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Community Snapshot—August

Around the world, our 130 chapters and special interest groups work locally, regionally, and globally to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. Each month, we provide a brief overview of just some of the things they have achieved in the previous month.

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Radxa CM4 compute module supports 8K video, WiFi 6, and PCIe expansion

The CM4 integrates an octa-core CPU with four Cortex-A72 and four Cortex-A53 cores running up to 2.2 GHz, paired with an ARM Mali-G52 MC3 GPU supporting OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.2, Vulkan 1.2, and OpenCL 2.1. An integrated NPU delivers up to 6 TOPS at INT8, with support for frameworks such as TensorFlow, ONNX, PyTorch, and Caffe.

AAEON UP Rolls Out Linux-Ready Intel Development Kits for Edge AI

The UP TWL AI Dev Kit is offered as a cost-efficient platform for power-sensitive projects. It is powered by the Intel Processor N150 (Twin Lake) and emphasizes accessibility for early-stage experimentation and lightweight applications.

Platypus PP-Ethernet-RS422/485 with Raspberry Pi RP2040 and W5500 for Serial-to-Ethernet Conversion

The RP2040 provides dual Arm Cortex-M0+ processors with 264 KB of SRAM, while the W5500 manages the TCP/IP stack in hardware, simplifying design and ensuring stable Ethernet operation.

Nordic nRF54L15 Connect Kit Adds Bluetooth LE 6.0, Thread, Zigbee and NFC Support

The kit is based on the nRF54L15-QFAA, which integrates a 128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor and a 128 MHz RISC-V coprocessor. It includes 1.5 MB of non-volatile memory and 256 KB of RAM. Wireless support covers Bluetooth LE 6.0, Thread, Matter, Zigbee, NFC, IEEE 802.15.4-2020 and proprietary 2.4 GHz protocols.

Shuttle XPC slim DH810 Rugged Mini PC with Intel Core Ultra 200 Support

Processor support extends to Core Ultra 9, 7, and 5 models with integrated Intel Xe graphics. HDMI 2.1 provides 8K/60 Hz output, DisplayPort 1.4a supports 4K/60 Hz, and USB-C with DisplayPort/USB4 enables a third independent display. An optional VGA connector can replace one COM port for legacy compatibility.

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Mixxx 2.5.3 Open-Source DJ App Brings Major Improvements to Digital Vinyl System

Coming two and a half months after Mixxx 2.5.2, the Mixxx 2.5.3 release brings improvements to the Digital Vinyl System (DVS) support to properly and more accurately represent the pitch control slider on the turntable or CD player. Also, the Alpha-Beta filter was replaced with a more advanced Kalman-Filter equivalent.

Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Based on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series and powered by Linux kernel 6.14, which should boost hardware support, Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” ships with the usual editions featuring the Cinnamon 6.4, Xfce 4.18, and MATE 1.26 desktop environments.

NVIDIA 580.82.07 Supports NVIDIA Smooth Motion on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs

NVIDIA 580.82.07 is a small update that only adds support for NVIDIA Smooth Motion on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, fixes a regression introduced in NVIDIA 580.65.06 that could cause Vulkan apps to hang on Wayland, and fixes a bug that caused /sys/class/drm/…/enabled to always report “disabled” for NVIDIA GPU connectors.

Arch Linux Installer’s LVM (Logical Volume Manager) Support Is Out of Beta

Arch Linux 2025.09.01 was released yesterday as the first Arch Linux live ISO snapshot powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.16 kernel series, which should significantly boost hardware support when installing Arch Linux on newer computers. Arch Linux 2025.09.01 also shipped with the Archinstall 3.0.9 installer by default.

OpenSSL 3.6 Promises LMS Signature Verification Support, Alpha Out Now

OpenSSL 3.6 promises LMS signature verification support as per [SP 800-208] in both the FIPS and default providers, and support for EVP_SKEY opaque symmetric key objects to the key derivation and key exchange provider methods via EVP_KDF_CTX_set_SKEY(), EVP_KDF_derive_SKEY(), and EVP_PKEY_derive_SKEY() functions.

New GIMP 3.2 Development Release Brings Link Layers and Vector Layers

It’s been more than two months since the previous development release, and the new GIMP 3.2 development release brings even more goodies, including support for link layers and vector layers for non-destructive editing. While link layers allow you to link external image files as a layer in your project, vector layers let you create a shape and set its fill and stroke properties.

First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 6.16 Is Now Available for Download

Arch Linux 2025.09.01 is out today as the first Arch Linux ISO release to be powered by Linux kernel 6.16, which should give users a boost when detecting hardware, especially on newer devices, but especially on older ones where previous Arch Linux ISOs failed to detect some of the components.

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RefreshOS 2.5 mixes desktops but keeps Debian underneath

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 30, 2025

All of the distro's components (bar one, which we'll come back to) come from the standard Debian repositories. As shipped, RefreshOS does not support Flatpak or Snap packages, and this restriction applies system-wide. You get some FOSS favorites such as LibreOffice (7.4.7) and GIMP (2.10.34).

However, many of them do not come from the KDE project. In fact, we don't think we've ever seen a KDE-based distro that used so many non-KDE components in its default installation. The file manager is Nemo, from the Cinnamon desktop. The terminal emulator is the latest LXTerm, from LXDE. The text editor is Pluma, from MATE. The optical disk writer is Xfburn, from Xfce. The desktop Calendar and Calculator apps come from Deepin.

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