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Tiny RISC-V Development Board with WCH CH32V317WCU6 Available from $6.80

The board is powered by the WCH CH32V317WCU6, a RISC-V microcontroller capable of running at up to 144MHz. The chip features a USB 2.0 high-speed controller alongside a full-speed controller, a 10/100M Ethernet MAC with a physical layer transceiver, SDIO support, DVP for digital video input, and advanced motor PWM timers.

DietPi September 2025 Update Brings Faster Backups and Roon Server Early Access

The September 20th release of DietPi v9.17 introduces smaller and more efficient system images, faster backups with reduced disk usage, and a new toggle for Roon Server’s early access builds. The update also addresses SPI bootloader flashing issues on Rockchip devices, improves Raspberry Pi sound card handling, and includes multiple bug fixes across tools and software.

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GNU Linux-Libre 6.17 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers

Based on the recently released Linux 6.17 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 6.17 kernel is here to clean up Intel IPU7 and assorted AArch64 devicetree files, as well as to adjust deblobbing of the AMDGPU, prueth, iwlwifi, btusb, pci mhi host, adreno a6xx, nova-core, and Intel AVS drivers.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 28th, 2025

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Linux Kernel 6.17 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of Linux 6.17 include support for ARM’s “Branch Record Buffer Extension” (BRBE), support for the AMD hardware feedback interface (HFI), Intel Wildcat Lake and Bartlett Lake-S support, initial support for the HEVC(H.265) and VP9 codecs in Qualcomm’s Iris decoder, which is supported by the Video 4 Linux (V4L2) driver.

Independent Distro KaOS Linux 2025.09 Arrives with Linux 6.16, KDE Gear 25.08

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.16 kernel series, KaOS Linux 2025.09 ships with the KDE Plasma 6.4.5 desktop environment, which is accompanied by the latest KDE Gear 25.08.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.18 software suites, all built using the latest Qt 6.9.2 open-source application framework.

5 Best RSS Feed Reader For Linux in 2023

posted by Trend Oceans on Apr 20, 2023

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