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Radxa Orion O6N Brings Cix P1 Performance to a Smaller Nano ITX Form Factor

Radxa has introduced the Orion O6N, a Nano ITX single board computer designed as a smaller and more power-efficient alternative to the earlier Orion O6. Both models share the same Cix P1 SoC and overall platform architecture, but the O6N adopts a more compact 120 x 120 mm form factor compared to the 170 x 170 mm Mini ITX layout of the original board.

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digiKam 8.8 Adds Support to Automatically Use Monitor Color Profiles on Wayland

Coming almost four months after digiKam 8.7, the digiKam 8.8 release introduces a new feature that lets users import or export tag hierarchies to and from text files, support for focus point visualization for FujiFilm and Olympus/OM Systems cameras in the Preview module, and support for automatically using monitor color profiles on Wayland.

PeaZip 10.7 Open-Source Archive Manager Introduces an Image Viewer

Highlights of PeaZip 10.7 include a new image viewer component (File manager > View images) that lets users view images and preview images inside archives, supporting features like zoom, immersive mode, rename, delete, and basic navigation, along with support for displaying image thumbnails in the file manager on all platforms.

Calibre 8.13 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Library Export on Linux

Calibre 8.13 is a small update that only improves library export on Linux distros that mount /tmp in RAM by no longer using the /tmp directory when dealing with a large Full-Text Search (FTS) database, and improves virtual libraries by allowing users to define their search expressions more comfortably in a multi-line edit box.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 14, 2024

Civil War Cannon in foreground with white steeple church in background

Updated This Past Day

  1. Julian Assange’s Brother Gabriel Shipton Explains the Logistics of 'Smuggling' Julian Out of the United Kingdom
    a lot of new information and prison stories
  2. [Video] Why Wikileaks Publishing War-Related Documents Was Both Important and Justified
    It's important to remember the principle which says privacy is for the powerless, whereas the powerful (like those with the power to kill) deserve not privacy but transparency
  3. [Meme] Attacking the "G" in GNOME (Since 2009) Was a Mistake
    Spending 50,000 pounds to sue women of racial minority
  4. Difficult Times in GNOME Foundation
    GNOME Foundation is in "crisis management" or "face-saving" or "damage control" mode

    New

  5. Links 13/07/2024: Patent Trolls in UK Court of Appeal, Eric Schmidt Continues so Show Womanising at Google
    Links for the day
  6. Links 13/07/2024: Not Quite Dead Yet After All and Unfederated E-mail
    Links for the day
  7. Holly Million, GNOME Foundation departure after Albanian whistleblower revelations
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  8. [Meme] Like They Got Rid of Molly (and Now Holly)
    Pay over 100,000 dollars a year for someone without any background in tech (to "lead" a tech project)
  9. Microsoft Windows Falls to Almost 10% in Palestine (It Was Measured at 100% Just 15 Years Ago)
    quite a big drop
  10. Guardianship of the Licence is Not Enough (the Case of Systemd and Microsoft)
    Whether the GPL gets enforced or not, if people adopt lousy software, that will have negative consequences
  11. Speaking Out and Spreading the Message of GNU
    Free Software Foundation (FSF) got 112 new members since 2.5 weeks ago
  12. 3.5 Years in Gemini
    It's important to speak about and spread the word (about software freedom, BSD, GNU/Linux, patents etc.) in a medium that's strategic and growing
  13. [Meme] Whoever in GNOME Decided to Attack the G (GNU), It Was a Foolish Miscalculation
    How could they expect any outcome other than GNOME's own collapse?
  14. Windows Down to Unprecedented Low in Czech Republic, Android Rises to New Record
    From 98% in July 2009 (15 years ago) Windows is down to all-time low of 38% and well below Android
  15. GNOME Foundation Lost Nearly a Million Dollars in 2 Years, IBM and GAFAM Won't Bail It Out Anymore
    Seems like a suicide mission
  16. Google News Has Become a Big Pile of Garbage
    The issue predates chatbots, but these SEO tricks were accelerated somewhat by slop
  17. OpenAI and ChatGPT Could Very Well Collapse and Shut Down Later This Year (Huge Losses, Sagging Usage Levels, and Massive Debt)
    we illuminate the suppressed observations that Microsoft-sponsored publishers and cheaply-made slop (LLM spew disguised as "news") try to distract from
  18. Links 13/07/2024: TikTok Interferences, YouTube Throttled in Russia
    Links for the day
  19. Kathy Lette on Julian Assange Staying at Her Attic, Why His Release Matters So Much, and Jen Robinson Staying Over Yesterday
    They talk a lot about politics, but the segment mentions publishers, including Rushdie
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 12, 2024
    IRC logs for Friday, July 12, 2024
  22. Microsoft Windows Down to a New Low in Canada (Only a Third)
    Very steep decline a decade ago

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-07-07 to 2024-07-13
    1986 /n/2024/07/09/ZDNet_Kills_the_Linux_RSS_Feed_Syndication_Redirected_to_Loads_.shtml
    1966 /n/2024/07/08/What_s_Growing_in_the_United_States_This_Year_is_GNU_Linux_Not_.shtml
    1810 /n/2024/07/08/Debian_Needs_a_Significant_Change_of_Direction_and_Recognition_.shtml
    1550 /n/2024/07/10/Apple_s_Main_Competition_Isn_t_Microsoft_But_Low_Cost_Chromeboo.shtml
    1457 /n/2024/07/06/Larissa_Brown_Shapiro_Mozilla_concerned_other_organizations_tak.shtml
    1433 /n/2024/07/08/5_Days_Have_Passed_and_Microsoft_Still_Refuses_to_Say_How_Many_.shtml

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Desktop/Laptop: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta (System76), GNU/Linux Considerations, and "Windows 10 Refugees Flock to GNU/Linux"
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GNU Web Site Down Due to Heavy Demand or More DDoS by LLM Bots [original]
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digiKam 8.8 Adds Support to Automatically Use Monitor Color Profiles on Wayland
digiKam 8.8 has been released today for this powerful, open-source, free, and cross-platform digital photo management solution that introduces new features and improvements.
GIMP 3.0.6 Is Now Available for Download with Improved Photoshop Brush Support
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Tux Machines Never Deletes Factual Pages [original]
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