schestowitz.com

Accomplishing a Lot by Doing Journalism “Out There”

We got a lot done today, but it’s in pen and paper form (for now)

Replacing Obesity With Drug Addiction/Dependence

Another generation of addicts

No Birthday Parties for Techrights

No need

Short Days

Tight with daylight time

Council Exam Day

Let’s evaluate

RB Leipzig 2 – 3 Manchester City

3 more points

Improving Your Habitat

Make Manchester “great again”?

Helping the Enemy

Own goal

Intel is 0xDEADBEEF

Published yesterday: Intel Corporation Down Over 51% in One Month, the US Bailout Didn’t Work

Doing the Right Thing

As one always should

LinuxGizmos.com

Panther Lake joins AAEON’s Pico-ITX SBC lineup

Measuring just 100 × 72mm, the PICO-PTH4 is described by AAEON as the world’s first Pico-ITX SBC powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors (Panther Lake). The board supports up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, PCIe 5.0 NVMe storage, dual 2.5GbE, and Ubuntu, with up to 180 TOPS of combined AI performance.

Pocket-sized Linux AI box runs on 256-TOPS Axera chip

Sipeed has recently shared additional details about the MaixStation, a Linux AI workstation powered by Axera’s AX8860P processor, which combines a 16-core Arm CPU with an NPU rated at 256 TOPS FP4. The system supports up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory, 273GB/s memory bandwidth, 10G SFP+ networking, and PCIe 5.0 expansion for local AI inference and development.

9to5Linux

OpenVPN 2.7.9 Released with Linux and GUI Improvements, Bug Fixes

OpenVPN 2.7.9 adds support for setting the IFF_BACKPRESSURE flag on Linux (if available) to help the kernel TUN/TAP to apply proper prioritization (qdisc, etc.) to incoming packets if userspace is slow to process them. Without this flag, the kernel would just drop everything.

KDE Gear 26.08.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 26.08 Series

Coming almost a month after KDE Gear 26.08.2, the KDE Gear 26.08.3 release adds -- to the Ark archive manager to separate arguments and file names when dealing with CLI apps, fixes seeking in AudioTube by enforcing Opus over m4a, and no longer restarts the previous track in Elisa when switching tracks while paused.

Shelly 3.2 Brings Multi-Package Downgrades, Flatpak and AppImage Improvements

Coming less than a week after Shelly 3.1.10, the Shelly 3.2 release enhances AppImage support with improved desktop integration to use the application’s shipped desktop-file identity, embedded update-information discovery, support for .zsync control files, and better GitHub asset matching.

MPV 0.42 Video Player Released with AMD Frame Rate Conversion Filter

Coming ten months after MPV 0.41, the MPV 0.42 release introduces Wayland session management and Wayland color management through the protocol instead of the Vulkan API, improved HDR colorspace signalling on DRM for Linux, and an AMD Frame Rate Conversion filter.

Systemd-Free Artix Linux 2026.11 Is Out with Wayland-Only KDE Plasma Desktop

Coming six months after Artix Linux 2026.04, the Artix Linux 2026.11 official ISO release is powered by the Linux 7.2 kernel series, namely Linux kernel 7.2.14, and ships with the Wayland-only KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment for the Plasma edition, along with KDE Frameworks 6.31 and KDE Gear 26.08.2.

LXQt 2.5 Desktop Environment Released, Drops Its Last LXDE Dependency

Coming more than six months after LXQt 2.4, the LXQt 2.5 release drops its last LXDE dependency, on menu-cache, as the desktop environment now has its own built-in desktop-menu implementation in the LibFM-Qt component to do the same job menu-cache did, which is better and faster.

Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Released with Hibernation Support

Highlights of Cinnamon 6.8 include hibernation support via a Suspend action in the main menu, modern one-to-one trackpad gestures for both Wayland and Xorg sessions, support for the oo7 Secret Service provider, support for multiple instances in the Sound applet, and a more unified Network applet that merges the WireGuard and VPN sections.

NVIDIA 620 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Wayland Improvements

NVIDIA 620.70.06 focuses on improving Wayland support with OpenGL visual indicator support for all Vulkan backends, including Wayland and direct-to-display, and better performance of explicit synchronization in high-framerate benchmarks on Wayland.