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THIS TABLET RUNS LINUX?! Microsoft Won't buy Discord, and GUI Linux apps on Windows - Linux News
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This time, we have the release of Ubuntu 21.04, graphical linux apps on windows, Discord refusing to be bought by Microsoft, and a good looking potential new Linux tablet. Let's take a look!

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10:23 Hardware News
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## Linux

The University of Minnesotta has been banned from contributing to the linux kernel, for sending buggy patches for research purposes.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-minnesota-response-to-linux-security-patch-requests/

Microsoft showcased Linux apps running on windows through Windows subsystem for Linux, in all their graphical glory. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/04/run-linux-apps-on-windows-wsl-2

Version 5.12 of the Linux kernel was released, and it's called a "small release" by Linus Torvalds himself.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/04/new-linux-5-12-kernel-features
https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.12

Plasma Mobile has received a big update, to a lot of its defaults apps, and is seeing a bunch of new ones coming in as well, including the first steps for a mobile-enabled email client, which was a big missing part of the experience.
https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/04/27/plasma-mobile-update-march-april/

## Apps
Firefox 88 was released, and it seems to remove as many features as it's adding.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/88.0/releasenotes/


Discord was talking with Microsoft about a potential buy, but it seems that this won't happen.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/messaging-platform-discord-reportedly-ends-sale-talks-with-microsoft.html

Geary 40 was released, and this GTK based mail client is getting really good these days.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/04/geary-40-released


Kdenlive 21.04 was released, and it packs a lot of new features!
https://kdenlive.org/en/2021/04/kdenlive-21-04-released/


## Hardware
You probably have heard about JingOS, the tablet focused Linux based OS coming from a relatively new chinese company. Well these guys want some nice
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