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Wine-Staging has traditionally been around 800~850 patches over upstream while with Wine-Staging 5.11 this experimental/testing flavor of Wine has ticked down to just a 702 patch delta...

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Impact of Covid-19 Global K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market (2020 To 2027) | Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS  Surfacing Magazine

Mobian OS For PinePhone Aims To Bring Debian Linux On Mobile Devices  Fossbytes

The first batch of "drm-misc-next" changes have been sent in for DRM-Next that is targeting the Linux 5.9 merge window later this summer...

The First Batch Of DRM-Misc-Next Changes For Linux 5.9 Sent In  Phoronix

The First Batch Of DRM-Misc-Next Changes For Linux 5.9 Sent In  Phoronix

The NetBeans (also known as Apache Netbeans) is an open-source and award-winning IDE (integrated development environment) application for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac. The NetBeans IDE provides a much powerful Java application framework platform...

Android’s ‘Nearby Share’ File-Sharing Tech is Coming to Windows, Macs, Linux  Beebom

Xfce's "xfdesktop" desktop manager rolled out version 4.15 this week as the newest update...

LLVM is the latest open-source project working to shift their Git development terminology away from the "master" branch naming and to something more inclusive. Nearly everyone who voiced their opinion so far were in favor of this change, but there still are open matters such as what to call their new main development branch, the involved technical costs, and how quickly such a transition should happen...

HPL To Launch Online Technology Classes | Greater Hartford, CT Patch  Patch.com

Google plans to port Nearby Sharing, the ‘Android AirDrop’, to Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS  Explica

Android’s Nearby Share file-sharing feature may support Chrome OS, Windows, macOS, and Linux thanks to Google Chrome  XDA Developers

Wine 5.11 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot for this open-source project that allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux and other platforms...

Wine 5.11 Released With Updated Mono, Initial Work On NetIO Kernel Driver  Phoronix

Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux gets command line love, GPU support  BleepingComputer

Ubuntu Appliances for Raspberry Pi include AdGuard, MQTT, Nextcloud, openHAB, and PLEX  LinuxGizmos.com

Ubuntu Unity Distro: An Unofficial Desktop Revival  LinuxInsider.com

Raspberry Pi: Bring Google Stadia to the popular single-board computer  Notebookcheck.net