photo of the device was published, taken in the subway, which demonstrates the appearance of its rear panel. A new image confirms the appearance of the device, known from leaks yesterday […]
For platform Android The experimental Firefox Preview 4.2 browser, codenamed Fenix, has been released as a replacement for the Firefox edition. Android. Update 4.2.1 was released shortly after, fixing vulnerabilities. The new release has been published in the Google Play store (requires Android 5 or later). Firefox 75 is scheduled for release tomorrow. Firefox Preview uses the GeckoView engine, […]
The NetBSD project developers released the pkgsrc-2020Q1 package repository, marking the project's 66th release. The pkgsrc system was created 22 years ago based on FreeBSD ports and is currently used by default to manage the collection of additional applications in NetBSD and Minix. It is also used as an additional package distribution tool by Solaris/illumos users. macOS. [...]
ROCm is an open platform for high-performance computing on GPUs that carries the “UNIX philosophy of choice, minimalism and modularity of software development in a GPU environment” [1]. ROCm supports the integration of multiple programming languages for the convenience of both developers using ROCm in their projects and users using ROCm for personal purposes. Major changes in the ROCm 3.3.0 release: […]
Canonical has published a release of tools for organizing the operation of isolated containers LXC 4.0, the container manager LXD 4.0 and the virtual file system LXCFS 4.0 for simulation in /proc, /sys containers and the virtualized presentation cgroupfs for distributions without support for cgroup namespaces. The 4.0 branch is classified as a long-term support release, updates for which are generated over a period of 5 years […]
LXC (eng. Linux Containers are a virtualization system at the operating system level for running multiple isolated instances of an operating system. Linux on a single node. LXC doesn't use virtual machines, but creates a virtual environment with its own process space and network stack. All LXC instances share a single instance of the operating system kernel. (q) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC In version 4.0: full support for cgroup2 […]
A new version of the Nim system programming language has been released. It has partial incompatibility with version 1.0, for example due to stricter type conversion. But in this case there is a flag -useVersion:1.0. The main innovation is a new garbage collector, enabled by the -gc:arc option. The author of the language, Andreas Rumpf, is going to write a detailed article about the advantages of ARC, but for now he invites you to read his speech […]