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Honor 8X Contest on XDA Forums, Win 3 BT Speakers for Guessing Global Price
The official Honor account on the XDA forums opened a contest for users to guess the price of the latest Honor 8X 4+64GB version before its global release. The reason we’re posting about this contest is that it isn’t on the front page of XDA, or found anywhere in XDA’s…
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BusyBox version 1.29.0 Continues Support for Embedded Linux Systems
BusyBox version 1.29.0 came out today, and though most GNU/Linux users won’t find it in their repositories just yet it should prove to be an extremely important update nonetheless. There might be no other tool that’s quite as commonplace in the world of open-source software. The single binary provides a…
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LG V20 and Q6 to Receive Android Oreo Update Along With Camera and Audio Enhancements
LG can be somewhat slow to push updates for their Android phones, even their flagship series, but it looks like things may turn around as LG recently launched their dedicated Global Software Update Center just a few months ago, and it seems they’ve been investing some time and effort into…
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More Pixel 3 XL Leaks Show Google Camera with Lens Suggestions, and Assistant-Enabled Headsets
The story surrounding the recent slew of Google Pixel 3 XL leaks has just gotten more interesting, as further leak details continue to crop up, including details about the leaked devices and the Pixel 3 XL’s hardware specs. As we covered just earlier today, the source of the Pixel 3…
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Quirky Xerus 8.6 features latest DEBs from Ubuntu 16.04.x
The independent Linux-based operating system, Quirky 8.6, a side project of Puppy Linux made with Woof, has just hit the market. According to an announcement by its creator, Barry Kauler, who retired from the Puppy Linux project to work on the Quirky Distro, the woofQ operating system is live for…
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Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS Released on Heels of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Bundles All Past Stable Release Updates
A few days ago we covered the release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and also the NCSC’s guidelines on Ubuntu 18.04 security, but there’s more news yet from the Ubuntu team – they just released Ubuntu 16.04.5 Xenial Xerus LTS (Long Term Support) for folks who will not upgrade to Ubuntu…
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Officially Available for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Xylin, and Xubuntu
Ubuntu, the ever-popular Linux distro available in a wide variety of flavours, was just recently updated to 18.04.1 LTS (Long Term Support), codenamed “Bionic Beaver”. This is the first “point” release of 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver, and with it brings a ton of optimizations and fixes which many users have…
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Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Discussion Forums Open Following Product Launch
Following the launch of the massive (literally) Xiaomi Mi Max 3, a forum has popped up on XDA Developers to facilitate discussion, expression, and thought exchange on the now available for purchase smartphone. The forum has been flooded with real life review posts discussing the phone’s speaker system, Wi-Fi strength…
KaOS Releases New Snapshot with the Latest KDE Plasma Desktop Packages
KaOS introduced the new 2018.06 snapshot release today, which features KDE Plasma 5.13 as well as a redesigned first-run wizard that can help to customize a freshly installed instance of the operating system. The newest version of Plasma came out just a few days ago, which makes KaOS one of…
