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ZimaCube 2 Personal Cloud NAS Opens for Pre-Order with Multiple Configurations

The platform is offered in multiple configurations, including a standard model with an Intel Core i3-1215U processor and a Pro variant based on the Intel Core i5-1235U. A Creator Pack configuration is also available, adding a discrete GPU along with increased memory and storage capacity.

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FFmpeg 8.1 “Hoare” Multimedia Framework Brings D3D12 H.264/AV1 Encoding

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PipeWire 1.6.2 Released with Audio Mixer Optimizations and Various Bug Fixes

PipeWire 1.6.2 is here to fix an optimization with shared memory over some links that could cause errors later on, fix the SOFA filter and default control input in the LADSPA and LV modules, and add some small optimizations to the audio mixer.

SparkyLinux 2026.03 Rolling Ships with Linux 6.19, Latest Calamares Installer

Derived from the upcoming Debian 14 “Forky” software repositories (Debian Testing), the SparkyLinux 2026.03 release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.19 kernel series (Linux 6.19.6 is installed by default), along with support for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel for those feeling adventurous.

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SuperTux 0.7.0 Arcade Game Is Out with Complete Level Design, Revamped Graphics

Coming more than four years after SuperTux 0.6.3, the SuperTux 0.7.0 release introduces brand new sprites and abilities for Tux, including slope sliding, strong buttjumping, rock rolling, and crawling, revamped graphics for most backgrounds, tiles, objects, and badguys, and a complete level design of all modes.

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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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