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Apr 15, 2021 12:16 EDT with 1 comment Every month, Pine64, a community-driven manufacturer of low-cost ARM and Linux devices like single-board computers (SBCs), Linux phones, and such, releases an update on its latest developments. The update for the month of April is out today and for those looking forward to Pine64's new Quartz64 model-A SBC, there is some bad news as its production appears to have hit a snag. The development team has learned that the Gigabit Ethernet PHY which was intended to be used originally is currently out of stock and potentially as a consequence of tha...

Today marks ten years since the release of the very first version of elementary OS. Our 0.1 release, codenamed “Jupiter”, came with the bold tagline, “It’s gonna be huge”. A decade later, elementary OS is made up of over 130 open source git repositories, has its own FreeDesktop.org-recognized desktop environment, comes with more than a dozen first party apps and a unique app store with nearly 200 native third-party apps, has been translated to more than 20 languages, and most recently comes pre-installed on several desktops and laptops. elementary OS 0.1 Jupiter Jupiter shipped with...

The Serval WS, A Powerful Linux Workstation: Review In need of a computer that can handle just about any AAA game you throw at it? Better yet, a computer that comes with Linux pre-installed, with the benefit of portability? Look no further than the Serval WS. Note: this is a review unit provided by System76. That being said, this is still a no-bars-held-back review. The Serval WS is a laptop/workstation hybrid assembled by the folks over at System76. Their company is based in Denver, Colorado, USA. System76 is also responsible for Pop!_OS — the Linux distribution that’s based on Ubun...

The kernel has been updated to 5.10.3 Qt has been updated to 5.15.2 KDE products have been updated: Frameworks 5.77.0, Plasma Desktop 5.20.4, Applications 20.12.0 LibreOffice has been updated to 7.1 The port to aarch64 (64-bit ARM processors) is completed, and installable images are available for the Pinebook Pro, Raspberry Pi 4B, Raspberry Pi 3B+, Synquacer, Cubox Pulse and generic UEFI compatible devices (such as most aarch64 server boards). More aarch64 hardware support will follow shortly. A PinePhone version is also available (but should not yet be considered RC quality) Server users wil...

Arch Linux-based Manjaro ARM 20.12 is here for Raspberry Pi 4, Pinebook, Odroid N2, and more ARM is the future of desktop computing, and once again, Apple is leading the mainstream in this regard -- its new M1 Mac computers have been very well received. True, Microsoft had Windows on ARM first, but the reality is, consumers didn't care about that. Apple has made desktop computing on ARM popular. With all of that said, Linux on ARM predates both Windows and macOS on ARM, and quite frankly, Linux is better equipped to scale to different architectures. The newest Raspberry Pi 4 computer, for i...