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  1. Ubuntu: Newsletter, Repositories, and Microsoft Spyware
    Some Ubuntu picks
  2. IBM LinuxONE 4 Express and Ubuntu Server drive data centre performance and economics
    Canonical is pleased to announce that Ubuntu Server is optimised and fully supported on IBM LinuxONE 4 Express

    New

  3. today's leftovers
    LF, FSF-EEE, and OpenSUSE
  4. Android Leftovers
    Ayaneo reveals details of new Android gaming handheld set to rival the Ayn Odin2
  5. OS 8 Now Available in Early Access
    I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now installable
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Raku and more
  7. Best Linux Distro for Gaming – Top Distros for Enhanced Linux Gaming Experience
    Thanks to the big push made by Valve
  8. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino Uno, ESP32-S2, and 3D Printing
    4 projects or stories
  9. Security Leftovers
    flaws, patches, and more
  10. A Complete Guide to Xubuntu Default Apps and Their Purposes
    This is a full list of all Xubuntu default applications
  11. Review: wattOS R13
    wattOS wattOS is a fast and lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Debian
  12. OKdo ROCK 5 AIO Edge Media Board with 3 TOPs NPU and Pre-integrated AI Stack
    The board runs on the Debian 10 LTS operating system, providing a mature and actively developed software environment
  13. European Events: Hackaday Europe 2024 and FOSDEM 2024
    4 reports/invitationss
  14. Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
    corporate and technical articles from Red Hat
  15. GNU/Linux Applications: FSearch, Note Taking, and Lux
    5 new articles about software
  16. Audiocasts/Shows: WordPress Briefing, Late Night Linux, Linux User Space, Destination Linux, and LINUX Unplugged
    5 new episodes
  17. today's howtos
    many howtos for Tuesday
  18. Why the future of manufacturing will rely on open source
    Let’s look at a few examples of how Red Hat is working with our ecosystem to put this effort into action
  19. Open Hardware/Modding: How I Also Hacked my Car and Raspberry Pi Project
    Some devices and hacking
  20. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and the World Wide Web
    Web-centric news picks
  21. Programming Leftovers
    many picks for this week
  22. Windows TCO Leftovers
    3 Windows TCO examples
  23. today's howtos
    morning batch of howtos
  24. Android Leftovers
    Google Maps is now bringing 3D buildings during navigation to more Android Auto users
  25. Beyond 2038: Debian Strengthens 32-Bit Builds with Critical Patches
    No worries. Your 32-bit packages won't break after 2038 since the Debian team already started working on it.
  26. IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 182 released
    The first update of the year 2024 is out: IPFire 2.27
  27. Stable kernels: Linux 6.7.4, Linux 6.6.16, and Linux 6.1.77
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.7.4 kernel
  28. These two old-school music players for Linux let me fine-tune my listening experience
    Both Clementine and Qmmp include 10-band EQs
  29. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Advocacy of Software Freedom Changed, LUGs Became Less Relevant
The way we see it, support groups like LUGs sort of outlived their usefulness when it became easier to install GNU/Linux
For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Microsoft Lunduke Makes False Accusations Against Senior Red Hat Staff to Incite a Despicable 'Troll Army'
Nothing that Microsoft Lunduke claims or says can be trusted
Compromised by NVIDIA Proprietary Library
Meanwhile in Boston there are "[r]oundtable talk with FSF volunteers (both in-person and online)"
How Software Patents Were Viewed or Their General Status Changed Over Time
A rough summary
 
