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Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) begins April 30 2021
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Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) begins April [Ed: Canonical selling security as a "product"; ethical business model?]
Ubuntu announced its 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) release almost 5 years ago, on April 21, 2016. As with the earlier LTS releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 5 years. The standard support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will transition to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) on Friday, April 30th, 2021.
Users are encouraged to evaluate and upgrade to our latest 20.04 LTS release via 18.04 LTS. The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is via Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
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KDE Gear 21.04 releases branches created
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the 21.04 releases to them
We're already past the dependency freeze.
The Feature Freeze and Beta is this Thursday 18 of March.
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Sok Update 3
Here is the third update on how things are going on with KDE Social.
I am mostly done with the twitter and mastodon part of things and something that was big hurdle which is figuring out a proper way to schedule posts on the server side .
I have pushed most stuff to master now .
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A small announcement : I am looking for testers for this project now . I have put up detailed instructions on KDE's gitlab README to build and run this . Currently the only supported platform is Linux . Instructions will be similar for Windows since this is based on python . I don't have any experience using a macintosh so I can gaurantee anything about that. Although please do reach out to me if you successfully build it on there.
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10 Best And Most Popular Icon Themes For Linux
Icon themes are the easiest way to change the looks of your Linux desktop. Here is the list of the 10 best icon themes you should try.
Not being tied to how the desktop looks and operates is one of the many perks of being a Linux user. Are you bored with the icon theme set currently installed on your Linux machine?
You can find many icon sets to radically change your desktop’s looks, especially when you combine them with a matching wallpaper and window color theme. So let’s take a look at 10 of the best Linux icon themes that will upgrade your OS’s look.
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Google Proposes Multi-Generational LRU For Linux To Yield Much Better Performance
Google engineer Yu Zhao sent out patches proposing a "multigenerational LRU" implementation for the Linux kernel's least recently used (LRU) handling for memory page replacement.
The engineers working on multi-generational LRU found the Linux kernel's current page reclaim code to be too expensive for CPU usage and making poor choices over what to evict. But with this new LRU implementation it's more "performant, versatile, and straightforward" with promising results.
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Why I Don’t ‘Do’ Arduino
As a professional embedded software developer, I cannot get on-board with the software side of things. It’s all great for hobbyist use and genuinely does make life easier, however from the prospective of building a career in embedded electronics, it’s my opinion that the Arduino ecosystem is a hinderance.
Readers of this website will note that despite having published a number of Arduino related projects, I’ve never produced a single sketch, and I never will.
Let me take a minute to explain myself. There are four main reasons why: [...]
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digiKam 7.7.0 is released
After three months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.7.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below the list of most important features coming with this release.
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Dilution and Misuse of the "Linux" Brand
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Samsung, Red Hat to Work on Linux Drivers for Future Tech
The metaverse is expected to uproot system design as we know it, and Samsung is one of many hardware vendors re-imagining data center infrastructure in preparation for a parallel 3D world.
Samsung is working on new memory technologies that provide faster bandwidth inside hardware for data to travel between CPUs, storage and other computing resources. The company also announced it was partnering with Red Hat to ensure these technologies have Linux compatibility.
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