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KaOS Linux Drops KDE Plasma After 12 Years for Niri/Noctalia to Escape systemd

After using the KDE/Plasma desktop environment by default for more than 12 years since its initial release under the name of KdeOS, the KaOS Linux distribution will no longer ship with its unique Plasma desktop setup, as the devs do not want to use the systemd init system anymore in the distro.

Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More

Coming two years after Vim 9.1, the Vim 9.2 release introduces full Wayland support (including clipboard support), XDG Base Directory Specification support on Linux, the ability to complete words directly from registers, support for fuzzy matching during insert-mode completion, and a new built-in interactive tutor plugin.

REMnux 8 Linux Toolkit for Malware Analysis Is Out to Celebrate 15th Anniversary

REMnux 8 is here as a major release that comes more than 5 years after REMnux 7.0 to celebrate the project’s 15th anniversary, introducing AI capabilities, a new, more resilient installer, new and updated tools, and a base OS bump as the distribution is now based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat).

GNOME 49.4 Released with Improvements for Nautilus, GNOME Shell, and Mutter

Coming a month after GNOME 49.3, the GNOME 49.4 release is here to fix screen time tracking with idle inhibitors, fix tab focus behavior in the Quick Settings menu, prevent the recreation of the default folders after they were removed, disable tone mapping with HDR, and fix screen sharing of monitors with no framerate.

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BPI-R4 Pro Router Board Delivers MT7988A SoC with Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Capability

The BPI-R4 Pro was first introduced in May 2025 and is offered in two variants. The “8X” model provides 8GB of DDR4 memory, while the “4E” variant includes 4GB of DDR4. Both versions feature 8GB of eMMC storage, 256MB of SPI-NAND flash, and a microSD card slot for additional storage.

Low-Cost BeaglePlay SBC Gains Fully Upstream PowerVR Graphics with Vulkan 1.2

BeaglePlay, introduced in 2023, is built around the Texas Instruments AM625, a quad-core Cortex-A53 SoC that integrates a PowerVR Rogue AXE-1-16M GPU. With recent upstream driver progress, the board can now run Vulkan 1.2 using entirely mainline components, without proprietary binaries or out-of-tree kernel patches.

Ezurio Carbon AM62 Targets Industrial Linux with TI Sitara AM62x

Carbon AM62 integrates up to a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor clocked at up to 1.4GHz, alongside a Cortex-M4F and Cortex-R5F for real-time and management tasks, plus a dual-core programmable real-time unit subsystem for deterministic I/O workloads.

Bit-Brick K1 Pro Adds 6 TOPS NPU and Dual NVMe to Compact SBC

On the compute side, RK3576 combines quad Cortex-A72 cores clocked up to 2.2GHz with quad Cortex-A53 cores up to 1.8GHz. Graphics are handled by a Mali-G52 MC3 GPU, and the SoC integrates a 6 TOPS INT8 NPU with support for INT4, INT8, INT16, FP16, BF16, and TF32 precisions.

xSDR packs 2×2 MIMO, Artix-7 FPGA, and 3.8 GHz tuning into M.2 2230 form factor

The LMS7002M supports dual-channel transmit and receive paths with channel bandwidths from 0.5 MHz to 90 MHz. Sample rates range from 0.1 MSPS up to 122.88 MSPS in SISO mode, and above 80 MSPS in MIMO configurations.

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- GNOME Desktop/GTK
  - This Week in GNOME ☛ This Week in GNOME: #236 New Library
    
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 06 to February 13.
    
    This week, the Bazaar app store received two major new features. The first is the new Library page, which combines the Installed page, Update dialog, and Transaction sidebar into a single view. It should make managing installed apps much more intuitive.
    
    The second feature is support for user scope Flatpaks. Flatpaks installed in user scope are now listed in the Installed Apps list, where you can view or uninstall them just like other apps. Installing new user-scope Flatpaks is still not possible in the Flatpak version of the app due to an unresolved issue.

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- Debian Family
  - LWN ☛ New delegation for Debian's data protection team
    
    Debian Project Leader (DPL) Andreas Tille has announced a new delegation for Debian's data protection team: [...]
- Open Hardware/Modding
  - Linux Gizmos ☛ Radxa Cubie A7S Integrates A733 SoC, RISC-V MCU, and LPDDR5 Memory
    
    Radxa has introduced the Cubie A7S, a 51 x 51 mm single board computer built around the Allwinner A733. The compact board combines Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55 CPU cores with LPDDR5 memory, PCIe 3.0 expansion, and an integrated NPU rated at 3 TOPS, targeting edge AI, vision, and embedded multimedia applications.
  - Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #524 - Bioreactors, antennas, and miniature keychain tech
    
    Please send us your accessibility feedback! We’d like to make more changes. Howdy, Feedback on our website from Chris Mairs CBE (who happens to be one of our Non-Executive Directors) prompted us to make some changes to raspberrypi.com to improve accessibility for screen reader users. If you have ideas for further accessibility updates, please leave a comment at the bottom of this post.
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- Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ The syslog-ng Insider 2026-02: stats-exporter; blank filter; Kafka source
  
  The February syslog-ng newsletter is now on-line: [...]

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KaOS Linux Drops KDE Plasma After 12 Years for Niri/Noctalia to Escape systemd

Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More

REMnux 8 Linux Toolkit for Malware Analysis Is Out to Celebrate 15th Anniversary

GNOME 49.4 Released with Improvements for Nautilus, GNOME Shell, and Mutter

LinuxGizmos.com

BPI-R4 Pro Router Board Delivers MT7988A SoC with Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Capability

Low-Cost BeaglePlay SBC Gains Fully Upstream PowerVR Graphics with Vulkan 1.2

Ezurio Carbon AM62 Targets Industrial Linux with TI Sitara AM62x

Bit-Brick K1 Pro Adds 6 TOPS NPU and Dual NVMe to Compact SBC

xSDR packs 2×2 MIMO, Artix-7 FPGA, and 3.8 GHz tuning into M.2 2230 form factor

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This Week in GNOME ☛ This Week in GNOME: #236 New Library

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Debian Family

LWN ☛ New delegation for Debian's data protection team

Open Hardware/Modding

Linux Gizmos ☛ Radxa Cubie A7S Integrates A733 SoC, RISC-V MCU, and LPDDR5 Memory

Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #524 - Bioreactors, antennas, and miniature keychain tech

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ The syslog-ng Insider 2026-02: stats-exporter; blank filter; Kafka source

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