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This time, we have System76 working on their own desktop environment based on GNOME, Arch Linux adding a guided installer, Google winning its court case against Oracle on the use of Java in Android, and Facebook is leaking data online, again.
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elementary OS celebrated its 10th birthday!
https://blog.elementary.io/ten-years/
Arch Linux has added a guided installer to their ISO.
https://linuxreviews.org/The_Latest_Arch_Linux_ISO_Has_A_Fresh_New_Guided_Installer
KDE is set to solve one of my main issues with the way apps are designed, which is the inconsistency between menubar-toting apps and hamburger menu based applications.
https://pointieststick.com/2021/04/03/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-hamburger-menu/
You might have heard about JingOS, the Linux distro made for tablets, with a completely adapted interface and suite of apps. It's still in development, and quite barebones and buggy, but it's promising, if not very innovative in terms of look and feel, copying the iOS and Android staples quite heavily. Well, it seems the developers might be interested to port their interface to smartphones as well.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/04/jingos-linux-phone-video-demo
System76 has been offering their own spin on Ubuntu, called PopOS, for a few years now. Well, it seems like they're going to distance themselves more from baseline Ubuntu, as they'll be working on their own desktop environment, called COSMIC.
https://blog.system76.com/post/648371526931038208/cosmic-to-arrive-in-june-release-of-popos-2104
Google won its extremely long standing lawsuit with Oracle, about the use of the Java API in Android.
https://www.androidcentral.com/googles-victory-over-oracle-supreme-court-win-whole-industry
Google has open sourced their Lyra codec, as a beta.
https://venturebeat.com/2021/04/06/google-launches-lyra-codec-in-beta-to-reduce-voice-call-bandwidth-usage/
Microsoft launched their own open source distribution of OpenJDK, called "Microsoft Build of OpenJDK", continuing the long line of ultra descriptive names given to Microsoft Projects.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/
Proton 6.3-1 has been released, and it's a huge change, as it bases Proton on Wine 6.3 instead of Wine 5.13.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog
Nvidia support in XWayland isn't far off, as they have merged their work to provide hardware accelerated rendering for NVIDIA GPUs.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/04/xwayland-work-for-hardware-accelerated-nvidia-support-has-been-merged-in
Getting Things GNOME 0.5 had a big new release, version 0.5.
https://fortintam.com/blog/gtg-0-5-released/
Shortwave, a GTK based web radio player, has received an update to version 2.0.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/04/shortwave-2-0-released-gtk4-miniplayer
The personal data of 533 million Facebook users has been leaked online, including email addresses and phone numbers.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/4/22366822/facebook-personal-data-533-million-leaks-online-email-phone-numbers
Google is getting sued in France for illegally tracking Android users.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/google-of-illegally-tracking-android-users-according-to-new-complaint/