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The release of the classic desktop environment CDE 2.3.1 (Common Desktop Environment) has been published. CDE was developed in the early 1990s through a joint effort by Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu, and Hitachi, and for many years served as the default graphical environment for Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Digital UNIX, and UnixWare. In 2012, the code […]
Mozilla has removed four Avast extensions — Avast Online Security, AVG Online Security, Avast SafePrice, and AVG SafePrice — from the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) directory due to the organization of a user data leak. Google has not yet responded to the incident, and the extensions remain in the Chrome App Store. Code within the extensions has been identified with inserts for uploading to the website […]
In addition to content inspired by the movie 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker', Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will also receive a new edition this month — the Celebration Edition will launch on December 5. Initially, the festive version of the game was revealed by the True Achievements service, and today a mention of the project could be seen in the European PlayStation blog. The Celebration Edition includes […]
I had a 'home server' on Linux just a few years after I got my computer. Now, more than fifteen years have passed since then, and for most of that time, I've had some sort of second computer at home. One day, when it was time to upgrade it, I thought: why do I need a separate router when I already have […]
Hi! My name is Pasha Chernyak, I'm the lead developer at QIWI, and today I want to talk about the inevitable. About Legacy. Let's start with the question: what is a Legacy service? Is it a service that the developer hasn’t touched in a week/month/year? Or is it a service that was written by a less experienced programmer, such as you specifically, but a year ago? And now you're better and […]
Let's consider a scenario where it's necessary to ensure the safety of a bank vault. It is considered absolutely impenetrable without the key that you receive on your very first day of work. Your goal is to securely keep the key. Suppose you decided to always keep the key with you, granting access to the vault as needed. But you'll quickly realize that this solution doesn't scale well in practice, […]
The long-awaited day has finally arrived when I can present this development. The project was started exactly one year ago, on September 1, 2018; at least in the RRS repository on GitHub, the first commit has that date. Passenger train at Rostov-Glavny station (clickable) What is RRS? It is an open cross-platform simulator of 1520 mm gauge rolling stock. […]
The theory of 'management' has greatly succeeded in analyzing leadership behavior, studying the reasons for their successes and failures, and systematizing knowledge on how to develop strong qualities in themselves and combat weak ones. Foreign theorists receive particular attention from us. Ask your boss what to read on this topic or request them to name their 'favorite book'. You will surely hear the names Goldratt, Adizes, […]
After two and a half years of development, the release of emulator Bochs 2.6.10 has been announced. Bochs supports CPU emulation based on x86 architecture, from i386 to current x86-64 models of Intel and AMD processors, including the emulation of various processor extensions (VMX, SSE, AES, AVX, SMP, etc.), standard input/output devices, and peripherals (emulating video cards, sound cards, Ethernet, USB, etc.). […]
The Linux-Hardware.org project has published statistics on hardware used in Linux over the past five years. The study involved users who uploaded hardware samples during this period using the hw-probe program. The results correlate with the yearly Ubuntu User Statistics report from Canonical. Despite the fact that in most parameters, the statistics from Canonical and Linux-Hardware.org differ within 10 […]
A new release of the open-source PCB design automation package LibrePCB 0.1.3 is now available. The program is provided in builds for Linux (Flatpak, AppImage), macOS, and Windows. The project code is written in C++ (interface on Qt) and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. LibrePCB includes: Project management interface; Schematic editor; Multi-layer PCB editor with cloning support […]
Just out of curiosity, I decided to delve into Linux From Scratch in February 2019, thinking that it was time to create my own distribution, just in case the Internet goes down and existing GNU/Linux distributions can’t install packages without it. First, I built a basic system according to the LFS book. Everything worked out, but deciding that a bare Linux console […]