GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2025

• Instructionals/Technical

  • peppe8o ☛ Create your Artificial Intelligence (AI) model with Raspberry PI and PyTorch for Image Classification

    This tutorial will show you how to create a basic Artificial Intelligence (AI) model with a Raspberry PI computer board, using PyTorch.

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • the tyranny of distance && unstoppable march of time

      The 2025 edition of KDE's annual community gathering starts today.  Unforunately circumstances mean i won't be attending BUT i was fortunate enough to attend my first ever Akademy last year.  Indeed, that is one whole year ago but neurodivergent scriptophobia and a incredible ability to procrastinate have kept me from writing about it, until now.

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • This Week in GNOME ☛ This Week in GNOME: #215 Turn On

      Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 29 to September 05.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Debian Family

    • Antonio Terceiro: autopkgtest support in Debian: a more optimistic view

      Yesterday I posted about the history, in numbers, of the support for autopkgtest in the Debian archive. I had analyzed the presence of a Testsuite: field in source packages, from wheezy to trixie, and noticed a slowdown in the growth rate of autopkgtest support, in proportional terms. In each new release, the percentage of packages declaring a test suite grew less than in the previous release, for the last 4 releases.

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • CNX Software ☛ Realtek RTL8127 10GbE PCIe cards and M.2 modules are starting to show up for $35 and up

      Realtek introduced the RTL8127 10GbE to PCIe NIC at Computex 2025 last May as a low-power, low-cost 10Gbps Ethernet solution for PCIe and M.2 networking cards with an estimated price of around $30 to $40. The good news is that 10GbE PCIe and M.2 cards are now available for sale, just not always at the expected price points.

    • CNX Software ☛ Radxa CM4 – A Raspberry Pi CM4 replacement with Rockchip RK3576 Edge Hey Hi (AI) SoC, up to 16GB RAM

      The Radxa CM4 is a Raspberry Pi CM4-like compute module built around the Rockchip RK3576(J) octa-core Cortex-A72/A53 SoC and designed for Edge Hey Hi (AI) and multimedia applications.  The SoC is suitable for Edge Hey Hi (AI) applications with a 6 TOPS NPU, and the module supports up to 16GB RAM. The system-on-module also features up to 256GB of onboard eMMC storage, a WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 module, and a Gigabit Ethernet PHY. Besides the two 100-pin connectors found on the Raspberry Pi CM4, the Radxa module adds another one, for extra features like UFS 2.0, dual PCIe Gen2, SATA 3,  DisplayPort, and more.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Events

    • Unicorn Media ☛ MINIX Creator Andrew Tanenbaum’s Nerdearla Interview Will Be Livestreamed

      MINIX inspired a generation of open source hackers and the GNU/Linux kernel itself. Later this month, its creator takes the Nerdearla stage, and the livestream is free.

• Security

  • OpenSSF (Linux Foundation) ☛ OpenSSF Community Day Korea 2025 Agenda Live!

    We’re excited to announce that the agenda for OpenSSF Community Day Korea is now live!

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ AI-powered PromptLocker ransomware is just an NYU research project — the code worked as a typical ransomware, selecting targets, exfiltrating selected data and encrypting volumes

    ESET's discovery of the first AI-powered ransomware turned out to be an NYU research project.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Jaguar Land Rover production stopped for four days and counting due to ransomware attack, company has now officially shut down — teenaged hackers from Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters take responsibility

    Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is claiming responsibility for a cyberattack that has completely disrupted Jaguar Land Rover's production.