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PorteuX 2.5 Is Out with Flatpak Support, Cinnamon 6.6, COSMIC 1.0, and Linux 6.18

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.18 kernel series (with SYSRQ support), PorteuX 2.5 ships with no less than eight editions featuring the GNOME 49.2, KDE Plasma 6.5.4, Cinnamon 6.6, LXQt 2.3, COSMIC 1.0, Xfce 4.20, LXDE 0.11.1, and MATE 1.28.2 desktop environments.

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Coming three weeks after GStreamer 1.26.9, the GStreamer 1.26.10 release introduces support for FLAC audio in DASH manifests, support for a custom Sony XDCAM video variant to mxf, multichannel and surround sound handling improvements to the OPUS encoder (opusenc), and splitmuxsrc seeking improvements.

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Coming four months after QEMU 10.1, the QEMU 10.2 release introduces live update support via a new ‘cpr-exec’ migration mode, which allows for reduced resource usage when updating virtual machines, and potential for re-using existing state/connections throughout update.

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

The camera is based on the STM32N6570 MCU, which integrates an Arm Cortex-M55 core with Helium vector extensions and an on-chip Neural-ART accelerator delivering up to 0.6 TOPS of AI performance. This allows the device to run lightweight computer vision workloads such as person detection, gesture recognition, and event-based monitoring locally, reducing latency and power consumption.

LeafKVM is a Rockchip-based self-contained KVM with touchscreen and browser access

The hardware platform is based on the Rockchip RV1106G3 system-on-chip, which integrates a single Arm Cortex-A7 core with 256MB of RAM.

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My 11 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 27, 2025

Quoting: My 11 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked | ZDNET —

Linux is on the rise. I believe the popularity of the open-source operating system will continue to increase. Although Linux didn't reach the 10% mark as I had expected by the end of the year, all signs point to steady growth that could lead to a significant change in 2026.

Because of the popularity of Linux, I thought I would create a list of my all-time top 11 distributions that I've used over the years. Some of these distros are no longer with us, while some of them are still thriving.

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