Android Leftovers

• OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 5T Android Pie open beta now available

• Motorola One and Moto X4 update to Android Pie

• Enable the Acessibility settings on your Android 9 phone for shortcuts

• Honor Magic 2 review: A phone full of new tricks

• Best Android camera, photo editing and video apps (2018 edition)

• Android Headlines Awards - Best Android Game 2018

• The Best Antivirus for Android Phones

• Google will let Android users donate directly to nonprofits through the Play Store

• Healthcare Nonprofit Piloting Android-Based Biometric Patient Identification

• Chrome for Android will add a new quick shortcut button for closing all tabs at once

• Android Trojan Targets PayPal Users

• Many of 2018's most dangerous Android and iOS security flaws still threaten your mobile security

• Fuchsia SDK & Test Device Appear In Android Open Source Project

• NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV gets SMBv3 and Amazon Music support in SHIELD Experience 7.2 update

Pantheon Desktop Makes Linux Elementary

The more I use the multitasking feature, the more I like its click-and-go navigational style. Getting rid of workspaces or running apps is simple. Hover the mouse pointer over the multitasking bar and click the icon's circled X. Elementary OS is a very solid Linux distro. Its uncluttered design is encouraged by not being able to place app icons on the desktop. There are no desklet programs to create distractions. So far, the only real obstacle I've encountered in using Elementary OS is the need to adapt to having fewer power-user features. While basic installation was smooth and event free, not having preinstalled text editors, word processors or an alternative Web browser was an inconvenience. New users who do not know what software they need to fill this void are at a big disadvantage. Want to Suggest a Review? Is there a Linux software application or distro you'd like to suggest for review? Something you love or would like to get to know?

leftovers and howtos

• What is the preferred developer operating system?

  If you compare traditional OSes, the differences shouldn't be that significant for developers. We deploy most apps in the cloud now, where you can choose to host them on whichever developer operating system you want -- well, maybe not on macOS, but certainly Windows or Linux. And, even if you deploy your application locally, virtual machines (VMs) make it easy to set up whichever type of OS environment you need. Cross-platform portability is an explicit goal for most popular programming languages today, such as C, Java and Python. C was born in the early 1970s as a way to make Unix portable across different hardware platforms. The Java virtual machine greatly simplified cross-OS portability. And Python applications can run on virtually any OS. Modern programming languages still aren't entirely OS-agnostic, of course. Developers often have to address OS-specific dependencies when they write an application, and the installation process for most applications differs from one OS to the next. Still, by and large, the modern programmer doesn't have to think about the differences between various developer operating systems nearly as much as she did a decade ago. In some cases, you can drag and drop the same application from one OS to another without requiring any configuration changes at all.

• Linux / UNIX: Check If File Is Empty Or Not Using Shell Script

• How to install a TIG stack on Ubuntu 18.04

• How to install LDAP Account Manager on Ubuntu 18.04

• How to install Winbox on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

• How to install Webmin on Ubuntu 18.04 /16.04 LTS server

• MySQL GUI Tools for Windows and Ubuntu/Linux: Top 8 Free & open source

• How to install MySQL workbench on Ubuntu

• Christmas Maps

  It´s been ages since I last shared any Maps news, so it´s probably about time… Some things have happened since the stable 3.30.0 release in September. First off we have a new application icon, courtesy of Jakub Steiner using the icon style for the upcoming GNOME 3.32

• Calamares seeking translators

  Calamares, the Linux system installer for boutique distro’s, is translated into 50 or so languages. It’s not a KDE project, but uses a bunch of KDE technology like the KDE Frameworks and KPMCore. It doesn’t use the KDE translation infrastructure, either, but Transifex.

• ROOT histograms

  In one of the previous blogs we introduced the new capability of LabPlot to calculate and to draw histograms. Given a data set, the user can calculate the histogram using different binning methods and to visualize the calculated histogram in the new plot type “histogram”. A different workflow is given when the histogram was already calculated in another application and the application like LabPlot is just used to visualize the result of such a calculation and to adjust the final appearance of the plot. Couple of weeks ago Christoph Roick contributed a new input filter for ROOT histograms. ROOT is a computational environment developed at CERN that is used for data processing, statistical analysis and data visualization, mainly for purposes in the high energy physics community.

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