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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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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.

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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.

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Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Nov 13, 2025

Quoting: Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out —

Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents:

Linux users love to talk about how much faster their systems are compared to Windows, and you might wonder what kind of performance boosts they're actually talking about. I decided to do a few of my own tests to get some answers.

I have a Windows-Linux dual-boot configuration on my main desktop PC. While I prefer using the Linux desktop, I wanted to see if I was just imagining the speed gains I'd convinced myself I was getting by most days leaving Windows 11 out of the question.

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