today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2024

• GNU/Linux

  • WINE or Emulation

    • Net2 ☛ Top 10 Android Emulators for Linux

      As technology keeps evolving, the demand for top-notch Android emulators for GNU/Linux has exploded. Android emulators are nifty software that lets you run Android apps on your computer, creating a virtual Android environment for testing, development, or gaming.

  • Games

    • Godot Engine ☛ Meet the creator behind the Godot Game Awards

      StayAtHomeDev has been sharing his passion on YouTube for over two years and now he's running the awards.

  • Desktop Environments/WMs

    • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

      • Bryan Lunduke ☛ GNOME & KDE Team Up on Paid Flathub Software Store

        GNOME broke and doing layoffs, KDE searching for revenue, & an ill-fated App Store project.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Debian Family

    • Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: OpenMPI transitions, cPython 3.12.7+ update uploads, Python 3.13 Transition, and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph, Stefano Rivera)

      Debian Contributions: 2024-11

      is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support

      contracts and consulting

      Transition management, by Emilio Pozuelo MonfortEmilio has been helping finish the mpi-defaults switch to mpich on 32-bit

      architectures, and the openmpi transitions.

      This involves filing bugs for the reverse dependencies, doing NMUs, and

      requesting removals for outdated (Not Built from Source) binaries on 32-bit

      architectures where openmpi is no longer available. Those transitions got

      entangled with a few others, such as the petsc stack, and were blocking many

      packages from migrating to testing. These transitions were completed in early

      December.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • The Guardian UK ☛ Lord of the ringtones: Nokia celebrates pop-culture status by opening design archive

      This is not as hyperbolic as it sounds – in 1998, the Finnish consumer electronics company was the bestselling phone brand in the world, with 40% of the world market and 70% of the UK market.

      The cultural impact of Nokia will be properly recognised for the first time on 15 January when the company’s design archive goes on display. Finland’s Aalto University has acquired the archive and will make it available through an online curated portal and by appointment.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Events

    • Collabora ☛ Academically inclining at NeurIPS 2024

      Collabora will be at NeurIPs this week to dive into the latest academic findings in machine learning and research advancements that are changing the industry.