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Zorin OS 18 promises a refreshed default theme with a floating panel that has a rounded style to match the system’s look and feel and a new workspace indicator, a powerful new window tiling manager to boost productivity, and a new built-in Web Apps tool to make it even easier to install your favorite apps.
Powered by Linux kernel 6.12.41 LTS, the IPFire 2.29 Core Update 197 release introduces a complete OpenVPN overhaul by updating to the OpenVPN 2.6 series, which provides stronger security, broader client compatibility, and a modernized codebase, without requiring any configuration changes from the user.
Powered by the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel and featuring the recently released GNOME 49 desktop environment, Ubuntu 25.10 (codename Questing Quokka) promises some notable changes like sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo and Dracut as the default initramfs-tools.
KDE Plasma 6.5 is packed with lots of goodies for everyone, including major UI improvements to the Sticky Note widget, support for displaying ink levels on your printers, rounded bottom corners for Breeze-decorated windows, and support for syncing the clipboard text between the client and server on remote sessions.
GNOME 48.5 is here about five weeks after the GNOME 48.4 release and improves support for WPA(2) Enterprise network connections, improves the order in which extensions are enabled or disabled, improves legacy tray icon support, and adds support for updating the viewport after changing the virtual monitor size.
Highlights of Tails 7.0 include a Debian 13 “Trixie” base and a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS series from the upstream Debian release, the latest GNOME 48 desktop environment by default featuring GNOME Console as default terminal emulator and GNOME Loupe as default image viewer.
Characters or GNOME Characters (not to be confused with Gucharmap) is Ubuntu default special character picker application. Speaking about its daily uses, you can use it to insert an emoji to your group chat text, or your national flag to your document just to note a few examples. Speaking about its technical aspects, it is written in C and GTK, developed in public by the GNOME community. And now we will learn more about it and a little bit about how to use it in real life. Let's start reading and enjoy!
According to Nordic, the nRF54LM20A integrates a 128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor, a 128 MHz RISC-V coprocessor, and an expanded peripheral set that includes high-speed USB and support for up to 66 GPIOs. It is equipped with 2 MB of non-volatile memory and 512 KB of RAM, offering headroom for complex applications such as Matter-based smart home devices without requiring external memory.
According to AAEON, the Intelli i14 Edge is equipped with a 24-core, 32-thread Intel Core i9 CPU capable of handling parallel and latency-sensitive workloads simultaneously.
Tails 7.0 is dedicated to the memory of Lunar (1982–2024). Lunar was a traveling companion for Tails, a Tor volunteer, Free Software hacker, and community organizer.
As noted yesterday, we're nearly back to normal. Tomorrow or Sunday things will gradually become "normal" again. We don't have so much to catch up news-wise, as it is a weekend.
Photos can wait until next week. There are almost 500 of them to go through. █
