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Learning to Build and Use the Internet in Rhino Refugee Camp

Sixty-seven percent of the world’s 42.6 million refugees live in neighboring countries. That’s the case for most of the 192,000 people living in the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in northwestern Uganda. The vast majority—85 percent—are women and children. They come from across the region: from the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, Rwanda, and Burundi.

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Toradex Luna SL1680 SBC Features Synaptics SL1680 SoC with 8 TOPS NPU, Starts at $105

The Luna SL1680 is built around the Synaptics SL1680 system-on-chip, which integrates a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 CPU running at up to 2.1 GHz. For machine learning workloads, the SoC includes a dedicated neural processing unit delivering up to 8 TOPS of dense INT8 inference performance. Memory configurations support up to 4 GB of LPDDR4 RAM and up to 256 GB of onboard eMMC storage, enabling systems to operate without removable media.

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Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 Is Now Available Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”

Coming two and a half years after Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 5, the Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 release is based on the Debian 13.2 “Trixie” operating system and it is powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series to better support more hardware.

OpenShot 3.4 Open-Source Video Editor Released with New Effects and Features

Coming a year after the previous version, OpenShot 3.3, the OpenShot 3.4 release looks to be the largest update ever done, with new features like an experimental timeline, interactive cropping in the video preview, as well as new effects including Sharpen, Color Map (LUT), Spherical Projection, Lens Flare, and Outline.

SparkyLinux 2025.12 “Tiamat” Released with Debian Forky Base, Linux Kernel 6.17

Based on the Debian Testing/Forky repositories as of December 14th, 2025, SparkyLinux 2025.12 ships with Linux 6.17.11 as the default kernel offering, as well as support for the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel series, which can be installed from the SparkyLinux software repositories, along with LTS kernels like Linux 6.12 and 6.6.

Scribus 1.6.5 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Various Changes

Coming almost eight months after Scribus 1.6.4, the Scribus 1.6.5 release is here to improve the color eyedropper, update the PDF export functionality by fixing issues related to font rendering and exporting via Python, improve light/dark mode capabilities, and update the scripter functions.

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New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a1

This is the first Tor Browser Alpha release based on Firefox Rapid Release: read more about this important change in The Future of Tor Browser Alpha.

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I replaced my Linux Xfce menu with this and never looked back

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2025

Quoting: I replaced my Linux Xfce menu with this and never looked back —

Polybar solved that problem by stripping the idea of a panel down to its essentials. Instead of relying on preset layouts, I could build my own menu and status indicators from scratch. I defined my own modules for application launchers, workspaces, and notifications, organizing them exactly where I wanted. It immediately felt like I had reclaimed control over the way my desktop behaved.

What impressed me most was how smooth the transition felt. Polybar integrated cleanly into my Xubuntu setup without adding noticeable overhead. It respected the performance-first philosophy that drew me to Xfce in the first place, while also incorporating modern design elements that felt right at home on any Linux system.

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