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PorteuX 2.5 Is Out with Flatpak Support, Cinnamon 6.6, COSMIC 1.0, and Linux 6.18

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.18 kernel series (with SYSRQ support), PorteuX 2.5 ships with no less than eight editions featuring the GNOME 49.2, KDE Plasma 6.5.4, Cinnamon 6.6, LXQt 2.3, COSMIC 1.0, Xfce 4.20, LXDE 0.11.1, and MATE 1.28.2 desktop environments.

Inkscape 1.4.3 Open-Source SVG Editor Improves PDF Import and Text on Path

Coming seven months after Inkscape 1.4.2, the Inkscape 1.4.3 release improves PDF import, ungrouping of big groups, converting of strokes to paths, patterns, and gradients to no longer be lost, aligning on a circle or arc to be more reliable, and the Text on Path feature to also work with rectangles.

GStreamer 1.26.10 Released with Support for FLAC Audio in DASH Manifests

Coming three weeks after GStreamer 1.26.9, the GStreamer 1.26.10 release introduces support for FLAC audio in DASH manifests, support for a custom Sony XDCAM video variant to mxf, multichannel and surround sound handling improvements to the OPUS encoder (opusenc), and splitmuxsrc seeking improvements.

LinuxGizmos.com

CamThink NeoEyes NE301 is an open-source STM32N6-based edge AI camera

The camera is based on the STM32N6570 MCU, which integrates an Arm Cortex-M55 core with Helium vector extensions and an on-chip Neural-ART accelerator delivering up to 0.6 TOPS of AI performance. This allows the device to run lightweight computer vision workloads such as person detection, gesture recognition, and event-based monitoring locally, reducing latency and power consumption.

LeafKVM is a Rockchip-based self-contained KVM with touchscreen and browser access

The hardware platform is based on the Rockchip RV1106G3 system-on-chip, which integrates a single Arm Cortex-A7 core with 256MB of RAM.

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Licensing / Legal: Torvalds Blasts SFC, Refund4Freedom Wants OS Freedom

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 28, 2025

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