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Raspberry Pi Updates Keyboard PC with New 500+ Model

The Raspberry Pi 500+ is based on the Raspberry Pi 5 platform and features a 2.4GHz quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 CPU with 512KB per-core L2 cache and a shared 2MB L3 cache.

DE25-Nano with 138K-LE Agilex 5 FPGA and Dual-Cluster ARM HPS

The board integrates an Agilex 5 FPGA fabric with 138K logic elements together with a dual-cluster hard processor system that combines two Cortex-A76 and two Cortex-A55 cores. This arrangement supports both reconfigurable hardware design and software execution in a single device.

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Raspberry Pi 500+ Launches as the Ultimate All-In-One PC Based on Raspberry Pi 5

The Raspberry Pi 500+ is the successor of the Raspberry Pi 500 computer, based on the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB model and featuring a high-quality mechanical keyboard with removable keycaps and individually addressable RGB LEDs, as well as an internal M.2 socket equipped with a 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Released with Ubuntu Touch Upgrader, Rabbit R1 Support

Coming almost three months after Ubuntu Touch OTA-9, the Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 release introduces support for the Rabbit R1 device and the new Ubuntu Touch upgrader, which allows users to upgrade to the long-anticipated Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 release, based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, once it’s released.

Calibre 8.11 E-Book Manager Adds an “Ask AI” Tab to the Dictionary Lookup Panel

Highlights of Calibre 8.11 include a new “Ask AI” tab in the dictionary lookup panel that allows you to query AI about the currently selected text. The feature supports hundreds of AI models via free providers like Google, OpenRouter, GitHub, or locally via Ollama.

System76 Releases COSMIC Beta Desktop Environment and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta

It’s been more than a year since System76 started development on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the Rust-based desktop environment when they released the first alpha version, and now, seven alphas later, the beta version is ready for public testing for early adopters and application developers.

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Mabox 25.07 - July ISO refresh & auto theming!

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 18, 2025

The July ISO refresh brings back the improved automatic theme creation mechanism based on wallpaper colors.

Currently, it supports theme coloring for:

Openbox window decorations
Menus
Conky widgets
PyRadio

By default, auto theming is disabled to avoid shocking users who don’t expect such effects

To activate auto-theming, right-click the wallpaper thumbnail in the panel. The Wallpaper and Desktop Styling menu will appear. Here you can enable and configure auto-theming.

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