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Oracle has released the industrial distribution version of Oracle Linux 8.1, based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1. An installation ISO image, sized 6.6 GB, is available for download without restrictions after free registration, prepared for the x86_64 architecture (an experimental build for ARM64 is also available). There is unlimited and free access to the yum repository with binaries for Oracle Linux […]
Following the significant Intel Xeon W update for workstations, new Xeon E processors for entry-level servers have emerged. Compared to their predecessors, the core count has increased while prices remain the same—this means that the Xeon E has also become cheaper on a per-core basis. Those who associate with […] may be surprised by the introduction of Xeon E.
In the comments to the text “Soviet Superheroes, Czech Bugs, and the Australian Clone,” we started talking about the best friend of Karandash — Samodelkin, and I promised to tell you about his origin. Here is the promised information, below is a sort of spin-off. Samodelkin is almost like Homer. Seven ancient cities disputed the right to be called the homeland of the blind bard. There are fewer claimants for the title of creator of Samodelkin, but still […]
Hello, my name is Alexey. I work in the IT field. I spend a lot of time on social networks and messaging apps for work. I've developed various addictive behavioral patterns. I found myself distracted from work and checking Facebook to see how many 'likes' a viral post had accumulated. Instead of continuing to work with new texts, I got stuck on […]
Oracle has announced a new release of its free distribution Oracle Linux 8.1, built on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1. In this new version: Memory Mode support for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory has been added, the udica package is included, virt-manager is marked as deprecated, support for Btrfs has been removed from RHCK, and support for OCFS2 has been removed from RHCK. The set of SELinux utilities has been updated to […]
The developers of the Android-x86 project, which is an independent community effort to develop a port of the Android platform for the x86 architecture, have released a pre-release build based on Android 9, which includes fixes and improvements enhancing the performance on the x86 architecture. Universal Live builds of Android-x86 8.1 for x86 32-bit (719 MB) and x86_64 (909 MB) architectures are prepared for download and are suitable for […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.20 is available. Since the release of version 4.19, 37 bug reports have been closed and 341 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the incorporation of a new release of the Mono engine 4.9.4 with updated FNA support (a project to create an alternative implementation of Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 to simplify the porting of Windows games); state preservation ensured […]
This is the second part of a series of educational articles on creating smart contracts in Python on the Ontology blockchain network. In the previous article, we explored the Blockchain & Block API for Ontology smart contracts. Today, we will discuss how to use the second module—Storage API. Storage API consists of five related APIs that enable adding, removing, and modifying data in the persistent storage of smart contracts on […]
The dominant platform for deploying containers has certainly become Kubernetes. It offers the ability to manage almost everything using its APIs and user controllers that extend its APIs with custom resources. However, the user still has to make detailed decisions about how to deploy, configure, manage, and scale applications. Issues regarding application scalability, security, and passing […] remain at the user's discretion.
Almost every developer wonders how they should develop their skills and which growth path to choose: vertical — becoming a manager, or horizontal — full-stack. Years of working on a single product, contrary to myths, becomes not a limitation but a valuable opportunity. In this article, we share the experience of our backend developer Alexey, who dedicated 6 years to certifications and […]
Compared to European countries, where distributed generation accounts for nearly 30% of total production today, in Russia, the share of distributed energy is estimated to be no more than 5-10%. Let's discuss whether Russian distributed energy has a chance to catch up with global trends, and whether consumers have motivation to move towards independent energy supply. Source: Beyond the numbers. […]
Janayugom is a daily newspaper published in the state of Kerala (India) in the Malayalam language and has approximately 100,000 subscribers. Until recently, they used proprietary Adobe PageMaker, but the age of the software (the last release was as far back as 2001), along with the lack of Unicode support, prompted management to look for alternatives. Discovering that the industry-standard Adobe InDesign, instead of a one-time […]