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Google ‘Pixel 5’ makes its first appearance in Android Open Source Project  9to5Google

If you have been looking for a simple dock/launcher that natively supports Wayland, LavaLauncher 1.6 is available as one such solution...

Microsoft's Edge roadmap reveals history sync coming this summer, Linux support coming  Neowin

Linux Computer 2020 Global Market Expected to Grow at CAGR (%) and Forecast to 2026  News Parents

Linux-based postmarketOS may support Android apps thanks to Anbox (PinePhone, Librem 5, and more)  Liliputing

Linux-based postmarketOS may support Android apps thanks to Anbox (PinePhone, Librem 5, and more)  Liliputing

With BUS1 not looking like it will come to fruition anytime soon as an in-kernel IPC mechanism and the kernel module for it not being touched since last March, the same developers continue pushing ahead with Dbus-Broker as the user-space implementation focused on D-Bus compatibility while being higher performing and more reliable than D-Bus itself...

D-Bus Broker 22 Released With Option To Use Newer Kernel Features  Phoronix

Linux-based postmarketOS may support Android apps thanks to Anbox (PinePhone, Librem 5, and more)  Liliputing

Google Scolds Samsung For Making Linux Kernel In Android More Hackable  Fossbytes

Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS  Ars Technica

This $200 Laptop Is Like a Chromebook You Can Hack  VICE

Arm has been developing the ASTC encoder as the texture compressor for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) as open-source but until last week was carrying a restrictive license...

Valve open-source driver developer Samuel Pitoiset has contributed some improvements to Mesa 20.1's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver benefiting GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards...

While GCC 10 will be releasing in the next month or two as the annual feature update to the GNU Compiler Collection, GCC 8.4 is expected for release soon along with GCC 9.3...

With the Linux 5.7 kernel cycle in two months there is some "spring cleaning" within the staging area that is leading to almost twenty-nine thousand lines of code being removed thanks to removing a deprecated feature...

Linux 5.7 Staging Will Be ~28.7k Lines Of Code Lighter Thanks To Nuking WUSB + UWB  Phoronix

It's been a while since last having any news to report on Mesa's Lima Gallium3D driver for old Mali 400/450 series hardware, but an important optimization was merged today...

Linux Software Market Technology Advancement and Demand 2020 to 2026  News Times

When I first heard about WebAssembly and the possibility of creating web user interfaces with Qt, just like I would in ordinary C++, I decided to take a deeper look at the technology.

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