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Fanless industrial PC integrates Jetson Orin Nano 8GB and M.2 expansion

MSI has detailed the MS-C9ZA, a compact fanless Edge AI Box PC based on NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano 8GB module. The industrial system provides dual Gigabit Ethernet, 256GB SSD storage, M.2 NVMe expansion, isolated GPIO, CAN, UART and I2C interfaces, along with optional IEEE 802.3af PSE, 5G, and out-of-band management expansion.

wolfSSL webinar explores wolfIP network driver and RTOS integration

wolfSSL will host a September 30 webinar titled “Porting wolfIP: From Network Drivers to RTOS Integration,” focused on adapting the company’s deterministic TCP/IP stack to new network hardware and real-time operating systems.

9to5Linux

Mozilla Thunderbird 156 Email Client Brings Custom OAuth Support for POP3

Highlights of Mozilla Thunderbird 156 include custom OAuth support for POP3, custom OAuth support for issuer ID and client secret fields for IMAP and POP3, support for OpenPGP key properties to print debug information to the Error Console, and external browser login flow support for Yandex.

Fedora Linux 45 Beta Released with Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, and KDE Plasma 6.7

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 45 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 51 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, and the latest KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment for the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition.

Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Brings Dock Support and New Screenshot Tool

Still powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.18 LTS kernel series and based on Debian 13 “Trixie,” the new Raspberry Pi OS release introduces dock support to the Wayland panel (wf-panel-pi), along with new Icon Menu and Icon Tasklist plugins, and a Widgets panel in Control Centre to let you enable the configuration of the dock and taskbar.

Mozilla Firefox 157 Enters Public Beta Testing with Brand-New Nova Design

Firefox 157 looks like a small update, due to the newly adopted two-week release schedule, promising proper support for displaying HDR videos encoded in 8-bit color formats as HDR in most cases, which fixes several cases of dull gray-looking videos that should have been more vibrant.

Mozilla Firefox 156 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Firefox 156 include improved memory and CPU usage when displaying large JPEG images that are scaled down to fit a page, improved dragging of inline images to a new position in a rich-text editor, replacing it with a long line of text instead of moving it, and improved high-sample-rate FLAC audio in MP4 playback.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 13th, 2026

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Shelly 3.1.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds More Improvements

Coming a week after Shelly 3.1.3, the Shelly 3.1.4 release continues to improve the native builder with support for more complex PKGBUILDs, more reliable detection of required files, support for sources that share the same filename, support for cloning Git sources from their original URLs, and improved support for Anydesk, Mandolin, Remora, and Pi.

Shotwell 0.33 Open-Source Image Viewer for GNOME Is Here with GTK4 Port

The biggest news for the Shotwell 0.33 release is that the application has finally been ported to GTK4 for a more modern UI experience. The GTK4 port should improve compatibility with Wayland, such as drag-and-drop exporting, and overall utilization of modern desktop portals.

DietPi 10.7 Adds Support for Containers with Network and ARMv8 VMs

Coming a little over a month after DietPi 10.6, the DietPi 10.7 release introduces support for containers with a network stack and SSH server pre-installed, support for ARMv8 virtual machines, and support for LubanCat 4 SBCs with Rockchip RK3588S SoCs.

KaOS Linux 2026.09 Released with Noctalia 5.1, Linux Kernel 7.1, and Mesa 26.2

As previously reported, the KaOS Linux devs have decided to move away from systemd and the KDE Plasma desktop environment after more than 12 years of using them by default. Earlier this year, in February, they dropped KDE Plasma for a Niri/Noctalia setup.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.23

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

schestowitz.com

Garrett is Calling Everything He Doesn’t Like “Nazi” (or Similar)

Unless it’s humour, which is how he excuses this (and at the same time endorsing violence).

A Focus on Toxic Politics

Assorted stories

Bright Eyes

recently heard, repeatedly, the song “Bright Eyes“. I not only liked the song, I always liked the video. It’s relaxing except for one part.

Former US Presidents Still Selling ‘Dinners’ or ‘Access’ (at a Vast Scale, Overseas Too)

In a music venue?

UK Has Mobilised Army Veterans (Just in Case)

Even the BBC talked about it.

Wrapping Up Summer

This time for real

The Bubble (It Was Always a Bubble and Everybody Knew)

Slop (not “AI”) is a scam

Notebooks Still Work

Not laptops

RIP Roy Burnham

This man’s dad is dead.

