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CamThink NeoEyes NE301 is an open-source STM32N6-based edge AI camera

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CachyOS Plans New Server Edition With Hardened Defaults

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 26, 2025

Quoting: CachyOS Plans New Server Edition With Hardened Defaults —

Why was I surprised? First, the three areas mentioned, NAS, workstations, and servers, are distinct niches. Building a single solution that works equally well for all of them is far from trivial.

That said, CachyOS defaults to Btrfs, which makes a lot of sense on the NAS side given its strengths in data integrity, snapshots, RAID (and disk management), and efficient disk usage.

However, the bigger question remains: at a fundamental level, outside of home use, a rolling-release distribution and a reliable server platform have historically been two concepts that rarely belong in the same sentence.

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