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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.

Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story ...so far

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 30, 2023

Wednesday 13th, March 2013, 10 years ago, Kali Linux v1.0 was first released. Today we want to celebrate Kali’s 10th anniversary!

Time has flown. And gosh, a lot has changed since then! They grow up so fast!

This is the story of how Kali came to be, and some of the challenges along the way.

Yesterday is History: The Past

How did we get to where we are today? There is a quick answer, and a not so quick answer.

Quick history lesson

It all began in 2004, with Whoppix, a security operating system based on Knoppix. This lead into WHAX in 2005, which used Slax. In 2006, BackTrack Linux happened which was based initially on Slax, then moved to Ubuntu. Every one of these OSes and its changes were done to solve different problems. Using everything which was learnt, Kali Linux was born. A fresh start in March 2013.

Read on

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