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VirtualBox 7.2 Officially Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.17

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.

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Download Debian 13 LTS "Trixie" Full Editions with Mirrors, Torrents and Checksums

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!

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ArmSoM CM1 Core Module with RK3506J Released for Industrial and Embedded Applications

The CM1 integrates a Rockchip RK3506J SoC with a tri-core Arm Cortex-A7 CPU cluster and a single-core Cortex-M0 for real-time control tasks. Graphics processing is handled by a 2D hardware acceleration engine. Memory options include 256 MB or 512 MB DDR3L RAM and 256 MB or 512 MB NAND flash, with microSD expansion support.

Libre Computer Previews Solitude and Alta Compute Modules with Low-Power Features

The modules are designed for lower power consumption compared to Raspberry Pi CM4 and CM5, with support for low power states and wake events such as Wake-on-LAN, Wake-on-IR/IO/CEC, and Wake-on-Camera/Display. Wireless connectivity is not included on the module, with RF modules intended to be paired via SDIO.

AAEON Leverages MediaTek Genio SoCs for Latest SMARC Modules uCOM-M700 and uCOM-M510

The Genio 700 features a dual-core Arm Cortex-A78 at 2.2 GHz, a hexa-core Arm Cortex-A55 at 2.0 GHz, and an Arm Mali-G57 MC3 GPU, delivering up to 4 TOPS of AI performance.

DE25-Standard Development Kit with Agilex 5 SoC FPGA and DDR4 Support

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.

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Ghostty Terminal Rewrites its GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 15, 2025

Quoting: Ghostty Terminal Rewrites its GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues - OMG! Ubuntu —

The backend core is built in Zig (yes, something that isn’t Rust – shocking for 2025), but it takes a different tack to cross-platform development: native and integrated with each platform it runs on.

On macOS, Ghostty uses Swift. On Linux, it uses GTK4 with Wayland and X11 support.

Both frontends share the same core terminal engine backend, written in Zig which exports a C ABI compatible API.

However, the “legacy” GTK implementation had memory issues.

Hashimoto says there was “an entire class of bug that kept popping up in the Ghostty GTK application that could basically be summed up as: the Zig memory or the GTK memory has been freed, but not both.”

It was time to exorcise a few implementation demons.

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