{"id":305,"date":"2018-10-17T07:27:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/canonical-announces-plex-as-a-snap-duckduck-go-reaches-30-million-direct-searches-a-day-purisms-librem-5-phone-to-ship-with-gnome-3-32-desktop-libre-computer-project-launches-the-la-frite-sbc-and\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T07:27:08","slug":"canonical-announces-plex-as-a-snap-duckduck-go-reaches-30-million-direct-searches-a-day-purisms-librem-5-phone-to-ship-with-gnome-3-32-desktop-libre-computer-project-launches-the-la-frite-sbc-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/canonical-announces-plex-as-a-snap-duckduck-go-reaches-30-million-direct-searches-a-day-purisms-librem-5-phone-to-ship-with-gnome-3-32-desktop-libre-computer-project-launches-the-la-frite-sbc-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Canonical Announces Plex as a Snap, DuckDuck Go Reaches 30 Million Direct Searches a Day, Purism’s Librem 5 Phone to Ship with GNOME 3.32 Desktop, Libre Computer Project Launches the La Frite SBC and Google Releases Oboe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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News briefs for October 12, 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n

\nCanonical yesterday announced that Plex has arrived in its Snap Store. You
\nnow can download the
\nmultimedia platform<\/a> as a snap for Ubuntu, KDE Neon,
\nDebian, Fedora, Manjaro, OpenSUSE and Zorin. For more details, see the Ubuntu
\nBlog<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nDuckDuck Go, the privacy-focused search engine, has reached the milestone
\nof 30 million direct searches a
\nday<\/a>. According to The
\nVerge<\/a> and Search
\nEngine Journal<\/a>, DuckDuck Go’s market share is estimated to be .18%, compared
\nwith Google’s 77% and Bing’s 5%; however, DuckDuck Go’s traffic is up 50%
\nfrom last year.\n<\/p>\n

\nPurism’s Librem 5 phone will ship with the GNOME 3.32 desktop, which is
\nscheduled for release March 13, 2019. Softpedia
\nNews reports<\/a> that GNOME developer Adrien Plazas invites “GNOME and GTK+
\napp developers to adapt their applications to work both on their favorite
\nGNU\/Linux distribution and on the upcoming Librem 5 Linux phone, which will
\nuse Purism’s Debian-based and security-oriented Pure OS operating system by
\ndefault.” See also Adrien’s
\nblog post<\/a> for more details on Librem 5 + GNOME 3.32.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Libre Computer Project recently announced its new open-source, libre ARM SBC
\ncalled La Frite. Phoronix
\nreports<\/a> the new 512MB model will ship for $5 USD, or you can get the
\n1GB version for $10 USD. In addition, “the $5 ARM SBC is said to be 10x
\nfaster than the Raspberry Pi Zero” and also includes real HDMI, Ethernet
\nand USB ports. La Frite, the miniature version of Le Potato SBC supported by
\nmainline Linux and Android 8, should be available in November. See the Kickstarter
\npage<\/a> for details.\n<\/p>\n

\nGoogle yesterday released Oboe, a C++ library for creating real-time audio
\napps. According to the post
\non Packt<\/a>, one of Oboe’s main benefits is “the lowest possible audio
\nlatency across the widest range of Android devices”. See the GitHub repository<\/a> to get started
\nwith Oboe.\n<\/p>\n

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News briefs for October 12, 2018. Canonical yesterday announced that Plex has arrived in its Snap Store. You now can download the multimedia platform as a snap for Ubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Fedora, Manjaro, OpenSUSE and Zorin. For more details, see the Ubuntu Blog. DuckDuck Go, the privacy-focused search engine, has reached the milestone of … <\/p>\n

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