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Chris Beard steps down as CEO of Mozilla Corporation

Chris has been working at Mozilla for 15 years (his career in the company began with the launch of the Firefox project) and five and a half years ago became CEO, replacing Brendan Icke. This year, Beard will give up the leadership position (a successor has not yet been chosen; if the search drags on, this position will be temporarily filled by the executive chairman of the Mozilla Foundation, Mitchell Baker), but […]

Talk about DevOps in plain language

Is it difficult to grasp the main point when talking about DevOps? We have collected for you vivid analogies, striking formulations and advice from experts that will help even non-specialists get to the point. At the end, the bonus is Red Hat employees’ own DevOps. The term DevOps originated 10 years ago and has gone from a Twitter hashtag to a powerful cultural movement in the IT world, a true […]

phpCE conference canceled due to conflict caused by lack of female speakers

The organizers of the annual phpCE (PHP Central Europe Developer Conference) conference held in Dresden have canceled the event scheduled for early October and expressed their intention to cancel the conference in the future. The decision comes amid a dispute in which three speakers (Karl Hughes, Larry Garfield and Mark Baker) canceled their appearances at the conference under the pretext of turning the conference into a club […]

Microsoft has taken the initiative to include support for exFAT in the Linux kernel

Microsoft has published technical specifications for the exFAT file system and has expressed its willingness to license all exFAT-related patents for royalty-free use on Linux. It is noted that the published documentation is sufficient to create a portable exFAT implementation that is fully compatible with Microsoft products. The ultimate goal of the initiative is to add exFAT support to the main Linux kernel. Members of the organization […]

Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.0 distribution release

Proxmox, known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution kit for deploying virtual server infrastructures, has released the Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.0 distribution kit. Proxmox Mail Gateway is presented as a turnkey solution for quickly creating a system for monitoring mail traffic and protecting the internal mail server. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Distribution-specific components are open under the AGPLv3 license. For […]

Flowblade Video Editor 2.2 Released

The release of the multi-track nonlinear video editing system Flowblade 2.2 took place, which allows you to compose films and videos from a set of individual videos, sound files and images. The editor provides tools for trimming clips down to individual frames, processing them using filters, and layering images for embedding into videos. It is possible to arbitrarily determine the order of using tools and adjusting behavior [...]

Thunderbird 68.0 mail client release

A year after the publication of the last significant release, the Thunderbird 68 email client was released, developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies. The new release is classified as a long-term support version, for which updates are released throughout the year. Thunderbird 68 is based on the codebase of the ESR release of Firefox 68. The release is available for direct download only, automatic updates […]

Video: the next horror film in The Dark Pictures anthology - Little Hope - presented

Before Man of Medan had even come out from the studio Supermassive Games, which gave us Until Dawn and The Inpatient, the publishing house Bandai Namco Entertainment presented the next project in the anthology The Dark Pictures. One of the secret endings to Man of Medan features a short clip of Little Hope, the second installment in the cinematic thriller series. Judging by the video, this time the action will be [...]

Sway 1.2 custom environment release using Wayland

The release of the composite manager Sway 1.2 has been prepared, built using the Wayland protocol and fully compatible with the i3 mosaic window manager and the i3bar panel. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project is aimed at use on Linux and FreeBSD. i3 compatibility is provided at the command, configuration file and IPC levels, allowing […]

Shovel Knight Dig Announced - Shovel Knight Embarks on a New Adventure

Yacht Club Games and Nitrome studios have announced Shovel Knight Dig, a new game in the Shovel Knight series. Five years after the release of the original Shovel Knight, Yacht Club Games teamed up with Nitrome to tell the new story of Shovel Knight and his nemesis, Storm Knight. In Shovel Knight Dig, players will go underground where they will dig […]

6D.ai will create a 3D model of the world using smartphones

6D.ai, a San Francisco startup founded in 2017, aims to create a complete 3D model of the world using only smartphone cameras without any special equipment. The company announced the start of cooperation with Qualcomm Technologies to develop its technology based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform. Qualcomm expects 6D.ai to provide better understanding of the space for Snapdragon-powered virtual reality headsets and […]