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Parrot 7.0 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with KDE Plasma, RISC-V Support

Based on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series and powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, the Parrot 7.0 release ships with KDE Plasma as the default desktop environment on Wayland, which was tweaked to make it as lightweight as possible, along with a classic terminal green style across the entire system.

Pinta 3.1 Open-Source Paint App Released with New Cells Effect, Axonometric Grid

Coming more than eight months after Pinta 3.0, the Pinta 3.1 release implements a new axonometric grid under View > Canvas Grid, a new Cells effect, a polygon selection mode to the Lasso Select tool, a Radius Percentage parameter to the Twist effect, and a revamped canvas widget to improve performance.

postmarketOS 25.12 Linux Mobile OS Rolls Out Based on Alpine Linux 3.23

Based on Alpine Linux 3.23, postmarketOS 25.12 comes with some components from the GNOME 49 desktop environment with out-of-the-box support for connecting to MTP devices, and KDE Plasma Mobile 6.5.3 with better Waydroid integration, a faster loading lockscreen, homescreen improvements, and the Plasma Camera app.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.3 Improves Drive Filtering and AppImage Bundle on Linux

Coming two weeks after Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.2, the Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.3 release implements bottleneck detection and real-time progress updates showing network, decompression, or write-bound status, improves drive filtering and system identification logic on Linux, and enhances async I/O support across all platforms.

elementary OS 8.1 Released with Wayland Session by Default, ARM64 Support

Based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat) and powered by Linux kernel 6.14, elementary OS 8.1 makes the Wayland-based Secure Session introduced in elementary OS 8.0 the default, with the X11-based Classic Session as a fallback option for those who encounter issues with the Wayland-based session.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 21st, 2025

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Auvidea X242 Carrier Board Brings Dual 10GbE and PCIe Gen 5 to Jetson T5000

The X242 is designed as a scalable, industrial-grade carrier board intended for commercial deployment volumes. It is built to host NVIDIA’s Jetson T5000 module, which integrates a Blackwell-architecture GPU with 2,560 CUDA cores and 96 fifth-generation Tensor Cores, delivering up to 2,070 TFLOPS (FP4 sparse) of AI performance.

Luxonis OAK 4 CS Edge-Inference Camera with CS-Mount Optics and PoE

The OAK 4 CS is built around Luxonis’ RVC4 vision compute platform, combining a 6-core ARMv8 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and 128 GB of onboard storage. The product description states that the platform delivers up to 52 TOPS of AI inference performance using DSP and GPU acceleration for on-device vision workloads.

AAEON Introduces 3.5-inch SubCompact System with Multi-M.2 and RAID Support

The GENESYSM-MTH6 is built around Intel Core Ultra processors (Series 1, formerly Meteor Lake), with options ranging from 15 W U-series to 28 W H-series SKUs. Supported processors include the Core Ultra 5 125U/125H and Core Ultra 7 155U/155H, providing up to 16 cores and integrated Intel Arc graphics for compute- and graphics-intensive edge applications.