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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

What Linus Torvalds Told Me Two Decades Ago: It seems like he was eager to distinguish himself from the "elders" of FSF [...] For anything "revolutionary" to happen in the sciences one must accept the risk of living in poverty like Tesla (the person, not the right-wing fanatics) and Torvalds isn't too old to "cause a stir"
GNU/Linux as a Free Software Platform is More GNU (and GPL) Than Linux: GNU predates Linux by nearly a decades and it was born to tackle injustices
Who Or What Are Security Professionals/Experts?: Companies like GAFAM are willing to tolerate cheaters because those companies themselves are cheats
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXIII - What Garrett Did Puts Elections at Risk (Also in His Own Country, Where a Dictator Trusts Only Machines That 'Support' Him): UEFI 'security' is only as trustworthy as its ferocious boosters
Gemini Links 30/10/2026: RIP Patrick Stewart and Amp Integration: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 29, 2026: IRC logs for Thursday, October 29, 2026
The Metric is Not the Mission: "Passing Thoughts" by Andy
More Than 5 Years Have Passed Since Official Release of Vista 11 and in the US It's Measured as Only 3 Times Bigger Than GNU/Linux on the Desktop/Laptop: If mobile is culled from the statistics, then GNU/Linux is somewhere near 11%
It's About Intention, Not Attrition, at Microsoft: Microsoft does in fact aim to push many workers off the cliff
The Next 50 Years of Emacs (and GNU): GNU's founder made the widely used editor, GNU Emacs
Links 29/10/2026: Microsoft-Connected and Funded Openwashing at FOSDEM, Tragedy in Spain: Links for the day
Gemini Links 29/10/2026: London, Worcestershire, and Robot Exclusion Protocol: Links for the day
The Register MS is Publishing Spam About "AI" for HP, Sponsored by HP, Even Composed by HP: Or "HPE" as they choose to call themselves (with the hype of "enterprise")
Links 29/10/2026: Anthropic Still Sued Over Copyright Infringement (Plagiarism Isn't "Training"), Elon Musk Openly Admits He Helps Putin Crush Ukraine: Links for the day
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXI - Techrights Was Right, So Why Was It Punished by Lawfare While the Culprits Walk Away Scot-free?: Techrights did a public service, cautioning about real risks to the public, but the people who caused the problems walk away scot-free
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXII - Still "Radio Silence" From "Restricted Boot" Perpetrators (After Techrights Proven Right Again): Maybe when they sober up they'll say something...
'Secure' Boot Is Not Secure, Here Are News Reports About the Latest Evidence: We'll be linking to this page in the future as evidence of the catastrophe
No, Microsoft Isn't Doing Well (It Has Struggled for a Long Time): Microsoft isn't growing, the shares are a Ponzi scheme of sorts
What Makes Techrights a Community: Communities can accomplish a lot. They cannot be "bought" and "sold", they're based on trust, mutual respect, and shared ideology.
Linux Links 29/10/2026: Refractor Stargazing and Making Better Use of RAM in Linux: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 28, 2026: IRC logs for Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Project Glasswing and PHP2Shell vulnerability: by Akira Urushibata
Turning Point for the Slop Industrialists: First, a lot of people who work on "hey hi" at Microsoft (no matter the buzzword or brand, e.g. "copilot") are impacted
Links 28/10/2026: Slop Bubble Pops in China, Rocky Linux Creator Becomes Slopper, Openwashing by the Slop Pushers Explained: Links for the day
Gemini Links 28/10/2026: Slop Plagiarism Considered a "Weapon", "Completely restored HTML interface to the Orbital Fox mailing list": Links for the day
The Corrupted Corporate Media is Spinning Massive Microsoft Layoffs as "Investment in AI" Instead of Evidence That "AI" Nonsense is Catastrophic: Microsoft asking 30% of its staff to leave is a sign of bubble
Links 28/10/2026: "Rest of World Faces Prospect of Shutting Down" and Robert Reich Says "Musk Wants Me Imprisoned": Links for the day
Gemini Links 28/10/2026: Cold Outside Again and Maths: Links for the day
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XX - Restricted and Moot, or How 'Secure Boot' Turns Out to be a Disaster (Again) This Week: It already has a history of breaking/bricking servers
100 Years of IBM Racism: GAFAM is not about "diversity" or "equity" or whatever. It's a greedy, money-making venture, even if they appoint CEOs of colour
Racism at Microsoft: Microsoft tribalism has an element to it aside from corporate allegiance
Intercontinental Brigading - Part IX - Literature About Malignant Narcissists in America Silencing the Press: There's a price for criticising abuses
Compelling Examiners at the European Patent Office to Fake "Growth" (in Patent Monopolies) Using Slop and Sloppy Processes: The agenda of management is likely illegal and the methods likewise
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 27, 2026: IRC logs for Tuesday, October 27, 2026