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CachyOS ISO Snapshot for August 2025 Introduces a New Package Dashboard

With this release, the CachyOS devs introduce a brand-new, web-based dashboard for finding packages across all CachyOS repositories and viewing details about the latest updates. The new dashboard lets users sort packages by architecture, package name, repository, and update time, and it features light and dark themes.

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Kickstarter Features Xerxes Pi: A Compact Compute Module Carrier for Home Labs

Kickstarter is currently featuring the Xerxes Pi, a compact compute module carrier developed by Rapid Analysis in Australia. Designed for home lab and small business rack environments, the project aims to provide an affordable, well-documented platform for clustered computing, container hosting, and open source server workloads.

Tiny Linux-Based Industrial Module Built on RK3506J SoC

The FET3506J-C is a compact embedded module from Forlinx based on the Rockchip RK3506J. It is designed for long-term industrial use in automation, transportation, energy, and communication systems. The module runs Linux 6.1 and supports low power operation, a small footprint, and extended temperature ranges.

Banana Pi BPI-M4 Super with Rockchip RK3568B2 and Dual Ethernet

Banana Pi has shared more hardware details about the upcoming BPI-M4 Super, a single-board computer designed for multimedia and IoT applications. The board integrates dual Ethernet (1 GbE and 2.5 GbE), PCIe expansion, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, and 4K HDMI output.

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  1. Professor Eben Moglen Stands with Snowden While Moglen's 'Critics' (Microsofters) Keep Defaming Prominent Whistleblowers
    Don't listen to Microsoft liars and weasels, who merely try to "replace" Moglen and override his message
  2. "Check Point" + Microsoft Partnerships Extend to Anti-GNU/Linux FUD
    a close partner/pusher of Microsoft tries to alter the narrative (change reality itself)
  3. Not The Onion: Canonical Presents Outsourcing to Microsoft as 'Security'
    With people like these in charge of Canonical you cannot trust Canonical on security or anything else for that matter
  4. Musical Chairs Melodrama and 'Extinction' BS (Sensationalist Doomsday Scenarios) Help Distract From What Chatbots Are Truly About: Plundering Other People's Work by Automated Plagiarism
    Works of art, visual and textual (also audio; multimedia at large), are being raided and they tell us it's "AI" or "GAI" when it is in fact "CG" - hardly a new thing
  5. "Buy Nothing Day" Was Yesterday. Today... Download BSDs and GNU/Linux Day (No Need to Buy).
    We need to appreciate things based on their value, not their cost

    New

  6. Microsoft Shamelessly Attacks Both Git and Projects in GitHub, Using Plagiarism in "AI" Clothing (Exit GitHub Now!)
    A mountain of plagiarism
  7. Microsoft Loses Market Share, Market Price of Windows Plunges to Almost Nothing (28 Dollars for Vista 10)
    GNU/Linux has grown so potent that Microsoft now charges only dozens of bucks for Vista 10
  8. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 25, 2023
    IRC logs for Saturday, November 25, 2023
  9. Links 26/11/2023: Fresh Concerns Over North Korea Satellite Ambitions and South China Sea Patrols
    Links for the day
  10. Eben Moglen Explains the Connection Between FSF and SFLC (Both of Which Under Attack by Microsofters)
    Old clip
  11. Links 25/11/2023: Latest Twist in Microsoft's Plagiarism, Twitter (X) Bleeding Some More
    Links for the day
  12. Links 25/11/2023: Slow News After Buy Nothing Day
    Links for the day
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news
  14. Who's Attacking the Fathers or Founders of Free Software (and Who For)?
    We have all the data we need

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