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WINSYSTEMS SBC-477 PowerTier Series delivers Raptor Lake performance in a rugged SBC design

WINSYSTEMS’ SBC-477 PowerTier Series is a family of compact rugged single board computers for industrial and MIL/COTS applications, combining 13th Gen Intel Core Raptor Lake processors with DDR5 memory, dual Ethernet, Mini PCIe expansion, TPM 2.0 security, and extended-temperature operation.

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KDE Frameworks 6.28 Released with Support for New KRunner Conversion Units

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Ubuntu 25.10 Reached End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu 25.10 was released on October 9th, 2025, and, since it’s not an Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) release, it only received support for nine months, until July 2026. Ubuntu 25.10 was powered by the Linux 6.17 kernel series and featured the GNOME 49 desktop environment series with a Wayland-only session.

PipeWire 1.6.8 Improves JACK/MIDI Support for Ardour, SOFA Filter, and More

Coming three weeks after PipeWire 1.6.7, the PipeWire 1.6.8 release fixes a data race in JACK’s jack_port_get_buffer() function that could cause lost MIDI events in the Ardour DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) when called from concurrent threads, and adds normalize and latency options to the SOFA filter.

Wireshark 4.6.7 Released with Updated Protocol Support, Bug and Security Fixes

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GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 24, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Gemini Links 23/12/2025: Hydraulic Pressure Balance and mercury://
    Links for the day
  2. Techrights as 'Regulator' Against Runaway Trains
    "Runaway trains" never scared us because we know that they, unlike us, don't think rationally
  3. Social Control Media is Bots (Fake Traffic, Fake 'Engagement')
    As per FORTUNE, 76% of Twitter is alleged to be bots now

    New

  4. A Good End for a Fine Year
    Today we saw some pleasant news online about the growth of GNU/Linux and more perils impacting Windows and XBox
  5. Serial Sloppers Lost Momentum, Sites With "Linux" in Their Name Barely Bother Anymore
    Will 2026 be the year slopfarms jump the shark?
  6. Gemini Links 23/12/2025: "The sun is shinning" and "problem in the Butlerian Jihad setup"
    Links for the day
  7. Links 23/12/2025: "Over 8,700 News Articles Censored in Turkey in 2024" and "Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files"
    Links for the day
  8. Links 23/12/2025: That ‘Satisfying Click’ and Security Lapses, Car Bomb Kills Russian Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov
    Links for the day
  9. Links 23/12/2025: GNU Taler 1.3, US Regime Censors Television Again
    Links for the day
  10. Valve Can Bring More Users to GNU/Linux, But It Won't Bring Freedom
    Steam is DRM
  11. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  12. IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 22, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, December 22, 2025
  13. How the Slop (So-called 'AI') Bubble Will Burst Next Year
    There are already talks about mass layoffs in January
  14. "Generative AI Bubble Has Begun to Pop", Nvidia Rides “Circular Financing... a Strategy That Hearkens Back to the Dot-com Crisis”
    For companies like Microsoft this may mean another 30,000+ layoffs next year
  15. Microsoft-Connected Media Talking About XBox Division "Profit Margins" is Distraction From XBox Sales Collapsing 70% in One Year
    The simple fact is, Microsoft's console is dead in the water
  16. The Reality is "Vibe Code" (Slop) is That It's Worthless
    “Confidently Wrong”
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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