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Cost-Effective DART-MX91 SoM with 1.4GHz NXP i.MX 91 Processor Available from $35

Variscite has introduced the DART-MX91 System on Module, a compact and cost-effective solution within the DART Pin2Pin family, targeting edge devices for IoT, smart cities, industrial applications, and more.

Celeron Powered Fanless Mini PC with Dual 4K Display Support and M.2 2280 Slot

The EMP-100 is a compact, fanless mini PC built for versatile applications, including digital signage, industrial control, and retail environments. Designed with an aluminum chassis and VESA mounting support, it provides silent performance, dual 4K display support, and storage expansion via an M.2 2280 slot.

Radxa Introduces the Palmshell SLiM X4L with Intel N100 Processor and 2.5GbE RJ45 Port

The Radxa X4L, also known as the Palmshell SLiM X4L, is a compact device powered by Intel’s quad-core N100 processor. With features like a 2.5GbE LAN port, Wi-Fi 6E, and dual 4K@30Hz display support, it’s well-suited for multimedia and general-purpose use.

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PeaZip 10.1 File Archiver Improves Resilience to Password Guessing Attacks

PeaZip 10.1 is here only two weeks after PeaZip 10 and updates the backend to Pea 1.21, which introduces scrypt KDF as the default option instead of PBKDF2 to improve resilience to password-guessing attacks. This change alone increases the memory cost up to 1GB per instance. KDF was supported since Pea 1.5.

DXVK 2.5 Improves Memory Management in God of War and Other Video Games

DXVK 2.5 is here one and a half months after DXVK 2.4.1 to improve memory management for God of War and other video games by periodically performing memory defragmentation to return some unused memory to the system. However, this feature is currently disabled on Intel’s ANV Vulkan driver.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 10th, 2024

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Kubuntu 22.04 with Legacy Oxygen Theme

This tutorial will help you using silver, metallic theme "Oxygen" that was popular in the era of KDE 4 on the modern Kubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish". In short, we will use Elarun as wallpaper and Oxygen as the rest of the whole themes including application style, colors, icons, Plasma style, and splash screen. All in all, we want to offer the best visual experience we had in the past to new generation of Kubuntu users as well as the long time users themselves especially those who appreciate nostalgia. Finally, we hope you will enjoy this!

Tokodon 23.01.0 release

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2023

Happy new year! To get a good start in this new new year, I’m happy to announce that Tokodon 23.01.0 is out! This is a new major release for Tokodon and while it’s been only 2 weeks since the last major release, this release is packed with new features and improvements.

Tokodon is a Mastodon/Pleroma/Nextcloud Social client built with Kirigami that I started back in spring 2021. Tokodon has a great integration with KDE Plasma and Plasma Mobile, but it also work on other desktop environments and even Windows and macOS.

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