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KDE Plasma 6.5.1 Is Out to Fix Compatibility Issues with Older AMD GPUs

Even if it comes a week after the release of KDE Plasma 6.5, a major update that just arrived in the stable software repositories of popular rolling-release distros like Arch Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed, the KDE Plasma 6.5.1 update is packed with many improvements and bug fixes, especially for a regression that broke the appearance of mouse pointers on older AMD GPUs.

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 198 Gives Major Boost to the Intrusion Prevention System

Coming more than five weeks after IPFire 2.29 Core Update 197, the IPFire 2.29 Core Update 198 release introduces major improvements to the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) with the upgrade to the Suricata 8 series, offering enhanced detection performance and reliability, as well as real-time email reporting.

MX Linux 25 Release Candidate Arrives with Various Improvements and Changes

Still shipping with the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series on the standard editions and a Liquorix-flavored Linux 6.15 kernel on the AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) editions, the Release Candidate of MX Linux 25 introduces systemd-cryptsetup on the systemd-based ISOs to fix an issue with encrypted /home partitions.

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Radxa Rolls Out Dragon Q6A Featuring Qualcomm QCS6490, 12 TOPS NPU, and 6th-Gen AI Engine

Radxa has rolled out the Dragon Q6A, a compact single-board computer built on Qualcomm’s QCS6490 octa-core platform. Designed for industrial, IoT, and edge computing environments, the board combines high-performance CPU and GPU cores with integrated AI acceleration, multiple display interfaces, and flexible storage options.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 05, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. 'Official' Debian Sites That Sell Proprietary and Surveillance
    "Azure API throttling strikes back"
  2. Software Freedom Month at NITK Surathkal and Yesterday's Talk by Richard Stallman
    the message being spread by the person who started it all
  3. GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in the United States, Based on statCounter
    Windows is the loser; GNU/Linux grows at its expense
  4. statCounter Reckons Less Than 10% in Mexico Still Use Windows to Access to Web and GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time High (Plus, Microsoft's Latest Debt Crisis)
    Looking at Mexico in isolation

    New

  5. statCounter: Only 1 in ~40 Web Users in Ireland Uses Microsoft Browser, One in Six Uses Windows
    When/if Windows market share goes down, so will Edge
  6. Links 04/02/2025: Social Control Media Bans and US Fighting Its Allies, Not Russia
    Links for the day
  7. Links 04/02/2025: Birth of a Calf, FOSDEM, and More
    Links for the day
  8. Anti-Linux FUD Sites cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com Turn Out to be LLM Slop, Even Plagiarism That Spreads Lies
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  9. BetaNews Began Removing LLM Slop About "Linux", But More of It Keeps Coming From Guardian Digital, Inc (at linuxsecurity.com)
    the other Serial Slopper, Guardian Digital, Inc
  10. Mollamby, Suicide Cluster, not trademark, the real reasons for Debian legal expenses, evidence
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  11. Links 04/02/2025: Mass Layoffs at Salesforce, Economic Pressures, Trade Wars
    Links for the day
  12. [Video] Richard Stallman Auctioning a GNU (Gnu) at Surathkal, India
    clip is only a minute-long
  13. statCounter: GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Now Measured at 2.78% in Japan (It Used to be Less Than 0.5%)
    really 'took off' half a decade ago
  14. LLM Hype (Chatbots Hyped and Wrongly Characterised as "Artificial Intelligence") Cause Net Inflation
    Net as in Internet, not limited to the Web
  15. It Looks Like BetaNews' Managing Editor Wayne Williams is Taking Over From Fagioli After Repeat Pattern of LLM Slop (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) About "Linux"
    The most plausible explanation is, Fagioli got caught or his conduct could no longer be ignored
  16. From India to Italy: Richard Stallman's Next Talk is Next Week in Torino
    Announced less than a day ago
  17. Corporate Media is Intentionally Lying for Microsoft, There's Now a Hiring Freeze, No Replacements for Workers Laid Off in Two Mass Layoffs Last Month
    Maybe the media - at least some of it - actually deserves doom. If it covers up for the powerful to muzzle and gaslight the oppressed, then what sort of media is that anyway?
  18. Gemini Links 04/02/2025: Tolkien and New Job
    Links for the day
  19. Covering EPO Scandals in an Age of Mass Censorship (and Europe Being Afraid to Introspect, for It Might "Help Putin")
    It was all along expected that "external enemies" would be invoked to suppress discussion about EPO crimes
  20. Facebook Finally Admits That It Censored Linux and Banned People for Mentioning It; statCounter Shows Rapid Growth for GNU/Linux in Southeast Asia
    So GAFAM is losing its power
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 03, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, February 03, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2025-01-29 to 2025-02-04
    1208 /n/2025/01/30/The_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Raised_422_000_Another_22k_in_.shtml
    1024 /n/2025/02/03/It_Seems_Like_BetaNews_is_Finally_Deleting_Fake_Articles_About_.shtml
    757 /n/2025/01/29/We_Were_Right_About_stallmansupport_org_Making_an_Error_by_Join.shtml
    742 /n/2025/02/01/Arrested_Albanian_Outreachy_whistleblowers_Sonny_Piers_GNOME_De.shtml
    686 /n/2025/02/02/Yandex_Has_Nearly_Caught_Up_With_Microsoft_Internationally_Bing.shtml
    677 /browse/latest.shtml
    661 /n/2025/01/29/Links_29_01_2025_Data_Privacy_Day_and_Growing_Tensions_in_Europ.shtml
    598 /n/2025/01/28/Links_28_01_2025_Against_Social_Control_Media_Smart_Buses_Ticke.shtml
    530 /n/2025/01/29/Announcements_and_Administrivia.shtml
    529 /browse/index.shtml

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