Tux Machines
Do you waddle the waddle?
Do you waddle the waddle?
The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.
An estimated 6.3 billion people are now connected to the Internet, according to the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) latest annual report, Facts and Figures 2026, released this November.
Compulab has detailed its IOT-GATE-IMX8PV2, a fanless industrial IoT gateway powered by NXP’s i.MX8M Plus processor. The small-form-factor system combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, optional Wi-Fi 6 and LTE connectivity, and isolated industrial I/O in a 105 × 80 × 30mm aluminum enclosure.
Tria Technologies has unveiled its OSM-SB-EP5, a 146 × 102mm development platform supporting Open Standard Module (OSM) Size-S, Size-M, and Size-L modules. The carrier board combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, MIPI camera and display interfaces ti intended for industrial IoT, edge AI, robotics, and embedded vision development.
Flipper Devices is preparing a Kickstarter campaign for its “Flipper One,” a portable Linux computer powered by an octa-core Rockchip RK3576 processor and a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller. The handheld combines 8GB LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6E, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and M.2 expansion for cellular modems, SDR modules, and other peripherals.
Wrens at the back
Getting chilly
bout 5+ years ago I began writing about the Serial Strangler From Microsoft. The strangulation is a documented fact (told by victims), as are the arrest and charges. He was brought to Court. He was not acquitted. He was never acquitted.
The poor service at Manchester City Council is nowadays a common observation.
Lots of room, but hardly any people
From today’s Techrights Daily Links:
He loves what he does
Signal-to-noise
bout 3 days ago I received a PDF of a submission made by a proponent of Microsoft-controlled Restricted Boot. I was unconvinced by what was said there, as it seemed like an appeal to emotion, not facts. If you spend decades promoting an American monopoly and undermining security, do you expect protection from critics? Do you even believe that critics are allowed to exist?
Does the Mayor recognise this issue?
The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue, and KDE Frameworks 6.32 is here to fix a major, 15-year-old data integrity bug affecting progress indicators when moving or copying files to an external disk. With this bug finally fixed, progress indicators are now fully accurate when copying files to USB sticks or network shares. Read here why it took so long.
Coming a month after Libreboot 26.10, the Libreboot 26.11 release enables TPM 2.0 by default on Topton X2e N150, Supermicro X11SSH-F, ThinkPad X280, ThinkPad X270, ThinkPad T480/T480s, and ThinkPad T580 devices, enables EDK2 by default in Coreboot mkhelper, and adds a new naming scheme for ROMs.
Coming two weeks after LibreOffice 26.8.2, the LibreOffice 26.8.3 update is packed with bug fixes for various issues, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, focusing on stability, macOS integration, digital signatures, and compatibility with MS Office file formats.
The November 11th Steam Client update is the first stable release to run the Steam Client itself as a 64-bit application on Linux, rather than a 32-bit one. However, Steam installations will still download 32-bit libraries as part of the Steam Runtime, since Steam needs to be able to run the many 32-bit games in its catalog.
Coming two months after Ardour 9.8, the Ardour 9.10 release introduces optional support for audio waveforms that reflect the region’s gain envelope, so the waveform of an audio region updates as you drag the gain envelope nodes around.
Highlights of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.3 include sealed images for image mode, now generally available, a production-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for RHEL that moves from Developer Preview to general availability, and a self-managed command-line assistant for regulated and disconnected environments, available as a Developer Preview.
Exfatprogs 1.4.4 is the fourth minor update in the Exfatprogs 1.4 series, coming three months after Exfatprogs 1.4.3. This release introduces a new feature to the exfatprogs command, namely optional I/O statistics collection for profiling read, write, discard, zero-out, and sync operations.
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