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Community Snapshot—November

Around the world, our 130 chapters and special interest groups work locally, regionally, and globally to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. November was another month packed full of community activities—here is an overview of just a few.

LinuxGizmos.com

Palm-sized Mini PC NAS offers four M.2 bays and dual 2.5GbE ports

The device is powered by the Intel Processor N150, a quad-core CPU within the Alder Lake-N family. The processor reaches a boost frequency of up to 3.6 GHz and is paired with onboard LPDDR5 memory, with 12GB included in the standard configuration and support for up to 16GB.

PSoC Edge E84-Based Handheld Runs RT-Thread for Local Machine Learning

The core of the system is the Infineon PSoC Edge E84, which combines a 400 MHz Arm Cortex-M55 processor with Helium DSP extensions and a 200 MHz Cortex-M33 core. Machine learning workloads are supported by an Arm Ethos-U55 micro NPU alongside Infineon’s ultra-low-power NNLite accelerator.

Toradex Introduces Coin-Sized Modules Powered with NXP i.MX 93 and i.MX 91 Processors

The new lineup includes the OSM iMX93, OSM iMX91, Lino iMX93, and Lino iMX91. These modules are powered by NXP’s i.MX 93 and i.MX 91 processors respectively, offering scalable compute options for different tiers of application complexity.

9to5Linux

PeaZip 10.8 Open-Source Archive Manager Overhauls Previewing Inside Archives

Coming one and a half months after PeaZip 10.7, the PeaZip 10.8 release overhauls the previewing of items inside archives by adding the ability to launch the built-in image viewer within archive types supported through the ARC, BCM, Brotli, and Zstandard backends. Previously, this only worked for 7z/p7zip archives.

New Jolla Phone Now Available for Pre-Order as an Independent Linux Phone

The new Jolla Phone is powered by a high-performing Mediatek 5G SoC, and features 12GB RAM, 256GB storage that can be expanded to up to 2TB with a microSDXC card, a 6.36-inch FullHD AMOLED display with ~390ppi, 20:9 aspect ratio, and Gorilla Glass, and a user-replaceable 5,500mAh battery.

TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux Laptop Launches with NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti GPU

TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 promises to be a high-performance desktop replacement for work and gaming, powered by an Intel Core i9-14900HX processor with 24 cores, 32 threads, 36 MB cache, and up to 5.8 GHz clock speed, up to 96 GB RAM, up to 8TB PCI Express 4.0 SSD storage, and a high-end NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card with 12 GB GDDR7 VRAM.

Calibre 8.16 Open-Source E-Book Manager Adds More AI Features, Bug Fixes

Coming two weeks after Calibre 8.15, the Calibre 8.16 release adds more AI features, such as the ability to ask AI questions about any book in your Calibre library by right-clicking on the “View” button and choosing the new “Discuss selected book(s) with AI” option.

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Mozilla Thunderbird 143 Open-Source Email Client Arrives as a Bugfix-Only Release

posted by Marius Nestor on Sep 17, 2025,
updated Sep 19, 2025

Mozilla Thunderbird 143 is here to fix a startup crash, another crash that occurred when importing email, a UI hang when adding a new email account, a folder restoring issue when changing to a new drafts folder and then back, and an issue where the menu bar was hidden after updating from Thunderbird 128 ESR to Thunderbird 140 ESR.

Also fixed is an issue with arrow key selection in the global search bar skipping every other result, an issue where dragging and dropping an unselected contact inserted a wrong or no email address, as well as an issue where deleting or detaching attachments didn’t work for some IMAP servers.

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Update (by Roy)

From OMGJoey:

Thunderbird 143 Release Delivers Mailbag Full of Fixes

A fresh flurry of fixes have arrived for Thunderbird, the open-source desktop e-mail client. The v143 release resolves a number of annoying issues.

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