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Sparky 2026.06
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There are new SparkyLinux 2026.06 ISO images available of the semi-rolling line, codename “Tiamat.”
The rolling release is based on the Debian testing “Forky”.
Do you waddle the waddle?
Orange Pi has shown the Orange Pi Zero 4, a compact single-board computer based on the Allwinner A733 SoC. The board combines an octa-core Arm CPU, a PowerVR GPU, a 3 TOPS NPU, up to 16GB of LPDDR5/LPDDR4X/LPDDR4 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and multiple display and camera interfaces in a 50 x 55mm form factor.
MSI has detailed the XpertStation WS300T60L, a tower workstation based on NVIDIA’s DGX Station architecture and GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra platform. The system is aimed at AI development, data science, inference, AI agents, and physical AI workloads, with a 72-core Arm processor, Blackwell Ultra GPU, up to 748GB of coherent memory, and dual 400GbE connectivity.
Look ma, no Facebook!
Relief for Carrick.
Who else?
Why stop?
Life goes on
ROSS distortion of facts is possible when the media is not functioning.
ne need not be a “conspiracy buff” to claim there may be imminent threat from Russia because even national broadcasters and mainstream media talk about it [1, 2]. “Russia always attacks,” a friend tells me, “it’s only ever a matter of when…”
Hours ago:
This is 2026
Time to get back to pen and paper?
Coming four months after EndeavourOS Titan Neo, the EndeavourOS Titan Nova release is the second minor update to the EndeavourOS Titan series, which arrived on March 12th, 2026, with the Linux 6.19 kernel series and KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment. EndeavourOS Titan Neo is here with KDE Plasma 6.7.4 and Linux kernel 7.1.8.
Highlights of DXVK 3.1 include initial support for DXGI present parameters to fix UI rendering issues in VirtualDJ and various game launchers, such as Ubisoft Connect, and support for creating render target views on buffers directly, which is used by various older Frostbite engine titles, including Battlefield 3.
Coming three weeks after Calibre 9.13, the Calibre 9.14 release is here to introduce more AI features, including the ability to generate book covers using AI with different cover styles such as romance, sci-fi, pulp fiction, etc., as well as Anthropic and Grok backends for Claude and Grok models, while removing the GitHub backend.
Quoting: Sparky 2026.06 - SparkyLinux —
There are new SparkyLinux 2026.06 ISO images available of the semi-rolling line, codename “Tiamat.”
The rolling release is based on the Debian testing “Forky”.