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RISC-V Embedded Board Features TH1520 SoC, Dual GbE, and 4TOPS AI

The HH-SCDAYU800A is another RISC-V development board built around the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 system-on-chip. With its dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, multiple camera interfaces, and industrial-grade design, the board targets applications requiring multimedia features, edge inference, and smart device integration.

RISC-V-Based FireBeetle 2 with ESP32-P4 Starts at $11.90

The FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4, previewed earlier this year, is now available from DFRobot starting at $11.90. This compact board handles real-time image processing and video streaming, combining the ESP32-P4 SoC with an ESP32-C6 co-processor for wireless projects.

Radxa Fanless Network Router Offers 4 GbE Ports and NVMe Storage Up to 4TB

The Radxa E24C is a fanless network computer based on the Rockchip RK3528A processor, designed for routing, edge networking, and industrial tasks. It combines four RJ45 ports, 4K HDMI output, and an M.2 NVMe slot for high-speed storage in a compact enclosure.

Low-Cost WT99P4C5-S1 Pairs ESP32-P4 SoC with ESP32-C5 Wi-Fi 6 Module

Wireless-Tag’s WT99P4C5-S1 is a versatile multimedia development board built around the WT0132P4-A1 core module, which integrates Espressif’s ESP32-P4 dual-core RISC-V SoC. According to the company, this board targets applications such as AIoT, Human-Machine Interfaces, and edge computing, offering extensive connectivity, audio features, and multimedia expansion options.

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Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10

Last month, Canonical announced a significant change for RISC-V users that will drop support for most of the existing RISC-V hardware, as the company plans to raise the required RISC-V ISA profile family from RVA20 to RVA23. This means that about 90 percent of RISC-V devices won’t be able to run Ubuntu 25.10.

GStreamer 1.28 Promises Vulkan H.264 Encoder, AMD HIP Plugin, and More

GStreamer 1.28 looks like another big update promising new features like a Vulkan H.264 encoder, an AMD HIP (Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability) plugin, basic colorimetry support for Wayland, and a new wpe2 plugin for Webkit that makes use of the “WPE Platform API”.

KDE Frameworks 6.16 Improves Plasma’s Ability to Detect the Most Powerful GPU

The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue with KDE Frameworks 6.16, a release that promises to improve your system’s ability to detect which GPU is the most powerful one for the “Run this program using the more powerful GPU” feature.

Calibre 8.6 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Database Restore Performance

Coming just a week after Calibre 8.5, the Calibre 8.6 release promises to significantly improve the database restoring performance, adds support for the La Presse news source, and adds ‘Search “not in”‘ and ‘Filter “not in'” buttons to the Manage Authors and Manage Items options.

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posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jul 02, 2025

Best Free and Open Source Software: June 2025 Updates - LinuxLinks

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. Another busy month considering we spent a lot of this month writing hardware reviews.

Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion. Open source software at its finest.

Ten Forward - control a NAT-PMP gateway - LinuxLinks

Ten Forward allows you to request port forwarding to your gateway.

It allows you to create multiple mapping configurations, which can individually be requested. This tool will allow you to run a local game server (minecraft LAN, Mindustry, Stardew valley., etc..) and make it accessible online. It is tested with the NAT-PMP enabled ProtonVPN, and should be compatible with any other NAT-PMP capable gateway.

This is free and open source software.

SerialTest - test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP - LinuxLinks

SerialTest is a cross-platform test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP. It runs under Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows.

The tool works as a data transceiver/realtime plotter/shortcut/file transceiver.

Kindle Comic Converter - transform images to ebooks - LinuxLinks

KCC was initially developed for Kindle but currently it outputs valid EPUB 3.0 and CBZ so despite its name, KCC is tool that every E-Reader owner can happily use. Additionally KCC will process your images and make sure that your comics and manga are fully optimized for E-Ink displays.

Its main feature is various optional image processing steps to look good on eink screens, which have different requirements than normal LCD screens. Combining that with downscaling to your specific device’s screen resolution can result in file size reductions of hundreds of MB per volume with no visible quality loss on eink. This can also improve battery life, page turn speed, and general performance on underpowered ereaders with small storage capacities.

This is free and open source software.

Japachar - learn Japanese characters - LinuxLinks

Japachar is an application helps you to learn Japanese characters using a gradual learning algorithm which makes you test-like questions.

You are expected to fail while starting, look up the correct answer when you fail, it helps you to learn faster. You can use this app even if you do not know anything.

It keeps a inner score of how much you know a character to give priority to ask you again about it if needed and introduces new characters when you are ready.

BETA Kanji support available.

It works now without having to install any third party font.

There is a settings menu that allows you to tune your learning further to your rhythm, the numbers are saved with intro, if you leave a field empty you will restore the default, good if you mess up with the settings.

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RISC-V-Based FireBeetle 2 with ESP32-P4 Starts at $11.90

Radxa Fanless Network Router Offers 4 GbE Ports and NVMe Storage Up to 4TB

Low-Cost WT99P4C5-S1 Pairs ESP32-P4 SoC with ESP32-C5 Wi-Fi 6 Module

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software: June 2025 Updates - LinuxLinks

Ten Forward - control a NAT-PMP gateway - LinuxLinks

SerialTest - test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP - LinuxLinks

Kindle Comic Converter - transform images to ebooks - LinuxLinks

Japachar - learn Japanese characters - LinuxLinks

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