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Debian 13 “Trixie” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

More than two years in the making, Debian 13 “Trixie” is finally here, powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, which brings new and updated drivers to support modern hardware. Linux kernel 6.12 LTS will be officially supported with bug and security updates until December 2026.

HandBrake 1.10 Open-Source Video Transcoder Brings New “Social 10MB” Presets

Highlights of HandBrake 1.10 include new “Social 10MB” presets, a new option to choose the encoder color range, a new command-line option to disable Dolby Vision and HDR10+ passthru, a new option to disable audio track names passthru and autonaming, updated NVEnc CQ range, and a new option to disable subtitle track names passthru.

PeaZip 10.6 Introduces Dynamic Virtual Mode, Improves Archive Pre-Parsing

PeaZip 10.6 is here almost two months after PeaZip 10.5 introducing a dynamic virtual mode to the file/archive browser for the ListView component, promising to improve the performance of the application when displaying a large number of items at once.

KDE Frameworks 6.17 Is Out to Improve Performance of All QtQuick-Based KDE Apps

The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue with KDE Frameworks 6.17, a release that slightly improves performance and efficiency for all QtQuick-based KDE apps, including Plasma apps like System Settings, Plasma Discover, and Spectacle.

Tails 7.0 Now Available for Testing, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and GNOME 48

Based on the soon-to-be-released Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series and powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, Tails 7.0 will be shipping with the latest GNOME 48 desktop environment by default, featuring the GNOME Console and GNOME Loupe apps.

GStreamer 1.26.5 Adds JPEG XS Support Videorate and Imagefreeze

GStreamer 1.26.5 is here to introduce JPEG XS support to the videorate and imagefreeze elements, support for discarding select services on each input to cea708mux, and support for brevity in awstranslate, along with an option to partition speakers in the transcription output of awstranscriber2.

Calibre 8.8 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Support for Kobo Devices

Calibre 8.8 comes with an updated Kobo driver that supports the latest Tolino firmware, improved display of lookup results from Google in the E-book viewer, and the ability to handle -epub-text-emphasis properties used in some Japanese language EPUB books during conversion.

Internet Society

The Internet of Wonder: How a Scientific Livestream Became a Cultural Phenomenon

The ocean is full of wonders, mysterious and mostly uncharted. We don’t know what we’ll find when we start diving deeper and deeper. It’s fascinating and also a little scary. On occasion, the Internet can be a little scary, too; many times, we don’t know what or who we are going to find in its depths. But sometimes, you find something really special. 

LinuxGizmos.com

VisionFive 2 Lite with 2GB RAM Starts at $19.9

After three years since the launch of the original VisionFive 2, StarFive has introduced another device, the VisionFive 2 Lite. The company has launched a campaign on Kickstarter for this cost-effective RISC-V single board computer, aimed at applications in education, AIoT, smart home, and IIoT.