This Week in GNOME: #127 Welcome News
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from December 15 to December 22.
Tux Machines
Do you waddle the waddle?
Do you waddle the waddle?
DongshanPi has shared early details about an upcoming SBC designed for AI and computer vision education. Based on the Rockchip RK3576, the DshanPi-A1 supports OpenCV and multimedia workloads through a software stack built around ArmbianOS (community-supported) and Rockchip’s media and inference libraries.
Olimex has announced the ESP32-C5-EVB, an open-source hardware evaluation board based on the ESP32-C5-WROOM-N8R4 module from Espressif. The board integrates dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Zigbee/Thread, relays, opto-isolated inputs, and LiPo UPS support, and is designed as a flexible platform for IoT development and prototyping.
The Tor Community has long been defending internet freedom, running relays and providing bridges to combat internet censorship.
Coming one and a half months after Wireshark 4.4.8, this release updates the support for several network protocols, including BACapp, LIN (Local Interconnect Network), MySQL, RDM (Remote Device Management), SABP (Service Area Broadcast Protocol), SCCP (Signalling Connection Control Part), sFlow (Sampled Flow), and SSH (Secure Shell).
OBS Studio 32.0 promises several new features, including Voice Activity Detection (VAD) for NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects, which improves noise suppression for speech, Hybrid MOV support, a basic plugin manager, and chair removal option for NVIDIA RTX Background Removal, allowing the removal of chairs.
Meet KDE Initial System Setup (or KISS for short), an initial system setup wizard mainly designed for OEM installation when you buy a laptop that ships with the KDE Plasma desktop environment. KISS will appear only after a new OEM system installation or when starting up a brand-new computer.
Coming four months after QEMU 10.0, the QEMU 10.1 release introduces support for Intel’s Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) to KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), which requires a machine running Linux kernel 6.16 or later, along with support for starting a TDX or SEV-SNP virtual machine from an IGVM file.
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from December 15 to December 22.