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Radxa ROCK 4D with RK3576 SoC, PCIe Gen2 x1, Gigabit Ethernet, and PoE Support Starts at $30

Radxa has introduced a single-board computer with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi 3, powered by the octa-core Rockchip RK3576 system-on-chip. Key features of the new ROCK 4D include PCIe Gen2 expansion, Gigabit Ethernet with PoE support, and broad I/O compatibility.

ASUS IoT Unveils RUC-1000 Series with 600W GPU Support and Up to 4000 TOPS at Computex 2025

ASUS IoT has announced the RUC-1000 series at Computex 2025, introducing what it describes as the world’s first 2U 19-inch rugged edge AI GPU computer with PCIe 5.0 support for up to 600W GPUs. Designed for edge AI deployments in industrial environments, the new series includes the RUC-1000G and RUC-1000D models, offering performance scalability and ruggedized reliability for machine vision, video analytics, and smart automation.

SiFive and Red Hat Collaborate to Bring RHEL 10 to RISC-V Development

SiFive has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat to deliver a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for the RISC-V architecture. The initial support is available on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 development platform, giving developers a path to build and test enterprise and cloud workloads on RISC-V hardware.

AMI Aptio V Firmware Powers Radxa Orion O6 at COMPUTEX 2025

AMI has announced that its Aptio V UEFI Firmware will power the Radxa Orion O6 demo platform at COMPUTEX Taipei 2025. Described as the “World’s First Open Source Armv9 Motherboard,” the compact Orion O6 Mini ITX board is designed for AI, edge computing, and multimedia-intensive workloads.

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PipeWire 1.4.3 Brings netJACK2 Changes, Improves ALSA audio.channels Support

Arriving about five weeks after PipeWire 1.4.2, the PipeWire 1.4.3 release brings many netJACK2 improvements, including fixes for the driver/manager roles, better error handling, support for sending custom commands, support for using the default value of filters, and support for correctly writing MIDI streams.

Fwupd 2.0.10 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for Lenovo Legion Touchpad

Fwupd 2.0.10 is here about two weeks after fwupd 2.0.9, featuring support for the Lenovo Legion touchpad, the Logitech MX Mechanical keyboard, as well as the Poly Studio V72 and V12 video bars, and support for including the AGESA version as the summary of the AMD secure processor device.

AlmaLinux OS 9.6 Is Out as a Free Alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6

Built from the same sources as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6, AlmaLinux OS 9.6 continues to enhance performance, development tools, and security.

Latest Steam Client Update Improves Game Recordings and Remote Play on Linux

For Linux gamers, the new Steam Client update adds support for automatically installing the Proton Voice Files speech synthesis data when they’re required, improves support for game recordings that contain a green bar on the right side of the image when using HEVC encoding on AMD systems if the game window width isn’t a multiple of 64, and improves Game Recording and Remote Play video streams that show green frames when capturing Vulkan games on Intel GPUs.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 highlights include Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed for integrating generative AI directly within the platform to provide users with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations through a natural language interface.

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Happy Families: new certificates for faster and easier relay management

Within the Tor protocol, Relay Families help make sure that an honest relay operator is never in a position to appear in the same circuit or observe two points of a circuit to mount a traffic correlation attack.1

New Release: Tails 6.15.1

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Egghead is a simple trivia app - LinuxLinks

Egghead is a simple trivia app. The quiz is sourced from the Open Trivia Database.

This is free and open source software.

Hand TeX is a handwritten LaTeX symbol classifier - LinuxLinks

Hand TeX is a GUI tool that lets you draw the symbol to find out what LaTeX command to use.

Hand TeX renders your strokes to a flat image and uses a convolutional neural network to classify the symbol. This approach ignores the order you draw the strokes in, focusing solely on the shape of the symbol.

This is free and open source software.

gopher64 is an N64 emulator written in Rust - LinuxLinks

gopher64 is an N64 emulator written in Rust.

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