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Remix OS 1.5 is now available for everyone. Remix OS is a tweaked Android version, with a desktop interface. Remix OS features a taskbar at the bottom of the screen, so you can easily manage & switch between running apps. It also has handy apps pre-installed, like a File Manager, Office Suite, E-Mail Client, and a Notes app.

Laptop Mode Tools version 1.67 is released. With this power-saving package for Linux systems it's possible to increase battery life of a laptop.

The developers of the Open-sourcevideo editor Shotcut made some huge improvements to the application and it gets better 4K support.

The first release candidate for Linux kernel 4.2 has been released and is available for download.

In the past LG build 2 Google Nexus smartphones and according to very strong rumors LG will build the next Google Nexus smartphone. Google Nexus is a line of mobile devices that run the Android operating system. In the past LG developed together with Google the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 smartphones.

Release Candidate 1 of Kodi 15.0 is released. According to the Kodi developers it is a “clean-up” edition, with a couple of nice (new) features. Kodi is now also available in the Google Play store for Android.

The OpenSSH team has released version 6.9 of OpenSSH. This is primarily a bugfix release, with some new features.

Kinoma HD is an HDMI stick for developers who want to display visually rich content on big displays. Kinoma HD’s HDMI output plugs into an HD capable display, connecting wirelessly to IoT devices, iOS and Android handhelds, cloud services, and content from web-based apps.

Microsoft revealed that it will be joining the Linux Foundation R Consortium as a founding member. The founding members of the R Consortium include other major corporations like Google, HP and Oracle.

Sadly Mandriva was liquidated a month ago (known from the once popular Mandriva Linux distrubion) and now the OpenMandriva team has released their tribute to Mandriva with OpenMandriva Lx 2014.2, nicknamed "The Scion".

The ZIDOO X9 is one of the first Android powered mediaplayers with an HDMI input, so you can record from any (unencrypted) HDMI source.

This box features one HDMI input, offers 4K resolution and runs on Android 4.4.2.

According to Linus Torvalds Linux Kernel 4.2 may be the biggest release, as he stated on his Google Plus page.

Yesterday evening Linus Torvalds revealed interesting information about the next major version of the Linux kernel, which will be released within a few days as the first release candidate version.

The Wine development team has just released version 1.7.46. Wine enables Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and OSX users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows.

GNU Linux-libre is a project thats maintains and publishes 100% free distributions of Linux, so no commercial (non open-source) software is involved. GNU Linux-libre 4.1 is released, based on the Linux kernel 4.1.

The default firmware branch of the very popular mini computer; the Raspberry Pi has now been updated to use the 4.0 kernel. The newer kernel tree does support more devices, like WiFi, DVB and USB devices.

Canonical has published details about WPA and WPA2 vulnerability in Ubuntu and has released updates to fix these issues. Kostya Kortchinsky discovered multiple flaws in wpa_supplicant and hostapd.

Linus Torvald has just released the master for Linux Kernel 4.1, so this marks the final release of Linux Kernel 4.1. Linux Kernel 4.1 features a lot of improvements, new features, better hardware support and many bug fixes.

BleachBit is an open-source and cross-platform system cleaner application for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems. BleachBit version 1.8 is available for download now.

Robolinux, a Linux distribution based on Debian lets users run Windows applications and is now updated to version 7.9.2. The developers of Robolinux have implemented a technology called Stealth VM that lets users emulate an entire Windows OS inside Linux.

The assembly code of the Linux kernel is complicated and poorly maintained, according to some Linux developers. So a lot of code is rewritten in C. Linux kernel 4.1 comes with many x86 ASM code changes and one of the developers; Andy Lutomirski explains what kind of issues he encountered.