Android Leftovers

• Bitcoin scam warning over ‘criminal’ Android apps on the official Google Store

• Google Refocuses 'Android Things' to Smart Speakers, Screens

• The Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e is a thin and light entertainment-centric Android tablet

• Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e official with 10.5in screen and Android Pie

• Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Android Pie Update With One UI Reportedly Rolling Out

• Android 9 Pie update for Nokia 6, Nokia 8 in India planned before MWC19

• Moto G6, Moto G6 Play, Moto Z3 Play Now Receiving Android Pie Update: Report

• Latest OnePlus 6 and 6T news will not please its Android rivals one bit

• PlayStation DualShock 4 support may be coming to Android in Android Q

• Leak reveals another exciting new foldable Android phone you can’t buy

• HONOR Thinking At Least 10 Android Phones Ahead: Report

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB NVMe Linux SSD Benchmarks

Announced at the end of January was the Samsung 970 EVO Plus as the first consumer-grade solid-state drive with 96-layer 3D NAND memory. The Samsung 970 EVO NVMe SSDs are now shipping and in this review are the first Linux benchmarks of these new SSDs in the form of the Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB MZ-V7S500B/AM compared to several other SSDs on Linux. The Samsung 970 EVO Plus uses the same Phoenix controller as in their existing SSDs but the big upgrade with the EVO Plus is the shift to the 96-layer 3D NAND memory. Available now through Internet retailers are the 250GB / 500GB / 1TB versions of the 970 EVO Plus at a new low of just $130 USD for the 500GB model or $250 USD for the 1TB version. A 2GB model is expected to ship this spring.

elementary 5 "Juno"

In the spring of 2014 (nearly five years ago), I was preparing a regular presentation I give most years—where I look at the bad side (and the good side) of the greater Linux world. As I had done in years prior, I was preparing a graph showing the market share of various Linux distributions changing over time. But, this year, something was different. In the span of less than two years, a tiny little Linux distro came out of nowhere to become one of the most watched and talked about systems available. In the blink of an eye, it went from nothing to passing several grand-daddies of Linux flavors that had been around for decades. This was elementary. Needless to say, it caught my attention.

Audiophile Linux Promises Aural Nirvana

Linux isn’t just for developers. I know that might come as a surprise for you, but the types of users that work with the open source platform are as varied as the available distributions. Take yours truly for example. Although I once studied programming, I am not a developer. The creating I do with Linux is with words, sounds, and visuals. I write books, I record audio, and a create digital images and video. And even though I don’t choose to work with distributions geared toward those specific tasks, they do exist. I also listen to a lot of music. I tend to listen to most of my music via vinyl. But sometimes I want to listen to music not available in my format of choice. That’s when I turn to digital music.