Open-source News

PinePhone $149 Linux smartphone starts shipping  Geeky Gadgets

Canonical's Daniel Van Vugt continues working on a variety of interesting performance optimizations for upstream GNOME as well as other usability enhancements for this desktop environment. One of the latest items being tackled is improving the quality of background images on GNOME...

Linux Operating System Market 2020 Analysis By Major Eminent Vendors: openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu Linux  Fusion Science Academy

Canonical this morning has announced Anbox Cloud for containerized workloads using Google's Android as the guest operating system...

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About inodes on Linux  How-To Geek

Fedora 32 could be two spins lighter with two little known variants of Fedora Linux set to be removed unless maintainers step up...

Linux Operating System Market (2020 To 2027) Global Industry Analysis with Top Players IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS  Dagoretti News

Linux Operating System Market – Major Technology Giants in Buzz Again | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS – Dagoretti News  Dagoretti News

Ubuntu Linux 20.04 Ditches A Feature That’s Been Annoying You For Years  Forbes

What Must be Considered Before Choosing a Container Platform?  CIOReview

The Genode operating system framework that's been going strong for over a decade and continuing to employ a micro-kernel architecture continues to plan for an interesting future...

Here's Why Windows 7 Users Should Switch to Linux  Dignited

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.

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React.js and React Native are popular open source platforms for developing user interfaces (UIs); both rank well for desirability and use in StackOverflow's 2019 Developer Survey. React.js was developed by Facebook in 2011 as a JavaScript library to address the need for cross-platform, dynamic, and high-performing UIs, while React Native, which Facebook released in 2015, is used for building native applications using JavaScript.

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When you power on your computer, there’s a lot more going on than you might think. One of the most important elements involved is the embedded controller (EC). This is what is responsible for providing abstractions for the battery, charging system, keyboard, touchpad, suspend/resume, and thermal control, among others. These controllers are typically proprietary and usually run proprietary firmware.

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Editor's note: This article is part of a series on working with mental health conditions. It details the author's personal experiences and is not meant to convey professional medical advice or guidance.

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Server-side Swift's slow support story sours some: Apple lang tailored for mobile CPUs, lacking in Linux world  The Register

The process of installing a Kubernetes Cluster on CentOS 8 is almost similar to that of CentOS 7 (which you can go through here), but the process here has a few changes. These changes,...

Have You Tried Kaisen Linux? — A New System Rescue Linux Distro  Fossbytes

The modern F18/Flang Fortran front-end to LLVM had been set to land in the LLVM mono repository last Monday that could have made it included as part of the LLVM 10.0 branch set for that day. The LLVM 10.0 branching happened as planned but the landing of this Fortran support did not...