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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 13, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Android Leftovers
    Google improving integration between Android phones and tablets
  2. Brazil and India (Combined Population of Nearly 1.7 Billion People) Topping Records for GNU/Linux Usage [original]
    more interesting to us (today at least) is Brazil
  3. GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time High in Spain This Month [original]
    GNU/Linux has smashed through 3% in Spain for the first time this month
  4. Sooner or Later One in Ten Laptops (or Desktops) in the UK Will Run GNU/Linux [original]
    GNU/Linux at 7.2% in the UK this month (including ChromeOS, which sells well around here and is available in most stores)

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  5. UBports Is Switching to a Fixed-Release Model for Ubuntu Touch OTA Updates
    The UBports Foundation announced that they plan to switch to a fixed-release model for future OTA (Over-the-Air) updates for their Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system.
  6. Rhino Linux Development Temporarily Paused
    Rhino Linux development is on hold to address burnout and improve sustainability - a step towards a healthier team environment
  7. The best Linux distros for 2024
    Linux has options for beginners, power users, and everything in between
  8. Best Free and Open Source Goodness
    To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available
  9. today's leftovers
    software, hardware, and more
  10. Kodi 20.4 "Nexus" - Release
    It looks like one last hurrah was premature for the "Nexus" line: we find ourselves back again already, this time with a new 20.4 release
  11. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    incidents and more
  12. Programming Leftovers
    4 coding related picks
  13. today's howtos
    quite a few Monday picks
  14. Sparky 2024.02 Rolls Out New Features and Kernel Updates
    Sparky Linux 2024.02: New kernels, Pipewire 1.0.3, and improved CLI installer for better file system compatibility
  15. SparkyLinux 2024.02 Improves CLI Installer, Adds More Debian Trixie Updates
    SparkyLinux 2024.02 has been released today as another snapshot in the semi-rolling series of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution leveraging the Debian Testing repositories.
  16. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 11th, 2024
    The 174th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 11th, 2024
  17. Linux 6.8-rc4
    halfway there now
  18. Ubuntu Core Desktop Debut No Longer Planned for April
    Ubuntu Core Desktop will not be released alongside Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in April, as originally hoped
  19. Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews
    Tab previews are in the works for a future release of Mozilla Firefox
  20. Review: Adelie Linux 1.0 Beta
    Adelie Linux is a fairly young project, but one I've been hearing people talk about recently
  21. Affordable Radxa ZERO 3W Featuring Up to 8GB RAM and Onboard eMMC Storage
    It supports Debian, Ubuntu, and other Linux distributions, and meets CE and FCC standards
  22. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  23. today's leftovers
    Microsoft, KDE, Python, and more
  24. TechTarget/ComputerWeekly on Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Versus Openwashing
    Some openwash and FOSS analysis
  25. New Lists of Applications for GNU/Linux and/or Free Software
    a sea of new lists
  26. today's howtos
    howtos from the past week or so
  27. Open source originator: 'We have failed’
    Failing to pay developers has led to corporate takeover, says Bruce Perens

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVIII - Microsoft is Not the Victim (It Was Never the Victim), It's Just DARVO
"DARVO is now in the dictionary. That’s a win for abuse survivors"
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVII - The Relevance of Silent Layoffs at Microsoft
"Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act: strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs)"
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVI - The Faustian Pact That Irritates Hired Guns is Still a Distraction From the Serious Harm Done by Their Clients to GNU/Linux Users (Notably Plagiarism and Back Doors)
We'd rather talk about the harms caused
Microsoft 'Buyouts' Sound Just Like 60,000 Layoffs of 'Expensive' or More Experienced Staff ('Soft' Layoffs or Even Worse, Negligible Severance)
This is not a "gift" to staff, it's just a pink slip with a hundred dollar bill attached to it
 
