today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 19, 2025

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Server

    • The New Stack ☛ Docker Containers That Could Be Essential for Your Small Business

      Generally speaking, containers make things easy.

  • Kernel Space

    • MWL ☛ 101: The Hearing’s Gonna Be Lit

      The Networking for System Administrators Kickstarter is running full steam ahead, so I’m making words on OpenZFS Mastery. It’s a second edition of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS and FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS, but a single large volume also covering Linux. ZFS support in GNU/Linux distributions varies.

• Devices

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • CNX Software ☛ LattePanda IOTA SBC combines defective chip maker Intel N150 SoC with Raspberry Pi RP2040 for GPIO and power control

      LattePanda IOTA is a new defective chip maker Intel Processor N150 SBC equipped with up to 16GB LPDDR5 and 128GB eMMC flash, as well as a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller for GPIO and power control It’s an update to the LattePanda V1 launched in 2015 with an defective chip maker Intel Atom x5-Z8300/Z8350 Cherry Trail SoC and an ATMega32U4 microcontroller. The new model is up to eight times faster, features up to four times the memory, twice the storage, Gigabit Ethernet, and more, but mostly keeps the same dimensions and layout for compatibility with most accessories.

    • Linux Gizmos ☛ AAEON Intelli i14 Edge Combines Intel Core i9 and NVIDIA RTX in Compact AI Vision System

      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.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Web Browsers/Web Servers

    • Servo (Linux Foundation) ☛ The Servo Blog: Your Donations at Work: Funding Josh Matthews' Contributions to Servo

      The Servo project is excited to share that long-time maintainer Josh Matthews (@jdm) is now working part-time on improving the Servo contributor experience.

      This is a direct result of the monthly donations to the project through OpenCollective and GitHub. The generosity of our supporters has allowed us to operate dedicated computing resources for CI purposes, as well as participate in the Outreachy program as a mentoring organization. We’re excited that we can now financially support developers and allow them to dedicate more time to the Servo project over longer periods.

• Standards/Consortia

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ China targets brain computer interface race with new standard — groundwork could lead to breakthroughs as soon as 2027

    China appears to be moving fast to establish itself as a brain computer interface (BCI) leader, and officials have just published a new medical industry standard.

  • Hackaday ☛ Radio Apocalypse: Clearing The Air With SCATANA

    For the most part, the Radio Apocalypse series has focused on the radio systems developed during the early days of the atomic age to ensure that Armageddon would be as orderly an affair as possible. From systems that provided backup methods to ensure that launch orders would reach the bombers and missiles, to providing hardened communications systems to allow survivors to coordinate relief and start rebuilding civilization from the ashes, a lot of effort went into getting messages sent.

  • Hackaday ☛ Enhanced Definition TV: “A Poor Man’s High-Def”

    Although to many of us the progression from ‘standard definition’ TV and various levels of high-definition at 720p or better seemed to happen smoothly around the turn of the new century, there was a far messier technological battle that led up to this. One of these contenders was Enhanced Definition TV (EDTV), which was 480p in either 4:3 or 16:9, as a step up from Standard Definition TV (SDTV) traditional TV quality. The convoluted history of EDTV and the long transition to proper HDTV is the subject of a recent video by [VWestlife].