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Happy 34th Birthday, Linux!

It was on August 25th, 1991, when the 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he was working on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones, just as a “hobby”.

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Olimex Showcases ESP32-C5-EVB Development Board

Olimex has announced the ESP32-C5-EVB, an open-source hardware evaluation board based on the ESP32-C5-WROOM-N8R4 module from Espressif. The board integrates dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Zigbee/Thread, relays, opto-isolated inputs, and LiPo UPS support, and is designed as a flexible platform for IoT development and prototyping.

AAEON Announces BOXER-8741AI with NVIDIA Jetson Thor T5000 Module

AAEON has announced the BOXER-8741AI, its first embedded system to integrate the new NVIDIA Jetson Thor T5000 module. The BOXER-8741AI includes features such as four QSFP28 ports supporting 25GbE, CANBus, and JetPack 7.0, targeting applications in robotics, healthcare systems, and autonomous machines.

Radxa debuts Raspberry Pi Zero alternative with Allwinner A733, up to 8GB RAM, and 3TOPS NPU

Radxa recently introduced a compact single-board computer measuring 65 × 30 mm and built around the Allwinner A733 SoC. The new Radxa Cubie A7Z integrates a hybrid octa-core CPU, AI acceleration, multimedia capabilities, and a range of expansion options aimed at embedded and edge computing applications.

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Zen Browser — What Mozilla Firefox Should Be?

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 26, 2025

Quoting: Zen Browser — What Mozilla Firefox Should Be? - OMG! Ubuntu —

Zen is a free, open-source Firefox fork available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It’s not new (having been around since 2024) and is currently in beta (there’s no stable build to try).

Not being based on Chromium is a USP by itself, but Zen has more to it. It is far more than “just” a fork that repackages Firefox with a few different settings. Instead, it rethinks the user-experience for modern needs, adding features that feel organic rather than tacked-on.

If seeing Firefox fail to capitalise on its potential leaves you frustrated, Zen provides a calm, considered alternative – an holistic antidote, even – to aimless AI feature creep, privacy shenanigans, and Mozilla management’s misdeeds.

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