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How To Test GIMP 3.0 Development Version Quickly on Ubuntu

Happy news to us that GNU Image Manipulation Program now almost reaches version 3.0. This long time favorite application of us, also known as GIMP, is in rapid development stages and the Release Candidate or RC versions are already available for us to download and test (and report bug if we found any issue). As a part of the happy news, now GIMP 3.0 is officially available also as AppImage! For that reason, we can try it out as quickly as downloading and double-clicking it without removing the existing version installed. While we're all waiting for GIMP 3.0 RC to finally reach 3.0 stable, now let's start trying it out!

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OpenWrt One AP 24 XY Brings Open Source Networking to a Custom Router

The OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY is a router board based on the MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) SoC, combined with the MediaTek MT7976C dual-band Wi-Fi 6 chipset. Developed in collaboration with Banana Pi, the OpenWrt One is the first official hardware platform supported by the OpenWrt open-source community, designed for OpenWrt learning, IoT applications, and general networking use cases such as routing, NAS, and wireless communication.

OpenMV Introduces the GENX320 Camera Module for Event-Based Vision

OpenMV has introduced the Prophesee GenX320 camera module, bringing event-based vision sensing to its embedded platform. Unlike traditional image sensors that capture entire frames at fixed intervals, the GenX320 detects only changes in a scene, reducing data rates while improving efficiency in motion detection.

Radxa Expands SBC Lineup with ROCK 5T Featuring Dual 2.5GbE and Dual M.2 Slots

Radxa has introduced a Mini-ITX single-board computer designed for both consumer and industrial applications. Built around the Rockchip RK3588(J) processor, this SBC provides a broad set of interfaces, high-speed connectivity, and advanced multimedia capabilities.

Vaaman is a $180 reconfigurable board with an Efinix Trion T120 FPGA and Rockchip RK3399

The Vaaman is a reconfigurable edge computing platform, first seen in 2023. The CrowdSupply campaign has finally launched, offering a system that combines the flexibility of an FPGA with the processing power of a six-core ARM processor.

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 16th, 2025

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GNOME 48 Beta Is Now Available for Public Testing with Adwaita Fonts, More

The beta version of GNOME 48 is here with Adwaita fonts, a new default wallpaper, improved screen time limit support, a new GNOME Display Control (gdctl) utility, support for configuring HDR via the DisplayConfig D-Bus API, support for updating cursors via the frame clock in virtual monitors, and the ability to track screen time history with no limit set.

GNOME 47.4 Released with Performance Improvements for Nautilus, Bug Fixes

Coming almost a month after GNOME 47.3, the GNOME 47.4 release is here to speed up batch file deletions and simple recursive search through mount monitors in the Nautilus (Files) file manager, and support synchronization of the enabled state for devices when adding a new device in the input-mapper of Mutter.

openSUSE Replaces AppArmor with SELinux on New Tumbleweed Installations

Until this change, openSUSE Tumbleweed shipped with AppArmor, a security module in the Linux kernel that allows system administrators to restrict the capabilities of programs with per-program profiles.

Using Python and NetworkManager to control the network

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 16, 2022

There are other tools that offer similar functionality. However one of the advantages of NetworkManager is that it offers a powerful API. Using this API, other applications can inspect, monitor and change the networking state of the system.

This article first introduces the API of NetworkManager and presents how to use it from a Python program. In the second part it shows some practical examples: how to connect to a wireless network or to add an IP address to an interface programmatically via NetworkManager.

Read on

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