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DietPi August 2025 Update Goes Trixie and Prepares Forky

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OnLogic Karbon 521 Rugged Industrial PC Powered by Intel Core Ultra

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Arti 1.5.0 released:

Arti 1.5.0 continues development on important client features, including Counter Galois Onion encryption, Conflux, flow control and congestion control, and onion service proof of work. It also includes significant backend work for Arti relay support.

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DXVK 2.7.1 Brings Improvements for Team Fortress 2, Crysis 3, and Other Games

DXVK 2.7.1 is here almost two months after the major DXVK 2.7 release as a maintenance update that improves support for several video games, including Dead Space 2, DCS (Digital Combat Simulator) World, AquaNox 2: Revelation, Alone in the Dark, Comanche 4, Crysis 3, and Dungeon Siege 2.

LibreOffice 25.8.1 Office Suite Is Already Out with More Than 90 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 25.8.1 is here only 9 days after the release of LibreOffice 25.8 and it contains fixes for various bugs, crashes, and other issues reported by users. In particular, it fixes a crash related to the NotebookBar UI option and several bugs related to opening documents in the MS Office proprietary format.

Armbian 25.8 Released with Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 and Debian Trixie

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Fwupd 2.0.14 Adds Support for Framework QMK Devices, SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P

Coming about five weeks after fwupd 2.0.13, the fwupd 2.0.14 release adds support for updating the firmware on more hardware, including the SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P gaming headset, ILITEK touch controllers, Framework QMK devices, and Egis MoC devices.

Wireshark 4.4.9 Protocol Analyzer Released with Updated Protocols and Bug Fixes

Coming one and a half months after Wireshark 4.4.8, this release updates the support for several network protocols, including BACapp, LIN (Local Interconnect Network), MySQL, RDM (Remote Device Management), SABP (Service Area Broadcast Protocol), SCCP (Signalling Connection Control Part), sFlow (Sampled Flow), and SSH (Secure Shell).

OBS Studio 32.0 Enters Public Beta Testing with a Basic Plugin Manager

OBS Studio 32.0 promises several new features, including Voice Activity Detection (VAD) for NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects, which improves noise suppression for speech, Hybrid MOV support, a basic plugin manager, and chair removal option for NVIDIA RTX Background Removal, allowing the removal of chairs.

First Look at KDE’s Initial System Setup (KISS) Tool in KDE Plasma 6.5

Meet KDE Initial System Setup (or KISS for short), an initial system setup wizard mainly designed for OEM installation when you buy a laptop that ships with the KDE Plasma desktop environment. KISS will appear only after a new OEM system installation or when starting up a brand-new computer.

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Daily Driving Thunderbird

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 06, 2025

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Quoting: Thunderbird vs KDE Kontact: A Personal Information Manager Review —

I started using KDE’s PIM, Kontact since 2004. It always looked great, the features were rich and the experience was largely consistent. The greatest feature that I enjoyed which was incredible for keeping my day’s tasks organized and well documented was the KOrganizer module. It would automatically generated notes based on what tasks I completed the absolute greatest feature in any PIM for the purposes of accountability and communication. Over the years as advancements came to Kontact, the core functionality continued to diminish. The Akonadi database was never all that reliable. I would have to manually intervene from time to time for which I got pretty good at it. I previously wrote about a fix for the Google Groupware Calendar for KOrganizer.

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