News briefs for July 5, 2019. Debian 10 "Buster" is coming tomorrow. You can follow the live coverage of the release here or @debian on Twitter. You also can join a release party or celebrate online at the Debian Party Line.

News briefs for July 3, 2019. The Linux Mint folks yesterday announced that they're working with Compulab again on the next MintBox mini, the most powerful MintBox ever. MintBox 3 will be based on Airtop 3. The release date has yet to be announced. The unfinalized specs are listed as: "1. Basic configuration: $1543 with a Core i5 (6 cores), 16 GB RAM, 256 GB EVO 970, Wi-Fi and FM-AT3 FACE Module. 2. High end: $2698 with Core i9, GTX 1660 Ti, 32 GB RAM, 1TB EVO 970, WiFi and FM-AT3 FACE Module."

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News briefs for June 27, 2019. Nextcloud announces a new collaborative rich text editor called Nextcloud Text. Nextcloud Text is described as not "a replacement to a full office suite, but rather a distraction-free, focused way of writing rich-text documents alone or together with others." See the Nextcloud blog post for more details.

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News briefs for June 21, 2019. GNOME 3.33.3 was released yesterday. Note that this release is development code and is intended for testing purposes. Go here to see the list of modules and changes, get the BuildStream project snapshot here or get the source packages here.

News briefs for June 20, 2019. Kubernetes 1.15 was released yesterday. This is the second release of the year and contains 25 enhancements. The two main themes of the release are continuous improvement and extensibility. See the Kubernetes blog post for all the details.

News briefs for June 19, 2019. The development team over at Docker is porting their container platform to Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) It looks as if pretty soon, Docker containers will be managed across both Linux and Windows. See ZDNet for details.

News briefs for June 18, 2019. Slimbook, the Spanish Linux computer company, just unveiled a brand-new all-in-one Linux PC called the "Apollo". It has a 23.6 inch IPS LED display with a 1920x1080 resolution, and a choice between an Intel i5-8500 and i7-8700 processors. It comes with up to 32GB of RAM and integrated Intel UHD 630 4K graphics. Pricing starts at $799.

FreeBSD 11.3-RC1 is now officially available with installation images for amd64, i386, aarch64, armv6 and more. This release contains mostly bug fixes. If you are looking for a new laptop with Linux support out-of-box, the Lenovo ThinkPad P series will have Ubuntu 18.04 pre-installed. They will go on sale later this month in the US.

Yesterday, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu announced the availability of Manifold 2, a high-performance embedded computer offered by leading enterprise drone manufacturer, DJI. This availability will allow developers access to containerized software packages (e.g. Snaps), allowing for infinite evolution and functionality changes.

Atari has officially opened up pre-orders to the VCS retro gaming console for $250. New orders are expected to be fulfilled by March 2020.

News briefs for June 12, 2019. Endless OS 3.6.0 has been released. This release has "updated the base OS packages to the latest versions from Debian 'buster' (the forthcoming stable release), most desktop components to the versions from GNOME 3.32, and Linux kernel 5.0." It also includes many new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. Go here to download.

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