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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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Radxa Rolls Out Dragon Q6A Featuring Qualcomm QCS6490, 12 TOPS NPU, and 6th-Gen AI Engine

Radxa has rolled out the Dragon Q6A, a compact single-board computer built on Qualcomm’s QCS6490 octa-core platform. Designed for industrial, IoT, and edge computing environments, the board combines high-performance CPU and GPU cores with integrated AI acceleration, multiple display interfaces, and flexible storage options.

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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KSplash BGRT

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 26, 2025

Quoting: KSplash BGRT – Kai Uwe's Blog —

I’ve always been looking for a seamless startup experience, back then playing around with various Plymouth themes, login manager themes, KWin effects, and so on. Say what you will about Windows 8 but ever since its release pretty much every x86 desktop system out there boots up with a black screen and a vendor logo in the middle. Many Linux distributions also ship a BGRT Plymouth theme (the boot splash). Fedora if I recall correctly have also been pioneering a flicker-free boot effort. It included various changes to the Linux kernel, drivers, and other parts of the graphics stack to keep the console from briefly showing up or inadvertently clearing the frame buffer anywhere during the boot process and so on.

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