FOSS Weekly #8 - New 5-inch Linux Pocket PC, Rust is coming to GCC, new releases and updates from this week
Sai Phanindra
July 16, 2022
Lots of Linux news, new hardware, and project announcements from companies this week!
🐧 Linux News
Production has begun for Popcorn Pocket PC, a handheld Linux computer with a 5-inch 1080p display [blog.origin.popcorncomputer.com/production...]
Cutefish OS halts development [debugpoint.com/cutefish-os...]
openSUSE announces first-class support for Nim language following Arch [news.opensuse.org/.../first-class-support-for-nim/]
AYANEO, the windows hand-held gaming device maker to have their own OS based on Linux [gamingonlinux.com/..ayaneo-os-based-on-linux/]
TUXEDO brings Linux support to its external water cooling system [9to5linux.com/tuxedo-aquaris-announcement...]
🌱 New Projects
The Eclipse Foundation has announced Eclipse GLSP 1.0, an open-source framework for building web-based diagram editors [eclipse.org/glsp]
Intel releases four open source AI reference kits for organizations [intel.com/../open-source-ai-reference-kits.html] [github.com/oneapi-src]
Microsoft releases open source toolkit for generating SBOMs (software bill of materials) [github.com/microsoft/sbom-tool]
Hugging Face has released BLOOM: The World’s Largest Open Multilingual Language Model [bigscience.huggingface.co/blog/bloom]
📰 Other News
GCC Rust has been approved by the GCC Steering Committee [phoronix.com/..GCC-Rust-SC-Approved]
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) celebrates 32nd birthday [eff.org/deeplinks/...happy-birthday-eff]
System76 brings Launch Lite: a fully open-source keyboard [system76.com/accessories/launch]
Firefox sent Microsoft a cake for Internet Explorer's death, continuing the cake-sending tradition started during the browser wars [twitter.com/MSEdgeDev/...]
Canonical partners with Google Cloud to offer Ubuntu on ARM-Based T2A VMs [9to5linux.com/canonical-partners-with-google-cloud...]
📝 Releases
Rocky Linux 9 is here with 10 years of support [rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-0-ga-release/]
Linux Mint 21 beta released [linuxmint.com/rel_vanessa_cinnamon]
Calibre 6.0 adds ability to search text across library [calibre-ebook.com/new]
Tor Browser 11.5 gets HTTPS-only mode, automatic censorship circumvention, and more [blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115/]
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