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What Is Meaningful Connectivity?

In Nepal, a couple of days’ hiking away from the Everest Base Camp, the communities of Khunde and Khumjung were considered connected by normal standards. After all, if people in the villages hiked up a mountain, they could get some reception to send messages. Meanwhile, in the local school’s computer lab, children were learning about the Internet through printouts.

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M5Stack PowerHub IoT Development Kit Integrates ESP32-S3 and STM32 Coprocessor

M5Stack has introduced the PowerHub, a compact IoT controller designed for distributed power and device management. The ESP32-based PowerHub is described as providing a stable and flexible control platform that integrates communication interfaces, modular power input options, and precise monitoring capabilities.

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” Daily Builds Are Now Available for Download

As expected, the first Ubuntu 26.04 LTS daily builds are based on the previous Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka”, which arrived earlier this month on October 9th. This means that the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS builds are powered by Linux kernel 6.17 and use the GNOME 49 desktop environment.

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Download Zorin OS 18 with Mirrors, Torrents and Checksums

Zorin OS 18 has been released last week at Tuesday, 14th October 2025. This release is special because it comes out coincidentally in the same month Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" and Microsoft ends the life of Windows 10. Currently available as Pro, Core and Education choices of edition, it is the successor to OS 17 released two years ago. This GNU/Linux system is suitable for most computer users, organizations, schools and offices. Below you will find the download links. Now, let's download Zorin OS together!

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Austria Says ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to Proprietary and ‘Willkommen’ to Open Source

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 25, 2025

Quoting: Austria Says 'Auf Wiedersehen' to Proprietary and 'Willkommen' to Open Source - FOSS Force —

Great news about open source adoption came out of the Nextcloud Enterprise Day Copenhagen 2025 event on Wednesday. BMWET — the Austrian Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy and Tourism — has made a major shift away from foreign owned and operated clouds and proprietary SaaS services to a home grown IT infrastructure centered on Nextcloud, along with Collabora, which runs on Nextcloud and offers the LibreOffice productivity suite as a user-hosted service.

The good news here, from an open source perspective, is that this isn’t some pie-in-the-sky plan that will see fruition at a future date. This one’s already in the can. It’s a done deal.

“We’re very excited about this case because it shows that, with some courage, you can get great results,” Nextcloud co-founder and director of communications Jos Poortvliet told FOSS Force shortly after the announcement was made.

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