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This Guy Made a Computer Mouse That Is Itself a Computer

Apple’s FoundationDB open sources CloudKit database layer — The FoundationDB Record Layer is an open source library that provides a record-oriented datastore with semantics similar to a relational database, implemented on top of FoundationDB.

FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore

'Celluloid' is the new name of GNOME MPV — “The current name is a bit unelegant, and doesn’t really fit in with other apps on the GNOME platform. Good app names are usually a single noun that’s related to the app’s domain (e.g. “Fragments” for a torrent app, or “Peek” for a screen recorder).”

Google is Adding 'Apt Search' to the ChromeOS App Launcher — Now, based on a code commit uncovered by Chrome Story, users of the Linux (beta) for Chromebooks will also be able to search for and install Linux apps from the Chrome OS launcher.

Chrome OS to let companies use other Linux distros for apps — Device administrators will be able to designate a URL for Chrome OS to download the Linux distro, and a hash to ensure the download was successful.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Release — OTA-7 is the release where we take a breath and focus on getting the launch just right.

ZFS On Linux Runs Into A Snag With Linux 5.0 — ZFS On Linux currently fails to build against the Linux 5.0 kernel sources.

Linux 5.0: kernelfpu{begin,end} no longer exported · Issue #8259 · zfsonlinux/zfs

The future of ZFS in FreeBSD

Chezmoi: Manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines.

Introducing Ephemeral – Cassidy James Blaede — The always-incognito web browser for elementary OS.

Introducing The Elementary OS 5 Linux Community Challenge