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Luckfox has just launched a new development board with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi Zero, but based on the Rockchip RK3506B system-on-chip. The Lyra Zero W is designed to offer a low-cost, compact solution for embedded Linux development, priced at $16.99.
Seeed Studio has reintroduced its 2022-era XIAO ESP32S3 Sense as part of a new educational kit bundled with accessories and the open-access textbook Machine Learning Systems: Design and Implementation, developed by Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi and contributors from Harvard and the open-source community.
Seeed Studio has introduced the XIAO nRF54L15 and XIAO nRF54L15 Sense, two compact boards based on Nordic’s nRF54L15 SoC. They support BLE 6.0, Matter, Thread, and other 2.4 GHz protocols, with potential use in wearables, sensors, and prototypes.
Waveshare has introduced the ESP32-P4-WIFI6-DEV-KIT, a new variant of its ESP32-P4 development platform featuring a more compact and integrated layout compared to the earlier ESP32-P4-WIFI6 board. Both models are based on the ESP32-P4 dual-core RISC-V MCU and incorporate the ESP32-C6 to enable Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (BLE) connectivity via an SDIO 3.0 interface.
First seen earlier this year, Adafruit has officially launched the Fruit Jam, a compact RP2350B-powered development board. The product mentions that it matches the dimensions of a standard credit card, 3.375 by 2.125 inches (ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1), while providing the functionality of a miniature standalone computer.
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS comes six months after Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS as an up-to-date installation media for those who wish to deploy the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system on new computers without having to download hundreds of updated packages from the repositories after the installation.
Highlights of Mesa 25.2 include some major house-cleaning of the window system code to remove support for deprecated functionality, such as removing DRI2 support entirely, removing support for the insecure legacy GEM names, removing support for thread-unsafe libX11, and deprecating support for EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display.
Powered by the Linux 6.15 kernel series, KaOS Linux 2025.07 ships with the KDE Plasma 6.4.3 desktop environment, which is accompanied by the KDE Gear 25.04.3 and KDE Frameworks 6.16 software suites, all built using the latest Qt 6.9.1 open-source application framework.
Audacity 3.7.5 is here after Audacity 3.7.4 and introduces 32-bit PCM to the FLAC importer, a fix for the lost focus issue when closing the registration window, a fix for a crash during WAV import when the audio file is up to 7 ms long, a fix for a crash when using Macro Wizard, and a fix for a crash when rendering the spectrum view.
Coming five months after NetworkManager 1.52, the NetworkManager 1.54 release adds support for configuring per-device IPv4 forwarding via the ipv4.forwarding connection property, support OCI baremetal in nm-cloud-setup, support for configuring the loopback interface in NetworkManager’s text-based UI (nmtui).
The NVIDIA 580 graphics driver series promises improved support for Wayland users by introducing support for the fifo-v1 Wayland protocol on Vulkan and fixing a bug that could cause GTK 4 apps to crash when using the Vulkan backend on Wayland.
Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.4.3, the KDE Plasma 6.4.4 release changes the behavior of notifications marked as “low priority” or that have been manually configured to show up in the history to selectively ignore that behavior and show up in the history when they arrive if Do Not Disturb mode is enabled.
Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.16 kernel series, PorteuX 2.2 is here a little over two months after PorteuX 2.1, adding a patch to Xorg Server to make tear-free (vsync) available in the modesetting kernel driver, which is used for all graphics cards.
Darktable 5.2.1 is here about one and a half months after Darktable 5.2 with base support for the Nikon D200 (12bit-compressed), Nikon D5300 (12bit-compressed), Panasonic DC-GH7 (4:3), Pentax K-r (PEF), and Samsung GX-1L cameras.
Coming more than three months after 4MLinux 48.0, the 4MLinux 49.0 release is powered by the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, uses the Mesa 25.1 graphics stack, features support for Bcachefs installations in UEFI mode, and improves support for mobile devices via Bluetooth and PTP/MTP protocols.
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Across the board, Linux in 2025 has shifted from simply functioning to practically thriving on battery. Between smarter hardware handling, innovative firmware control, and improved user-space utilities, the open-source operating system can now rival, and often exceed, its closed-source competition when unplugged.