A Light You Turn on Once and Turn Off Once (Per Day) Should be Dumb

K.I.S.S.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Windows in Åland Islands: From 100% to Less Than Half
    Åland Islands lost the sense of urgency to move to GNU/Linux
  2. Not Just Slow News But Also Late News (Julian Assange Landing in Thailand)
    Why did AP take so long (nearly a week) to release these?
  3. [Meme] Smart Alec Poettering
    How many Microsofters can the Debian Project withstand?
  4. Getting Rid of Microsoft Does Not Go Far Enough
    Microsoft already has many problems. One day Microsoft won't exist anymore. But that does not guarantee users' freedom.
  5. Alyssa Rosenzweig's LibrePlanet Talk About Freeing the Apple GPU
    Alyssa Rosenzweig is the graphics witch behind the reverse-engineered drivers for the Apple GPU. She previously led Panfrost, the free drivers for Arm Mali GPUs powering devices like the Pinebook Pro. She graduated in 2023 with a Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto and now writes free software full-time.
  6. Links 30/06/2024: LLMs Under Fire and Dictatorship of the Old
    Links for the day
  7. [Meme] Walking Outside the Guardrails of the Walled Gardens Built by Monopolies
    So-called "advertiser-unfriendly" material was never a problem for Wikileaks

    New

  8. 200 This Week
    Monday started with 40 articles/pages and this is #200
  9. Press Complicity and Public Apathy All Along Enabled 14 Years of Illegal, Arbitrary Detention and Coercion Into Plea Bargain of Julian Assange on Brink of Death
    They basically blackmailed him into letting the US 'win' the argument
  10. At the End Journalism a Crime (If It Involves Accessing or Gaining Access to Documents Marked "Confidential" or "Classified" by Those Looking to Hide Their Misconduct/Crimes)
    At least in the US, especially where the imperialism is at stake
  11. Links 30/06/2024: Tensions in Korea and Japan, Criminalisation of Sleeping Outdoors
    Links for the day
  12. 100% Slop/Spam From linuxsecurity.com
    This is the kind of stuff that's killing the Web faster
  13. Gemini Links 30/06/2024: Murdoch and Ideal OS
    Links for the day
  14. In the First 6 Months of 2024 Thailand Moved to GNU/Linux, Not to Windows Vista 11
    maybe users moved from Vista 10 and 11 to GNU/Linux, seeing where Microsoft was heading with forced hardware "upgrades"
  15. Eko K. A. Owen, New Outreach and Communications Coordinator for the FSF
    Nice to see many new additions to the FSF's team
  16. Microsoft Has Slaves and Enablers, Not Partners
    Obligatory meme too
  17. Tobias Platen Covered Freedom-To-Play Games in LibrePlanet 2024
    Freedom-To-Play games using Taler
  18. [Meme] Opening a 'Webapp' With 'Only' 4 GB of RAM
    Until 2020 none of my PCs ever had more than 2 GB of RAM
  19. Destination 'Five Percent'
    We reckon GNU/Linux can break the 5% barrier some time by the end of this year, even without counting Chromebooks
  20. A Crisis of Online Journalism
    Almost a week ago a journalist was forced to plead guilty for an act of journalism
  21. Germany One of Many Countries Where Microsoft's Bing Lost Market Share After All That LLM Nonsense (Bing Chat and Further Rebrands/Renames)
    openai.com traffic plunged 60% last month
  22. Microsoft’s Latest Antitrust Scrutiny
    4 new stories
  23. Microsoft Layoffs, Mass Plagiarism, and More
    outrage included
  24. GNU/Linux Climbed 0.25% This Month (in statCounter)
    Around midday on Tuesday we'll start seeing preliminary data for July
  25. Ilya Gulko Introduces Pollyanna
    "Pollyanna is a web framework that makes it easy to create your own libre social space, such as a social network or blog."
  26. 'FSFE': Underage Labour, GAFAM Fronting, and Identity Theft to Undermine the FSF's Current Fundraiser
    looking to raise funds at the same time as the FSF
  27. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  28. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 29, 2024
    IRC logs for Saturday, June 29, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-06-24 to 2024-06-30
    2479 /n/2024/06/24/Microsoft_By_Default_Destroy_Linux.shtml
    1911 /n/2024/06/24/Torvalds_Number_Two_Quit_Linux_a_Decade_Ago_and_Has_Since_Then_.shtml
    1883 /n/2024/06/27/John_Gilmore_Cofounder_of_the_Electronic_Frontier_Foundation_Jo.shtml
    1518 /n/2024/06/27/IBM_s_Board_is_a_Men_s_Club_Unlike_the_FSF_s_But_Red_Hat_IBM_Ar.shtml
    1256 /n/2024/06/06/Edward_Brocklesby_ejb_Debian_Hacking_expulsion_cover_up_in_prox.shtml
    917 /n/2024/06/25/Sheriff_of_Cork_Debian_Edward_Brocklesby_or_Brockelsby_Street_c.shtml
    902 /n/2024/06/30/Getting_Rid_of_Microsoft_Does_Not_Go_Far_Enough.shtml

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