The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . Colin Percival has announced the release of a new development snapshot for FreeBSD. The new beta snapshot, FreeBSD 14.2 BETA2, includes a handful of bug fixes and a few new features before the release candidate freeze. The release announcement summarizes the changes and provides a list of supported....

Calibre ebook manager, converter, and reader is out with a new update, and it adds an enticing sounding new feature. For a while now Calibre has offered a ‘read aloud’ feature that does exactly what you think it does: a computer voice reads the text of an ePUB book. Calibre 7.2.1 intros a “new tool to create an audio overlay in EPUB files for all text using the Read aloud facility”. This, it says…

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The modern smartphone landscape is dominated by a handful of technology giants, whose influence extends far beyond their own ecosystems. Unlike in the heyday of the PC revolution where multiple companies fought tooth and nail for market share by differentiating on feature functionality as well as price – offering a plethora of alternatives – today’s smartphone landscape is dominated by two main p…