Watch the FSF Party Live (via Livestream)
It's in WebM format, which is widely supported by now
When Microsoft "Integrates" Something With "AI" It Means It's Losing Money and Is Generally Hopeless
how did Bing fare after 36 months of LLM slop being hyped up as "replacement" for search?
Most Certificates Don't Improve Security, They Mostly Increase Downtime (for No Good Reason)
The 'Gemini sites' (capsules) are a growing force
The statCounter Site Has Data Integrity Problems
Maybe we'll get back to statCounter when its data becomes more "stable" again
10 Ways to Combat Software Patents
software patents are loathed also by proprietary software developers
"Just a Little Bit of Meat..."
Free software "absolutism" is not a radical stance, more so if the only "radical" belief the user possesses is that he or she must be in control of his or her software, and by extension his or her computer
Red Hat is Ignoring the Free Software Community, It's a "Fortune 1000" Vendor
Red Hat's blog also participates a lot in promoting of Wall Street's latest pump-and-dump "AI" scheme
Free Software Foundation Party Has Begun
We shall be focusing a lot on software patents today
Former Head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lina Khan Knows Whatever Microsoft Touches Will Die
Just like Skype (as recently as months ago) [...] When Microsoft grabs things, or when it buys things, it almost never ends well
Slopwatch: Fake Articles About LibreOffice in Austria and Wine 10.16
very short
Links 04/10/2025: "attempted Coup" Noted in Facebook, Russia Kills Journalists via Drones
Links for the day
Gemini Links 04/10/2025: Anesthesia and Baudpunk
Links for the day
Links 04/10/2025: "Privacy Harm Is Harm", Criticism Outlawed in US
Links for the day
Garmin Uses Linux for Some of the Garmin Products, Now It's Sued by Strava Using Software Patents
Software patents should never have been granted in the first place
Richard Stallman Will Give a Talk in Sweden in 6 Days
Dr. Stallman, despite his battle with cancer is still alive and mentally sharp
FSF Turns 40
We'll be focusing on patent-related topics this weekend
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 03, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, October 03, 2025
Gemini Links 04/10/2025: Distro Hopping and "Part Time"
Links for the day
We Are Turning 19 in One Month, FSF Turns 40 in 3 Hours (CET)
For our anniversary next month we still have no concrete plans
Patent Docs (or PatentDocs) Learned the Wrong Lessons From the Death of TypePad
Had they gone ahead with an SSG, they'd become a lot more future-proof
USPTO Patent Bubble Already Imploding, After Decades of Artificial Inflation, Entire Offices Close for Good
we can deduce that financial pressures (lack of "demand" for monopolies) play a role
TikTok is Not Harmless (Being CheeTok in the US Will Advance Orange Agenda)
Social control media isn't "fun and games"; it's a digital weapon that lets hostile groups or nations infiltrate others, then turn them against themselves
Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Explain What "Modern" Tech Does to Old People
Imposing terrible tech "religion" on people is not helping them
Tomorrow the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 and Its Web Site is Still Slow Due to DDoS by LLM Slop Bots
For an advocacy group, uptime is important (for its message to remain accessible)
Slopwatch: Google News as a Firehose of LLM Slop About "Linux"
Google News is really bad
Datamation, Where I Used to Publish Articles, Appears to Have Been Sold to TechnologyAdvice Only to Become a Slopfarm
I'd prefer to not associate with that site anymore
Links 03/10/2025: "NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin" and Canada Post at Risk
Links for the day
Gemini Links 03/10/2025: Panic Attacks and Food Adulteration
Links for the day
Links 03/10/2025: Lawyers Caught Using LLM Slop Explain Why They Did It, LibreSSL 4.1.1 and 4.0.1 Released
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FSF Board Grew 50% Since Last Year, Has New President, Turns 40 in Two Days
It's a good move for the FSF and - by extension - for software freedom
Links 03/10/2025: Conflicts, Death of TypePad, and TikTok/CheeTok Gives a Boost to Far Right Groups in Europe
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 02, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, October 02, 2025
Slopwatch: Linux Journal, Google News, and LinuxSecurity
They carry on polluting the Web with fake articles
Gemini Links 02/10/2025: Kubernetes With FreeBSD and robots.txt
Links for the day
Links 02/10/2025: 'Open' 'AI' Resorting to Gimmicks and Fake Funding, Europe’s ‘Drone Wall’ Discussed
Links for the day
Links 02/10/2025: Brave Passes 100M Users Milestone, Kodak Selling Its Own Film Again
Links for the day
Michael “Monty” Widenius: It Started in 1983 With Richard Stallman (RMS)
The other co-founder of MySQL is a bit notorious for confronting RMS rather viciously
su lisa && rm -rf /home/ibm/power
Novell was ruined by another person from IBM, Ronald Hovsepian
A Record Demand at Microsoft: Demand to Cancel
What we're witnessing is a very ungraceful destruction of XBox
Microsoft is Losing Europe
Hence all the "support" and "discount" offers that are limited to Europe
The Free Software Foundation Starts Fund-raising for 40th Anniversary
New pop-up 2-3 days ahead of the 40th anniversary event
Systemd Breaks Networking in Debian and Microsoft Staff Rushes to Make Face-Saving Excuses in LWN
Microsoft's bluca is already there in the comments, his Microsoft money pays for LWN to let him leave comments early
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 01, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, October 01, 2025
What the End of XBox Will Look Like: a Fiery Crash
XBox is the next Skype. It won't last much longer. Expect many more layoffs.
Richard Stallman is Going to Finland to Give a Talk Next Thursday
A day later he speaks in Sweden
Gemini Links 02/10/2025: SMTP Pipelining and End of ROOPHLOCH 2025
Links for the day