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RK3566 Credit Card-Sized SBC with M.2 Expansion and 4K Video Support

The RK3566 Single Board Computer is designed for a range of applications, combining processing power with multiple connectivity options. Built with an 8-layer PCB design and featuring a compact form factor, it is powered by a quad-core Cortex-A55 processor and includes an M.2 2242 slot for expansion.

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Tor Project's internship sponsored by Google Summer of Code

For the Tor community, participating in GSoC is invaluable: it brings new contributors into our ecosystem, strengthens the broader open-source movement, and ensures mentorship opportunities for those interested in privacy and anonymity tools. The program removes financial barriers for participants by offering stipends, making it easier for people worldwide to contribute.

New Release: Tails 6.13

To help troubleshoot hardware compatibility issues with Wi-Fi interfaces, the Tor Connection assistant now reports when no Wi-Fi hardware is detected.

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KDE Gear 24.12.3 Improves Dolphin, Konsole, Tokodon, Itinerary, Kasts, and More

KDE Gear 24.12.3 comes a month after KDE Gear 24.12.2 to improve the keyboard-based selection of items in the Dolphin file manager by ignoring diacritics, improve the sort order of the podcasts episodes in the Kasts podcast app, and improve the handling of the cookie policy in the Konqueror web browser.

PipeWire 1.4 Is Out with RISC-V Support, MIDI2 Support, JACK Control API, and More

Highlights of PipeWire 1.4 include support for the RISC-V CPU architecture, a PipeWire JACK control API, DSD playback for the ALSA plugin, a system service for pipewire-pulse, Bluetooth support for BAP broadcast links, support for hearing aids using ASHA, a new G722 codec, and UMP (aka MIDI2) support.

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Best Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 17, 2024

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Intelligence - LinuxLinks

Apple Intelligence is a personal intelligence system that offers powerful generative models. It brings together writing tools, an image playground, and provides Siri with enhanced action capabilities.

Apple Intelligence is proprietary software and is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

14 Best Free and Open Source CLI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files - LinuxLinks

Duplicate files are a real annoyance. Aside from using disk space, these files do nothing but clutter up your drive, make your PC run slower, and increase the difficulty level significantly when it comes to finding the right version of a specific file: is it the one I just updated, or the other one?

Good duplicate finding software compares more than just a filename – including the file size – so it doesn’t remove files which are different to each other. You need reliable software. But always make sure you are making regular backups. And test the backups actually work.

This roundup focuses on command-line tools only. Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

yachalk - terminal string styling done right - LinuxLinks

yachalk is a feature-complete clone of the Chalk (JavaScript) library.

Chalk comes with an easy to use composable API where you just chain and nest the styles you want.

This is free and open source software.

Resources - monitor system resources - LinuxLinks

Resources allows you to check the utilization of your system resources and control your running processes and apps.

It’s designed to be user-friendly and feel right at home on a modern desktop by using GNOME’s libadwaita.

This is free and open source software.

Rickrack - color palette generator - LinuxLinks

The software lets you export them into individual files and import them into other software such as Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Krita, Pencil 2D and Clip Studio Paint.

This is free and open source software.

Primer - GitHub's design system - LinuxLinks

The goal of this project is to create a system that enables GitHub to build consistent user experiences with ease, yet with enough flexibility to support the broad spectrum of GitHub websites.

This is free and open source software.

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