Linux on Mobile: KDE Connect, Tizen and Android



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KDE Connect Sprint
Last weekend the core KDE Connect development team met for a sprint at the amazing Verse office in Barcelona. It was an amazing opportunity to get to know each other (most of us have never met before) and discuss the future of KDE Connect in an amazing and productive atmosphere.
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Introducing the Facer Smartwatch Tracker
Interestingly, Wear OS by Google which was formerly known as Android wear is having a market tie with Samsung’s Tizen. Although, Wear OS has been leading by a slight margin increase in the past weeks.
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Shepherd Tricks You Into Reading Something Instead Of Scrolling Though Facebook
The simple web app lets you create a home menu icon for your phone that looks like it’s for Twitter or Facebook. The twist: a certain percentage of the time it opens Pocket or Kindle instead of your social media addiction. The idea is to prompt you to read something substantial instead of just scrolling through your feeds.
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8 Best Note-Taking Apps For Android Smartphones In 2018
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8 Best Android Password Manager Apps For Extra Security In 2018
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| This week in KDE: Adaptive panel opacity and auto-restored unsaved documents in Kate!
A big Plasma feature was added this week: adaptive Plasma panel opacity! Now the panel and panel applets are more transparent than they were before, allowing more of a tint from the beautiful wallpaper on your desktop! But what’s this? You’re about to complain that you maximize all your windows so the increased transparency will look ugly? In fact, we now make your panel and panel applets 100% opaque when there are any maximized windows, ensuring no ugly effect! But what if you don’t want that either? Well, if you don’t want adaptive opacity we now let you make your panel and panel applets always transparent, or always opaque! Hopefully that should make everyone happy. Let’s give a round of applause to Niccolò Venerandi and Jan Blackquill for this work, which will show up in Plasma 5.22.
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Kubuntu Focus M2 Linux laptop now available with NVIDIA RTX 30x series graphics
The Kubuntu Focus M2 is a 4.4 pound laptop that ships with the Kubuntu GNU/Linux distribution pre-installed. First launched in October, the 4.4 pound notebook has a 15.6 inch, 144 Hz full HD matte display, an Intel Core i7-10875H octa-core processor and NVIDIA graphics.
When the notebook launched last year it was available with NVIDIA RTX 20 GPUs, but now you can configure the system with up to RTX 3080 graphics.
Entry-level configurations are also getting a price drop.
| Self-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server virty users see stealth inflation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server has maintained the same starting price over the past few years. Now, changes to the way the software is licensed have doubled the cost for some self-support customers using virtual machines.
The change dates back to 2019, when Red Hat said its Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, Self-support (RH0197181) was in the process of being retired and has been superseded by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Entry Level, Self-support (RH00005). According to a Red Hat spokesperson, RH00005 debuted in 2013 and RH0197181 stopped being sold in 2015.
Both of these RHEL SKUs sell, or were sold, for $349 in the US. But only the discontinued product allows the use of virtualization at the lowest price tier.
Now customers who opted for the discontinued entry-level offering have found they need to pay more than twice as much ($799 for the standard tier) to run a guest VM on a physical system.
What's more, Red Hat in its subscription guide declares that its self-supported option "is not intended for production environments," making it clear that self-supported commercial usage with VM support requires greater investment that before.
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