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Links for the day
The British Economy Too Dependent on an American Slop Scheme
United States Government debt will soon eclipse 40.5 trillion dollars
We've Already Begun Work on the 20th Year of Techrights
We'll do a yearlong endeavour of improvement instead of a one-day hurrah
Volunteers or Unpaid Developers Won't Bother Interacting With Mindless LLMs That Pass Labour From Lazy Companies to Human Beings
The people who run Debian are killing the will to do Free software
Slop is Killing the Open Web
The Web is a jungle and "open sites" (without restrictions or walls) are exposed to the 'feeding frenzy' of reckless plagiarists who call their "theft" something like "super intelligence" or "training"
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 26, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, October 26, 2026
As Microsoft Tells Close to 30% of Its Staff to Leave IBM Takes Notes
IBM does the same with PIPs
It's Perfectly Possible That Microsoft Has Just Told Most of Its American Workers to Leave
A better news headline might focus on the US and give a figure like 50%, not "quarter"
Richard Stallman Was Right About "Hey Hi"
Now the chicken come home to roost
Gemini Links 27/10/2026: "To Change or Not To Change?" and "Initial Planner Plans"
Links for the day
Links 26/10/2026: Microsoft Chaffbot "Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users", Man Executed for Childhood Offenses
Links for the day
Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Writing Down Dreams and "Sabbath as Resistance"
Links for the day
The Register MS Gets Rid of Disclosures About Paid-for Spam Regarding "AI", It Also Composes Fake News for the Sponsors
Selling away its credibility is known as "Sellout"
This is How Microsoft Ends (Over a Quarter of the Company Now on the Chopping Block)
Microsoft has quit pretending
Search Without Encryption for Legacy Systems (Permacomputing) and Full Backward Compatibility
At your own risk
Shift to the Lula (Left)
Lula is a friend of Free software and ODF
More Stories and Material Than We Can Publish
We're gaining or have amassed material faster than we manage to publish
European Patent Office Takes From the Poor to Give More to the Rich
The "pension schemes are overfunded at 120.5%"
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XV - Annualised Consequences for Opposing Microsoft Back Doors in Linux Since 2012
a roundup of what we got from GGG
Links 26/10/2026: China’s Communist Party Plenum and Aleksandar Vucic Concedes Defeat
Links for the day
In Reporting, Timing is Everything
If you keep calling people "paedophiles" when you yourself are connected to paedophiles (or are a paedophile), you're attracting a lot of unwanted attention to yourself
Links 25/10/2026: Microsoft Layoffs and Cuts, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wins Election
Links for the day
Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Brazilian Politics and Leaving Bear Blog
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 25, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, October 25, 2026
Another Form of Microsoft Silent Layoffs: Workers That 'Expire'
When the media becomes a lapdog, not a watchdog, false narratives gain traction
Carte Blanche for GPL Violations 4 Days Ago (by Torvalds)
Slop disclosure is no longer required for the Linux Kernel
There Are No Women That Are Kernel Developers Sent by Corporations Which Claim to Champion Diversity
As noted the other day
Sites with "Linux" in Their Name Cannot Slop and Retain Readers
if they write about "linux "(or "Linux") using LLMs they will be caught, then shunned
At Microsoft, the Silent Layoffs Impact Executives Also
Microsoft hid the real story of Helen Chiang
Linus Torvalds Defected to Enshittification
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Links 25/10/2026: TMZ Revisits Epstein's Connections to Bill Epsteingate, "Italy Hit by New Cost of Living Protests"
Links for the day
Microsoft’s Spin About Mass Layoffs and Shutdowns: They "Never Should Have Existed"
Microsoft-sponsored spin
It's Slop
Maybe we'll exclude It's Slop from our curation. It's a Linux Foundation outpost of sorts, an apologist of sloppy code and plagiarism.
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XIV - Six Years of Learning Irish, But the Real Issue Was Microsoft-controlled 'Secure' (Restricted) Boot
Had I not opposed back doors in Linux, not of this would come about
Gemini Links 25/10/2026: Moana (2026) and OpenBSD Updates
Links for the day
The Netherlands Fast to Adopt GNU/Linux, "Market Share" Rises to Two-Digit Value (on Desktops/Laptops)
It peaked at around 20% yesterday
DST Still Needs to Get Abolished
Get rid of DST, efficiency will improve and systems will become more reliable
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PHP2Shell considered overhyped [...] Remember all the paid-for hype regarding Mythos? What happened to all that?
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Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
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IRC logs for Saturday, October 24, 2026