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In the USA, the Service Experts service for remote hiring of plumbers, heating specialists, air conditioning technicians, and so on, is quite popular. In Russia, there are similar websites: it's very convenient to quickly find a craftsman. However, under current conditions, it’s better to hang that shelf yourself to avoid contact with anyone. One way or another, the company USAFact (a screening provider for […]
The beta testing of Fedora 32 has begun. This beta release marks the transition to the final stage of testing, where only critical bug fixes are allowed. The release is scheduled for the end of April. It covers Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora Silverblue, and Live builds, provided in the form of spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, and LXQt. The builds are prepared for x86_64 architectures, […]
The OpenSilver project has been introduced, aiming to create an open implementation of the Silverlight platform, whose development was discontinued by Microsoft in 2011, with support lasting until 2021. Similar to Adobe Flash, the development of Silverlight was halted in favor of adopting standard web technologies. At one time, an open implementation of Silverlight called Moonlight was already being developed based on Mono, but its […]
GitHub, owned by Microsoft, has announced the acquisition of npm, a popular package manager for JavaScript applications. The Node Package Manager platform hosts over 1.3 million packages, and the service itself supports more than 12 million developers. GitHub states that npm will remain free for developers, and GitHub plans to invest in enhancing npm in terms of performance, reliability, and scalability. Future plans include […]
In this article, I will show you how to set up an environment for machine learning in 30 minutes, create a neural network for image recognition, and then run the same network on a graphics processing unit (GPU). First, let's define what a neural network is. In our case, it is a mathematical model, as well as its software or hardware implementation, built on the principle of organization and […]
Hello, Habr users! Kubernetes is one of the key components of the modern cloud ecosystem. This technology provides reliability, scalability, and durability for container virtualization. John Arundel and Justin Domingus discuss the Kubernetes ecosystem and introduce proven solutions for everyday problems. Step by step, you will build your own cloud-oriented application and create the infrastructure to support it, set up the development environment, and configure the pipeline […]
The Fedora Linux developers intend to migrate the RPM package database (rpmdb) from BerkeleyDB to SQLite. The main reason for the replacement is the use of an outdated version of Berkeley DB 5.x in rpmdb, which has not been maintained for several years. The transition to newer releases is hindered by the licensing change of Berkeley DB 6 to AGPLv3, whose requirements also apply to applications using BerkeleyDB […]
The NsCDE (Not so Common Desktop Environment) project is developing a desktop environment that offers a retro interface in the style of CDE (Common Desktop Environment), adapted for use on modern Unix-like systems and Linux. The environment is based on the FVWM window manager with themes, applications, patches, and add-ons to recreate the original CDE desktop. The project code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. […]
An update for Solaris 11.4 SRU 19 (Support Repository Update) has been released, offering a series of fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the updates provided in the release, simply run the command ‘pkg update’. In this new release: Oracle Explorer has been updated to version 20.1, providing tools for detailed system configuration profiling and state assessment; it includes […]
A new release of the 4MLinux distribution has been issued, which is an original (not based on anything) and lightweight Linux distribution. Change log: LibreOffice has been updated to version 6.4.2.1. The GNOME Office package applications (AbiWord, GIMP, Gnumeric) have been updated to versions 3.0.4, 2.10.18, and 1.12.46 respectively. DropBox has been updated to version 91.4.548. Firefox has been updated to version 73.0.1. Chromium has been updated to 79.0.3945.130. Thunderbird […]
On March 7, Veusz 3.2 was released — a GUI application designed for presenting scientific data as 2D and 3D graphs for publication preparation. This release features the following enhancements: a new rendering mode for 3D graphs added within a 'block' instead of bitmap scene rendering; a key widget option has been added to specify the order of items; the data export dialog now […]
While working on data visualization for an article, I needed to have 4 axes with positive labels all around. Like for other graphs in the article, I decided to use gnuplot. First, I checked the official website, which has a multitude of examples. I was very pleased when I found the example I needed (just a bit of tweaking and it will look great, I thought). I quickly copied the code, […]
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