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The DE25-Standard development kit for the Altera University Program features the Intel Agilex 5 SoC FPGA with 138K logic elements, delivering up to 2.5× higher performance than previous generations. Combining high-performance FPGA fabric with an ARM-based hard processor system, it supports a broad range of digital logic, embedded systems, and robotics applications.
The kit supports both high-frequency (13.56 MHz) and low-frequency (125 kHz) operation. Included tags range from S50 Mifare Classic cards and rewritable T5577 cards to an NTAG215 NFC chip embedded on a custom PCB dog tag. Additional components include a two-channel logic level shifter, SMD resistors, mounting hardware, and a silicone dog tag silencer.
Sixfab has launched the ALPON X5 AI on Kickstarter, a compact industrial-grade edge AI computer for applications including smart surveillance, healthcare monitoring, autonomous robotics, and industrial automation. It combines Raspberry Pi compatibility with a high-efficiency AI accelerator for a plug-and-play solution from prototyping to deployment.
For Linux users, VirtualBox 7.2 brings initial support for the upcoming Linux 6.17 and Linux 6.16 kernel series on both hosts and guests, improved Linux Guest Additions support for Oracle Linux 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 guests, as well as improved handling of the vboxvideo kernel module in the init script for Linux guests.
Dubbed “The Seven Sisters”, SparkyLinux 8.0 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 13 “Trixie”, it’s powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, and includes all packages updated from the stable Debian and SparkyLinux repositories as of August 13th, 2025.
KDE Gear 25.08 introduces two search engines to the Dolphin file manager to help you find that specific, but elusive file or folder you can’t locate, along with support for opening Filelight directly from the Tools menu and more options for the View Mode switching button.
Highlights of the NVIDIA 580 graphics driver series include improved support for Wayland 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 a little over a month after GNOME 48.3, the GNOME 48.4 release promises to finally fix the update notification issue in the GNOME Software app, which gave me a lot of headaches in the past few months. The issue was that even if my system was up to date, GNOME Software sent a notification that it was out of date.
Debian 13 "Trixie" GNU/Linux operating system is finally released on Saturday, 9 August 2025. This is a Long Term Support (LTS) release with five years of support until 2030 and has been developed for two years since the previous release. It includes full and complete set of tens of thousands of software packages. Trixie is available for almost all types of computer available in the world and we can download it for desktop and laptop for PC 64-bit (also known as amd64) and many other computer architectures (except now Debian no longer supports PC 32-bit aka i386) as detailed below plus further instructions. Let's download Debian!
This listing collects desktop notes applications including sticky notes that we recommend for Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat. We included here KNotes, which are well-known and full-featured, and also Affiche.app which just works but less-known, among others in order to promote them to more users (and open the opportunity for more people to get involved in the project). All applications are available in the official repository and no third-party sources required. Now, let's start exploring them!
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StarFive notes that the VisionFive 2 Lite will support major Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and OpenKylin, along with development tools such as GCC, LLVM, and GDB. Documentation, SDKs, and accessory guides will be available on the RVspace community site in August.