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LibreOffice Document Viewer 2.0 App Officially Released for Ubuntu Phones

A few minutes ago, Stefano Verzegnassi had the great pleasure of announcing on his Google+ page that the LibreOffice Document Viewer application landed in the Ubuntu Store for all supported Ubuntu Phone devices.

According to Mr. Verzegnassi, the Ubuntu Document Viewer 2.0 is now live in the Ubuntu Store and lets Ubuntu Phone owners view all sorts of documents created with the Libre… (read more)

Wine 1.8 Gets a Third Release Candidate Build, 40 Bugs Have Been Fixed

Just a few moments ago, Alexandre Julliard announced the release of the third RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming Wine 1.8 open-source and free implementation of Windows on Unix and GNU/Linux operating systems.

According to the internal changelog, attached at the end of the article for reference, Wine 1.8 is now in code freeze, which means that this third Release Candidate version brings only fixes for some of the most annoying issues reported by users since the pr… (read more)

Etnaviv DRM Driver Steps Closer To Mainline Linux Kernel

It’s been a while since hearing anything new on Etnaviv, the open-source reverse-engineered DRM driver for supporting the ARM-based Vivante GPUs. That changed this morning with revised patches being sent out for this driver as it looks to be pulled into the mainline Linux kernel…

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The Other New Budget Laptop For Linux Testing

With having returned the Toshiba Carrizo-powered laptop due to its faulty heatsink fan, I decided on a different laptop to pickup for some extra budget laptop benchmarks this holiday season…

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Intel Is Working On Miracast (HDMI Over Wireless) For Linux

Developers at Intel are working on Miracast support for X.Org and Wayland on Linux to transmit HDMI signals over wireless for desktop mirroring, etc…

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SteamOS Brewmaster 2.55 Moves to Linux Kernel 4.1.13 to Fix an Intel Video Driver Bug

Today, December 4, Valve has pushed a new update of the SteamOS Brewmaster to the brewmaster_beta channel, version 2.55, which is a drop-in replacement for the SteamOS Brewmaster 2.49 release announced last month.

According to the release notes posted earlier on the Steam Universe group on Steam, the SteamOS Brewmaster 2.55 update introduces a new kernel packages (linux-latest, firmware-free, and firmware-nonfree) based on the upstream, long-term supported Linux 4.1.13 kern… (read more)

Patched Security Flaw Exposes 6.1 Million IoT, Mobile Devices to Remote Code Execution

An old software development kit still very much in use is placing millions of devices at risk.

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Top 5 Open Source Community Metrics to Track

So you decided to use metrics to track your free, open source software (FOSS) community. Now comes the big question: Which metrics should I be tracking?

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How to Install the Enlightenment E20 Desktop on Ubuntu 15.10

The new Enlightenment E20 Desktop has just been released. The Enlightenment project consists of the Enlightenment Window manager (which was started in 1996), the EFL library that contains graphic, widget, network, and other basic desktop functions and some applications that are based on EFL like a terminal emulator, a video player, and an IDE. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the E20 Desktop on the current Ubuntu 15.10.

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Hands-On with the Raspberry Pi Zero, part 4: Wrap up

Concluding the Raspberry Pi Zero series, with a look at some technical details, compatibility and a summary of a week’s Hands-On experience.

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