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Astra SL2600 processors from Synaptics combine Arm cores and RISC-V Coral NPU

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Clonezilla Live 3.3.0-33 Adds Support for Cloning MTD Block and eMMC Boot Devices

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VirtualBox 7.2.4 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.18

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KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

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posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 25, 2025

texel - Command line interface for reading spreadsheets - LinuxLinks

Texel is a useful CLI for quickly reading spreadsheets and copying their contents to clipboard in CSV format.

This is free and open source software.

texel - Command line interface for reading spreadsheets - LinuxLinks

Texel is a useful CLI for quickly reading spreadsheets and copying their contents to clipboard in CSV format.

This is free and open source software.

OCLint - static code analysis tool - LinuxLinks

OCLint is a static code analysis tool for improving quality and reducing defects by inspecting C, C++ and Objective-C code.

This is free and open source software.

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