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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 23, 2023

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Graphics: XDC, NVK, and More

4 stories, Linux focus

New
Open Hardware and Ubuntu, Openwashing and Linux Foundation

some more leftovers, long weekend ahead
today's leftovers

3 stories
KDE and GNOME Leftovers

3 more stories
IBM: Fedora on 'Macs' and PHP in RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...

Some Red Hat stuff
New Videos: Makulu Linux and Kdenlive (Akademy 2023 Keynote)

2 new videos
LinuxLinks on ASUSTOR Data Master 4.2 and 5 Best Free and Open Source No-Code Database Tools

2 new articles
Security Leftovers

4 news stories of blog posts
SUSE/OpenSUSE: SLE BCI, Lockdown (Microsoft), and OBS Has New and Improved Ways to Report

SUSE news
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.3 dev 1

first dev snapshot
today's howtos

many howtos for the day
Weston 13.0 release: Backends consolidation

Weston 13.0 brings multiple fixes and important changes, notably the ability to load multiple backends simultaneously
Announcing Incus 0.4

Just as we’re wrapping up 2023, one last Incus release!
Plymouth Linux Graphical Boot Manager Now Better Handles Display Rendering

Plymouth, the open-source graphical boot animation and logger application, has been updated to version 23.51.283, a release that brings various new features and improvements.
TUXEDO Control Center 2.1 Released with Exciting New Functions

TUXEDO Computers announced today the availability of TUXEDO Control Center 2.1 open-source system tuning app for TUXEDO notebooks.
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

FOSS like Tor and more
Programming Leftovers

Python, Perl, and more
Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly and Linux in the Ham Shack

2 new episodes
Games: Steam Winter Sale and The Talos Principle 2

only 2 from Liam Dawe yesterday
Android Leftovers

Android’s Nearby Share is getting rebranded ‘Quick Share’
8Devices Noni M.2 WiFi 7 module runs FirmUx embedded Linux distribution

The source code for FirmUX is open-source and available for download, but only to customers
Windows TCO Stories

Cost of Windows
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.4 and rpki-client 8.7

two new releases
Devices and Hardware: OPNsense, Purism, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, SparkFun, and More

BSD and GNU/Linux mostly
Mozilla: Buzzwords, Privacy Pass, Firefox DevTools Newsletter

Mostly Firefox stuff
BSD: FreeBSD, PlayStation 5, and the Desktop

Some BSD news
today's howtos

10 howtos for the morning
Openwashing and Lock-in in 'Open' Clothing

SFC and LF
Linux 6.7-rc8 release (rather than 6.7 final) on December 31

Schedule for final
Security and Windows TCO Stories

also patches and FUD
Openwashing, Games, and More

today's leftovers
Security Leftovers

Many incidents and such
Mozilla: Pontoon survey results and multiple memory safety bugs

a pair of Mozilla updates
Red Hat / IBM: Training and Outsourcing (to Microsoft)

a couple of new stories
Devices: Avalue, FriendlyELEC, Arduino, Youyeetoo

Devices that are "open" or Linux leaning
today's howtos

only 3 for now
Etnaviv NPU update 13: Don't cross the tensors

serious refactoring of the data structures
Qt 6.7 Beta 1 Released and More Qt News

3 new items
GRUB 2.12 released

GRUB maintainers are proud to announce GRUB 2.12 that has been just released
Today in Techrights [Some of the latest articles]

