Android Leftovers

• Android Q: Everything we know so far about Google’s next mobile OS

• Details about Google's next version of the Android operating system — Android 'Q' — are already starting to come out (GOOG)

• Nokia X5 received Android 9 Pie

• Nokia 3.1 now appears running Android Pie at Geekbench

• The LG G7 ThinQ is now receiving the stable Android Pie update

• This week in Android: It’s weird phone week

• 12 essential apps for any Android phone

• Apps to enhance your Android phone

• Android: 5 games news you should have read this week

• 20 best new Android games released this week including Oddmar, Hang Line: Mountain Climber, and Galaxy Stack

• Are Android updates getting faster? Let’s look at the data

today's leftovers

• Parsing scientific names

• How to Check MySQL Database & Tables Size on linux ?

• How to Install Minecraft Server on CentOS 7

• Facebook open sources Spectrum for efficient uploading of images

• FreeBSD Journal column

  As of the January issue, the FreeBSD Journal will be free. You can access it, and all back issues, through a browser. You’ll need to register for it–the Foundation is still using it for fund-raising, but in a less direct manner.

• Keeping casual open source contributors happy and more news

  In this edition of our open source news roundup, we look at how scholars are bringing medieval literature into the digital age using open source software, keeping casual contributors to open source projects happy, the release of the Fifth Internet Edition of The Linux Command Line, and more.

• Create equalizer feature for video editing program

• Designing the future of cybersecurity in Europe

  I have been appointed the European Parliament’s rapporteur, so I will be leading the negotiations on the Parliament position. Read my draft report here.

  Cybersecurity is the process of enhancing the security of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It is important to understand that security cannot be improved by buying a product, like a virus scanner or a firewall, for example.

Leftovers: Servers, GPL Compliance, LibreOffice and Wayland's Weston

• ON Semiconductor Increases Support for Idaho State University Department of Electrical Engineering

  ON Semiconductor continues its support of, and collaboration with, the Idaho State University Department of Electrical Engineering by recently donating an industrial-grade Linux server, eight state-of-the-art computer workstations and associated design software. The new workstations will be used to train ISU electrical engineering students, and eventually to provide professional graduate-level education to ON Semiconductor employees. “We have already started using the donated equipment for current coursework related to semiconductor design. In addition to the equipment and software donation, ON Semiconductor design engineers are working with us to create a new course that they will also help teach this spring.” said Steve Chiu, director of the ISU electrical engineering program.

• How running websites has changed in the last two decades (for an Ars IT guru)

  I was a true nerd growing up in the 1980s—not in the hipster way but in the 10-pound-issue-of-Computer-Shopper-under-my-arm way (these things were seriously huge). I was thoroughly addicted to BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems) by the time I was 10. Maybe it's no surprise I ended up as a technical director for a science and tech site.

  In fact, I'd actually draw a direct line between the job of managing your own BBS (aka SysOping) to managing a modern Web infrastructure. And with everyone around Ars looking back given the site's 20th anniversary, let's make that line a bit clearer. It won't be an exhaustive history of websites, but here's how my own experiences with managing websites have evolved in the past two decades—plus how the tools and thinking have changed over time, too.

• Kernel sources for the Nokia 8 Sirocco and Xiaomi Redmi Note 2/2 Pro/Note 3 (MediaTek) are now available

  Xiaomi’s kernel source release policy, as per my conversation with senior officials as well as official statements made by them, is that the company would aim to release the kernel source of a device within three months after its launch. This policy decision was to apply prospectively and not retrospectively, though the company did show interest in providing kernel sources for older devices as well as it was still bound by the GPL.

• Help to spread the word about LibreOffice!

  Millions of people around the world use LibreOffice every day – but there are still some people who haven’t heard about our free, powerful, open source, Microsoft-compatible office suite.

• Wayland's Weston Moving Towards Its Next Release Soon

  Longtime Wayland developer Derek Foreman is working on coordinating the next release of the Weston reference compositor. Here are those early details and his hope to ship this next feature release in March. Derek is tentatively proposing a February feature freeze and for this next Weston update to debut in March. At this time there are no plans for an updated Wayland release with there being no pressing changes on the horizon.