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JingOS arrives as China’s first Linux Distro, offers iPadOS-like features and functions
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 18th of January 2021 11:57:40 AM Filed under

JingOS was built with the idea of improving the functionality and productivity of a tablet overall. So, the team behind the new operating system took inspiration from the Cupertino based giant’s iPadOS platform to offer a simple/clean, yet productive and efficient UI design that can ensure that your tablets are a mini computer that one can work on, on the go. JingOS is not only a tablet OS but a full function Linux distro.
Distrowatch is Not a Measure of Popularity
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 15th of January 2021 06:11:13 PM Filed under
Here’s a fun blog post where I get possibly irrationally annoyed by people who use a web page incorrectly. Let me get this off my chest and then move on to better topics tomorrow.
Distrowatch is a popular website among Linux enthusiasts. The main page consists of reverse-chronological news articles of interest to Linux users. Often this consists of new stable and development release announcements, reviews and weekly roundups.
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Genode OS Planning For PinePhone Bring-Up, Better GPU Support In 2021
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 15th of January 2021 05:52:35 PM Filed under

For those wanting to run a micro-kernel operating system for your low-cost, open-source friendly PinePhone, the Genode OS framework plans to port to the PinePhone this year. Genode OS and its Sculpt general purpose platform are also wanting to better embrace GPU support in 2021.
The Genode operating system framework that features an original, open-source micro-kernel abstraction layer and a set of user-space components in development since 2008, published their road-map for the year.
Like many in the open-source community, Genode OS developers and users have been intrigued by PINE64's PinePhone that offers an Allwinner A64-powered open-source smartphone with 2GB of RAM, 16GB eMMC, and other basics for just $149~199 USD. While there are many Linux distributions supporting the PinePhone, Genode OS wants in on the action too and plans to port their operating system framework to it this year. They want Genode on PinePhone to serve as "a feature phone, covering basic web-browsing needs, placing calls, and SMS."
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20+ Best Lightweight Linux Operating Systems In 2021
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 14th of January 2021 12:30:40 PM Filed under

This is the list of lifeline for your old gadget in your home. Yes, you can start playing with your old computers/laptops. There are plenty of Linux based operating system available that can easily run on computers with low specs.
Let’s have a quick look into the list of some of the best lightweight Linux operating system for your old computers or laptop in 2021.
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Is Linux POSIX-Compliant?
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 14th of January 2021 08:57:33 AM Filed under

Software is written by numerous developers with various backgrounds. General algorithms are available under a free license or have been scientifically published, and they might also be available for free for studying purposes. This results in different implementations and software versions that fit a variety of needs. A standardization of interfaces and data formats is necessary to make these different implementations both interchangeable and modular.
In short, POSIX [1] does exactly that for UNIX and UNIX-like systems (see Zak H’s article [4] for a more detailed history on this topic). It defines the exchange interfaces, calling mechanisms, and transferred data for the software but leaves the internal implementation to the developer or maintainer of the software. The aim is to unify all the various UNIX forks and UNIX-like systems in such a way that different software implementations can interact with one another. The main advantage of POSIX is to have a binding documentation for these components – interfaces, mechanisms, and data – available in written form.
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ReactOS in 2020
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 2nd of January 2021 05:02:54 PM Filed under
Despite all the turbulence, it has been quite a productive year for ReactOS. Many bugs and instabilities were resolved, many more have been introduced. This year we hired two kernel developers full-time, this happened for the first time in the project’s history.
Also: ReactOS Has Been Steadily Improving As An Open-Source Windows Implementation
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Redox OS 0.6.0
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 25th of December 2020 08:23:51 PM Filed under
A number of new projects have been introduced during this release cycle, and many improvements have been landed. Very many bugs have been squashed. This list is an extreme over-simplification of the thousands of commits done since the last release. Hopefully, releases will happen more often so this is not always the case.
Also: Redox OS 0.6 Released With Many Fixes, Rewritten Kernel Memory Manager - Phoronix
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Replicant: A free mobile phone OS is more important than ever, and needs your help
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 24th of December 2020 12:49:36 AM Filed under
In 2020, mobile devices such as phones and tablets (which are full computers with powerful hardware running complete operating systems, with applications) are an increasingly important part in our computing. Hence, they are particularly subject to freedom and security concerns. So-called smartphones present a number of freedom, privacy, security, ecological, and social justice issues in a relatively small device.
Replicant works hard to address these issues by enabling people to run fully free operating systems on supported devices. You can read more about the freedom, privacy, and security issues that Replicant addresses on the Replicant Web site. The site and wiki also give further information about Replicant, the devices it supports, installation instructions, the latest info about its limitations, and more.
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Linus Benedict Torvalds: Computer scientist and software sector genius
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 23rd of December 2020 10:05:11 AM Filed under

Between 1988 and 1996, he attended the University of Helsinki and obtained a master’s degree in computer science.
During his studies, he joined the Finnish Army Uusimaa brigade in 1989 and attended the 11-month officer training programme to fulfil the country’s mandatory military service norm.
Fascination for computers
In 1990, he resumed studies at the university. It was during this time that he got acquainted with the operating system, ‘Unix’. He wrote his Master’s thesis on ‘Linux: A Portable Operating System’. He became fascinated and interested in computer science after he worked on the 8-bit home computer, VIC-20.
He later purchased the personal computer but was not satisfied with the computer’s operating system and modified the computer, especially the operating system. Months of determined programming work yielded the beginnings of an operating system known as Linux.
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Free Software: Haiku OS, FOSS Quiz, and LibreOffice
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 23rd of December 2020 05:32:11 AM Filed under


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Haiku OS Gearing Up For 2021 With Improving ARM Port, Other Hardware Improvements - Phoronix
mt fixed various warnings, use-after-free, memory leaks, and dead code problems detected by the clang static analyzer.
X512 reworked app_server memory management to use owning pointers and avoid some memory leaks and use-after-free cases. This led to a rework of the classes used for that purpose, in particular AutoDeleter and its variants, to be more efficient and more flexible.
kallisit5 fixed a crash in the icon-o-matic save panel.
PulkoMandy fixed an ABI problem that resulted in crashes for the 64bit version of Wonderbrush. Wonderbrush is now available in HaikuDepot for 64bit systems.
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Haiku OS Gearing Up For 2021 With Improving ARM Port, Other Hardware Improvements - Phoronix
The Haiku project has issued an activity report concerning their happenings for November/December 2020. Haiku over this time has seen code clean-ups, various user interface improvements, continued work on the ARM port, POSIX compatibility enhancements, networking updates, storage handling updates, and continued work on sound and other hardware drivers. The fixed up ACPI thermal driver is also now able to read some motherboard and CPU temperatures.
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Announcing FOSS Quiz: Quiz Platform For Open Source
At FOSS Post, we are very happy today to release our newest project: FOSS Quiz.
When any new user enters the open source world, he/she will discover that there are so many details, so much information and tons of software to learn a lot about. Users wishing to dive deeper in the field may find it hard to just browse the random Internet in order to collect the knowledge they need about the topics they wish to learn more about.
FOSS Quiz comes here to solve that problem; A central platform for taking various quizzes about open source software, so that interested users can try to answer these quizzes and learn much more about the respective project/software in the process, in a fun and interactive way.
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Best Community 2020: LibreOffice at DINAcon
At the recent online DINAcon (Digital Sustainability Conference) in Switzerland, Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation gave a talk about how TDF and the LibreOffice community works.
And guess what: our community won an award at DINAcon too: Best Community 2020! We’re really proud to have such an active, passionate and diverse range of contributors all across the globe – LibreOffice wouldn’t be as popular and powerful today without their help.
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