March 2020
Android Leftovers
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of March 2020 08:43:13 PM Filed under
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LG V40 ThinQ Android 10 kernel source code published ahead of LG UX 9.0 rollout
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Android 10 is now rolling out to the Nokia 7.2
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Nokia 7.2 mid-ranger receives Android 10 update
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LineageOS ROM releases first builds based on Android 10 (Update: More devices)
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OnePlus 8 official specifications revealed: Could be among the fastest Android phones this year
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Roku adds voice commands, finally rivaling one of Android TV’s best features
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Use your Android to join video conferences or friendly video chats
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40 of the best retro games ported to Android
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Today’s best Android game/app deals + freebies: Cytus II, SUBURBIA, more
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5 Reasons Why This Linux Gaming OS Is Great For Your Living Room
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of March 2020 05:28:49 PM Filed under

Valve’s Steam Machines initiative has been retired and SteamOS is on hiatus, but Steam Big Picture mode is still an awesome way to transform your PC into a living room console experience. For those of us who like the idea of having a computer dedicated to couch gaming (read: not your daily driver OS), a boutique Linux distribution called GamerOS is worth checking out. Especially since it picks up the baton where Valve left off and adds substantial tweaks and improvements.
In a nutshell, GamerOS is an Arch Linux-based operating system that’s streamlined to do one thing very well: run Steam Big Picture. In fact, that’s all it does. There is no desktop environment. Your first boot places you directly into Steam Big Picture and that’s where you’ll live on GamerOS.
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Linux Mint 20 Release Date & Features
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of March 2020 05:26:17 PM Filed under
Well, that’s what this post is here to tell you. We will keep this roundup of Linux Mint 20 features and updates up-to-date as development happens until June, its expected release month.
What do we about Linux Mint 20 so far?
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KDE Plasma 5.18.4 LTS Desktop Environment Brings More Than 40 Fixes
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of March 2020 02:51:25 PM Filed under

Coming three weeks after the Plasma 5.18.3 point release, which introduced a bunch of Flatpak improvements and more than 60 fixes, the KDE Plasma 5.18.4 LTS release is here to add more than 40 bug fixes to various of the desktop environments core components.
Among the changes, there’s improved support for the upcoming Qt 5.15 application framework for Breeze and libksysguard components and better support for the fwupd open-source daemon for installing firmware updates on devices in the Discover package manager.
Flatpak support in Discover was also improved by fixing two issues. Moreover, XSettingsd was added as a runtime dependency to KDE GTK Config, kwallet-pam now works with pam_fscrypt, and KWin now allow the creation of more than one row on the “Virtual Desktops” settings page.
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Obarun – An Arch Based Linux Distro Without Systemd
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of March 2020 02:02:57 PM Filed under
Today’s Linux distribution review is not just for distro hoppers who love to try something new but it’s for people who have a specific purpose such as a Linux system without systemd. Systemd, as we all know, has always been criticized by a lot of developers and Linux users.
Obarun is packed with enough utilities to install & start a vanilla Arch Linux without any trouble. I have written an article on how to install Arch step by step and it is a long article. But Obarun does the Arch installation in a very simple way. It comes with obarun-installer, a script that helps install Arch as easily as possible.
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40 Practical and Useful awk Command in Linux and BSD
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of March 2020 01:52:32 PM Filed under
AWK is a powerful data-driven programming language that dates its origin back to the early days of Unix. It was initially developed for writing ‘one-liner’ programs but has since evolved into a full-fledged programming language. AWK gets its name from the initials of its authors – Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. The awk command in Linux and other Unix systems invokes the interpreter that runs AWK scripts. Several implementations of awk exist in recent systems such as gawk (GNU awk), mawk (Minimal awk), and nawk (New awk), among others. Check out the below examples if you want to master awk.
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Android Leftovers
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of March 2020 01:46:09 PM Filed under
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Asus ZenFone 5Z March update with bugfixes for Android 10-swipe up gesture navigation, WiFi hotspot, random restarts & more released
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Poco F1/Pocophone F1 Android 10 update doesn't fix Netflix HD issue
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Vivo S5, NEX Funtouch OS 10 (Android 10) beta out for early adopters
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Huawei wants to put Google apps in its own app store after US blacklisting blocks access to Android
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How to get Instagram dark mode: for iPhone and Android
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Covid-19 Impact: YouTube Restricts Streaming Quality To 480p For Both Andorid, iOS Users
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Sony launches mid-range 2020 TVs - 4K, Android, AirPlay 2
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It's Looking Like Android Could Be Embracing WireGuard - "A Sane VPN"
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Behind Plasma Bigscreen
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of March 2020 01:38:03 PM Filed under
Plasma has been designed from the get go (2006 or so.. it seems at least 2 eternities agoto not make any assumptions on the type of device and to do a clear separation between the core technology/runtime and the various GUI plugins that end up implementing a full desktop experience.
In an architecture decision informed by previous prototypes we did in KDE4 times for mobile devices UIs, in Plasma 5 we split it further and introduced the concept of a “shell package” which lets further customization between devices than what Plasma in KDE4 times allowed.
Because of that we could do the Plasma Mobile shell without changes to the architecture that runs both the Desktop shell and the mobile version, despite being a completely different UI.
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KDE Vs Kubuntu Vs Neon Vs Plasma – What’s the Difference
Submitted by arindam1989 on Tuesday 31st of March 2020 01:02:27 PM Filed under
If you are a new Linux user and started exploring distros for your own need, you may already have come across KDE. And I am sure you heard of Kubuntu, KDE Plasma and KDE Neon. With so many KDE flavors, it is a little confusing. Well, that’s why this article, to clear things up and the difference between them.
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IEEE Launches an Open Source Collaboration Platform
Submitted by itsfoss on Tuesday 31st of March 2020 11:20:08 AM Filed under
IEEE Standards Association has announced a GitLab-based open source collaboration platform. Read how is it different and what advantages it has.
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