December 2015
The Next Version Of Android Wear Is Being Tested On The Huawei Watch, And It Finally Activates The Speaker
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of December 2015 11:17:09 PM Filed under
Fair play to Huawei for including a speaker on its self-titled Android Wear watch long before the software actually supported it. That being said, I'm sure Huawei Watch owners are wondering when their expensive gadget will have all of its parts activated so they can stop carrying around an extra quarter-ounce of extraneous electronics. According to multiple sources, that speaker will be activated soon, specifically whenever Google gets around to issuing the next version of Android Wear's firmware.
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16 best and worst Android features of 2015
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of December 2015 10:46:25 PM Filed under
Like years before it, 2015 saw the release plenty of big-name Android smartphones. Flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S6, LG G4, Motorola Moto X Pure Edition, Sony Xperia Z4/Z5, and the Nexus 6P were all just a few of the great options available to Android fans. While each device brought something new to the table, there was (and always will be) some glaring features missing in every single one.
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Ringing in 2016 with 64 open-spec, hacker friendly SBCs
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of December 2015 10:41:23 PM Filed under

In 2015, the number of open-spec, hacker friendly single board computers running Linux or Android has continued to grow while prices have dropped to unprecedented levels. Low-cost boards such as the Chip, Raspberry Pi Zero, and Orange Pi PC have set a higher bar for price/performance ratio, while on the high end, we saw the first 64-bit, ARMv8 hacker SBCs arrive at surprisingly low prices. Meanwhile, the board that matters most to makers around the world — the Raspberry Pi — was updated to a Pi 2 model with a modern quad-core, ARMv7 processor that opens up new applications and a wider range of Linux distributions.
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Calculate Linux 15.12 released
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of December 2015 07:45:09 PM Filed under
We are happy to announce the release of Calculate Linux 15.12.
Calculate Linux Desktop, featuring either the KDE SC 4 (CLD), the MATE (CLDM) or the Xfce (CLDX) environment, Calculate Directory Server (CDS), Calculate Media Center (CMC), Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) and CLSK with KDE SC 5, Calculate Scratch Server (CSS) are all available for download.
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Don't believe the hype: That GRUB backspace bug wasn't a big deal
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of December 2015 05:42:51 PM Filed under

You can hack any Linux system just by pressing the backspace key 28 times! That's what some sites would have you believe after an unfortunate GRUB bug was recently made public. But this won't actually allow you to easily own any Linux system.
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This Week in Techrights
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of December 2015 05:10:35 PM Filed under
- Microsoft’s Latest Patent Aggression Comes Under Fire From the EFF, Former GNU/Linux Company the Patent’s Target
- Software Patents Used by Patent Trolls in the United States Are Squashed in Courts
- EPO Coverage to Increase in 2016, Including UPC Reality Checks
- EPO a “European Institution Which Does Not Fall Under EU Law”
- Today’s Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Talk: EU Software and Business Method Patents: Call for Action
- Buying Panels and Paying the Media to Cement Personal Agenda: The Bill Gates Common Core Case Mirrors the Battistelli Unitary Patent Case
- In Memory of Ian Murdock, Our Daily Links to Increase Coverage of Police Brutality
- Links 30/12/2015: Death of Murdock, Microsoft Blocks Linux Game Port
- Links 29/12/2015: SparkyLinux 4.2, Ian Murdock’s Rants
- Links 28/12/2015: Corporate Media Associates Linux With N. Korea and Abuses, Linux 4.4 RC7 Released
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Rating KDE Applications: Great to Not too Good
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of December 2015 04:23:45 PM Filed under
On the Manjaro mail forum, a thread is rating KDE applications into three categories: second to none, decent, and better uninstalled and replaced.
Despite the modern proliferation of desktop environments, such a rating could only be done with GNOME or KDE. No other desktops have encouraged as extensive ecosystems of applications, and, in fact, most modern desktops borrow from GNOME.
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Leftovers: OSS
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of December 2015 02:23:18 PM Filed under
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MuseScore 2.0.2 Brings A Bunch Of New Features
As you may know, MuseScore is an open-source music composition and notation software, allowing the users tp create, edit and print music in an WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) environment.
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How software developers helped end the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone
A team of open source software developers solved the problem that most urgently needed solving: distributing wages to healthcare workers
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2015 at a glance: Open Source Yearbook
For our first Open Source Yearbook, we reached out to dozens of open source organizations and community members and asked them to contribute articles that help provide a feel for 2015. What were a few of the LibreOffice extensions that stood out in 2015? Which Drupal modules were notable? Which books would publishers highlight if they could only pick a handful from the past year? What did open source wearables and 3D printing look like in 2015? And how in the world could we pick one best couple for our yearbook without offending all the other fabulous open source couples in the world? The 2015 Open Source Yearbook answers all these questions, and many more.
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Best of Opensource.com: Education
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LinkedIn reflects on its open-source successes in 2015
With 2015 coming to an end, LinkedIn Corp. has taken a look back at its year of using, developing and contributing to open-source software.
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November/December 2015 - Gent and Mexico
RMS gave his speech "Copyright vs Community" at the Quetelet auditorium, Sint Pietersplein, in Gent, Belgium, on November 17th, to a diverse student audience.
