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Darktable 5.6.2 Adds White Balance Presets for Leica SL3-P and Sony Alpha 7R VI

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LinuxGizmos.com

TechNexion TELOS-AI4000 delivers 40 TOPS in compact form factor

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Efinix Sapphire RV64 brings 64-bit RISC-V and Linux to FPGAs

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Banana Pi BPI-CM7 with Allwinner H618, Wi-Fi 5 and Armbian support

Featuring the quad-core Allwinner H618, the BPI-CM7 is a compact compute module with onboard LPDDR4 memory, eMMC storage, Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0. The module uses two 100-pin board-to-board connectors and is intended for use with Banana Pi’s BPI-CM7IO carrier board, which exposes multiple peripheral interfaces.

schestowitz.com

Customer Service With Humans

Reject bots, ask to speak to a person

Sirius Open Source is Bankrupt, Shut Down

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DRM is An Attack on Today’s Youth

And not only youth

Breaches of Civil Procedure Rules in the UK (Not That the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Would Care)

Is this country still governed by actual laws?

Libera Chat Tolerates People Who Say “Gas the Jews” and Want to Stab Colleagues

ibera Chat (IRC network) has a CoC, but this CoC seems to not cover really tasteless things or simply does not enforce the rules against truly terrible and potentially dangerous people. In the interests of transparency, I’d like to share information about the sorts of people protected by Libera Chat:

When Will Libera Chat Ban GAFAM and GAFAM-Funded Projects?

Double standards

The Women Fight ‘Til the End

0-0 until 43rd miniute

Reform UK Lawyers Apparently Try to Censor Blog Posts About Their Latest Scandal and Winding Up Petition (Like Bankruptcy/Insolvency/Administration)

Sweaty Farage

Manchester City v Arsenal Today (Women’s)

Kick-off in 5 minutes

Money Does Not Make People Beautiful

Harsh.

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The future of Linux depends on these 4 distros

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 05, 2026

Quoting: The future of Linux depends on these 4 distros —

Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents:

It used to be that picking a Linux distro mostly came down to which desktop you liked and which package manager you preferred. That is less true today. The distros getting attention now are built to do a specific job, whether that's ensuring ta thousand PCs are identical, surviving a bad update, or playing Windows games on your TV.

Here are the 4 Linux distros you should know about.

Read On!

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