January 2016
Mythbuntu Devs Need Your Help to Find a New MythTV Theme for the OS
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 31st of January 2016 11:56:27 PM Filed under
Remember Mythbuntu? Yeah, it has been a while since we've shared something here about the MythTV-based official Ubuntu Linux flavor, as they've decided a long time ago not to participate in regular releases of Ubuntu.
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What’s going on with GNOME To Do
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 31st of January 2016 11:54:15 PM Filed under
Aye folks! Since a few weeks ago, GNOME To Do saw quite a big number of changes. As some of you may not be strict git followers, a good review of the latest changes may come in handy. Let’s go!
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Linux 4.4.1
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 31st of January 2016 11:52:25 PM Filed under
I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.1 kernel.
All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 4.4.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.4.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st...
thanks,
greg k-h
Also: Linux 4.3.5
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KDevelop 5.0 Beta 2 and 4.7.3 Releases!
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 31st of January 2016 11:46:26 PM Filed under
Hey all!
I have the pleasure to announce the releases of two new KDevelop versions:
On one hand, there is the new and shiny KDevelop 5.0 Beta 2 release, which brings us much closer to a final release. Tons of issues have been resolved, many features got polished, and even our UI cleaned up a bit here and there. And did I mention impoved OS X and Windows support? See here for more:
https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-50-beta2-release
Besides this new beta release, which is where most of our effort went into, I am also happy to announce KDevelop 4.7.3, a new bugfix release of our latest stable KDE 4 based KDevelop. Several annoying problems are resolved now, see the announcement for more information:
https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-473-release
Many thanks to everyone involved!
Cheers
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Watch: Ubuntu MATE Linux Operating System Running on NanoPi 2 SBC
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 31st of January 2016 11:09:21 PM Filed under
Chinese SBC seller FriendlyARM published a new video on their YouTube account to show us that the Ubuntu MATE operating system runs flawlessly on the NanoPi 2 single-board computer attached to a capacitive touch LCD.
We saw Ubuntu MATE running on many devices, but this would be the first time when we see it used on this very interesting setup, a cool NanoPi 2 SBC connected to a capacitive touch LCD via HDMI output. The Inernet connection is provided via the built-in Wi-Fi module.
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Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Gets Its First Point Release, Adds PPC, x86 and ARM64 Fixes
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 31st of January 2016 10:38:39 PM Filed under
It is finally here! The first point release of the Linux 4.4 LTS kernel series, which was announced by Linus Torvalds on January 10, 2016, arrives today for GNU/Linux distributions that already adopted it.
Linux kernel 4.4.1 LTS is a fairly normal maintenance build that promises to address various issues with the x86, AMR64 (AArch64), and PPC (PowerPC) hardware architectures, updates a few USB and networking drivers (mostly Ethernet), adds multiple sound enhancements, and improves the networking stack, especially for things like B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced, Open vSwitch, IPv6, IPv4, Phonet, SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol), as well as XFRM.
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Android Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 31st of January 2016 09:33:59 PM Filed under
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Acer Introduces Android Version of Liquid Jade Primo, To Run With Android Marshmallow
Android Headlines reported that the Android-powered Jade Primo is not confirmed by Acer yet but since its specifications are the same with the other variant, the device is expected to sport a 5.5-inch display with a full HD resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. It will also be equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor along with a 3 GB of RAM. As for its internal storage capacity, the handset will have 32 GB.
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Blackberry preparing to power business with more Android launches in 2016
The device was initially launched in the US, Canada, UK and Germany. In the US, the company the company has also extended distribution to other network carriers Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. It already existed on AT&T. The device has also been launched in more markets like France, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Hong Kong.
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Blackberry sounds ready to embrace an Android future
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BlackBerry Exec: "Only Android as a Platform"
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Stock Android should score native theme support! Here are some gorgeous themes that support this
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SwiftKey gets update that brings all Android 6.0 emoji to the third party keyboard app
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Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow Update Released For Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge
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Kickstart this security camera app for your old Android phone
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today's leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 31st of January 2016 05:56:19 PM Filed under
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CoreOS Overview, Part One
CoreOS is an important part of many container stacks. In this series of posts, we’re going to take a look at CoreOS, why it’s important, and how it works. If you don’t know anything about CoreOS already, don’t worry. We start at the beginning.
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First Point Release of OpenELEC 6.0 Solves Issues for Raspberry Pi 2 Users
The developers of the OpenELEC (Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) open-source and cross-platform media center operating system announced today, January 30, the release of OpenELEC 6.0.1.
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Arch Linux Releases Pacman 5.0
The Arch Linux crew has announced the release of their Pacman 5.0 package manager.
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Ubuntu 16.04 Alpha 2 Released, Available to Download
Today sees the second alpha release of the Ubuntu 16.04 development cycle made available to download.
Alpha 2 arrives a day later than originally planned, and sees just three flavors release builds as part of the milestone.
Xubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME and Kubuntu sit this alpha out. Why? To paraphrase a recent comment from a Kubuntu dev: “There’s simply nothing to test yet.”
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Skype for Linux - A Good Microsoft App for Linux [Ed: very bad, very dangerous]
Skype for Linux is a video chat and voice call application made by Microsoft that happens to have a Linux build as well. Let's take a closer look at what Microsoft is doing for Linux users.
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AMD and Intel Graphics
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 31st of January 2016 05:55:30 PM Filed under

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Running The Radeon R7 260X With The Experimental AMDGPU Driver
A few days back I showed the Radeon vs. AMDGPU vs. Catalyst kernel driver potential when testing on the R9 290 "Hawaii" graphics card that has experimental and disabled-by-default support for the new AMDGPU kernel driver primarily designed for AMD GCN 1.2 GPUs and newer. Those results were interesting and showed some areas where AMDGPU came out faster than Radeon, so I decided to run experimental tests on another GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPU that can be made to work with this kernel driver.
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Intel Open-Source Developer Talks About Vulkan
Jason Ekstrand of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center had a main track presentation on Saturday at FOSDEM about Vulkan.
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today's howtos
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 31st of January 2016 05:52:32 PM Filed under
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| Red Hat Hires a Blind Software Engineer to Improve Accessibility on Linux Desktop
Accessibility on a Linux desktop is not one of the strongest points to highlight. However, GNOME, one of the best desktop environments, has managed to do better comparatively (I think).
In a blog post by Christian Fredrik Schaller (Director for Desktop/Graphics, Red Hat), he mentions that they are making serious efforts to improve accessibility.
Starting with Red Hat hiring Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer to lead the effort in improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Workstation in terms of accessibility.
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