Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 09, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. today's howtos

   many howtos for Friday

2. Kubernetes 1.32 sneak peek and Istio 1.24.0

   Server level releases

3. Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Rolls Out with Wireless Display Improvements, Bug Fixes

   The UBports Foundation announced today the release and general availability of Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 as the sixth update to the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

4. KDE Frameworks 6.8.0

   KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.8.0

   New

5. Forlinx FET MX95xx C System on Module for Industrial and IoT Applications

   The module operates on a Linux-based platform, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of software libraries and development tools

6. After Cyberwar

   many applications labelled as "cybersecurity" and given a veneer of legitimacy are really "weaponised" and abusive code

7. Slow Weekend Ahead [original]

   It's part of the Web becoming worse and worse each month

8. Tux Machines Will Hopefully Become Faster Soon [original]

   At the moment we're finishing the last batch of maintenance work

   New

9. Stable kernels: Linux 6.6.60, Linux 6.11.7, Linux 6.1.116, Linux 5.15.171, Linux 5.10.229, Linux 5.4.285, and Linux 4.19.323

   I'm announcing the release of the 6.6.60 kernel

10. Android Leftovers

    More Android devices will introduce users to Quick Share during setup, following Pixel

11. Raspberry Pi News and Projects

    Raspberry Pi picks

12. KDE Frameworks 6.8 Adds Breeze Icons for Typst Files And Fixes Many Bugs

    The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.8 as a new monthly update to this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt providing commonly needed functionality for KDE applications and the KDE Plasma desktop.

13. Calibre 7.21 Adds Read Aloud with Sentence Tracking for EPUBs

    Calibre 7.21 ebook manager introduces an audio overlay for EPUB, enabling immersive reading with sentence tracking & custom voices

14. Celebrating our top contributors on Firefox’s 20th anniversary

    Firefox was built by a group of passionate developers, and has been supported by a dedicated community of caring contributors since day one

15. Portwell PJAI-100-ON rugged Edge AI embedded system features NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano for industrial quality control

    While specific operating systems are not confirmed, NVIDIA Jetson modules rely on the Jetpack SDK based on Ubuntu by default, but also supporting other Linux operating systems since version 6.0

16. Radxa E52C – A Rockchip RK3582 router with dual 2.5GbE, USB 3.0 port, USB serial console port

    On the software side, it’s pretty much the same as for the E20C router with the E52C board running Debian Linux

17. Kdenlive 24.08.3 Arrives with Subtitle and Timeline Stability Fixes

    Kdenlive 24.08.3 open-source video editor addresses codec crashes, timeline bugs, and clip removal issues

18. Security Leftovers

    Windows TCO and Integrity

19. Best Free and Open Source Software

    They are all free and open source goodness

20. Desktop icons are surprisingly hard!

    I spent past three weeks working on refactoring and fixing legacy code (the oldest of which was from 2013) that handled positioning Plasma desktop icons

21. Samsung A54 smartphone review, a year later

    This is the sixth long-term report of my usage of one Samsung A54 device

22. MYC LR3576 SoM with Octa-Core RK3576 for Embedded Applications

    To support developers, the MYC-LR3576 runs on Debian 12 or Linux 6.1 and includes a suite of software resources

23. This lightweight Linux distro is the best (and easiest) way to revive your old computer. Here's how

    If you want to breathe life back into a slow or aging computer, Linux Lite 7.0 is a lightweight

24. Games: Steam Deck, The Spell Brigade, and More

    GamingOnLinux: the latest eight articles

25. today's leftovers

    only half a dozen for now

26. BarryK's Latest Development Updates From EasyOS

    Some of his latest

27. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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