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Terminaux 2.0 is out now!
Since Terminaux 1.0 was released in August 2022, we’ve made continuous improvements to several of the features, especially the console reader. Yesterday, Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 3’s development has finished, but it isn’t released yet until December 28th, 2023 comes. Terminaux 2.0 strives to improve many core features that Terminaux 1.0 contains. To download Terminaux…
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Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 3 countdown
Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 is a highly anticipated version that is still in development. It features a huge amount of feature additions compared to 0.0.24.0, general improvements that make your experience more enjoyable, API changes that make your mod more powerful, and many more features and breakthroughs. Since Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 2 was released on…
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Our libraries and Source Link
Our libraries were released with quality checks in place to ensure that they work properly before they get released. Unit tests and demonstration applications were packed with the library to ensure that these libraries work properly. Also, our applications, such as Nitrocid KS, use a subset of our libraries, especially Terminaux. However, a major problem…
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How to install Termux with .NET 8.0
Ubuntu 23.10 and later recently packaged all of the .NET 8.0 packages or later that were available in Microsoft’s public repositories. Although it was proven to be extremely difficult to package for because the build system uses the Internet and the Debian Packaging Guidelines explicitly stated that no package in the main archive may use…
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Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 3. Are you ready?
Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 is a highly anticipated version that is still in development. It features a huge amount of feature additions compared to 0.0.24.0, general improvements that make your experience more enjoyable, API changes that make your mod more powerful, and many more features and breakthroughs. Since Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 2 was released on…
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Rebuild All currently doesn’t work properly
For the modern .NET projects, you’ll notice that if you alter a file that is to be included in the resources and rebuild the entire solution using the Rebuild All button, you’ll notice that you can’t run the application properly, because you’ll see an interesting error message printed to the console. After that, you’ll notice…
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SharpLyrics is replaced with BassBoom
Earlier this year, we’ve released SharpLyrics to provide you with an easy-to-use lyrics parsing library. It’s able to parse both the normal lyrics (.LRC) file and the lyrics file with the word timings. This library was working well, which meant that there were no maintenance releases needed. However, BassBoom was released on October 1st, 2023,…
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Inxi.NET and Uname.NET End of Life
Inxi.NET was released in the last quarter of 2020 as a library that used to be a wrapper to the Inxi application to get hardware information. Initially, it only supported Linux systems, but we’ve added Windows support with it to satisfy the Windows users. Inxi.NET gained several new features, including the performance improvements and a…
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BassBoom Documentation is Ready
BassBoom 0.0.1 was released to the public back on October 1st after much testing, but the documentation was lacking because the GitBook documentation of the library didn’t exist. As we were making the GotBook documentation, we realized that we’re simultaneously making the second alpha version of BassBoom released yesterday, dubbed as BassBoom 0.0.2, and we…
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Updates for Nitrocid KS 0.1.0
Nitrocid KS 0.1.0, a much anticipated release for our kernel simulator, will be the most exciting release out of all the releases we’ve done in the past five years of ongoing development. Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 features an improved look and feel, many new features, and performance improvements. This upcoming release has seen many improvements and…
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SpecProbe’s macOS support
SpecProbe is a hardware prober that allows you to get information about your computer’s hardware, including the CPU, the RAM, and the storage devices. It’s available for all the C# projects and Visual Basic projects that use the modern .NET. However, the initial version of SpecProbe only supported Linux and Windows systems, so users of…
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.NET 8.0 LTS released!
The fourth Long Term Support (LTS) release for the modern .NET framework, .NET 8.0 has just been released! This release features performance improvements across various areas, feature additions, and many changes that will improve your .NET development experience. To download this version of .NET, visit the below link by clicking on the buttons shown below:…
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Regarding the programming articles
When this blog site first appeared, it talked about our experience with computers, including tips and tricks with computers. Over time, this blog site is populated with programming articles. However, it looks like DEV.to is a better place to write programming-related articles there. That programming blogging platform was there for developers to write their blog…
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UseShellExecute Process and StartInfo Debugging on .NET
Please note that this article is published incomplete, so complete details can be found here. Check the relevant ticket here. We’ve recently run an investigation made internally that involves the Process class and its UseShellExecute feature. This is an investigation about a pitfall when debugging the StartInfo property of a process that is to be…
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Another update regarding Nitrocid KS 0.1.0
Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 is an upcoming release of the Nitrocid application, a PC terminal app that would simulate how would our future-planned kernel, Nitrocid, be integrated with our operating system. As of the writing, we’ve already released Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 2 on August 10th. Since then, it witnessed many core changes to the kernel,…
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BassBoom! Announcement
When we discovered that there were actually no working C# managed cross-platform libraries that can deal with MP3 files and play them, we came up with a solution that’s going to excite all of you. For instance, NAudio can only play music files on Windows systems, while it’s basically useless as a music player on…
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Regarding Assembly Signing for our libraries
We have started signing our assemblies, with Nitrocid KS and Terminaux being the first two assemblies to be signed using the signing key that’s available for all our open-source projects. This signing key was made exclusively for our .NET projects. However, it looks like we didn’t sign the remaining apps and libraries. Starting September 13th,…
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Nitrocid Second Beta
Since we’ve released Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 1 back on the fifth-year anniversary of the initial Nitrocid KS release (Kernel Simulator back then), we’ve made massive improvements to this application and its dependents. We’ve started the initial development of the upcoming beta version of Nitrocid KS back on August 10th, 2022, to bring with you…
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Unification of the Terminal Libraries (Followup)
This is another article clarifying our plans on how to release a brand new terminal library, Terminaux. As we told you previously, Terminaux is a library that allows you to manipulate with console and its functions, like display, color, and even VT sequences. Terminaux, as we previously said, is a unification of the three libraries,…
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Unification of the Terminal Libraries
We’ve made efforts to make one of the best terminal manipulation libraries available for C# developers through NuGet. Here’s how it all started. It all started when Nitrocid KS (Kernel Simulator back then) needed to have a functional shell on Linux because it behaved in an inappropriate way in Linux systems according to our tests…
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Nitrocid KS Development Update
We have highlighted the changes done for Nitrocid KS, including its development. Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 1 was out on February 22nd, 2023, to allow you to get an early insight about how the new and upcoming kernel version would look like. As for the updates regarding the development of Nitrocid KS, we’ve made a…
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Obsoleting Extensification
Extensification was released in 2020 to aid in making otherwise complicated methods a simple thing to do. It was initially intended for Nitrocid KS (Kernel Simulator at the time), but later extended to some of our projects. It was because we were using Visual Basic at the time, which was known for its limited development.…
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MSBuild PPA deprecated, again
On 2021-04-02, the MSBuild PPA was renewed to build the Visual Studio project building software for .NET, MSBuild. When the PPA was rebuilt, Microsoft didn’t put .NET Runtime and SDK into the Ubuntu repositories at the time. However, as we told you previously, Microsoft managed to do the impossible to put both .NET 6.0 and…
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KS’s 5-Year Anniversary Celebration
It’s been a while since we’ve made an update to our kernel simulator, which is currently leveraging the .NET technologies to simulate the kernel (our futuristic kernel) and the shell, which contains numerous applications. The last kernel update we’ve released is 0.0.24.4, which was out in August 10, 2022. It brought GRILO compatibility improvements to…
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Re-targeting libraries
We used to make libraries that target .NET Standard 2.1 and .NET Framework 4.8 as minimum requirements since most of our libraries came from the source code of Kernel Simulator. Over time, new libraries get released, targeting the .NET Standard 2.0 framework to provide support for the widest range of .NET versions possible. Unfortunately, one…
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