The GNOME 49 Release Candidate has some interesting changes, especially the re-enablement of X11 support in the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) component by default as the devs find it hard to cleanly separate GDM’s ability to launch modern X11 sessions. X11 support was disabled in the GNOME 49 alpha release.
Coming two and a half months after Mixxx 2.5.2, the Mixxx 2.5.3 release brings improvements to the Digital Vinyl System (DVS) support to properly and more accurately represent the pitch control slider on the turntable or CD player. Also, the Alpha-Beta filter was replaced with a more advanced Kalman-Filter equivalent.
Based on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series and powered by Linux kernel 6.14, which should boost hardware support, Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” ships with the usual editions featuring the Cinnamon 6.4, Xfce 4.18, and MATE 1.26 desktop environments.
It is powered by the Stamp-S3A core module based on the ESP32-S3FN8 dual-core Xtensa LX7 processor, running at up to 240 MHz with 8 MB of flash storage. A microSD card slot provides additional storage for applications and data, and an infrared emitter is included for remote-control functions.
The AV-USB provides three full-size USB-A ports via an onboard hub, along with a PCM5102-based stereo analog audio interface over I2S. Audio and composite video are routed through a 3.5 mm TRRS jack, restoring analog video output that on the Pi Zero 2 W was moved to a small test pad, making it easier to connect displays without soldering.
The Fing Agent has been available previously as software for Raspberry Pi, NAS, and Docker containers. The new kit, created in collaboration with Pimoroni, comes pre-assembled and pre-configured to simplify deployment.
The CM4 integrates an octa-core CPU with four Cortex-A72 and four Cortex-A53 cores running up to 2.2 GHz, paired with an ARM Mali-G52 MC3 GPU supporting OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.2, Vulkan 1.2, and OpenCL 2.1. An integrated NPU delivers up to 6 TOPS at INT8, with support for frameworks such as TensorFlow, ONNX, PyTorch, and Caffe.
