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RSSNews: Maker Media Halt Operations and Lays Off Staff
From techcrunch.com: Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause all operations. TechCrunch was tipped off to Maker Media’s unfortunate situation...
Upcoming Product: Pinebook Pro New Details
From pine64.org: The first of these is that Pinebook Pro has been upgraded with a BT/WiFi module that supports Bluetooth to 5.0 (vs announced BT 4.1) and secondly we’ve asked for improvements to the firmware of the trackpad. As with...
Upcoming Product: PinePhone Case Design Approved and More
From pine64.org: With the case selected and approved, the phone’s PCB was commissioned a couple of weeks ago and submitted to the design house with detailed instructions on the required feature set. The first of the things we settled on...
News: LibreOffice 6.3 Drops Support for 32-bit Linux Distros
From OMGUbuntu.co.uk: You won’t be able to download and upgrade to LibreOffice 6.3 when it’s released in early August 2019, but old versions remain available (some of which are still supported) for use. The pseudo-LTS version, LibreOffice 6.1, will continue...
News: Tetris Turns 35 This Week (Play it in your SBC's Linux Terminal!)
This week, Tetris turns 35! In honor of this occasion, did you know that you can play Tetris in your Linux terminal? Here's what you need to do for Ubuntu / Debian / Armbian (and related OSes), whether you are...
Upcoming Product: First Look at GlacierUX on PinePhone (Alpha Stage)
Here is another UI that is being ported over to the PinePhone. Upon release, the PinePhone should have a number of different OS choices and from within those, a number of different UI choices as well!
SALE: New Lower Price on ODROID-GO
The ODROID-GO is already one of the most affordable handheld retro gaming consoles on the market, and it's also great for microcontroller projects and hacking! Have you been wanting an ODROID-GO, but you've just been waiting for it to go...
News: ROCK64 Rev 3 ameriDroid Contest Winners Announced!
We're pleased to announce the ameriDroid ROCK64 Rev 3 contest winners! Due to the relatively low number of entrants, each entrant had an approximately 4.5% chance of winning a prize! ROCK64 Rev 3 4GB SBCs are now shipping! 1st Place: Jonathan S. - Santa...