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Critical Weekend for ManCity

ManCity is still at the top of the league

Planting Trees

Bewildering Manchester, rewilding the place

Clap No More

They know the face!

Sharing When You Can (Others Might Share Back One Day)

But it’s not about expecting returns

In Mintro (Not “Cash Generator”) Storage Space is Still Dear

Where’s the dog?

I Learned or Found Out About 9/11 From the Taxi Driver at the Airport

Many people still remember how they first heard about it (and where)

Sabah FK at Old Trafford

Strong start

Made It to 4 Digits!

An uptime of 1000 days

9to5Linux

openSUSE Releases Agama 24 Installer with Networking and Storage Improvements

Coming almost three months after Agama 22, the Agama 24 release introduces a “Browse with details…” option in the web UI to open a sortable table listing for each network device along with its type, IP addresses, and connection state, allowing you to choose the right network connection, and improves binding of network connections.

Linux Mint Devs Introduce New EPUB Reader and Calendar Apps

Meet Xepub, Linux Mint’s new EPUB reader application providing users with an e-book reading experience similar to that of a Kindle or Kobo device. Xepub lets you navigate between chapters, search the contents of the book, add bookmarks, and quickly navigate between bookmarks.

GIMP 3.2.6 Released with UX Improvements, New Rotation Stylus Dynamics Input

Coming almost five months after GIMP 3.2.4, the GIMP 3.2.6 release introduces a new dynamic input for painting, which is used in the original Wacom Art Pen, as well as newer Wacom Art Pen 2 pens, allowing GIMP to react to how you rotate the brush in your hand as you draw.

Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Is Now Available for Download with Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.2

Coming six months after Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, the Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS point release is here as an up-to-date installation medium, which includes all the latest software updates and security patches, for those who want to deploy the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system on new computers without having to download hundreds of updated packages from the repositories after the installation.

COSMIC 1.8 Desktop Environment Is Officially Out, Improves Touchscreen Support

COSMIC 1.8 comes two weeks after COSMIC 1.7 as a hefty release that improves touchscreen support, makes server-side decorations configurable, improves the screenshot tool, adds support for starting X11 windows minimized, improves mouse capture support, and improves support for hybrid GPU laptops.

KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

Some of the highlights of 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.

Calamares 3.4.3 Linux Graphical Installer Improves Disk Partitioning, Locale

Coming six months after Calamares 3.4.2, the Calamares 3.4.3 release is here to improve disk partitioning by adding support for the latest KPMcore release, improve the partition-needs-alignment behavior, and no longer accidentally mark /boot as the EFI boot partition, which could break with systemd-gpt-auto-generator.

KDE Gear 26.08.1 Is Out with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps

KDE Gear 26.08.1 is here to fix the orientation of an arrow within the plasmoid of the KDE Connect app, fix opening the room map from a talk in the Kongress companion application for conferences, and fix a crash in the Okular document viewer that occurred when saving documents.

LinuxGizmos.com

Handheld Linux computer offers i.MX95, Wi-Fi 6 and M.2 expansion

Mecha’s Comet is a modular Linux handheld built around a 3.92-inch AMOLED touchscreen and offered with either an NXP i.MX8M Plus or i.MX95 processor, along with expandable storage, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and a magnetic 40-pin interface for keyboard, gamepad, and GPIO extensions. The handheld also provides USB-C connectivity, an 8MP camera, M.2 expansion, and a 4100mAh battery.

x86 compute module features Intel Core Ultra 200V with up to 115 TOPS

The LattePanda Mu Ultra measures 60 x 69.6mm and uses an AMI UEFI BIOS stored on a 256Mbit SPI device. The module is available with either an Intel Core Ultra 5 226V or Core Ultra 7 256V processor, both featuring eight CPU cores and eight threads. The 226V operates at up to 4.5GHz and integrates an Intel Arc 130V GPU with seven Xe cores, together with an Intel AI Boost NPU rated at up to 40 TOPS. LattePanda lists up to 53 TOPS from the GPU and 97 TOPS of combined INT8 performance across the CPU, GPU, and NPU.