PinePhone Mobian Edition Is Coming on January 18, Powered by Debian Linux

I know many of you out there have been waiting on a Debian-powered PinePhone, so here it is. PinePhone Mobian Community Edition is running Mobian Linux, an embedded operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux’s ARM64 (AArch64) port. Mobian offers a pure Debian GNU/Linux experience on mobile devices and uses Purism’s GNOME-based Phosh (Phone Shell) user interface by default. Mobian Linux on the PinePhone has been tweaked to greet users with an installer where they can choose a password and enable full disk encryption.

How to Install Linux Mint’s Cinnamon Desktop in Ubuntu

Linux Mint is known for its cinnamon desktop environment. It is a free and open-source desktop environment designed and developed based on GNOME 3. If you are having Ubuntu on your desktop and get tried of using GNOME 3. Then you can easily switch to the cinnamon desktop in Ubuntu with few lines of command.

Fedora Leftovers

 

• Join Us: Design Team Sessions Live!

  Just before the Christmas holidays, you may have participated in one of three impromptu live design sessions / video chats I held. In the first session, a group of Fedorans did a critique on one of the Fedora 34 wallpaper mockups. In the second session, another group of us did a collaborative design session for a custom Fedora Discourse theme. In the last session, we did a live digital painting session. 

 

• Fedora 34 Planning For Better Font Rendering By Enabling HarfBuzz In FreeType

  Fedora plans to flip on the HarfBuzz text shaping engine support with the FreeType font rasterization engine. In doing so, this should yield improved hinting of glyphs especially with languages that need more complicated text shaping. FreeType has supported HarfBuzz for more than a half-decade (after HarfBuzz was originally was born out of that project) while Fedora hasn't enabled its usage until the planned change for Fedora 34 this spring. 

• Fedora 32 : Can be better? part 012.

  Pidgin is a chat program that lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously.  Pidgin can be installed on multiple operating systems and platforms.  Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: I.R.C., Jabber/XMPP, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr.

Android Leftovers

• Samsung unveils its new high-end 5G Android phones in answer to iPhone 12

• Samsung is bringing SmartThings to Android Auto

• Android Auto Is Getting Support For Samsung SmartThings

• Samsung is bringing SmartThings dashboard to Android Auto

• Samsung SmartThings now lets you control your car with Android Auto

• Samsung’s SmartThings will soon be integrated with Android Auto

• Samsung's One UI 3 brings Android 11 and other features to your Galaxy devices

• Sony seeding stable Android 11 to Xperia 1 and Xperia 5 units

• CBORD Expands Mobile Credential Support to Include Android Phones

• Google ditches dangerous Android apps from Play Store that tried to over charge users

• Why You Should Stop Using Your Default Android Browser