More Android Leftovers

• Lenovo lays off hundreds of Motorola employees

  Lenovo has announced a new round of layoffs. Globally, the layoffs impact "less than 2 percent of its 55,000 employees," with a majority of the job cuts targeted at Motorola employees in the U.S. According to Droid-Life, over 50% of Motorola's workforce in the U.S. is being let go, affecting over 700 jobs out of the remaining 1,200. That's a reduction of over 95% from the 20,000 employees Motorola had when Google acquired the company in 2011.

• Chrome for Android will let you download entire web pages and use less data for video

• BlackBerry's Unannounced DTEK60 Android Smartphone Surfaced In FCC Filing

• Telegram adds photo masks, GIF creation, and trending stickers

• Images of Chromecast Ultra leak ahead of October 4th unveiling

Red Hat and Fedora

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Receives “Buy” Rating from Credit Agricole SA

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Rating Reiterated by William Blair

• Drexel Hamilton Reiterates Buy Rating for Red Hat Inc. (RHT)

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Stock Rating Reaffirmed by Credit Agricole SA

• Fedora Join meetings to begin this week

  We've had the Fedora Join SIG around for a bit now, but we haven't been very active. Recently we've seen an increase in community members willing to participate in the SIG, and in combination with the work that CommOps is doing to improve the "joining experience" for newbies, we thought that it's a good time to gain some traction.

• Fedora 25 Alpha and processing.

  Is simple to use. You can used with java also with python and android mode. Come with many examples and tutorials. Today I tested with Fedora 25 alpha.

today's leftovers

• My Experiences Converting Users To GNU/Linux

  My wife, TLW, runs GNU/Linux with few problems. She uses a tablet, an Odroid-C2 ARMed thick client, and a big notebook all running Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu and her Android/Linux smartphone and her scanner and printer all deal with Beast, my GNU/Linux server. I have her file-system plugged in via NFS so she can do IT in bed, in front of the TV, on TV, or in her office and all her thousands of pictures, documents, scans etc. are all in the same place. She doesn’t even have much problem using Ubuntu or XFCE4 on Debian because she mostly uses the same applications all day long. It just works for her and memories of That Other Operating System are fading. She was locked to a single thick client with limited capabilities in those Dark Days. She had repeated crashes and malware. Today, her issues with IT are things like changing the name of a file on the FTP server or how to scan a light image or…, real problems, not problems M$ causes billions of people every day.

• Shame on Microsoft for Leaving Surface Pro Customers in the Dark

  When Microsoft came out with its first batch of Surface tablets a few years ago, the company took a bath on them. It didn't help that they were conceived around the unpopular Windows 8 and the now-defunct Windows RT and that the prospects for the OS were in question. After Microsoft wrote off $900 million on its money-losing Surface business, the deathwatch was on. But the Intel-based Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2 showed a glimmer of hope, and Microsoft finally delivered a solid hit with the Surface Pro 3. After that water­shed release, the Surface division is now an important business that brings in more than $1 billion revenue per quarter. Yet Microsoft isn't showing much appreciation toward the customers who helped put its Surface business on solid footing.

• A quick introduction to Audacity for teachers

• SX 2.2 RELEASE

  Skylable is proud to announce immediate availability of SX 2.2. The new release provides a significant performance boost by improving calculation, index usage and maintaining cache of frequently computed values, as well as performing background propagation of all replicas above 1 by default. Additionally, sxfs now enables caching of smaller objects for improved latency. The source code and binary packages are available for download now. SX 2.2 is backward compatible with previous 2.x releases, and all you need to do is to run sxsetup –upgrade on every node after updating it!

• 3 Awesome Themes For Plank, The Linux Dock App

  Plenty of people use the desktop dock Plank on their Linux desktop — and for good reason. Plank is a nimble, customisable desktop dock for Linux desktops.

• hackmud, a cyberpunk themed text-based hacking simulator is now out with Linux support

  The game is listed as Single-player and Multi-player, so it's not entirely clear what type of game it is. As it also claims it's an MMO. I think the developer needs to make it much clearer exactly what is online and what is offline.

• Yooka-Laylee has another trailer, featuring Shovel Knight

• ContractPatch, Step 2: Understanding the power balance

  At the point you are presented with a job offer, your prospective employer really wants to hire you. Chances are, they’ve screened and interviewed a number of candidates and put a lot of work into the process. Your manager has thought deeply about who they want in the position and has probably imagined how it will all work out with you in the role. Both you and the hiring decision-maker(s) are probably very optimistic about what you’ll accomplish in the role and how well you’ll get along working together. At this point, no one wants to go back to the drawing board and start the process over again. You will be excited to start the new job but it’s worth taking a step back to appreciate the unusual position you are in with your new employer.

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• Black Lab Linux 8 Beta 3 Is Out with Full EFI Support, Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  Softpedia was informed today, September 26, 2016, by Black Lab Software's CEO Robert J. Dohnert about the availability of the third Beta development snapshot of the upcoming Black Lab Linux 8 GNU/Linux operating system. Black Lab Linux 8 "Onyx" Beta 3 is here approximately three weeks after the second Beta pre-release and it comes with a major change. It is no longer based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), as the development team decided to switch base and move to the next Ubuntu LTS version, namely Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus).

• DevOps: All Development, No Database

  Since the last time I touched working code in a production environment, it’s no exaggeration to say that no part of the development process remains untouched. Over the last decade plus, effectively every aspect of the application development process has been scrutinized, rethought and in many cases reinvented. From version control to build systems to configuration and deployment to monitoring, modern development’s toolchain is multi-part and sophisticated. As it must be. Processes that work for code released in cycles measured in months cannot be expected to handle workflows measured in days or minutes. For all that the process of developing software has evolved, however, the database remains curiously overlooked. Consider the example of Cloud Native. Describing a modern, typically legacy-free approach to building applications appropriate for cloud environments, the term Cloud Native has gone from informal descriptor to accepted industry shorthand in short order – to the extent that it has its own technical foundation. If we look at the membership of that foundation, the CNCF, it would appear that the roster includes no database vendors at the Platinum or Gold membership levels, at least if you assume Google’s involvement is around Kubernetes and not tools such as BigQuery. Of the 41 silver members, meanwhile, two can be considered database vendors: Crunchy and Treasure Data.

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