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Fostering Digital Literacy in Nicaragua

The small community of Reparto La Virgen Nueva lies at kilometer 111 on the León-Chinandega highway in Nicaragua. Its inhabitants, mostly agricultural and domestic workers, face limited mobile Internet access, characterized by restrictive data plans and poor coverage. There’s no fiber Internet option and it’s a 20-kilometer commute to León by bus to access the nearest computer and Internet facilities.

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GParted Live 1.7 Launches with Experimental Bcachefs Support, Linux 6.12 LTS

Coming almost a year after GParted 1.6, the GParted 1.7 release is here to introduce experimental support for the Bcachefs file system (for single device file systems only), support for recognizing NBDs (Network Block Devices), and a new mechanism that prevents GParted probe from starting LVM volume groups.

NVIDIA 570 Linux Graphics Driver Promises VRR Support on Multi-Monitor Setups

Some of the highlights of the NVIDIA 570 graphics driver series include VRR (variable refresh rate) support on multi-monitor setups, support for querying Dynamic Boost status, 32-bit compatibility support for the NVIDIA GBM backend, and a new conceal_vrr_caps kernel module parameter to the nvidia-modeset kernel module.

GCompris 25.0 Open-Source Educational Suite Released with Five New Activities

GCompris 25.0 introduces five new activities including “Sketch”, an activity for drawing freely with multiple tools to let children explore their creativity, and “Calculate with ten’s complement”, the continuation of the existing ten’s complement activities to help the children to swap the numbers to easily compute a sum.

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Adafruit CLUE: A Sensor-Packed nRF52840 Development Board in a micro:bit Form Factor

The Adafruit CLUE is a development board with a built-in display, multiple sensors, and Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity. It follows the form factor of the BBC micro:bit while incorporating additional processing power and expanded functionality. The board is designed for applications involving data visualization, sensor-based measurements, and wireless communication.

EasyOS Kirkstone-series version 5.2 released

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 29, 2023

Easy version 5.1.1 was released on March 20, 2023, see blog announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202303/easyos-kirkstone-series-511-released.html

Since then, there has been a complete recompile of the packages, with many version bumps, including Chromium. There have also been improvements to the AppImage Installer, and more apps added. See 5.2 release notes:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.2/release-notes.htm

Each category in the AppImage Installer is starting to fill up:

Download 'easy-5.2-amd64.img' from here:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.2/

Or mirror in Europe by kind courtesy of NLUUG:

https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/releases/kirkstone/2023/5.2/

If you don't know how to write a drive image file to a USB-stick, read this:

https://easyos.org/install/how-to-write-easyos-to-a-flash-drive.html

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