Some of the latest articles

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Getting the European Court of Justice to Annul the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Kangaroo Court (UPC): We're still working on it
They Tell Us Slop Replaces Workers, But the Reality Is, US Debt Has Surged 2,300 Billion Dollars in Six Months (the Economy is Collapsing): Oligarchy already entertains the option of running away to (or colonising) some other planet without pitchforks and "unwashed masses"
EPO Outrage and Maintaining the Pressure: A vending machine does not fall over after a first push
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 08, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, February 08, 2026
"Low Performer" and "Underperformer" as Harmful Misnomers That Damage a Company's Reputation: Misnomers need to be avoided or called out
Expensive errors: Forbes Gold price, $44 billion Bitcoin given away by Bithumb, South Korea: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 08/02/2026: Microsoft OSI (Openwashing Lobby) in Europe, Raised Against Social Control Media Provocateurs in EU: Links for the day
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Lobbies for Microsoft in the EU, Promoting Proprietary Lock-in: OSI pushing and selling Microsoft and GitHub. OSI is Microsoft front group.
Finland's Dependence on GAFAM (US) Needs to be Lessened, EU Must Follow This Path: It's unwise to make one's entire national infrastructure (computer systems) dependent on a regime which compares its black citizens to monkeys and assassinates nonviolent dissenters
Links 08/02/2026: Microsoft GitHub as Burden on Developers and "The Chomsky Epstein Files": Links for the day
Gemini Links 08/02/2026: "Doing Not Much Tweaking" and "Reclaiming Digital Agency": Links for the day
Forbes: BitCoin, Cryptocurrency pages removed from investment database, links stop working: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Bitcoin warning followed immediately by network outage: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Money Funneled to Protection of Software Freedom, But Nothing Really Lost: Crossposted from personal site
Mozilla Firefox Sinks to Just 1.5% in the United States: According to analytics.usa.gov
We're Still Fast: The site is even faster than the BBC's despite being on shoestring budget with only a small technical team
Gemini Protocol is Not a Waste of Time of Effort: We see more and more GNU/Linux- or BSD-focused bloggers turning to Gemini
Our Gemini Protocol Support Turns 5 Today: today is a rare anniversary for us
In Today's World, One Must be Tough and Principled to Get Ahead Morally: But not financially (sellouts)
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 07, 2026: IRC logs for Saturday, February 07, 2026
The Right Wing in the United States Does Not Support Free Speech, It Supports Its Own Speech: Free speech is often opposed by those who also oppose Free software
IRC is a Lot Better Than Social Control Media (They're Not the Same at All): A good social analogy for IRC is, there are many buildings with a party in each building
Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' is 'Dead Meat': Or 0xDEADBEEF as some geeks might call it
When Identifying "Low Performers" and "PIPs" Aren't About Improving Performance But Reinforcing a Clique in Your Company/Organisation: It's very troubling to see once-respectable brands like IBM and institutions like the EPO resorting to this
Slop and Flop (IBM), Slopfarms and Hybrids (Linuxiac): Did Bobby Borisov assume he would never get caught?
Crowdfunding vs Bitcoins: donations are better investment than digital tulip mania: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 07/02/2026: Misinformation by Slop, Overrated Slop Causes Stock Market Panic: Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/02/2026: Diode Function Generators and Panic Over Buzzwords and Slop: Links for the day
A Can of WORMS - Part III - Envying the Influence and Accomplishments of RMS, Socially Deleterious Attacks on Popular Movements: the actions are deliberate and coordinated, not some 'organic' or grassroots behaviour
Crisis teams assembled as financial regulators anticipate Bitcoin implosion: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Reddit as a Hive of Trolls, Social Control Media Curated (Many Voices Censored and Banned) by Marketing Firm of GAFAM: Typical Reddit
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Delusion - Part III - Women Failing Women to Help Violent Americans From Microsoft: Summed up, SRA will gladly prioritise the "legal industry" over women strangled, raped etc
The World Gets Smaller, as Does Its Real Economy ('Human Resources') and So-called 'Natural Resources' (What Humans Call the Planet): Don't talk about "AI"
Converting FOSDEM Talk on Software Patents in Europe Into Formats That Work for "FOS" and Don't Have Software Patent Traps: transcoded version of the video
Links 07/02/2026: More White House Racism, "Europe Accuses TikTok of Addictive Design": Links for the day
Silent Mass Layoffs: It's Not the Revolution, It's the Loophole and the Hack ("Low Performers" or "Underperformers"): Layoffs by another approach
Mark Shuttleworth (MS) Pays Salaries to Microsoft (MS) Employees: Canonical selling Microsoft
Links 07/02/2026: Windows TCO Rising, Lousy Patents Invalided: Links for the day
Microsoft Leadership: Stop Taxing Us, Tax Only Poor People: Does Microsoft create jobs?
Biggest "AI Companies" (Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft) Borrowed (Additional Debt) About $100,000,000,000 in a Year: Who will be held accountable for all this?
In Case You've Missed It (ICYMI), Google's Debt More Than Doubled in a Year: Wait till it "monetises" billions of GMail users with slop
In 2009 Microsoft Was Valued at ~150 Billion Dollars, Now They Tell Us Microsoft Lost ~1,000 Billion Dollars in Value. Does That Make Sense?: Or Microsoft lost 700 billion dollars in "value" in less than two weeks
PIPs and Silent Layoffs at IBM (and Red Hat) Still Going on, It's "Forever Layoffs" (to Skirt the WARN Act): American workers out
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 06, 2026: IRC logs for Friday, February 06, 2026
Stressful Times for Team Campinos ("Alicante Mafia") at Europe's Second-Largest Institution: Keep pushing
Growing Discrimination in the European Patent Office (EPO): it's a race to the bottom, basically
Google News Drowning in (or Actively Promoting) Slopfarms Again: LLM slop is a nuisance
Microsoft Stock Crashed When Alleged Vista 11 Numbers Disclosed: And last summer Microsoft indicated that it had lost 400 million Windows users
Gemini Links 07/02/2026: "Choosing a License for Literary Work" and "Social Media Is Not Social Networking (Anymore)": Links for the day