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Orange Pi closes the year by unveiling new details about the Orange Pi AI Station, a compact board-level edge computing platform built around the Ascend 310 series processor. The system targets high-density inference workloads with large memory options, NVMe storage support, and extensive I/O in a small footprint.
Based on the latest Debian 13.2 “Trixie” release, Devuan 6.1 is a very small update that only improves the installation of the speech-synthesis packages and fixes a couple of bugs in the SLiM login manager. Check out the release announcement on the Devuan forum for more details.
Highlights of IceWM 4.0 include improvements to the Alt+Tab quick switch with support for handling a large number of application windows in both horizontal and vertical modes, support for navigating the quick switch with all navigation keys, and a new mode to preview applications.
The Arch Linux 2026.01.01 release is the first Arch Linux ISO snapshot powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.18 LTS kernel series, which landed in Arch Linux’s stable repositories last month for existing users, for improved hardware support and newer machines.
VLC 3.0.23 is a small update coming a month after VLC 3.0.22, introducing support for exposing additional audio codec information, especially for FLAC 24-bit, improvements to the dark palette in the Qt interface, and compatibility for taglib 2.0, Qt 6, FFmpeg 8, mingw-w64 v13, and newer versions of libplacebo and pupnp.
Highlights of the Archinstall 3.0.15 release include support for rEFInd boot manager, CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) installation support, stable support for the COSMIC desktop environment, a timer to post install screen, and support for power-profiles-daemon/tuned as a power management daemon.
Coming two months after Shotcut 25.10, the Shotcut 25.12 release introduces support for the NVIDIA NVENC encoder to the screen recording feature on Linux/X11 systems, new Chrome and Neon Flux HTML presets, and support for mov_text and SSA in the subtitle extraction (Properties > Extract Subtitles) feature.
Emoji Selector is the Kubuntu default emoji selector application. Its purpose is to view a wide range of UTF characters to insert them into a document or a chat in the form of symbols, including country flags, foods, clothes, buildings, vehicles, etc. Just like what we explained in the previous episode, Elisa Music Player, we will also explain Emoji Selector in detail with screenshots and further references. We hope this helps every Kubuntu user. Now let's start reading!
In Spain, based on this new data, there are big strides being made by Free (as in freedom-respecting) operating systems, as one might expect because of the political climate which does not favour GAFAM. This is what things look like today:
Will it stay this way the rest of the year? █
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