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Pimoroni Interstate 75 W RP2350 Based Driver for HUB75 LED Matrices

The Interstate 75 W is a driver board designed for HUB75-style LED matrices and is powered by the RP2350 microcontroller. This board connects directly to HUB75 panels, offering a straightforward solution for creating LED displays for applications such as signage, data visualization, or interactive projects.

Polverine Leverages ESP32-S3 and Bosch Sensors for Air Quality Tracking

Crowd Supply recently featured Polverine, a mikroBUS-compatible environmental sensing board for real-time air quality monitoring. It detects pollution, gas leaks, and supports ventilation control. Its compact, low-power design makes it suitable for portable and wearable applications, with Bosch Sensortec’s BMV080 PM2.5 and BME690 gas sensors providing data over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth via the ESP32-S3-MINI-1 microcontroller.

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.

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Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.9 Is Here with NVIDIA 570 Graphics Driver, Many Goodies

The monthly Nitrux release cycle continues and Nitrux 3.9 is here with Linux 6.12 LTS as the default kernel and better support for NVIDIA GPU users by updating the graphics driver to the upcoming NVIDIA 570 series, which is currently available as a beta version, and updated NVIDIA OpenRC services to use a PID file when running the service for the nvidia-powerd daemon.

Security-Focused ParrotOS 6.3 Distro Brings New and Updated Tools, Improvements

Coming more than three months after ParrotOS 6.2, the ParrotOS 6.3 release is powered by Linux kernel 6.11 for the PC editions and Linux kernel 6.6 LTS for the Raspberry Pi edition. Both kernels have been bumped to newer versions to provide users with the best possible hardware support.

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.

Wayland Display Server on openSUSE Tumbleweed in 2023

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 12, 2023

It is official, 2023 is the year of the Wayland display server. It has become very obvious that there is quite a bit of momentum behind the Wayland Display Server project and as of today, in October of 2023, Wayland is the best experience you are going to have with the Plasma desktop, especially if you have a mix of HiDPI and well, regular DPI screens.

Bottom Line Up Front: Everything works in Wayland (except one but I’ll get to that later). I am having a great experience on Wayland, and I will add that if you have a screen with any more pixels than 1080p, you should probably be running Wayland for the smoothest experience.

This is my experience using openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot 20231008 with KDE Plasma version 5.27.8 on Linux Kernel 6.5.6.

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Now that Wayland has arrived, what’s next? Pipewire in conjunction of Wayland is now providing even cooler functions and capabilities that haven’t been previously available to Desktop Linux (yes, this is another article I’m working on). HiDPI displays can be fully embraced in Linux as well as per-monitor fractional scaling. Truly, a fantastic capability. Wayland is also giving users the ability to use DisplayLink displays on Linux quite smoothly too. I can honestly say that I have never been more content as a desktop Linux user, or, for that matter, desktop computer user… ever. These are some marvelous times to be using Linux.

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