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Arduino Nesso N1 Debuts as a Compact RISC-V IoT Controller with Wi-Fi 6, Thread, and LoRa Connectivity

The system is built around Espressif’s ESP32-C6 microcontroller, a single-core 32-bit RISC-V processor running at up to 160 MHz. It provides hardware accelerators, low-power operating modes, and integrated 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3 LE, and 802.15.4 Thread or Zigbee connectivity. A dedicated FPC antenna is embedded within the enclosure to support the wireless interfaces.

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KDE Frameworks 6.20 Adds a Fancier Push/Pop Animation to System Settings Pages

KDE Frameworks 6.20 brings many goodies, including predictable/learnable KRunner search result ordering, a fancier push/pop animation for System Settings pages, and a reversed version of the “Open link” Breeze icon for right-to-left (RTL) languages, such as Arabic or Hebrew.

Proton 10 Released with Support for Far Horizon, The Riftbreaker, and Other Games

Proton 10 is a massive update that introduces support for new games, which are now playable on Linux. These include Mary Skelter: Nightmares, Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force, Far Horizon, Grim Fandango Remastered (AMD & Intel GPUs), The Crew Motorfest, Viking Rise: Valhalla, Starlight Re:Volver, and Gemstones.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Defaults to GRUB2-BLS Bootloader for New UEFI Installs

So, if you have a modern computer using UEFI (not BIOS), the next time you install openSUSE Tumbleweed, the default bootloader will be automatically set by the YaST installer to GRUB2-BLS, which is needed if you want to install the system with full disk encryption (FDE) based on systemd.

Debian-Based Tails 7.2 Released with Tor Browser 15 Anonymous Web Browser

The Tails 7.2 release comes a month after Tails 7.1 and updates the default web browser to the latest Tor Browser 15 series, a major update based on Mozilla Firefox 140 ESR that introduces exciting features like support for vertical tabs and tab groups, as well as a new unified search button in the address bar.

LibreOffice 25.8.3 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 70 Bug Fixes

Coming almost five weeks after LibreOffice 25.8.2, the LibreOffice 25.8.3 update is here to address various bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users in an attempt to improve the overall stability and reliability of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite.

Thunderbird 145 Enables Support for DNS over HTTPS, Drops 32-Bit Linux Binaries

Highlights of Thunderbird 145 include support for DNS over HTTPS, manual configuration during EWS (Exchange Web Services) account creation, an account Hub email manual configuration option, and MS Exchange support via Exchange Web Services.

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New Release: Tails 7.2

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[Meme] No Greater Sin

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 16, 2024,
updated May 16, 2024

What crime did you commit? I promoted free software news in my Web site

Instead of getting thanks and words of encouragement unpaid volunteers get scorn. In spite of years of DDOS attacks, however, the site turns 20 next month.

Promoting Free software is not a risk-free activity. █

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