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Documentation Chemistry
During the development of Nitrocid KS and all our other projects, we asserted that virtually none of the projects we have developed, including ones that date back to 2020 which once had a GitHub-based wiki, have any meaningful documentation. Nitrocid KS’s manual, which is hosted using the DocFX wiki system, currently suffers from the lack…
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Can you use a .NET console app as Init?
When Linux starts up, it first initializes the initial kernel functions, especially those that have to do with hardware like the HAL layer, and probes all the hardware installed on your computer. Once this is done, it begins to switch to user mode with several functions, and one of them is launching the initialization program,…
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How to install Termux with .NET 6.0
Ubuntu 22.04 and later recently packaged all of the .NET 6.0 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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TermRead released!
ReadLine.Reboot was released around June 2022 as a project to catch up where the original lead developer of the original ReadLine library for .NET, Toni Solarin-Sodara, after several forks. These, however, have failed to finish the project with the complete implementation, such as in the case of Latency’s fork, which attempted – and failed –…
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The impossible happened! .NET 6.0 in Official Linux Distro Repositories!
.NET 6.0 was released last year as a long-term support release to give you exciting new features, such as support for Apple Silicon chips used in the latest MacBooks and Macs in general, massive performance improvements, support for C# 10 and F# 6, improved support for WebAssembly, and much more to offer. It was originally…
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Modern .NET is now just .NET
.NET Core 3.1 was released on December 3, 2019, as a long-term release. It introduces support for C# 8.0, F# 4.7, Windows Desktop applications, single-file executable, and fast built-in JSON support. It’s now time to bid farewell to .NET Core 3.1, since it already went out of support. This means that the .NET Core branding…
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Started development of .NET 8.0
At November 23, Microsoft started development of the next LTS version of .NET which is to be released at November 2023 according to the planned schedule shown below: In the same month, .NET 7.0 was released at November 8th of this year, which means that not even 30 days has passed (15 days to be…
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.NET Core 3.1’s last month
.NET Core 3.1, as we always start with every article that talks about this version of .NET, was released for Windows, Linux, and macOS at December 3rd, 2019. It featured support for C# 8.0, F# 4.7, Windows Desktop application building, fast built-in JSON support, and more. At July 12th of 2022, Microsoft have recently announced…
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Color Blindness in ColorSeq
ColorSeq version 1.1 is released to support color blindness during the generation of the color sequences and various improvements in several areas of generation. This version of ColorSeq offers color blindness simulation using the 1997 formula made by Hans Brettel, Françoise Viénot, and John D. Mollon. So, seeing as more and more programs are getting…
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Ending support for ReadLine.Reboot
We have introduced you to ReadLine.Reboot back in June when we’re trying to expand the base library, ReadLine, after it got abandoned by Toni Solarin-Sodara in 2018. Since then, we have made claims that this reboot will keep being developed through its lifetime. Sadly, we have made our final decision regarding this project, and what…
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NuGet is deprecating the legacy cipher suites
NuGet used to support both the modern cipher suites and the legacy cipher suites for the connection to the main site, http://www.nuget.org. However, on August 30th, it has become clear that NuGet is deprecating the legacy cipher suites from their site so anyone who are still using the legacy cipher suites are no longer be…
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FuGet is back, but…
We have pinpointed about the FuGet availability issue in our previous entry where we discovered that NuGet have taken down the link pointing to FuGet for its unavailability. The FuGet developers have successfully managed to resolve the availability issue on their end, so NuGet put the link back live to the package description pages, and…
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C# Top-level statement console template problem partly solved
The top-level statement console template problem started when .NET 6.0 was released back in November 8th, 2022. During its development time, there was a proposal from a C# developer who suggested using the top-level statements with implicit usings and nullable contexts in the console template which was unchanged from the very start of .NET going…
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GRILO – Bootloader Simulator
After four years of no major application after Kernel Simulator, which was out in 2018, we finally decided to release the bootloader simulator imagined, called GRILO! You may be surprised by the origin of the name, but it’s a portmanteau of both names of the famous Linux bootloader still used by now, GNU GRUB, and…
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Is FuGet down?
FuGet was initially released in 2018 as a website application built by ASP.NET Core that lets you see what’s inside the NuGet package, included, but not limited to; documentation breakdown for each function, variable, and property; and decompiled code. It not only gives you these features, but also lets you take look at the API…
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Kernel Simulator 0.0.24.0
Did you remember PowerLine? Have you ever seen it and used it? If not, PowerLine is a terminal beautifier which will make your terminal prompt look more awesome than before. It uses its own glyph, which are usually spotted with the Nerd Font typefaces, and can be rendered on the terminal prompt if it’s supported.…
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AppVeyor configuration project version patching clarification
AppVeyor is a CI environment that can build projects of various types, like .NET 6.0 projects. It is highly customizable, given that you can either use its own way of building projects, or you can provide scripts for building projects. You can not only insert scripts before and after building, but you can also insert…
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Kernel Simulator 0.0.23.0
Today, Kernel Simulator just got a minor upgrade to the 0.0.23.0 to add some extra minor features to the 0.0.22.x series, with improvements in place. We’ll be introducing you to brand new features that this new version offers. No APM Mode Simulation Did you remember back in the ancient days of computing when you had…
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VisualCard Announcement
There are VCard parsers available for all the programming languages of your choice; like VObject, a Python implementation; ez-vcard, a Java implementation; and MixERP.Net.VCards, a .NET implementation. They are useful for getting information from the VCards and saving them to the VCard file in your contact application. However, we are announcing our solution for parsing…
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.NET Core 3.1 will be EOL soon
.NET Core 3.1 (LTS) was the second long term release for the modern .NET released in December 3, 2019. It was supported for three years, and was the suitable choice for your libraries and appliations. We have learned that .NET 6.0 was out in November 8, 2021, and that it’s the third long term release…
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Announcing Uname.NET
In 2020, we’ve released Inxi.NET as a .NET library to get hardware information from your computer. Initially, it was only available in Linux systems with Inxi installed. Over time, it got many improvements from the support of Windows and macOS systems to added hardware types. However, we’re announcing another library… Uname.NET Uname.NET is a sister…
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Kernel Simulator 0.0.22.0
Kernel Simulator 0.0.20.0 has experienced many improvements since its debut in February 22nd across several versions, including 0.0.21.0. The previous release has added new screensavers, the brand-new hex editor shell, and the ability to use custom notifications to serve your notices your own way. However, we’re thrilled to release another major version of Kernel Simulator!…
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The Flame of the New C# Console Template
Ever since we’ve released a discussion summary of the top-level statements console template protest, the discussion was still going, although it looks like that, according to the .NET 7.0 console rework task list, Microsoft have been reconsidering the decision taken about adopting the new console template as a default for .NET 6.0 projects. They said:…
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Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 released
Recently, Microsoft announced that they’re going to make the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 available to developers who would like to try out the new features of it. One of the striking features of this version of Visual Studio is that it will be 64-bit for the first time. However, not all the features…
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