Aloha fellow pluggies! Here's what happened in the month of January: 1. ZeroPhone — An Open Source, Dirt Cheap, Linux-powered Smartphone Is Here
Link: https://hackaday.io/project/19035-zerophone-a-raspberry-pi-smartphone/ * Powered by Raspberry Pi Zero * Costs around $50 (₹3360 approx.) and is a DIY project. All components available online. * OS is Raspbian Linux, based on Debian Jessie. * Basic functions alarm clock, calendar, phonebook, file browser 2. Steam now works out of the box with open-source graphics drivers 3. Vulnerabilities in bash, httpd, curl, openssh, kernel, and qemu Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/709998/ 4. Google ventures into public key encryption : Key Transperancy Porject Links: > https://security.googleblog.com/2017/01/security-through-transparency.html > https://keytransperancy.org * One of the goals is to make the process simpler, unlike PGP * Key Transparency will maintain a directory of online personae and associated public keys, * and it can work as a public key service to authenticate users. * Applications and services can publish their users’ public keys in Key Transparency and look up other users’ keys. * An audit mechanism keeps the service accountable. 5. Intel's hot new Linux distro - Intel Clear Linux Link: https://clearlinux.org * Cloud oriented * Performance on Intel Hardware * It has beter benchmark scores than other popular distros * Available to run on Microsoft Azure platform 6. Hitachi becomes a platinum member of Linux Foundation 7. Microsoft Office 2013 now works on Linux with Wine 2.0 8. KDE get's its own branded laptop - KDE Slimbook Link: http://kde.slimbook.es/ * Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE are your options -- Dhanesh B. Sabane [dhanesh95] dhanesh95.gitlab.io
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