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LattePanda Mu MXM carrier kits with choice of Arc A380 or RTX 3060 graphics

DFRobot is offering two MXM GPU Carrier Board Kits for the LattePanda Mu compute module, with configurations based on either an Intel Arc A380 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 MXM graphics card. Both kits support up to six independent 4K displays, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.2 Gen2, M.2 expansion, and LattePanda Mu compute modules.

nRF93M1 DK with LTE Cat 1 bis, nRF54L15, and nRF Cloud support

Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF93M1 Development Kit is now available through multiple distributors, providing a platform for evaluating the company’s nRF93M1 LTE Cat 1 bis cellular module. The board combines the modem with an nRF54L15 host MCU and includes USB-C, onboard J-Link debugging, power-measurement support, and a preloaded SIM card.

Radxa Zero 3W Powers Compact IP-KVM with BIOS OCR

Crowd Supply recently featured the USBridge-KVM 2.0, a compact IP-KVM designed for remote system administration, debugging, and bare-metal recovery. The device provides HDMI video capture, USB keyboard and mouse emulation, virtual media, hardware power control, BIOS text recognition, and an integrated display while operating independently of the target computer’s operating system.

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New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.20

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

Funding internet freedom together: results from our first participatory funding round

The round officially closed on June 19th, and the results give us reason to be encouraged. Today, we can share that the community showed up: more than $200,000 USD has been raised in total, with $174,536 being distributed to participating grantee projects.

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COSMIC 1.6 Desktop Environment Released with More Improvements

Coming three weeks after COSMIC 1.5, the COSMIC 1.6 release adds support for the wl-dmabuf-v6 Wayland protocol for passing direct memory buffers (dma-buf) between clients and compositors, and adds support for the EI (Emulated Input) Wayland protocol to simulate hardware input devices, such as keyboards and mice.

Mozilla Firefox 155 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

Firefox 155 promises support for Happy Eyeballs v3 for faster page loading, the ability to reorder containers in Settings, support for Nintendo Switch Pro and compatible aftermarket controllers on Windows, and support for showing how many trackers it has blocked in the address bar.

VirtualBox 7.2.16 Improves Shared Clipboard in Wayland, Adds FRED Support

Coming a month after VirtualBox 7.2.14, the VirtualBox 7.2.16 release improves shared clipboard handling in Wayland for Linux hosts and guests, improves support for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 9.8 kernels for Linux guests, and introduces support for FRED on Linux hosts.

Thunderbird 154 Open-Source Email Client Introduces an Optional System Tray Mode

Highlights of Mozilla Thunderbird 154 include an optional system tray mode that hides the main window when the last window closes, a “Copy To” right-click context menu on folders for message/rfc822 attachments, and support for dragging message/rfc822 type MIME attachments to the folder tree.

TUXEDO Computers Introduces New Kernel Concept for Debian-Based TUXEDO OS

As reported last month, TUXEDO Computers is currently working on rebasing its Ubuntu-based TUXEDO OS on Debian Testing, ditching Ubuntu altogether. The Debian-based TUXEDO OS will still use the KDE Plasma desktop environment tweaked by TUXEDO Computers, so users won’t notice any visible change.

Mozilla Firefox 154 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Firefox 154 include a new “Manage AI” quick action in the address bar that makes it easier to open the AI section of Settings, support for clearing and updating cached favicons when performing a hard reload on a web page, and the ability to highlight selected text in PDFs like in normal web pages.

GNU Linux-Libre 7.2 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers

Based on the recently released Linux 7.2 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 7.2 kernel is here to clean up blob names in the amdgpu, nova core, qcom iris and q6v5, iwlwifi, amdxnda, adreno, r8152, and mt792x drivers, adjust the firmware loading interfaces, and drop the cleanup of the hci bt3c driver as it was removed upstream.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 16th, 2026

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NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW Native Linux App Now Stable, Offers Flatpak Support

GeForce NOW ships as a stable release built on feedback gathered from the Linux gaming community. The app offers support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later, and NVIDIA has added a Flatpak repository to make installation and future updates simpler for Linux gamers using GeForce NOW.

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COSMIC 1.6 Desktop Environment Released with More Improvements

posted by Marius Nestor on Aug 19, 2026

Coming three weeks after COSMIC 1.5, the COSMIC 1.6 release adds support for the wl-dmabuf-v6 Wayland protocol for passing direct memory buffers (dma-buf) between clients and compositors, and adds support for the EI (Emulated Input) Wayland protocol to simulate hardware input devices, such as keyboards and mice.

The COMIC Files file manager received a context menu for text fields and selectable text widgets, COSMIC Greeter can now detect the presence of logind at runtime and supports JPEG-XL and AVIF images, COSMIC Settings now offers app-specific settings, and the cosmic-settings-daemon can now handle playback-specific sound settings.

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