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Emoji Selector - An Intro to Kubuntu Default Emoji Picker Application

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!

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Orange Pi Unveils AI Station with Ascend 310 and 176 TOPS Compute

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.

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IceWM 4.0 Lightweight Window Manager Released with an Improved Alt+Tab Switch

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.

Arch Linux Kicks Off 2026 with New ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS

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 Media Player Improves Dark Palette in the Qt GUI, Codec Information

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.

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.15 Adds Support for the rEFInd Boot Manager

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.

Shotcut 25.12 Adds NVIDIA NVENC Encoder Support to Screen Recording on Linux/X11

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.

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Red Hat is Vanishing

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2026,
updated Jan 02, 2026

As noted on 3 or 4 occasions yesterday in the sister site, as of January 2026 a lot of Red Hat staff is now officially IBM staff and even the roles may have changed. Some key Fedora people (e.g. Miller) were "reassigned" by IBM and now we see the same happening to thousands of workers.

How might this impact Red Hat's Linux development? It's not too clear yet, but many key people are leaving (or being pushed out).

Time will tell how much damage IBM is doing. █

Image source: Mount Vesuvius in winter, covered with snow

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