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Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 is here three months after Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 to update VoLTE support so that it works out-of-box with more carriers on several Volla devices, update Waydroid with initial support for upcoming official Android 13 images, and introduce a new Noto Color Emoji font to improve support for some newer emojis.

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FriendlyElec NanoPi M5 Offers RK3576, Dual LAN, MIPI-CSI, and 6 TOPS NPU

FriendlyElec has introduced the NanoPi M5, a compact single-board computer based on the Rockchip RK3576 processor. It features a 6 TOPS INT8 NPU, supports LPDDR4X or LPDDR5 memory, and offers UFS 2.0 storage along with dual Gigabit Ethernet and MIPI-CSI/DSI interfaces.

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Expanding Internet Access in Rural Latin America, One Course at a Time

If, in 2018, you had told Alan Ramírez, a Peruvian telecommunications engineer and university lecturer, that a short training course would one day shape national Internet policy and connect thousands more rural Peruvians, he might have laughed. But just five years later, that’s exactly what happened.

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Raspberry PI OS Lite vs Desktop: Comparison Between the Distributions

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jun 02, 2025

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People new to the Raspberry Pi computer board world often ask themselves which Operating System to use on their new board. When it comes to the default Raspberry PI OS (the official Raspberry PI Operating System), the second question is: what are the differences between Raspberry PI OS Lite and the Desktop version?

This article highlights the comparison of Raspberry Pi OS Lite vs Desktop, the two default operating system options for the popular single-board computer.

Both are based on a Debian Linux distribution compiled to fit the Raspberry PI computer board hardware, so they are completely compliant with its drivers.

It is important to note that this article doesn’t apply to the Raspberry PI Pico, as it is a microcontroller (not a computer board), for which you can get started from my First steps with Raspberry PI Pico for Beginners tutorial.

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