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M5Stack’s new PaperMono and PaperMono-Lite are compact ESP32-S3-based e-paper development platforms built around a 3.97-inch grayscale touchscreen. Both models include Wi-Fi, microSD storage, an IMU, real-time clock, frontlight, microphone, buzzer, and an integrated 1150mAh battery, while the higher-end PaperMono adds LoRa and NFC connectivity.

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Arch Linux-Based Garuda Linux “Temeraire” Released with Linux Kernel 7.2

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series, Garuda Linux “Temeraire” ships with the linux-garuda kernel built on CachyOS’s kernel, running the EEVDF scheduler, and using DKMS to ensure the kernel is always rebuilt against the latest NVIDIA drivers.

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KDE Linux experiences

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2026

Quoting: KDE Linux experiences | AksDev —

KDE Linux is the hot new Linux distro from KDE themselves. At the moment it uses Arch Linux as it's base but with heavy modifications and changes. You can read more about it on the site, but to sum up: It's an atomic/"immutable" distro that does not have any kind of package management outside of installing flatpaks. (Do note that they're epxerimenting on using buildstream instead of Arch Linux.)

As one of the KDE devs I've been daily driving it on my desktop, which I use for both work and leisure (gaming).

The following text can be quite technical as I am viewing this through my developer workflow lense, though I will also touch on regular user things.

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