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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 8th, 2026

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System76 Teases COSMIC Theme Constellations for Its COSMIC Desktop

After Frosted Glass, System76 is now working on another cool feature that will probably boost the adoption of the COSMIC desktop environment amongst Linux users. The feature is called COSMIC Theme Constellations and consists of bundled themes with wallpaper, accent colors, icons, and fonts.

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Long-range Wi-Fi HaLow gateway offers OpenWrt and dual GbE

Morse Micro’s “HaLowLink 2” gateway runs OpenWrt on a MediaTek MT7621 processor with an MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow radio supporting ranges of up to 1km and PHY data rates of up to 43.3Mbps. Originally announced in September 2025, the gateway is now available through distributors including Seeed Studio, Mouser Electronics, and DigiKey.

Home Assistant-compatible board pairs ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4

Crowd Supply has introduced a campaign for LocalDot, an open-hardware board developed by AAElectronics that converts third-generation Amazon Echo Dots into Home Assistant voice devices. The 83 × 37mm PCB uses an ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4 for connectivity and audio processing while retaining the original microphones, speaker, buttons, and LEDs.

ESP32-P4 development boards combine RISC-V with Wi-Fi 6 or PoE

SparkFun today launched two ESP32-P4-based IoT RedBoards, offering either dual-band Wi-Fi 6 through an ESP32-C5 companion or wired Ethernet with Power over Ethernet. Both boards feature dual-core RISC-V processing, 32MB PSRAM, 16MB flash, MIPI camera and display connectors, and Arduino-style expansion headers for embedded and HMI applications.

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Covering the Mainstreaming of GNU/Linux

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 24, 2026

This past weekend we added a personal blog to the sidebar to reduce/avoid personal footprint in this site. As a result more personal stories are published elsewhere. In the remainder of the year we plan to focus on maturity and growth of GNU/Linux, which is without doubt growing fast. The latest from statCounter shows it up about 0.3% in the past week alone. It's now at ~9.4%:

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