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RUBIK Pi 3 Now Available for Ordering at $179 Following Global Launch at CES 2025

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KDE Frameworks 6.10 Adds Support for Converting Between “Rack Units” in KRunner

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KDE Gear 24.12.1 Is Out to Improve Dolphin, Kate, NeoChat, and Other KDE Apps

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Tails 6.11 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Critical Security Fixes

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Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Is Now Available at $120 USD

Raspberry Pi 5 was initially launched at the end of October 2023 in 4GB and 8GB RAM variants, but the people have been asking for a 16GB RAM model and now the Raspberry Pi makers have delivered it thanks to the optimized D0 stepping of the Broadcom BCM2712 application processor in Raspberry Pi 5.

Scribus 1.6.3 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Various Bug Fixes

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Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing with XZ Packaging on Linux

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New Release: Tails 6.11

These vulnerabilities can only be exploited by a powerful attacker who has already exploited another vulnerability to take control of an application in Tails.

New Release: Tor Browser 14.0.4

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

Arti 1.3.2 is released: onion services, RPC, relay development, and more

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IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 187 released

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 09, 2024

Quoting: www.ipfire.org - IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 187 released —

Finally it is time for another release of IPFire: IPFire 2.29 Core Update 187! It protects your network better against (Distributed) Denial-of-Service attacks and uses SIMD instructions for the Intrusion Prevention System on ARM for more throughout. It also comes with a number of security fixes in OpenSSH, Suricata and Apache2 as well as the usual package of bug fixes and software updates.

But before we start talking about the changes in detail, we would like to take a moment and ask for your support. We put a lot of effort into building and testing this update and could not do any of this without your donation. Please, donate today helping us to put more resources to bring you more and better updates. It is very much appreciated by all of us here!

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