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Debian 8 “Jessie” Long Term Support Reaching End-of-Life

OnJuly 10, 2020
UpdatedJuly 15, 2020

The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 8 "Jessie" support has reached its EOL (end-of-life) on June 30, 2020.

CutiePi is an Open Source Portable Raspberry Pi Tablet

OnJuly 10, 2020

The CutiePi is a portable Raspberry Pi-powered tablet with just 12mm thickness. It is 100% open source and hackable. Find out more here.

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The Document Foundation Clarifies LibreOffice “Personal Edition” Label

OnJuly 8, 2020
UpdatedJuly 11, 2020

The LibreOffice community has protested at the appearance of a "personal edition" label in the forthcoming version 7.0. What's coming up then?

Purism now shipping its Librem Mini with Active Cooling

OnJuly 6, 2020
UpdatedJuly 12, 2020

Purism, the company behind PureOS, has just announced that its Librem Mini was ready to ship with active cooling enabled for everyone.

Home Assistant making things faster in 0.112 release

OnJuly 6, 2020
UpdatedJuly 11, 2020

Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform. Release 0.112 bringing game-changing performance improvements to the database.

The first Linux laptop with AMD Ryzen 5 is available for sale

OnJuly 5, 2020

Tongfang PF5PU1G is a 15.6 inch laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processor and Radeon Vega 8 graphics. Battery life up to 14 hours.

Linus Torvalds - I Do No Coding Any More

Why Linus Torvalds thinks he’s no longer a programmer?

OnJuly 5, 2020
UpdatedJuly 6, 2020

At the Open Source Summit in Lyon, France, Linus Torvalds says that he is not a programmer anymore. Find out more in this post.

Ubuntu 19.10 “Eoan Ermine” reaches end-of-life this month

OnJuly 4, 2020
UpdatedJuly 5, 2020

Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" will reach its EOL (end-of-life) on July 17, 2020. Upgrade before the deadline in order to keep getting new security updates.