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There is a new release of the minimal, media playing LibreELEC distro: https://distrowatch.com/12527
Distribution Release: LibreELEC 12.2.0 (DistroWatch.com News)

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

My Kitronik robot doesn't have "eyes" in the usual sense. It doesn't have any tool for detecting shapes or colours.

It does have a light level sensor underneath which is typically used for following white/black lines - high contrast tasks.

I'm using this sensor to guess colours based on light energy and then mimic the colours using the robot's LEDs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1g6JgyzQLo

Ron the Robot learns to identify colours.

YouTube
There is a new version of EasyOS available, now with development containers: https://distrowatch.com/12526
Distribution Release: EasyOS 7.0 (DistroWatch.com News)

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For the third time this month someone has submitted a distribution to us to be included in the database and either didn't provide a link to the project's website or the link was wrong/invalid.

If you are letting us know about new distributions, please make sure we can actually get to the project's website to learn about it.

We’re excited to announce that the Google Pixel 9 with iodéOS preinstalled is now available in our shop! This flagship Android device comes with iodéOS preinstalled – ready to protect your privacy right out of the box.

https://blog.iode.tech/google-pixel-9-with-iodeos-now-available/

A quick update concerning PinePhone Pro availability

As some may have heard, the PinePhone Pro has indeed been discontinued. This is due to low sales and therefore no longer being viable for the PineStore to produce. Spare parts may continue to be produced for up to two years depending on how well sales go. If you still want one, at the end of this month refurbished PinePhone Pros will go on sale just like after the PineBook Pro was discontinued. So this will be your last chance to nab one.

On the other hand, the PinePhone (A64) will continue to be sold for around two years. It is currently still selling well.

As for the future of ARM products from the PineStore. It is not likely as the PineStore has moved focus onto RISC-V. This change can be seen looking at the recent product launches (Oz64, Star(/Pro)64 and Alpha One). There is also interest from the PineStore in being able to run LLMs locally on their SBCs with the Alpha One, powered by the StarPro64. (If you see this, I have edited this bit for clarity)

And just a quick reminder that as the community we do not have knowledge about any future products. At this current point in time there is no currently known plans for a new PinePhone.

And I think that's it, have a great rest of the week!

#pinephonepro #pine64 #pinephone

Haiku's monthly newsletter and progress report for July: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20044
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A new release of SparkyLinux, based on the fresh Debian 13 platform: https://distrowatch.com/12525
Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 8.0 (DistroWatch.com News)

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Kaisen Linux publishes its latest (and final) version. Note: we have not included links to the torrent files because trying to download the torrents gives a "403 Forbidden" error: https://distrowatch.com/12524
Distribution Release: Kaisen Linux 3.0 (DistroWatch.com News)

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In case you've ever wanted to run Rust on a GNU Hurd kernel, Debian's GNU/Hurd 2025 snapshot is now available: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20043
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

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