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New Release: Tails 7.15

The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.

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Geniatech Enables Local LLM Inference with RK1828 and Hailo-10 M.2 AI Accelerators

Geniatech has listed two M.2 AI accelerator cards targeting local inference workloads on embedded systems and edge devices. The AIM-M-R28 uses Rockchip’s RK1828 processor with 20 TOPS of computing performance, while the AIM-M-H10 is based on Hailo’s Hailo-10 architecture, delivering up to 40 TOPS for generative AI and computer vision applications.

Coin-Sized Romu Packs Raspberry Pi RP2354A into USB Type-A Form Factor

Bitmerse’s Romu recently debuted on Crowd Supply as an ultra-compact development board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2354A microcontroller. Designed to plug directly into a USB Type-A port, the board features capacitive touch input, an RGB LED and MicroPython support

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Manchester City’s Comeback, Stats-wise

Manchester City showed resilience in the second half

When Bowties Became Symbols of Traitors and Microsoft Pushers (the Case of James Bottomley)

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Priority #1 is Investigative Journalism

The rest is the cost of exposing things

BBC Talking About Dinners Instead of Tonight’s Match

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he “tropical mode” in the fish tank is now activated. Overnight, there was a lingering concern about the safety of the heater, so we turned it off and decided to wait a while. Just to be on the safe side.

Dictator Can Make Obama US President Again

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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Mesa 26.2.5 Is Out with Bug Fixes for RADV, NVK, ANV, PanVK, Freedreno, and Zink

On the AMD stack, RADV and RadeonSI got the most attention in Mesa 26.2.5, improving ray-tracing reliability by addressing black patches, texture artifacts, and load-dependent crashes.

KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of KDE Plasma 6.8 include a Wayland-only session, triple buffering for NVIDIA GPUs enabled by default, support for recording audio in Spectacle during screen recording, and automatic logic support for Plasma Login Manager on distros with older systemd versions, such as KDE neon.

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 204 Linux Firewall Distro Improves the Knot Resolver

Coming almost three months after IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203, the IPFire 2.29 Core Update 204 release is here to improve the Knot Resolver full caching DNS resolver implementation, which was introduced in the previous update, with a fix for a regression where clients connected via IPsec, WireGuard, or OpenVPN were unable to resolve names because Knot Resolver replied from the wrong source IP address.

Happy 30th Birthday, KDE!

On October 14th, 1996, Matthias Ettrich proposed a consistent, easy-to-use desktop environment for Unix-like systems. He called it the “Kool Desktop Environment” (KDE) — a deliberate jab at CDE, the proprietary Common Desktop Environment dominant at the time. What followed was 30 years of remarkable momentum.

New Steam Client Update Adds Many Linux Improvements, Big Picture Screensaver

For Linux gamers, the new Steam Client update from Cotber 13th, 2026, makes the “Select compatibility tool” dropdown always visible to be easier to select aliases like “Proton Stable”, and updates the SteamOS compatibility dialogs to show in the desktop UI when installing games that are not verified for that hardware.

Mozilla Thunderbird 158 Email Client Improves Quick Filter Responsiveness

Mozilla Thunderbird 158 looks like a smaller update due to the faster development cycle, updating the ExtensionSettings policy to install add-ons from update_url when install_url is not set, and improving the responsiveness of the quick filter.

TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen8 Linux Laptop Unveiled with Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus

The 8th-gen TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Linux laptop is powered by the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor with 24 cores (8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores) and a 5.6 GHz clock speed, up to 96 GB DDR5-6400 or 128 GB DDR5-5600 RAM, and ultra-high-speed NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD storage.

Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” Slated for Release on Christmas, Based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

That’s right, the next major Linux Mint release will be Linux Mint 27, not Linux Mint 23 as initially thought, and since Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” was the last to reach the end of the alphabet, the devs are now starting all over but using boys’ names this time, so the codename of Linux Mint 27 is “Adrien.”

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Installing and Configuring EndeavourOS

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 20, 2024

This is the seventh article in our series looking at a FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC running Linux. This machine has an Intel N100 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD. It’s an extremely inexpensive machine costing little more than a Raspberry Pi 5 yet it’s much more powerful. It sounds like an ideal low cost machine to run Linux on the desktop.

For this article in the series, we explore installing and configuring EndeavourOS on the FIREBAT. EndeavourOS is an Arch-based Linux distribution which provides an Arch experience without the hassle of installing it manually.

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