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Happy GNU Year! Last chance to give in 2015
Thanks to the free software community's giving, we have already raised more than $250,000 toward our goal of $450,000 by January 31st, 2016. As we look to the new year, we at the Free Software Foundation are feeling optimistic about our plans for 2016.d
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Glass Half – Brilliant and Hilarious short from the Blender Institute.
Directed by Beorn Leonard and produced by Ton Roosendaal, Blender’s original founder and chairman of the Blender Foundation, the film is reminiscent in tone of Pixar’s shorts, with the key difference that all assets, including tutorials for some of the techniques used in the film, are free and can be downloaded from Blender’s Cloud storage service.
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France’s first Digital Law co-created with citizens
The French draft law Loi Numérique will be presented to the French Parliament on 19 January, after being co-created with citizens through an online public consultation. This is the first law in France resulting from a co-design process.
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Northern Ireland launches its open data portal
Northern Ireland has officially launched its open data portal, OpenDataNI, the goal of which is to provide a global platform where public services and all governmental agencies can publish data.
This CKan-based portal is now accessible through NIDirect, the official governmental portal for Northern Ireland citizens, which states that it provides ‘a single point of access to public sector information and services’.
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Gentoo GNU/Linux on PS4
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of December 2015 02:19:47 PM Filed under
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PS4 Linux Fai0verflow
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PlayStation 4 Hacked to Run Linux
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One systems are just PCs, and now hardware hackers have started doing some very cool things with at least one of these systems. Console-hacking group Fail0verflow has cracked the PlayStation 4 and loaded it up with a version of Linux.
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Modders hack PS4 to run Linux and Pokemon
It's been some since we've heard about impressive mods to get game consoles running software and games they're not meant to, but thanks to Failoverflow, a collective of console hackers, there's something new to closeout 2015 with. The group has managed to hack Sony's PlayStation 4 to install the Linux operating system on it, taking advantage of the console's fairly standard PC architecture.
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PlayStation 4 Has Been Hacked to Run Gentoo Linux
Believe it or not, it would appear that a hacking group that goes by the name of Fail0verflow managed to hack Sony's PlayStation 4 (PS4) gaming console to run a Linux kernel-based operating system.
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Leftovers: Software
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of December 2015 02:18:27 PM Filed under
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coala platypus
Although coala’s primary purpose is to make the creation of analysis routines easy, we have taken an effort to include functionality of other open source linters into it. coala can automatically fix the indentation of your Octave files, sort and correct Python imports or add the missing dereferenciation operator to your C++ code (greetings from Clang!) – the list is growing every week. Try running coala with the -A argument to see what we’ve got!
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Sylpheed 3.5.0 RC2 Brings A Few Bug-Fixes Only
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Frogr 1.0 (Software For Uploading Photos On Flickr) Has Been Released
As you may know, Frogr is an open source program that enables the users to easily upgrade photos on Flickr. Among others, it has a simple and clear interface, allows the uploaders to edit the visibility, content type, tags, description and enable/disable global search results in Flickr.
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Variety 0.5.5 (Open-Source Wallpaping Software) Has Been Released
As you may know, Variety is an app indicator that changes the desktop wallpaper, using automatically downloaded images from: Wallhaven.cc, Flickr, Wallpapers.net, Desktoppr, NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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Audacious 3.7.1 Adds Bug-Fixes Only
Audacious is an open-source music player, having the features of a modern music player, including support for audio effects, equalizer, lyrics and plugins, visualization, support for Winamp skins and support for playlists organized in tabs.
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Arti 0.5.0 is released: Robustness and API improvements
Arti is our ongoing project to create a working embeddable Tor client in Rust. It’s not ready to replace the main Tor implementation in C, but we believe that it’s the future. Right now, our focus is on making Arti production-quality, by stress-testing the code, hunting for likely bugs, and adding missing features that we know from experience that users will need. We're going to try not to break backward compatibility too much, but we'll do so when we think it's a good idea. ![]() | Programming Leftovers
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| EasyOS Dunfell-series 4.2EasyOS was created in 2017, derived from Quirky Linux, which in turn was derived from Puppy Linux in 2013. Easy is built in woofQ, which takes as input binary packages from any distribution, and uses them on top of the unique EasyOS infrastructure.
Throughout 2020, the official release for x86_64 PCs was the Buster-series, built with Debian 10.x Buster DEBs.
EasyOS has also been built with packages compiled from source, using a fork of OpenEmbedded (OE). Currently, the Dunfell release of OE has been used, to compile two sets of binary packages, for x86_64 and aarch64.
The latter have been used to build EasyOS for the Raspberry Pi4, and first official release, 2.6.1, was in January 2021.
The page that you are reading now has the release notes for EasyOS Dunfell-series on x86_64 PCs, also debuting in 2021.
Ongoing development is now focused on the x86_64 Dunfell-series. The last version in the x86_64 Buster-series is 2.6.2, on June 29, 2021, and that is likely to be the end of that series. Releases for the Pi4 Dunfell-series are still planned but very intermittent.
The version number is for EasyOS itself, independent of the target hardware; that is, the infrastructure, support-glue, system scripts and system management and configuration applications.
The latest version is becoming mature, though Easy is an experimental distribution and some parts are under development and are still considered as beta-quality. However, you will find this distro to be a very pleasant surprise, or so we hope.
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