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Instructionals/Technical
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MWL ☛ “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed” is arriving
The printer notified me that they’ve shipped the Patronizer and signable Kickstarter copies of Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed to me.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Fedora Family / IBM
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CentOS ☛ CentOS Board Meeting Recap, November 2025
The recording of the October CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: The Board discussed the Hey Hi (AI) policy draft, particularly in light of the recent Fedora Hey Hi (AI) policy.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #514 - Biohacking badges, Hey Hi (AI) descriptions, and how one of our software engineers got here
Warning: we do that incredibly British thing of talking about the weather in this issue. Twice. Howdy, I write from a rain-deluged Pi Towers. It's most atmospheric. Hopefully you're in a comfier spot to read this snappy issue of Raspberry Pi Weekly. We heard from the team at DEF CON's Biohacking Village about how they created their most advanced badge yet using Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. An AI-enabled device that describes its surroundings with both text and speech caught our eye.
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CNX Software ☛ pdsink – An open-source USB PD 3.2 sink stack for embedded devices
pdsink is an open-source USB Power Delivery (PD) 3.2 sink implementation for embedded devices released under an MIT license. Vitaly Puzrin noticed that most available USB PD stacks come with at least one hard constraint: vendor lock-in, NDA, no public sources, coupling to a specific OS or framework, incomplete sink feature set (e.g., no EPR), or difficulty extending to new Type-C Port Controller (TCPC)/MCU combinations.
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