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Pimoroni Interstate 75 W RP2350 Based Driver for HUB75 LED Matrices

The Interstate 75 W is a driver board designed for HUB75-style LED matrices and is powered by the RP2350 microcontroller. This board connects directly to HUB75 panels, offering a straightforward solution for creating LED displays for applications such as signage, data visualization, or interactive projects.

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Adafruit CLUE: A Sensor-Packed nRF52840 Development Board in a micro:bit Form Factor

The Adafruit CLUE is a development board with a built-in display, multiple sensors, and Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity. It follows the form factor of the BBC micro:bit while incorporating additional processing power and expanded functionality. The board is designed for applications involving data visualization, sensor-based measurements, and wireless communication.

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Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.9 Is Here with NVIDIA 570 Graphics Driver, Many Goodies

The monthly Nitrux release cycle continues and Nitrux 3.9 is here with Linux 6.12 LTS as the default kernel and better support for NVIDIA GPU users by updating the graphics driver to the upcoming NVIDIA 570 series, which is currently available as a beta version, and updated NVIDIA OpenRC services to use a PID file when running the service for the nvidia-powerd daemon.

Security-Focused ParrotOS 6.3 Distro Brings New and Updated Tools, Improvements

Coming more than three months after ParrotOS 6.2, the ParrotOS 6.3 release is powered by Linux kernel 6.11 for the PC editions and Linux kernel 6.6 LTS for the Raspberry Pi edition. Both kernels have been bumped to newer versions to provide users with the best possible hardware support.

GParted Live 1.7 Launches with Experimental Bcachefs Support, Linux 6.12 LTS

Coming almost a year after GParted 1.6, the GParted 1.7 release is here to introduce experimental support for the Bcachefs file system (for single device file systems only), support for recognizing NBDs (Network Block Devices), and a new mechanism that prevents GParted probe from starting LVM volume groups.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 13, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Ireland Last to Report Election Results
    Daniel Pocock's involvement in Australian politics goes back to his university days
  2. Never Sleeps, Never Slumbers
    We're going to try to improve not just in quantity but also in quality
  3. EPO Has Gotten So Bad That Workers Need to Ask to be Allocated a Desk (at Work)
    Wow!!!! An “allocated workplace”!!

    New

  4. Gemini Links 12/06/2024: The Rodent Revolution and Adding Twisty Puzzles
    Links for the day
  5. Links 12/06/2024: Ukraine War Updates and Many Patents Being Subjected to Squashing Bounties
    Links for the day
  6. [Meme] The Purpose of Life is to Find a Desk
    dogs have desks
  7. Tux Machines Parties Going Well Do Far
    Cross-posted from Tux Machines
  8. In Many Countries, Both Large and Small, Vista 11 is Losing Market Share (Despite New PCs Coming Preloaded With It)
    One need not even consider large nations in isolation
  9. By "Going Public" the Raspberry Pi Ensures It'll No Longer Serve the Public
    It'll be owned and controlled by whatever people wish to control it
  10. Dave Wreski Also Plays the Bot Game (Chatbot) at LinuxSecurity to Fake 'Articles' About "Linux"
    How much longer can they fool search engines (SEO) and readers?
  11. [Meme] Indisputable Success
    MICROSOFT buys shares of MICROSOFT
  12. Links 12/06/2024: 'Hey Hi' (AI) Bubble Imploding Already, Danish Media Threatens to Sue OpenAI
    Links for the day
  13. Links 11/06/2024: Floods in Germany and Brazil, Political Violence
    Links for the day
  14. Gemini Links 12/06/2024: Sketching Plants, OpenBSD Pubnix
    Links for the day
  15. "2025 the year of Linux on the Desktop"
    Charlie Stross quote
  16. In Bahrain, Historically Low on GNU/Linux Adoption, Things Change for the Better
    They have some people who understand Free software
  17. Daniel Pocock Received Twice as Many Votes as Andreas Tille (Debian Project Leader After 2024 Election)
    From the media yesterday...
  18. Debian is Built by Hundreds of Volunteers and 524 Irish People Voted for Daniel Pocock
    524 in that area went to the polling station to vote Daniel Pocock (Ind)
  19. [Meme] RMS is 'Too Old', Says Company Run by a Person 5 Years His Junior (Ginni Rometty) and 10 Years His Junior (Arvind Krishna)
    Never again?
  20. [Meme] Women in Computer Science
    Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace etc.
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 11, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, June 11, 2024
  23. Togo: GNU/Linux Growing Fast This Year, Now Measured at 6%
    Sending Bill Gates with a suitcase to bribe African officials isn't enough anymore
  24. Free Software Projects Need to Chase Away Men Who Attack Women Rather Than The Women Who Complain
    A just society holds people accountable rather than covers up such blunders
  25. Improving the Image of Women in Free Software by Hiring and Promoting the Proficient Ones
    Million's shaman background isn't the problem, or even the superstitious ghost-chasing. The problem is that she has absolutely no background in Free software.
  26. They Say Cash is King
    People who value their freedom will pay with cash any time they can
  27. 'Team Microsoft' Wants to Leverage Our Popularity as a Weapon Against Us
    In the past 2 days we published 64 articles and served over a million HTTP/S requests
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    1392 /n/2024/06/07/Firefox_is_Dying_and_China_s_Opera_Already_Outgrew_Mozilla_in_M.shtml
    1287 /n/2024/06/10/NotABug_org_as_Another_Cautionary_Tale_About_Outsourcing_One_e_.shtml
    1198 /n/2024/06/09/Bullying_by_the_Debian_Project_is_a_Disservice_to_Its_Reputatio.shtml
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