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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 11, 2023

Updated This Past Day

1. New Documentary Film “eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel”

   Out Friday

2. LLVM, VLC updates in Tumbleweed

   During Hack Week this weeek, openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed still manages to send out four snapshots

3. GNOME Receives €1M Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund

   Heard of the Sovereign Tech Fund? I hadn’t, but the GNOME project has bagged itself a whopping €1 million investment from them

4. This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording

   Yep you read that right, we’ve decided to throw the lever and go Wayland by default

5. Steam Deck OLED: Valve’s Latest Innovation

   Valve announced its latest innovation in portable gaming, Steam Deck OLED, with a high dynamic range screen and a longer-lasting battery

   New

6. Today in Techrights

   one day's articles

7. Scarlett Gately Moore's KDE Report and Akseli Lahtinen Fulltime KDE

   A pair of KDE reports

8. today's howtos

   many weekend howtos

9. Learn About the Best Features of Kali Linux

   Learn what the key best features and tools about Kali Linux and why it is so popular in the information security industry.

10. Fedora and Red Hat Kernel 6.6, Fedora GNU/Linux 39 Release Party, and BuzzwordsFedora and Red Hat Kernel 6.6, Fedora GNU/Linux 39 Release Party, and Buzzwords

    Some Red Hat news

11. FreeBSD Status Report Third Quarter 2023

    Here is the third 2023 status report, with 32 entries.

12. WINE 8.20 and Nancy Drew in ScummVM

    Emulation-type systems

13. Android Leftovers

    Amazon is rumored to be planning to ditch Android on its Fire devices

14. TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen3 Linux Laptop Unveiled with AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS CPU

    Two years after its first appearance, the TUXEDO Pulse 14 ultra-light AMD-powered Linux laptop is now in the 3rd generation (Gen3) with a more recent AMD Ryzen 7 processor and updated internals.

15. FFmpeg 6.1 “Heaviside” Released with VAAPI AV1 Encoder, HW Vulkan Decoding

    FFmpeg 6.1 open-source multimedia framework has been released today as a major update that brings new features, new decoders, new filters, and many other changes.

16. Games: Whisker Squadron: Survivor, Steam Deck, SteamVR, and More

    3 new stories from Liam Dawe

17. Open Hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi 5, and Librem 5

    4 stories for this morning

18. LXDE vs XFCE: Which Is the Better Lightweight Desktop Environment

    In the hunt for lighter Desktop Environments for your Linux system, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the number of choices available to you

19. Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google News

    We recommend the best free and open source alternatives that let you create your own news aggregator service

20. Security: 7 useful hardware pen testing tools and LF (NSA/GAFAM) puff pieces

    Some new 'articles'

21. Red Hat and RHEL Puff Pieces

    Buying coverage about themselves

22. The Best Apps to Manage Flatpak Permissions, Remotes, and Data

    Discover the Flatpak utilities that can make your package management life an easy one.

23. today's howtos

    5 howtos for now

24. Security Leftovers

    breaches too

25. A Perl-Based Static Site and Gemini Capsule Generator: The Story of tuxmachines.org and techrights.org

    Rolling out our own

26. Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Plays With Fire to Appease Large Corporations and Burn the People Behind the GPL/Copyleft

    It seems like they try to bypass the US Constitution

27. KDE Gear 23.08.3 Arrives with More Fixes for Your Favorite KDE Apps

    KDE Gear 23.08.3 software suite is now available with more fixes and other changes for various KDE applications and respective libraries.

28. Devices/Embedded: Raspberry Pi OS and More

    Some hardware news

29. Canonical/Ubuntu News

    3 more stories

30. Kernel, Mesa Release Candidate, and Gaming Performance

    Some Linux news

31. today's leftovers

    3 more links

32. Events: FOSS, Fedora, and Linux

    Some events of interest

33. Android Leftovers

    Delete them right now – list of extremely dangerous ‘malicious’ Android apps with hundreds of millions of downloads

34. Programming Leftovers

    R and more

35. Apple, Microsoft, and Security Holes

    Some news, esp. regarding security failures

36. Software: chrpath release 0.17, MongoDB GUIs, and CapyPDF

    FOSS news

37. today's howtos

    6 howtos

38. Oxwall – social networking software platform

    Oxwall is a free open source software package PHP/MySQL social networking software platform for building social networks, family sites and collaboration systems

39. PostgreSQL 16.1, 15.5, 14.10, 13.13, 12.17, and 11.22 Released!

    The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update

40. Videos/Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Out Loud, LINUX Unplugged, Document Foundation/LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest

    3 new ones

41. Security Leftovers

    also Windows damage

42. Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More

    Audacity 3.4 open-source, free, and cross-platform audio editor software has been released today as a major update that introduces several new features and many improvements.

43. today's howtos

    many howtos

44. GIMP 2.10.36 Released with Support for ASE & ACB Palettes, New Gradient, and More

    GIMP 2.10.36 open-source, free, and cross-platform image editing software has been officially released today as a new maintenance update to the GIMP 2.10 series.

45. PSA: For Xorg GNOME sessions, use the xf86-input-wacom driver for your tablets

    TLDR: see the title of this blog post, it's really that trivial

46. Android Leftovers

    Your wait for Android phones with satellite connectivity just got longer

47. Today in Techrights

    one day's articles

48. Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android

    Amazon is reportedly working on its own Linux-based OS to replace Android on its Fire TVs, smart displays, and other non-tablet devices

49. Open Hardware and Mobile Systems

    Some devices, some Linux

50. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming

    Some FOSS and coding

51. Security Leftovers

    Many Windows issues...

52. Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 released with support for over two dozen devices (including the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro)

    Ubuntu Touch is a mobile Linux distribution designed to run on smartphones and tablets

53. Games: Beyond Sunset, Humble Bundle, and More

    Half a dozen new articles by Liam Dawe

54. today's howtos

    only 5 more for now

55. Proposed European Electronic ID Law Raises Concerns

    The harmonisation of standards for electronic identification across the EU should normally be soporific enough to send even the most Club-Mate-hyped hacker straight to sleep

56. Fedora Linux 39 Is Now Available for Download, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.5

    After several delays, the Fedora Project released today Fedora Linux 39 as the latest stable version of this Red Hat-sponsored GNU/Linux distribution for the masses.

57. Software Freedom Conservancy: Not as Harmless as It May Seem

    First impressions are deceiving and rhetoric can be intentionally misleading ("ethics" posturing for a greedy operation)

58. This Site Supports Mozilla Firefox, But Does Not Endorse It