399 Days...
On my main workstation:
02:58:01 up 399 days, 9:42, 41 users, load average: 0.87, 0.66, 0.63
My workstation's uptime will be 400 later today. Last reboot was October 2023. █
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Do you waddle the waddle?
Do you waddle the waddle?
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Coming more than two months after Archinstall 4.3, the Archinstall 4.4 release introduces a Niri DankMaterialShell desktop profile, the ability to select the console font from the Locales menu, support for configuring the Plymouth boot splash screen, and an IWD standalone option to the Network configuration.
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Still powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.18 LTS kernel series on the live session, the CachyOS ISO snapshot for June 2026 ships with the latest and greatest KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment by default, which is accompanied by the KDE Frameworks 6.27 and KDE Gear 26.04.2 software suites.
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Olimex recently featured the WCH CH32V006EVT, a low-cost evaluation board for the RISC-V-based CH32V006K8U6 microcontroller. The board is designed around WCH’s CH32V006 family and provides a compact platform for experimenting with the QingKe V2C 32-bit RISC-V core, Zephyr support, and basic embedded development features.
On my main workstation:
02:58:01 up 399 days, 9:42, 41 users, load average: 0.87, 0.66, 0.63
My workstation's uptime will be 400 later today. Last reboot was October 2023. █