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Download Debian 13 LTS "Trixie" Full Editions with Mirrors, Torrents and Checksums

Debian 13 "Trixie" GNU/Linux operating system is finally released on Saturday,  9 August 2025. This is a Long Term Support (LTS) release with five years of support until 2030 and has been developed for two years since the previous release. It includes full and complete set of tens of thousands of software packages. Trixie is available for almost all types of computer available in the world and we can download it for desktop and laptop for PC 64-bit (also known as amd64) and many other computer architectures (except now Debian no longer supports PC 32-bit aka i386) as detailed below plus further instructions. Let's download Debian!

List of Desktop Notes Applications on Ubuntu 24.04

This listing collects desktop notes applications including sticky notes that we recommend for Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat. We included here KNotes, which are well-known and full-featured, and also Affiche.app which just works but less-known, among others in order to promote them to more users (and open the opportunity for more people to get involved in the project). All applications are available in the official repository and no third-party sources required. Now, let's start exploring them!

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The DE25-Standard development kit for the Altera University Program features the Intel Agilex 5 SoC FPGA with 138K logic elements, delivering up to 2.5× higher performance than previous generations. Combining high-performance FPGA fabric with an ARM-based hard processor system, it supports a broad range of digital logic, embedded systems, and robotics applications.

HackerBox 0117 RFID Lab Explores Dual-Frequency RFID and NFC

The kit supports both high-frequency (13.56 MHz) and low-frequency (125 kHz) operation. Included tags range from S50 Mifare Classic cards and rewritable T5577 cards to an NTAG215 NFC chip embedded on a custom PCB dog tag. Additional components include a two-channel logic level shifter, SMD resistors, mounting hardware, and a silicone dog tag silencer.

Sixfab ALPON X5 AI Brings Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 and 25 TOPS AI to Kickstarter

Sixfab has launched the ALPON X5 AI on Kickstarter, a compact industrial-grade edge AI computer for applications including smart surveillance, healthcare monitoring, autonomous robotics, and industrial automation. It combines Raspberry Pi compatibility with a high-efficiency AI accelerator for a plug-and-play solution from prototyping to deployment.

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KDE Gear 25.08 Open-Source Software Suite Released with Many Improvements

KDE Gear 25.08 introduces two search engines to the Dolphin file manager to help you find that specific, but elusive file or folder you can’t locate, along with support for opening Filelight directly from the Tools menu and more options for the View Mode switching button.

NVIDIA 580 Linux Graphics Driver Released, Promises Better Wayland Support

Highlights of the NVIDIA 580 graphics driver series include improved support for Wayland by introducing support for the fifo-v1 Wayland protocol on Vulkan and fixing a bug that could cause GTK 4 apps to crash when using the Vulkan backend on Wayland.

GNOME 48.4 Finally Improves Update Notifications in GNOME Software

Coming a little over a month after GNOME 48.3, the GNOME 48.4 release promises to finally fix the update notification issue in the GNOME Software app, which gave me a lot of headaches in the past few months. The issue was that even if my system was up to date, GNOME Software sent a notification that it was out of date.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 20, 2024

Cats Hate Water

Updated This Past Day

  1. [Meme] Mentality of a Loser
    "There is someone who created a project used by billions; I failed to create project used by billions, so I'll take down someone who did"
  2. [Meme] Plundering the Commons
    Free software is licensed to restrict privatisation and hoarding

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  3. [Meme] How 'Editorial Control' and/or 'Fact-Checking' Work in Social Control Media
    "I saw a link with many 'likes' on it, so it must be accurate"
  4. IBM: RMS Asked a Girl on a Date. We at IBM Are Bribing and Receiving Bribes. Cancel RMS.
    The FSF is half female now
  5. "The Definition of Insanity"
    We've seen this and been through all this before
  6. The 'New' Laptop as a Reminder of Why I Love GNU/Linux
    days ago we acquired a 'new' (used) laptop
  7. [Meme] The Way Things Used to Be...
    UNIX is 55 already
  8. Fun Weekend, But Very Slow News
    we welcome topic suggestions/recommendations
  9. 2021 Deja Vu: The 'Counter-Petition' Defending Richard Stallman (RMS) Gets a Lot More Support Than the Hateful Screed
    Don't listen to the RMS haters
  10. x86 Drowning in Competition, Bug Doors, Complexity, and Bloat
    Making defective chips for a number of decades was sheer Hubris; they just assumed people would continue buying Intel machines forever
  11. Links 19/10/2024: Nokia Lays Off 2,000 Employees, IMF Loans, Lammy to China
    Links for the day
  12. Links 19/10/2024: OpenAI, Microsoft Going Deeper Into Debt; FTC Rules Make It Easier To Cancel Services
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 19/10/2024: Against Books as Only Possible Legitimation, Megacorporate Copyright Pirates
    Links for the day
  14. Links 19/10/2024: European Perspective, Windows TCO, and Google Woes
    Links for the day
  15. [Meme] When Hatred (or Envy) Comes First
    A lot of attacks on Torvalds and Stallman (Linux and GNU founders, respectively) fall under this category
  16. What "Ethical Source" Looks Like in Practice
    People ban people or deny them service (or prevent them running a program) for merely not agreeing with them
  17. The State of GAFAM and the I's (IBM and Intel)
    Technology and "tech giants" will continue to exist, but they won't be what they once were
  18. The Drew DeVault Report: Taking Out His Frustration on Other People While Doing Drugs
    Be more like Fabrice Bellard
  19. Links 19/10/2024: Riot and Intel Layoffs, Attacks on Journalists
    Links for the day
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 18, 2024
    IRC logs for Friday, October 18, 2024

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

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

    Span from 2024-10-13 to 2024-10-19
    2535 /n/2024/10/14/Microsoft_s_GitHub_is_Losing_Traffic_Based_on_an_Extensive_Web_.shtml
    1422 /n/2024/10/16/Perfectl_is_Not_New_It_s_Not_News_About_Linux_Outdated_Apache_R.shtml
    843 /n/2024/10/14/Disputing_the_Achievements_of_IBM_s_CEO_Who_Already_Terminated_.shtml
    738 /n/2024/10/14/How_to_Follow_Our_Updates_About_EPO_or_Everything_Else_for_That.shtml
    734 /n/2024/10/16/4_Years_Since_We_Started_a_Plain_Text_Edition_of_Techrights_The.shtml

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