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Budgie 10.10.3 Desktop Environment Introduces Free Placement of Desktop Icons

Coming more than six months after Budgie 10.10.2, the Budgie 10.10.3 release introduces the ability to place desktop icons wherever you want on the desktop, brings back the Keyboard Layout applet, adds the ability to choose the primary monitor, and improves the Labwc bridge integration to listen to budgie-daemon.

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Coming one and a half months after GNOME 50.4, the GNOME 50.5 release improves the opening of windows created via the new-window action to appear on the correct workspace, improves keyboard navigation on the unlock dialog, improves switching of workspaces with direct scanout, and adds support for tracking magnifier mouse position without polling.

PeaZip 11.3 Archive Manager Improves ZPAQ Support, Adds New Themes

Coming two months after PeaZip 11.2, the PeaZip 11.3 release improves ZPAQ support with a new “Force typing password interactively” option, and a new option to automatically explore the output path with PeaZip after a task is completed, which also changes the behavior of internal drag-and-drop copy/move actions to explore the destination path.

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ESP32-S3 powers EWatch smartwatch with open drivers and DIY options

EWatch, developed by Ewan Wills, is a programmable ESP32-S3 smartwatch with a 1.69-inch color touchscreen, 350mAh battery, vibration feedback and USB-C connectivity. The platform is offered as a bare PCB, self-assembly kit or complete watch, following more than five years of development.

ESP-Mosaico centers dual-core RISC-V ESP32-S31 around a 2.16-inch square AMOLED

The Espressif ESP-Mosaico is an expandable smart-interaction development kit based on the ESP32-S31 microcontroller. The compact device integrates a 2.16-inch square touch display, audio hardware, motion and magnetic sensors, NAND storage, haptic feedback and dual expansion interfaces for HMI, edge voice and multimedia applications.

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Richard Stallman’s Stallman.org Back Online

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 04, 2026,
updated Sep 04, 2026

Some days ago we saw malicious tongues speculating with very bad intent about Richard Stallman’s Stallman.org (or stallman.org, same thing).

Those are some of the same people who worked hard to cancel him by lying about him.

The domain stallman.org now responds to requests and pages we are familiar from are all there, but it seems like an outdated snapshot. For instance, this page was last updated today, but the front page is months old. █

Image source: RMS

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