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CachyOS July 2025 Update Finally Lets Users Choose the Shell During Installation

Powered by the latest Linux 6.15 kernel series, the CachyOS ISO snapshot for July 2025 introduces a long-awaited feature requested by users, namely the ability to choose their favorite shell at installation time. As such, users now have the option to choose between cachyos-fish-config and cachyos-zsh-config.

GParted Live 1.7.0-8 Adds Mechanism to Reduce Random Order of Block Devices

Powered by Linux kernel 6.12.37-1 and based on the Debian Sid (Debian 13) repository as of July 12th, 2025, GParted Live 1.7.0-8 is here five and a half months after GParted Live 1.7.0-1 to implement a mechanism that reduces the possibility of random order of block devices in the live system.

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(Updated) ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment

PINE64 has shared early details of the ALPHA-One, a compact generative AI agent powered by the RISC-V-based StarPro64 SBC. Priced at $329.99, the device is aimed at developers and testers, and comes preloaded with a 7 billion parameter LLM running in a Docker container.

NanoPi R76S Brings Dual 2.5GbE to Fanless RK3576-Based Router Board

Following the recent launch of the NanoPi R3S LTS, FriendlyELEC introduces the NanoPi R76S, a compact router board powered by the Rockchip RK3576. Designed for edge networking and IoT, it features dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, HDMI, USB 3.2, and AI acceleration.

RISC-V Embedded Board Features TH1520 SoC, Dual GbE, and 4TOPS AI

The HH-SCDAYU800A is another RISC-V development board built around the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 system-on-chip. With its dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, multiple camera interfaces, and industrial-grade design, the board targets applications requiring multimedia features, edge inference, and smart device integration.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 05, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft Azure Laying Off Thousands, Not Hundreds!
    1,500 layoffs in Azure alone
  2. [Meme] Future of IBM/Red Hat
    Red Hat: our future is partnering with this Microsoft thing where there have been mass layoffs every year since 2020

    New

  3. Links 04/06/2024: Suppression in China Amid Tiananmen Massacre Anniversary, EU Cracking Down on Encryption
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 04/06/2024: New Feed Reader and Upcoming Closure of Chess Over Gemini
    Links for the day
  5. Microsoft Laid Off About 20,000 Workers in 2023, Not 10,000 Like the Media Likes to Say (Also Not Counting Temps and Contractors)
    face-saving spin
  6. Links 04/06/2024: Water Shortages and Attacks on Power Plants
    Links for the day
  7. [Meme] Faking Azure 'Demand'
    The bubble is imploding
  8. Last Month the Media Said Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Would Resume in July, Based on Sources. More People Say the Same This Month.
    When Microsoft said it would lay off about 2,000 people in the gaming division (and shut down whole studios) some corporate media cited sources claiming that the bloodbath would follow two months later - i.e. in July
  9. Microsoft's Windows Down to Single-Digit Market Share (Less Than 10%) in About 18 Countries in Africa
    According to statCounter data
  10. GNU/Linux Has Become a Lot More Mainstream
    it seems clear that the Developing World is adopting software developers
  11. Debian.ie (Ireland) is With Daniel Pocock ('Whack-a-Mole' at WIPO Just Doesn't Work)
    Microsofters pondered aloud about doing the same toTechrights
  12. Voting for Debian Developer Daniel Pocock in Ireland This Week
    Voting day is Friday
  13. Correcting the Term "Former" Debian Developer (or Emeritus Debian Developer)
    As it turns out, there's a complication associated with this term
  14. 'Stochastic Parrots' (a Term Coined by Timnit Gebru) Have Failed Microsoft and Now There Are Mass Layoffs in What Microsoft Repeatedly Dubbed a Strategic Growth Area
    Meanwhile, Microsoft is over 100 billion dollars in debt
  15. Phoronix Classifieds
    one job opening as "newsworthy"?
  16. [Meme] Attack the Messenger (the Author, Publisher)
    Never mind if what's reported is factual
  17. Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft in Africa GNU/Linux Surges in Usage
    it's up to 3.9%
  18. Mass Layoffs in Microsoft Azure Again, for the Fourth Year in a Row
    Thousands laid off again
  19. Links 03/06/2024: Spacecraft on the Moon, Tiananmen Square Censorship Ramping Up
    Links for the day
  20. Gemini Links 04/06/2024: Canon Construction, Coming Out, Abandoning Mobile Phones, and Microsoft's Anti-GPL Plagiarism
    Links for the day
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 03, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, June 03, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-05-29 to 2024-06-04
    1719 /n/2024/05/30/The_Campaign_to_End_Richard_Stallman_Part_III_The_Reddit_Mob_So.shtml
    1491 /n/2024/05/30/The_Campaign_to_End_Richard_Stallman_Part_IV_The_Legitimate_Con.shtml
    1090 /n/2024/06/01/The_War_on_Free_Software_Reporters_Part_III_Doxing_and_LARPing.shtml
    980 /n/2024/06/02/statCounter_Bing_Has_Lost_Market_Share_Since_the_Chatbot_Hype_i.shtml
    976 /n/2024/06/01/Free_Software_is_the_Future_Open_Source_is_Just_Openwashing_Pro.shtml
    903 /n/2024/05/27/What_is_Secure_Boot.shtml

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