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NetworkManager 1.58 Officially Released with New Features and Improvements

Coming five months after NetworkManager 1.56, the NetworkManager 1.58 release adds support for the “6GHz” value to the “band” property on Wi-fi connections, support for CLAT (464XLAT) using a BPF program, support for the GENEVE interface, support for the iwd backend to the powersave property, and support for 64 hex-character PSK in WPS credentials.

Mozilla Firefox 153 ESR Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Mozilla Firefox 153 is an Extended Support Release (ESR) that will receive updates for the next 15 months. It will accompany both Firefox 140 ESR, which will receive updates until September 2026, and the Firefox 115 ESR series. Once Firefox 140 ESR support ends, Firefox 153 ESR will take its place alongside Firefox 115 ESR.

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203 Firewall Distro Replaces Unbound with Knot Resolver

Coming one and a half months after IPFire 2.29 Core Update 202, the IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203 is here to revamp the DNS resolution from the ground up by replacing Unbound with Knot Resolver, which introduces encrypted upstream forwarding (DNS over TLS), DNS firewall, encrypted zone data (over TLS), SafeSearch, conditional forwarding, local overrides, DHCP integration, persistent cache, and shared state across multiple workers.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 19th, 2026

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KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment Lands on October 14th, Here’s What to Expect

Some of the biggest changes, so far, in KDE Plasma 6.8 include triple buffering for NVIDIA GPUs enabled by default, support for recording audio in Spectacle during screen recording, and automatic logic support for Plasma Login Manager on distros with older systemd versions, such as KDE neon.

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Geniatech XPI-3576-CM5 brings 6-TOPS RK3576 performance with Raspberry Pi CM5 compatibility

The RK3576 integrates four Arm Cortex-A72 cores running at up to 2.2GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at up to 1.8GHz. Graphics are handled by a Mali-G52 MC3 GPU supporting OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0, and Vulkan 1.1, while the onboard NPU delivers up to 6 TOPS of INT8 performance with support for INT4, INT8, INT16, BF16, and TF32 workloads.

M5Stack broadens embedded lineup with wireless, industrial, and handheld devices

The Stamp-C5 is based on Espressif’s ESP32-C5HF4 and measures 17.6 × 19.1 × 3.4mm. The device combines a single-core 32-bit RISC-V processor running at up to 240MHz with 384KB of SRAM and 4MB of flash storage. Wireless support includes 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth Low Energy 5, and IEEE 802.15.4 for Zigbee and Thread applications.

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Alpine Linux is a crazy-fast distro for your desktop - with just one caveat

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jun 11, 2026,
updated Jun 17, 2026

Quoting: Alpine Linux is a crazy-fast distro for your desktop - with just one caveat | ZDNET —

I've used every conceivable Linux distribution, from the extremely lightweight to the overstuffed and bloated. With almost every distribution type, I can find a rock-solid use to make the most of what it offers.

Alpine Linux is no outlier. However, for the most part, I've used this lightweight, security-focused distribution for container deployments -- one of the most common use cases for Alpine Linux because its base image is incredibly small (between 2.67 and 5 MB - yes, megabytes). This gives Alpine Linux a minimal attack surface, which is great for containers.

But is Alpine Linux an option for the desktop? The answer to that is yes, but with a big honking asterisk.

Read on

Update (by Roy)

Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.24.0

The Alpine Linux development team has announced the release of Alpine Linux 3.24.0, a significant update of the project's independently-developed, general purpose Linux distribution designed primarily for power users: [...]

Official:

Alpine 3.24.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.24.0, the first release in the v3.24 stable series.

Linux Magazine:

Alpine Linux 3.24 Features Fresh Desktops and a...

Alpine Linux is best known as a security-focused Linux distribution and as the base of containers that are deployed all over the world. It also holds a bit of a secret … it can also serve as a desktop distribution.

The Alpine Linux developers have released the latest iteration of the distribution with plenty to offer desktop users, such as KDE Plasma 6.6, Gnome 50, and even the Sway tiling Wayland compositor (version 1.12).

In the name of surprises, however, Alpine now includes the Limine bootloader with IPv6 support.

As far as upgraded tools, you'll get GRUB 2.14, LLVM 22, Rust 1.96, Go 1.26, Qt 6.11, py3-setuptools 82.0.0, and NGINX 1.30. The following architectures are also supported: Raspberry Pi, Generic ARM, and Mini Root Filesystem editions for 64-bit (x86_64), AArch64 (ARM64), ARMv7, 32-bit (x86), PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (ppc64le), IBM System Z (s390x), and LoongArch64 architectures.

2026-06-13 [Older] Alpine 3.24.1 released

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