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USB Insight Hub for Advanced USB Monitoring and Control

CrowdSupply recently launched the USB Insight Hub, a tool designed to provide detailed monitoring and control over multiple USB devices. Built for developers and tech enthusiasts, this hub offers a range of monitoring features, allowing users to view power and data usage in depth.

ASUS Tinker Board 3 SBC with Linux Support Starts at $89.59

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Waveshare has launched the ESP32-P4-NANO board, powered by the ESP32-P4 SoC featuring RISC-V dual-core and single-core processors. This board is tailored for advanced HMI and edge computing applications. Equipped with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5/BLE via the onboard ESP32-C6-MINI module, it ensures efficient wireless connectivity through the SDIO interface.

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Everybody loves a good disaster movie. Whether it centers on a zombie invasion, natural disaster, or man-made catastrophe, the question at the core of these movies is: What will people do if society collapses? The many different attempts to answer this question have compelled audiences and captured imaginations for decades. 

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LibreOffice 24.2.7 Is Out as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 24.8

While most of us are already enjoying the LibreOffice 24.8 release, The Document Foundation still maintains the LibreOffice 24.2 branch, which is supported until November 30th, 2024, and they just released LibreOffice 24.2.7 as another maintenance update that fixes more bugs.

Linux Lite 7.2 Released with Lite Theme Manager, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Based on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series, Linux Lite 7.2 is powered by the upstream Linux 6.8 kernel, but it also supports installation of custom kernels from the Linux Lite repository up to Linux kernel 6.11 if you need support for newer hardware devices.

Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Is Slated for Release on April 17th, 2025

Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” will be Canonical’s 42nd Ubuntu release and it’s an interim one that will be supported with software and security updates for only nine months, until January 2026. It will be a release for bleeding-edge Ubuntu users who are willing to trade Ubuntu LTS’s stability with the latest technologies.

Audacity 3.7 Open-Source Audio Editor Is Out to Improve Linux Compatibility

Audacity 3.7 is here three and a half months after Audacity 3.6 and promises to improve compatibility with Linux systems by addressing some issues with the AppImage bundle on Linux Mint 22 and Arch Linux, as well as another issue when building Audacity on Arch Linux.

TUXEDO OS 4 Launches with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Base and Linux Kernel 6.11

Based on Canonical’s latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series, TUXEDO OS 4 is built on top of the KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment series. It features the KDE Plasma 6.1.5 release, which is accompanied by the KDE Frameworks 6.6 and KDE Gear 24.08.1 software suites.

Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Released with AI-Powered Speech to Text

Coming one and a half months after Shotcut 24.09, the Shotcut 24.10 release introduces a new Speech to Text feature under Subtitles based on OpenAI’s Whisper, courtesy of the whisper.cpp project. A basic model is included by default, but users can download a bigger and better model to boost the transcription process.

Fedora Linux 41 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11, DNF5, GNOME 47, and More

Powered by Linux kernel 6.11, Fedora Linux 41 comes with the latest GNOME 47 desktop environment on the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, which has been stripped of the X11 session to deliver a Wayland-only experience to users. In addition, Fedora Workstation now supports installing the NVIDIA drivers with Secure Boot enabled via GNOME Software.

Firefox 133 Enters Beta Testing with Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux

Firefox 133 promises support for touchpad hold gestures on Linux, allowing users to interrupt kinetic (momentum) scrolling by placing two fingers on the touchpad, the ability to show tabs from other devices in the Tab overview menu, and the enablement of GPU-accelerated Canvas2D by default on Windows.

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