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MS-C927 Compact Box PC with Intel Meteor Lake-U and Arrow Lake-U

The MS-C927 is an upcoming compact fanless box PC built on Intel’s Meteor Lake-U and Arrow Lake-U processors. It targets low-power, silent operation in industrial and embedded environments such as automation, transportation, and edge computing, and comes in a 130 × 155 × 40 mm form factor with wall and DIN-rail mounting options.

FRDM-MCXW23 Development Board with MCX W23 Wireless MCU and BLE 5.3

The FRDM-MCXW23 is a development board based on the MCX W23 Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3 wireless MCU. It provides a compact platform for evaluating low-power wireless designs, targeting applications such as portable medical devices, smart appliances, automation systems, and asset tracking.

Low-Cost FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4 Now Available with Wi-Fi 6, MIPI CSI/DSI, and RISC-V Core

DFRobot has officially introduced the FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4, a compact microcontroller board built for computer vision and multimedia projects. Priced at $11.90, it pairs the ESP32-P4 SoC with a companion co-processor for Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth connectivity, targeting applications such as cameras, smart home devices, and interactive interfaces.

Forlinx FET-MX9596-C SoM Arrives with NXP i.MX 95, Dual 10GbE, and Onboard NPU

Forlinx Embedded, an NXP gold partner, has officially launched its FET-MX9596-C SoM and the companion OK-MX9596-C development board. Built around NXP’s i.MX 95 processor family, the platform targets industrial automation, medical systems, and edge AI applications.

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Linux Kernel 6.15 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.16

Released on May 25th, 2025, Linux kernel 6.15 introduced new features like Rust support for hrtimer and ARMv7, a new setcpuid= boot parameter for x86 CPUs, support for sched_ext to count and report internal events, x86 Intel and AMD PMU enhancements, nested virtualization support for VGICv3 on ARM, and support for emulating FEAT_PMUv3 on Apple Silicon.

LibreOffice 25.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of LibreOffice 25.8 include up to 30% faster opening of files in Writer and Calc, support for exporting PDF 2.0, optimized memory management for smoother operation on virtual desktops and thin clients, improved scrolling through large documents, and completely overhauled word hyphenation and spacing.

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Slackel 8.0 "Openbox"

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 27, 2025

Slackel 8.0 OPENBOX has been released.
Includes the Linux kernel 6.12.39 and latest updates from Slackware's 'Current' tree. Also includes salixtools borrowed from Salix.

This release is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. The 64-bit iso supports UEFI/EFI systems as well.

The 64-bit iso image support booting on UEFI systems.
Iso images are isohybrid.
Iso images can be used as installation media.

This release includes mozilla-firefox-140.0.4, mozilla-thunderbird-140.0.1esr, libreoffice 25.2.1, gimp 3.0.4, smplayer 25.6.0, mpv 0.40.0, MPlayer-20250330, exaile 4.1.3, brasero 3.12.3, isomaster 1.3.17, pidgin 2.14.142, transmission 2.94 and many more. It includes the flatpak so the user has access to dozens of apps to install.

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