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Tux Machines
Do you waddle the waddle?
Do you waddle the waddle?
Promising times ahead
“Customer Service” 101 is something like “Customer is Always Right”
Way too slow, indicative of severe understaffing issues
We don’t need staff to just say “Web site” (that does not work!) or “phone” (where nobody answers!)
We got a lot done today, but it’s in pen and paper form (for now)
Another generation of addicts
No need
Tight with daylight time
Let’s evaluate
3 more points
Coming two weeks after Calibre 9.17, the Calibre 9.18 release adds a new tool to make e-books accessible and check for accessibility problems, and adds support for viewing color previews in the e-book editor as an underline and allows Ctrl-clicking on colors to change them using a color wheel.
Sigil 2.8.5 is here to replace the outdated CSS parser with a modern, spec-compliant parser based on Lexbor, and adds support for AVIF and JPEG XL images, along with support for polyfilling JPEG XL images in the Preview window using a URL scheme handler and the JPEG format.
OpenVPN 2.7.9 adds support for setting the IFF_BACKPRESSURE flag on Linux (if available) to help the kernel TUN/TAP to apply proper prioritization (qdisc, etc.) to incoming packets if userspace is slow to process them. Without this flag, the kernel would just drop everything.
Coming almost a month after KDE Gear 26.08.2, the KDE Gear 26.08.3 release adds -- to the Ark archive manager to separate arguments and file names when dealing with CLI apps, fixes seeking in AudioTube by enforcing Opus over m4a, and no longer restarts the previous track in Elisa when switching tracks while paused.
Coming less than a week after Shelly 3.1.10, the Shelly 3.2 release enhances AppImage support with improved desktop integration to use the application’s shipped desktop-file identity, embedded update-information discovery, support for .zsync control files, and better GitHub asset matching.
Coming ten months after MPV 0.41, the MPV 0.42 release introduces Wayland session management and Wayland color management through the protocol instead of the Vulkan API, improved HDR colorspace signalling on DRM for Linux, and an AMD Frame Rate Conversion filter.
Coming six months after Artix Linux 2026.04, the Artix Linux 2026.11 official ISO release is powered by the Linux 7.2 kernel series, namely Linux kernel 7.2.14, and ships with the Wayland-only KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment for the Plasma edition, along with KDE Frameworks 6.31 and KDE Gear 26.08.2.
Coming more than six months after LXQt 2.4, the LXQt 2.5 release drops its last LXDE dependency, on menu-cache, as the desktop environment now has its own built-in desktop-menu implementation in the LibFM-Qt component to do the same job menu-cache did, which is better and faster.
Highlights of Cinnamon 6.8 include hibernation support via a Suspend action in the main menu, modern one-to-one trackpad gestures for both Wayland and Xorg sessions, support for the oo7 Secret Service provider, support for multiple instances in the Sound applet, and a more unified Network applet that merges the WireGuard and VPN sections.
NVIDIA 620.70.06 focuses on improving Wayland support with OpenGL visual indicator support for all Vulkan backends, including Wayland and direct-to-display, and better performance of explicit synchronization in high-framerate benchmarks on Wayland.
LILYGO has expanded its T-Dongle lineup with the T-Dongle S3 Plus, an ESP32-S3 development board housed in a transparent USB flash-drive enclosure. The device combines a 0.96-inch color display, 16MB flash, 8MB PSRAM, and microSD storage with additional features including a microphone, infrared functionality, and an optional hardware security chip.
Measuring just 100 × 72mm, the PICO-PTH4 is described by AAEON as the world’s first Pico-ITX SBC powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors (Panther Lake). The board supports up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, PCIe 5.0 NVMe storage, dual 2.5GbE, and Ubuntu, with up to 180 TOPS of combined AI performance.
Sipeed has recently shared additional details about the MaixStation, a Linux AI workstation powered by Axera’s AX8860P processor, which combines a 16-core Arm CPU with an NPU rated at 256 TOPS FP4. The system supports up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory, 273GB/s memory bandwidth, 10G SFP+ networking, and PCIe 5.0 expansion for local AI inference and development.
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