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Chrome OS is officially getting full-fledged Linux apps, and we ponder if this is truly a win for Linux.

Plus a ton of app picks this week, community news, and more.

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• Wave-share: Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound — A proof-of-concept for WebRTC signaling using sound. Works with all devices that have microphone + speakers. Runs in the browser.
• Chrome OS is getting full-fledged Linux apps — Chrome, Android, and now Linux all together in one place
• Who controls glibc? [LWN.net] — Toward the end of April, Raymond Nicholson posted a patch to the glibc manual removing a joke that he didn't think was useful to readers. The joke played on the documentation for abort() to make a statement about US government policy on providing information about abortions. As Nicholson noted: "The joke does not provide any useful information about the abort() function so removing it will not hinder use of glibc". On April 30, Zack Weinberg applied the patch to the glibc repository.
• Microsoft's most popular SQL Server product of all time runs on Linux • The Register — SQL Server running on Linux, with embedded R and Python, is Microsoft's most successful server product ever,
• Windows2usb: Windows 7/8/8.1/10 ISO to Flash Drive burning utility for Linux (MBR/GPT, BIOS/UEFI, FAT32/NTFS) — Windows 7/8/8.1/10 ISO to Flash Drive burning utility for Linux (MBR/GPT, BIOS/UEFI, FAT32/NTFS)
• Cue the Cosmic Cuttlefish — If I had one big thing that I could feel great about doing, systematically, for everyone who uses Ubuntu, it would be improving their confidence in the security of their systems and their data. It’s one of the very few truly unifying themes that crosses every use case.
• Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git — Now, 14 years later, we have a few new kinds of magic to draw on, and perhaps Ubiquity NG could take advantage of them.

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