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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

Microsoft 'Studies' Again? Leon Musolff is Writing Papers With Microsoft.: Even if one can see/find a link to "the study" (in the Bezos-controlled publication), most people won't look any further and just take everything at face value.
RMS is Done at KCL, Next Stop is Oxford: The message of RMS has long resonated well in India
US Government Already Bailing Out OpenAI/Microsoft With "Contracts", As Usual, Back Doors You Cannot Remove Becoming 'a Step Closer' on New PCs (Unless Everyone Acts ASAP): The next "logical" step towards digital prisons
Towards GNU World Domination: The FSF led by Geoffrey S. Knauth with his friend Richard Stallman in the FSF's Board [...] Let's encourage people to adopt GNU/Linux. There has never been a better time.
statCounter Helps Visualise Just How Deep in Trouble Microsoft is (Especially in Africa): Microsoft sabotaged efforts to connect Africans and equip them with GNU/Linux laptops
The Register is Using Linux-Hostile Clickbait in Articles of Linux Proponents: Don't be a "whore" to advertisers, team El Reg
Microsoft Windows in Cyprus Lacking a Future: Most people access the Web there from mobile
Matrix Has a Severe Problem With Illegal Images: If Matrix cannot get the CP problem under control, many projects and people will dump Matrix
Never Try to Justify Strangulation of Women (Not in the US and Not in the UK): Joint post by Mrs. Rianne Schestowitz and Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Links 23/04/2025: Tesla Profits Plunge 71%, Intel Ready to Lay Off 20% of Staff, Microsoft and IBM Layoffs: Links for the day
Microsoft's Most Profound Issue is That People Moved to 'Mobile' and "App Stores" (Microsoft's Presence There is Negligible): Expect a wild ride for Microsoft this year
Google News is Amplifying FUD and Lies About Linux (and OpenSSH/SSH) by Promoting Slopfarms With Machine-Generated FUD and Slop Images: Google should know better
Gemini Links 23/04/2025: Librarians, Anubis, and Refactoring a Gemini Capsule: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 22, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Links 22/04/2025: Ending DEI Policies at Adobe, FTC Sues Uber: Links for the day
Microsoft Devises PR Stunts to Distract From Impending Mass Layoffs and Likely Bad Results Preceding Those Mass Layoffs: A "voluntary exit plan"
Gemini Links 22/04/2025: Deaths, HamsterCMS, and More: Links for the day
Links 22/04/2025: FTC v. Meta Trial and Google Remedies: Links for the day
In Turkey, Windows Down Rapidly While GNU/Linux Grows: Although Turkey is in NATO (but not the EU), it cannot quite trust computer systems controlled by the United States
GNOME, Microsoft, and GitHub: The Lack of Reporting on Abusive Colleagues Contributed to Profound Media Vacuum (or Blackout), Now Resorting to SLAPPs: This lack of morality/courage has helped enable further abuse, lining up more victims
Richard Stallman Has Updated His Article on Why "Free Software Is Even More Important Now": Richard Stallman is about to give a talk here in the UK in a few hours
Microsoft Already Attacks the BSDs as Well (the E.E.E. Way, as Usual): Bearers of bad news
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is in Trouble, May Soon be Out of Business: Openwashing needs to end
Microsoft's Debt Grew Over 6 Billion Dollars in the Last Reporting Quarter (Before Inauguration), Expect Worse Next Week When 'Results' Are Disclosed and Mass Layoffs Resume: Microsoft is bleeding. It does not want people to notice.
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 21, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, April 21, 2025
Richard Stallman Gives Public Talk in London in 7 Hours (Need to Register as Venue Limited to 150 Seats), Public Announcements Begin to Appear: These are not announced weeks or months in advance
Gemini Links 21/04/2025: Remembering Pope Francis, Crystal Simulation: Links for the day
Doing Microsoft's Job. On IBM's Payroll.: today's Red Hat cannot recognise threats even after a head-on collision
Google News is Rewarding Slopfarms, Not Journalism: Don't read junk from chatbots
Teaching GAFAM in Schools is Like Teaching Children to Smoke Tobacco: So suggests an FSF presentation
Richard Stallman, Whose Site is Trusted by Greater Manchester, Has Come to the United Kingdom: He doesn't suck up to the Crown, so he'll never be "knighted"
On Desktops/Laptops in Singapore Does a Fifth of Users Run GNU/Linux?: Probably not, but it's growing fast there
Links 21/04/2025: Fake Ceasefire and Software Patents (Fake Patents) Thrown Out: Links for the day
Companies With Fake Values and a Fake Economic/Financial State (Phony Valuations): It'll all go up in smoke, eventually
Links 21/04/2025: Microsoft LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Going Out of Control, CT Scans' Cancer Problems Was Underrated: Links for the day
4 Years Ago Freenode Crumbled From Within: there are still hundreds of thousands of users online at any given time
GNOME Has a Long History (Over a Decade) Misusing the Code of Conduct (CoC) to Censor (Cull) Legitimate Technical Criticism: This has nothing to do with manners, it's about control (by cover-up)
Microsoft Has Tainted GNOME, Which Has Key People Acting as a SLAPP Front Against Techrights (Trying to Censor the Site by Extortion and Many Threats): One common denominator (other than Microsoft salaries) is GNOME, which was led by an actual professional crank until she quit so suddenly months ago
Homeland of Linux Kernel Turning to GNU/Linux?: Adoption of Vista 11 has been relatively low
According to StatCounter, This is What Linux Adoption Looks Like (Based on Web Requests Visible to StatCounter): How much worse will it get for Microsoft?
Gemini Capsules Still Outsourcing to Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Now Measured at Less Than 10 (or Less Than 0.3%): In Geminispace, Let's Encrypt is not commonly used
Twisting Microsoft's Failure (Transmitting Malware) as "SSH Backdoors" and a Linux Problem: Somehow we almost always find that those FUD pieces about "Linux" are based on obvious falsehoods
Vista 11 Has Burned OEMs and Some Move to GNU/Linux: When people can finally avoid Windows (there's no reason to attach it to new PCs) there will be a lot more GNU/Linux users out there
Remember That Microsoft Mass Layoffs Are Imminent Because Its 'Empire' is Falling Apart: European politicians take a long, hard look a Free software
Richard Stallman in the UK This Week, Scheduled to Give Two Public Talks (London and Oxford): Those talks do not cover the same topics
Gemini Links 21/04/2025: April, Autism, and ASN: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 20, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, April 20, 2025