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KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

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LinuxGizmos.com

ARK Just A Pi carrier board links Raspberry Pi CM5 to autopilot systems

ARK Electronics has recently featured the ARK Just A Pi, a compact carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. The board provides USB, Ethernet, CSI camera, UART, PCIe, HDMI, and GPIO connectivity in a small form factor intended for integration with autopilot and embedded systems.

Orange Pi 6 debuts with CIX P1 SoC, dual 2.5GbE, and 45 TOPS AI compute

Orange Pi has revealed new details for the Orange Pi 6, a compact single-board computer built around the CIX CD8180 processor, also known as the CIX P1. Compared with the previously previewed Orange Pi 6 Plus, the standard model uses a smaller 90 × 90 mm form factor with dual 2.5GbE networking, up to 24GB of LPDDR5 memory, and the same 45 TOPS total AI compute rating.

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How to try out over 85 Linux distros, no installation required - with DistroSea

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jun 04, 2026

Quoting: How to try out over 85 Linux distros, no installation required - with DistroSea | ZDNET —

I recently wrote about the Virtual OS Museum, which let me reunite with the very first Linux distribution I'd ever tried. It was a fabulous walk down memory lane, and even allowed me to test other, now-defunct, Linux distributions, all from the convenience of my web browser.

The only caveat to the Virtual OS Museum is that it's truly a museum -- you won't find current distributions available to test.

That's where DistroSea comes into play.

Unlike the Virtual OS Museum, DistroSea allows you to actually test several new distros. Currently, there are 85 distributions available, including AerynOS, Alpine Linux, AnduinOS, Arch Linux, Arco Linux, Bazzite, Big Linux, BlendOS, Bodhi Linux, BunsenLabs Linux, CachyOS, Chimera Linux… the list goes on.

Read on

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