Tux Machines
Do you waddle the waddle?
Do you waddle the waddle?
Susan of Tux Machines
If it irritates your ‘opponent’, then you must be doing something right
They should know better than that; it insults the customers
Daniel Pocock is using the High Court now
No actual verdict, just hypothetical
Old is not bad
t last! Today it’s done and I’ll move on to other topics.
Not “slowing down” but failing
Tomorrow
The word spreads
Building an Internet for everyone takes people who can turn ideas into action.
Coming about two weeks after COSMIC 1.8, the COSMIC 1.9 release introduces two new apps, namely COSMIC Viewer as an image viewer that supports a wide range of formats and features built-in editing capabilities, and COSMIC OSK as an on-screen keyboard that supports both touch and gamepad input.
Highlights of Mir 2.30 include wl_fixes Wayland protocol support, a typed wrapper for wl_array, a run nest command for the workshop tooling, mandatory Rust support at build time alongside the newly packaged Rust-powered evdev input platform, and libxml++ 5.0 compatibility with a 2.6 fallback for older Linux distros.
Coming almost two months after fwupd 2.1.7, the fwupd 2.1.8 release introduces support for ASUS GX5407, Elan PID 0CB6, FocalTech MOC fingerprint sensors, Lenovo ThinkPad Thunderbolt 4 Dock Gen 2 7000, MaxLinear MxL862xx, MediaTek MT9700 FCTE and MT9701 KSMU, Pixart PID 4F01, 4F02, 4F0D and 4F0E, and Rolling RW101 devices.
Coming one and a half months after Wireshark 4.6.8, the Wireshark 4.6.9 release updates support for the AKP, Bencode, BT AVCTP, BSSLAP, Catapult DCT2000, CSN.1, DICOM, F1AP, FP Hint, Frame, GNW, GSM BSSMAP, IEEE 802.11, LBMC, LoRaWAN, NBAP, OBEX, OpenFlow 1.3/1.4/1.5, PKCS12, QUIC, RTPS, SGP.32, SMB, SPDY, SYNCHROPHASOR, UMTS FP, X11, and ZigBee ZCL protocols.
Based on the Debian “Forky” Testing and SparkyLinux Testing repositories as of September 21st, 2026, SparkyLinux 2026.09 is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series and introduces a Sparky Labwc edition featuring the Labwc wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland.
KeePassXC 2.8 looks like a major update that promises a long-anticipated Qt 6 port to provide users with a more modern experience, Auto-Type support on Wayland using XDG Desktop Portals, quick unlock via Polkit on Linux, configurable keyboard shortcuts, remote database synchronization with external tools, and quick unlock with password on macOS.
NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 is a security update that adds guards against multiple creator-owner and creator-group ACEs during ACL inheritance and fixes heap buffer overflows in the ntfs_external_attr_find(), ntfs_ea_check_wsldev(), ntfs_check_restart_area(), ntfs_same_sid(), and ntfs_acl_owner() functions.
Coming a month after NVIDIA 595.99.02, the NVIDIA 595.104.02 release addresses a failure that could occur when allocating GPU page tables larger than 2 GiB (INT_MAX) and an issue where unvalidated VkHdrMetadataEXT values were forwarded to the Wayland color-management-v1 protocol, which could cause a crash.
ARK Electronics recently showcased the ARKV6X-RT, an NDAA-compliant flight controller based on the FMUV6X-RT and Pixhawk Autopilot Bus open standards. The module uses an NXP i.MX RT1176 microcontroller and includes three synchronized IMUs, onboard FRAM, a secure element and PX4 Autopilot support.
GL.iNet has unveiled the Mango 2 (GL-MG1300), a compact travel router with dual-band Wi-Fi 5, Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0. The device supports WireGuard and OpenVPN, along with Ethernet, Wi-Fi repeater, USB tethering and USB cellular modem connections.
Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory.
wolfSSL has detailed several embedded security updates covering deterministic networking, post-quantum cryptography and automotive hardware security. The updates include the wolfIP TCP/IP stack, NIST-validated post-quantum algorithms in wolfCrypt, native Falcon and FrodoKEM implementations, and wolfHSM support for Infineon’s AURIX TC4xx family.
OnLogic has added two SoftPLC-oriented industrial computers built around Intel Core Ultra processors and pre-configured CODESYS environments. The Helix 521-PLC targets low-profile deployments, while the larger Helix 524-PLC adds PCIe expansion with an available Hilscher netX fieldbus interface for industrial networking and real-time control applications.
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