Zorin OS 12.1 Lite, the Xfce one

Zorin OS 12.1 Lite is the first distribution from the Zorin team featuring Xfce desktop environment. Maybe that's the reason why I was not too convinced with its stability. Apart from the issue with Parole player that I mentioned above, I also received a black screen during my Live run of this operating system. The system restored after few seconds, but I was forced to enter the username (guess it: zorin without password), and all the open applications were closed.

5 Reasons Linux Is Now a Great Option for Anyone

With the rise of cloud services, more of us are now encountering Linux at work. People know it’s great for developers and does a good job of keeping the internet up and running — but why would anyone want to use Linux at home? At best, mentioning you run Linux might make people think you’re a hacker. More than likely, they might think you’re a bit weird. At least that’s how it is in the much of the U.S., where Windows is king and macOS is the only other option most people know exist.

Touch-panel PCs run Raspbian on Raspberry Pi CM3

Comfile has launched two IP65 protected, resistive touch panel PCs with 7- and 10.2-inch 800 x 480 displays, built around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3. In February, Saelig Co. announced distribution of Janz Tec’s Raspberry Pi 3-based emPC-A/RPI3 industrial controller. Now, Saelig has launched North American distribution of Korea-based Comfile’s ComfilePi line of touch panel computers built around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 (CM3) computer-on-module version of the Raspberry Pi 3.

today's leftovers

• The timing is perfect for a new Chromebook Pixel

  A rumor published by Android Police says Google is working on a follow-up to its discontinued 2nd-generation Chromebook Pixel, which hasn’t been available for purchase since mid-2016.

• WhatsApp Desktop – An Unofficial WhatsApp Desktop Client for Linux

  If you don’t know about WhatsApp by now then you have been living under a rock – and that is highly unlikely. But just in case that probability comes through, WhatsApp is a free instant messaging cross-platform application for smartphones.

• Observability: What's In A name?

  “Is observability just monitoring with another name?” “Observability: we changed the word because developers don’t like monitoring.” There’s been a lot of hilarious snark about this lately. Which is great, who doesn’t love A+ snark? Figured I’d take the time to answer, at least once. [...] You write Nagios checks to verify that a bunch of things are within known good-ish thresholds. You build dashboards with Graphite or Ganglia to group sets of useful graphs. All of these are terrific tools for understanding the known-unknowns about your system.

• oVirt 4.1.5 Provides Performance Boost With Gluster

  For those making use of Red Hat's oVirt as a virtualization management platform, there should be better performance now when using the Gluster network-attached file-system.

• Which Direction is the Schaff Signal Headed For Red Hat Inc (RHT)?

  Red Hat Inc (RHT) are being monitored this week as the Schaff Trend Cycle levels have shown a consistent uptrend over the course of the past 5 trading sessions. If the levels breach the key 70 level, a market reversal will be likely, according to this signal.

• Unusual Activity Spotted in Red Hat Inc (RHT)

• Nativ Vita

  This philosophy is evident in Nativ Vita's Linux and open-source internals...

• Google Touts Android Oreo's Tasty New Features

• Google's Android 8.0 Oreo has been served

• Liveblog: The Galaxy Note 8 launches August 23 at 11am ET