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RealSense D585 Pro targets robotics with wide-field sensing and edge processing

The RealSense D585 Pro is a stereo depth camera for robotics and industrial vision applications that uses the company’s Gen 5 vision processor. The camera combines wide-field depth sensing, on-camera processing, IP65 protection, and support for software-defined perception features through the RealSense SDK.

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The LCD7-PANEL-LIME2 is a ready-to-mount Linux touch panel computer from Olimex, based on the company’s A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 open hardware SBC. The unit combines a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen, a plastic panel-mount frame, mounting brackets, ribbon cable, and an assembled A20-based Linux board into a single package.

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NVIDIA has announced JetPack 7.2 for Jetson edge AI platforms, adding new deployment tools for agentic AI workloads, official Yocto Project support, and performance updates for Jetson Orin and Jetson Thor systems. The release is aimed at robotics, industrial automation, vision AI, and other edge applications that rely on local AI processing.

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Solid Sands, an Amsterdam-based provider of compiler and library testing technology, develops tools and services for safety-critical software qualification. The company is preparing two webinars on robotics software infrastructure and C++ library qualification, with the first scheduled for June 24, 2026.

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Darktable 5.6 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Released with New AI Features

Coming six months after Darktable 5.4, the Darktable 5.6 release introduces an optional AI subsystem (disabled by default), along with install scripts for Linux and Windows systems to detect GPU and set up acceleration for the new AI features, as well as an AI object mask tool in the darkroom mask manager.

postmarketOS 26.06 “Alpen Avocado” Released with GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6

Based on Alpine Linux 3.24, postmarketOS 26.06 comes with the GNOME 50 (mobile variant is GNOME 48), KDE Plasma Mobile 6.6.5, Phosh 0.55.0, and Sxmo 1.18.1 graphical environments, and support for new devices, including Google Asurada Chromebook, Google Cherry Chromebook, Google Corsola Chromebook, Radxa Dragon Q6A, and PINE64 PineNote.

System76 Refreshes the Serval WS Linux Laptop with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 CPUs

It’s been a year since System76 last updated their Serval WS laptop, which can now be bought with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 CPUs, either the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor with 24 total cores and up to 5.5 GHz clock speed, or the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor with 24 total cores and up to 5.4 GHz clock speed.

Shelly 2.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Released with New Features

Shelly 2.4 introduces a major revamp to the CLI version with Zsh completions and a modern, pacman-style shortcode interface to make Shelly’s command line more familiar for those used to pacman or yay, and further improves AppImage support by displaying updates in the UI, fixing desktop entry handling, and enhancing the eventing mechanism.

Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.7 Released with Linux 7.1, KDE Plasma 6.7, and More

Coming almost four months after PorteuX 2.6, the PorteuX 2.7 release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.1 kernel series, and features the latest KDE Plasma 6.7, GNOME 50.2, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.4, Cinnamon 6.6.8, COSMIC 1.0.16, MATE 1.28.2, and LXDE 0.11.1 desktop environments as standalone flavors.

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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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