CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html
Following the CentOS announcement, someone created this parody website to grief: https://centos.rip/
While the Linux community was grieving over CentOS, Sabayon Linux, the Gentoo-based distribution gets a brand change and a merge: https://www.sabayon.org/article/sabayon-is-rebranding/
www.sabayon.org
Sabayon project is rebranding to MocaccinoOS - https://www.sabayon.org/
Kernel 5.10 released: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.10
You can wait it to come from your distribution's repositories or grab it now from Kernel.org
You can wait it to come from your distribution's repositories or grab it now from Kernel.org
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Linux_5.10 - Linux Kernel Newbies
List of changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 5.10 development cycle
GTK 4.0 Released, One Month After GIMP Finally Switched to GTK 3.X
https://fosspost.org/gtk-4-0-released-one-month-after-gimp-finally-switched-to-gtk-3-x/
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Contributing to Open Source For Dummies
https://fosspost.org/contributing-to-open-source-for-dummies/
https://fosspost.org/contributing-to-open-source-for-dummies/
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GNOME Shell UX plans for GNOME 40
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/12/18/gnome-shell-ux-plans-for-gnome-40/
(Next version of GNOME will be 40, not 4.0)
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/12/18/gnome-shell-ux-plans-for-gnome-40/
(Next version of GNOME will be 40, not 4.0)
Arcan is an open source display server (Similar to Xorg, Wayland), and its developers have a reference desktop environment named "Durden". Useful for embedded devices.
Today, version 0.6 of it is released: https://arcan-fe.com/2020/12/20/durden-0-6-released/
Today, version 0.6 of it is released: https://arcan-fe.com/2020/12/20/durden-0-6-released/
Arcan
Durden 0.6 Released
Hot on the heels of the recent Arcan release, it is also time for a release to our reference desktop environment ‘Durden’. To refresh memory somewhat, the closest valid comparison is pr…
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Xfce 4.16 released, finally with fractional scaling: https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1608595200
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#Python is the main language of data science, per this analysis on 10M Jupyter Notebooks: https://blog.jetbrains.com/datalore/2020/12/17/we-downloaded-10-000-000-jupyter-notebooks-from-github-this-is-what-we-learned/
Ruby 3.0 released: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/12/25/ruby-3-0-0-released/
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