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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 04, 2023

Today in Techrights
2 days' worth
FSF celebrates forty years of GNU with a hackday for families, hackers, and hackers-to-be
Today, the GNU Project turned forty years old. To celebrate this, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is hosting a hack day for families, students, and anyone interested in hacking
Linux Mint 21.2 “EDGE” ISO Released with Linux Kernel 6.2, Secure Boot Support
Linux Mint 21.2 “EDGE” ISO flavor is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.2 and featuring Secure Boot support.
elementary OS 7.1 Released with New Privacy Features, Improved AppCenter
Danielle Foré informs 9to5Linux today about the release and general availability of elementary OS 7.1 as the first major update to the Ubuntu-based distribution since elementary OS 7.0 “Horus”.
KDE Neon - A Best KDE Distribution Based on Ubuntu
KDE Neon represents the latest and, arguably, the most advanced technology developed by the KDE Community
scikit-survival 0.22.0 released
Sebastian Pölsterl's work
Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux, Late Night Linux, and More
4-5 new links
Godot Showcase and Other Recent Posts on Games Being Developed With Godot
escape Unity
today's howtos
many howtos for the night
Best Retro Gaming Emulators for Linux
Who doesn't love playing their favorite games from when they were younger?
GNU/Linux is Scary to Companies That Sell Windows
The most abuse we've been getting online (by far) comes from Microsoft and its associates
Life Simplicity - a mobile phone can't get you true realisation
ChatGPT or various chatbots, these “don’t understand anything and don’t know anything.”
Proprietary Stuff and Security Debacles
4 stories
Obarun alone employing a new paradigm of software building?
What is new in Obarun is the way packages are being built
Conferences: Debconf 23 and 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit
Conferences-related links
Programming Leftovers
Godot 3.5.3 and more
Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi 5, Arduino, and More
Raspberry Pi and more
BSD: FreeBSD, OpenBGPD, and More
My FreeBSD years and OpenBGPD 8.2
today's howtos
only 3 for now
Games: Ubuntu Summit 2023, Gearbits, Tiny Atolls, Selaco, and More
half a dozen articles
Android Leftovers
5 launchers for UI customisations to make the most of your Android smartphone
17 Top Free and Open Source Python Natural Language Processing Tools
Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here
KDE Promo Sprint
Slightly over a week ago, I joined my first KDE Promo sprint! My only previous experience was the KDE Plasma sprint
KStars v3.6.7 is Released
KStars v3.6.7 is released on 2023.10.03 for MacOS & Linux
10 Best LibreOffice Extensions for Everyone
Extend your LibreOffice experience with these best curated Extensions for a productive use.
Renesas RZ/G2L and RZ/V2L SMARC 2.1 system-on-modules target HMI and Edge AI applications
Renesas RZ/G2L and RZ/V2L used in the design and the microprocessors are supported by a Verified Linux Package (VLP) featuring the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) Linux distribution
Introducing SpiralLinux 12.231001: Debian 12 Gets a Facelift
SpiralLinux 12.231001: Where Debian 12 ‘Bookworm’s stability meets the cutting-edge Linux kernel 6.4 for an unparalleled user experience
Ransomware Alert: Are You Using A Trusted Version Of Thunderbird
Recently, the Thunderbird team became aware of some ransomware masquerading as Thunderbird
Security Leftovers
patches and incidents
Proprietary Stuff and FUD Against GNU/Linux
Proprietary nonsense again
Python 3.12 Released
original and LWN
Kernel: Linux 6.6-rc4, Ode to Linux, Updated kernels available for antiX-23 and sid/testing users
Some kernel news
September 2023 Steam Survey: macOS and Linux dip but Linux remains above macOS
The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for September 2023 is out now and shows that both macOS and Linux have dipped down
Mission Center: A Sleek System Monitoring App for Linux
What if, one day, you find that your system is sluggish, and the default system monitor app of your distro is not helpful?
Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work
Linux's six-year long-term support was meant to help embedded devices
Ubuntu 23.10 seems like the usual boring update - until you dig into it
Ubuntu has been depending on baby steps to keep it moving forward. And although Mantic Minitaur might look as if it follows that pattern, there's more to it than meets the eye.
Engineering Requires Access to Code and Designs
Imagine what GNU/Linux would look like if it had to contact Microsoft and ask if it's "safe" to boot

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Notice the connection to Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and GNOME
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Richard Stallman (RMS) Was Right About "Sideloading" in 1996
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Panama: Windows Down From 97% "Market Share" to Less Than 30%
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Links 26/08/2025: "Ballooning Debt" in France and "Transnational Repression in the UK"
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Links 26/08/2025: DNS Tampering and TikTok Layoffs
Links for the day
Microsoft's Windows "Market Share" Overestimated
Microsoft's income sources are shrinking
We Shall See...
My wife and I are hardly the first victims of Brett Wilson LLP
This New Determination on a Case Echoes the Modus Operandi of Microsoft's Serial Strangler vs Techrights (Its Online Decision/Judgment Says Truth and Public Interest Defend the Publisher)
Noel Anthony Clarke hopefully has enough money left to pay his victims, which include the publishers
Going Offline
There was life before the Net
The Register MS Has Apparently Shut Down Its Office
It is basically a fake address on the face of it
There Are Also Expectations of IBM Layoffs Very Soon With "Narrative Control."
Some of them mention Red Hat and how IBM failed to achieve anything substantial with that acquisition
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Those "M5 level meetings" sound plausible
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