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Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10

Last month, Canonical announced a significant change for RISC-V users that will drop support for most of the existing RISC-V hardware, as the company plans to raise the required RISC-V ISA profile family from RVA20 to RVA23. This means that about 90 percent of RISC-V devices won’t be able to run Ubuntu 25.10.

GStreamer 1.28 Promises Vulkan H.264 Encoder, AMD HIP Plugin, and More

GStreamer 1.28 looks like another big update promising new features like a Vulkan H.264 encoder, an AMD HIP (Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability) plugin, basic colorimetry support for Wayland, and a new wpe2 plugin for Webkit that makes use of the “WPE Platform API”.

KDE Frameworks 6.16 Improves Plasma’s Ability to Detect the Most Powerful GPU

The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue with KDE Frameworks 6.16, a release that promises to improve your system’s ability to detect which GPU is the most powerful one for the “Run this program using the more powerful GPU” feature.

Calibre 8.6 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Database Restore Performance

Coming just a week after Calibre 8.5, the Calibre 8.6 release promises to significantly improve the database restoring performance, adds support for the La Presse news source, and adds ‘Search “not in”‘ and ‘Filter “not in'” buttons to the Manage Authors and Manage Items options.

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RISC-V-Based FireBeetle 2 with ESP32-P4 Starts at $11.90

The FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4, previewed earlier this year, is now available from DFRobot starting at $11.90. This compact board handles real-time image processing and video streaming, combining the ESP32-P4 SoC with an ESP32-C6 co-processor for wireless projects.

Radxa Fanless Network Router Offers 4 GbE Ports and NVMe Storage Up to 4TB

The Radxa E24C is a fanless network computer based on the Rockchip RK3528A processor, designed for routing, edge networking, and industrial tasks. It combines four RJ45 ports, 4K HDMI output, and an M.2 NVMe slot for high-speed storage in a compact enclosure.

Low-Cost WT99P4C5-S1 Pairs ESP32-P4 SoC with ESP32-C5 Wi-Fi 6 Module

Wireless-Tag’s WT99P4C5-S1 is a versatile multimedia development board built around the WT0132P4-A1 core module, which integrates Espressif’s ESP32-P4 dual-core RISC-V SoC. According to the company, this board targets applications such as AIoT, Human-Machine Interfaces, and edge computing, offering extensive connectivity, audio features, and multimedia expansion options.

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Test, evaluate, adopt: Linux 2025 and beyond! - life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 05, 2025

I’ve had many people reach out to me to ask about how to get started in using GNU/Linux as your default operating system for your laptops/desktops. Some of them are just curious as to why I keep only using GNU/Linux (Fedora actually and for the last 20 years and 33 years counting from SLS) as my main driver as well as all of the systems that I need to run – my virtual machines, my servers, my VMs at hosting sites etc. All of my servers run Fedora, Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux or Debian.

Since about 2001, every new year, the tech press would run stories that headline something like “This is the year of Linux” or “This is the year of GNU/Linux on the Desktop” or some variation of that.

Those statements assume that people would just switch enmass and that will be it.

The reality is that, just as GNU/Linux started at the edge (print servers, file servers) in the mid to late 1990s, before taking over the data centre when the “cloud” became a thing, that was probably over a decade and a half’s worth of slow, considered adoption with zero marketing being done. It was adopted because it empowered people to inspect, check and see if it worked and was found to be reliable and dependable and just plain fun.

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