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Ubuntu Desktop 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Daily Builds Now Available for Download

The Stonking Stingray development cycle has been nothing but strange until now. First, the daily builds for Ubuntu Desktop, which first appeared around mid-May, were only available for the 64-bit ARM (AArch64) architecture. Then, Canonical decided to release the first Snapshot without providing Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit images.

Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” Will Reach End of Life on July 9th, 2026

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First Look at Audacity 4: A Beautiful and Modern Revamp of the Audio Editor

I just remembered that I’ve been using Audacity on and off for about 20 years now. It’s always been the go-to program whenever I needed to trim an audio file or glue two tracks into one, or just extract a sample from an audio track. For me, Audacity was highly effective and reliable for this specific use case.

Shelly 2.3.3 Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Flatpak/AppImage Support

Shelly is a modern reimagination and alternative to Arch Linux’s default package manager, supporting third-party app stores like AUR and Flathub, as well as AppImages. Shelly comes with both a graphical UI and a CLI version. CachyOS recently adopted Shelly as the default GUI package manager.

First Look at Antergos NeXT: A Modern Revival of Antergos Linux with KDE Plasma

Antergos Linux was created by developers Alexandre Filgueira, Gustau Castells, and Dustin Falgout back in 2012 as an unofficial Cinnamon flavor of the popular and flexible Arch Linux distribution. It was initially called Cinnarch (Cinnamon on Arch), but the developers renamed it Antergos in 2013.

GStreamer 1.28.4 Adds Support for FLAC Decoding and New Codec Profile Mappings

The GStreamer 1.28.4 release adds various new codec mime/profile mappings for WMV, VC1, AC3/EAC3/AC4, AAC, and H.265, as well as support decoding for FLAC files on Android, and support for SRTP, authentication, HTTP tunnelling, keep alive, stream selection, TLS validation, and latency configuration to the RTSP client plugin.

Systemd-Free Peppermint OS Devuan Is Now Based on Devuan 6 Excalibur

Based on the latest Devuan 6 “Excalibur” series, which is based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, Peppermint OS Devuan ships with three init systems, including SysVinit, OpenRC, and runit, and features the lightweight Xfce 4.20 desktop environment by default.

KDE Frameworks 6.27 Is Out to Improve KRunner, Breeze Icons, and More

The KDE Frameworks 6.27 release is here to improve the display of disk sizes shown in various places across the Plasma desktop to fully respect your preference regarding storage units, and switching between light and dark Global Themes to prevent various Plasma UI elements from changing their colors halfway.

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M5Stack LLM-8850 Kit delivers 24 TOPS AI acceleration in M.2 form factor

The LLM-8850 Kit is an M.2-based AI accelerator designed for edge AI, embedded inference, video analytics, and multimodal large-model workloads. It combines the LLM-8850 Card, a compact M.2 M-Key 2242 module based on the Axera AX8850 SoC, with a PiHat adapter board for the Raspberry Pi 5.

FreeBSD 14.0-RC3 Now Available

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 28, 2023

The third RC build of the 14.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available.


Installation images are available for:


o 14.0-RC3 amd64 GENERIC
o 14.0-RC3 i386 GENERIC
o 14.0-RC3 powerpc GENERIC
o 14.0-RC3 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 14.0-RC3 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
o 14.0-RC3 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
o 14.0-RC3 armv7 GENERICSD
o 14.0-RC3 aarch64 GENERIC
o 14.0-RC3 aarch64 RPI
o 14.0-RC3 aarch64 PINE64
o 14.0-RC3 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
o 14.0-RC3 aarch64 PINEBOOK
o 14.0-RC3 aarch64 ROCK64
o 14.0-RC3 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
o 14.0-RC3 riscv64 GENERIC
o 14.0-RC3 riscv64 GENERICSD


Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for those without
console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of
freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access.  Additionally,
the root user password is set to root.  It is strongly recommended
to change the password for both users after gaining access to the
system.


Installer images and memory stick images are available here:


    https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/


The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail.


If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR
system or on the -stable mailing list.


If you would like to use Git to do a source based update of an existing
system, use the "releng/14.0" branch.


A summary of changes since 14.0-RC2 includes:


o Test suite fixes.


o Support for IUTF8 in (s)tty has been added.


o Support for Realtek Killer E2600 has been added.


o Several kernel TLS updates have been added.


o OpenSSL has been updated to version 3.0.12.


o And other miscellaneous bug fixes and updates.


A list of changes since 13.2-RELEASE is available in the releng/14.0
release notes:


    https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/


Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be
updated on an ongoing basis as the 14.0-RELEASE cycle progresses.


=== Virtual Machine Disk Images ===


VM disk images are available for the amd64, i386, and aarch64
architectures.  Disk images may be downloaded from the following URL
(or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors):


    https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/14.0-RC3/


BASIC-CI images can be found at:


    https://download.freebsd.org/releases/CI-IMAGES/14.0-RC3/


The partition layout is:


    ~ 16 kB - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)
    ~ 1 GB  - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)
    ~ 20 GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)


The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image
formats.  The image download size is approximately 135 MB and 165 MB
respectively (amd64/i386), decompressing to a 21 GB sparse image.


Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine images: a modified QEMU EFI
loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64 to be able to boot the
virtual machine images.  See this page for more information:


    https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/QEMU


To boot the VM image, run:


    % qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt  \
        -bios QEMU_EFI.fd -serial telnet::4444,server -nographic \
        -drive if=none,file=VMDISK,id=hd0 \
        -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
        -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \
        -netdev user,id=net0


Be sure to replace "VMDISK" with the path to the virtual machine image.

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