Armbian 24.2 Kereru
We’re excited to announce the latest Armbian release,24.2, codename: Kereru! This update comes with a plethora of changes, making the Armbian experience even better.
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The biggest change in Cinnamon 6.6 is a redesigned application menu applet that now lets you toggle between symbolic or full color icons for categories, support for color system buttons on hover, configurable Places and Bookmarks, as well as many visual changes.
Powered by Linux kernel 6.17.10, AerynOS 2025.12 ships with the latest GNOME 49.2 desktop environment by default on the live ISO, along with the latest recently released KDE Plasma 6.5.4 desktop environment for those who prefer to install AerynOS with KDE Plasma instead, and the latest COSMIC Beta desktop environment.
Highlights of Thunderbird 146 include the ability to configure your preferred OpenPGP keyserver via the UI with a new OpenPGP Keyservers section in Privacy & Security settings. Two OpenPGP keyservers are already predefined in Thunderbird, but you can add as many as you like. Here’s what it looks like!
The AMD ROCm open software ecosystem enables hardware-accelerated AI/ML and HPC workloads on AMD Instinct and AMD Radeon graphics cards to simplify the deployment of an AI infrastructure and delivery of AMD AI solutions in data centers, workstations, laptops, WSL, and edge environments.
The biggest change in the upcoming Parrot 7.0 release is the switch from the lightweight MATE desktop environment to the more modern KDE Plasma as the default desktop environment for all editions, along with extending the classic terminal green style across the entire system.
Firefox 147 promises support for the Freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification, zero-copy hardware-decoded video support on AMD GPUs to improve video playback performance, support for the Safe Browsing V5 protocol, and WebGPU support for all Apple Silicon Macs.
Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.5.3, the KDE Plasma 6.5.4 update looks like a bugfix release only addressing a regression in menu sizing that was accidentally backported to Plasma 6.5.3, and a Plasma 6 regression that broke the ability to activate the expanded items pop-up in the system tray with a keyboard shortcut.
It's been a while since we last had such a meeting and therefore a bunch of Tor folks stepped up trying to get one organized. We wanted to figure out whether we as a community can actually get such a meeting off the ground, what it would cost and what lessons we could draw for similar gatherings yet to come. This blog post is a report back from our experiences and will hopefully inspire the community to set up similar meet-ups in the future.
This week is a pivotal one for the future of the Internet. National governments will convene at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to negotiate who will shape our digital future and how. It is critical that countries reaffirm their longstanding support for including the global Internet community’s stakeholders at the table.
We’re excited to announce the latest Armbian release,24.2, codename: Kereru! This update comes with a plethora of changes, making the Armbian experience even better.