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Updated This Past Day

  1. GNU/Linux and ChromeOS in Sweden: A High at 15% [original]
    huge increases
  2. Greek GNU/Linux: Grok the Freedom, Over 10% This Month [original]
    Desktop Operating System Market Share Greece - Jan 2009 - Feb 2024
  3. Google targets Windows refugees with ChromeOS Flex
    Google has announced a solution for businesses facing the end of support for Windows 10 next year
  4. System76: Closing in on a COSMIC Alpha
    We’re on approach towards an alpha version of the new COSMIC desktop environment for Pop!_OS and other distros
  5. Slimbook Launches Manjaro Gaming Edition Laptop
    Powered by Intel Core i7-13620H and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, Slimbook Manjaro is a great gaming laptop for Linux enthusiasts
  6. Twitter (X) Rotting [original]
    Twitter (X) is a waste of time
  7. Freedom-Centric GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in the United States: 4% [original]
    Whether or not it is accurate, which is a reasonable concern, the trends are quite telling

    New

  8. Microsoft and Apple: More Layoffs and Problems
    some misc. links
  9. Events and Free Software
    today's FOSS picks
  10. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux focused
  11. Security Leftovers
    banks at peril and latest from CISA
  12. today's howtos
    mostly from the past week
  13. Latest From Perl Programming Hub
    perl.org's latest
  14. Linux hardware maker Juno Computers releases 17-inch Saturn 17 v5 laptop with Intel i7-13620H, Geforce RTX 4000 GPUs and Ubuntu
    Juno Computer's new Saturn 17 v5 notebook is now available to order with a 17.3-inch 2K display
  15. Shows and Videos: The Linux Link Tech Show and Lots From Invidious (Past Week)
    many new videos
  16. Programming Leftovers
    regressions, R, and more
  17. Security Leftovers
    mostly incidents and holes in this batch
  18. Kernel, Security, and Mesa
    kernel level stuff and SELinux
  19. today's howtos
    a handful more
  20. UNOFFICIAL antiX-23 “init-diversity” spin.
    not systemd
  21. Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop Installer Changes [First Look]
    As part of work on the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 release
  22. Digi IX40 5G edge computing industrial IoT cellular gateway is designed for Industry 4.0 use cases
    The IIoT gateway is based on an NXP i.MX 8M Plus Arm processor running a custom Linux distribution
  23. today's leftovers
    Ubuntu, programming, and more
  24. Applications: XDM, HandBrake, and Power Profiles Daemon
    Three DOSS stories, GNU/Linux focus
  25. Security Leftovers
    Security links for now, more to come later
  26. today's howtos
    many howtos for the afternoon
  27. New krita.org website launched
    After a lot of work, we moved our website to a new Hugo based platform
  28. Red Hat Leftovers
    a few bits from the "official" sites/sources
  29. Driving into the Absurd: Imagining a Smartphone-esque Auto Industry
    Imagine stepping into a world where the automotive industry has taken a wild turn, mirroring the smartphone market’s quirks and monopolies
  30. Games: Helldivers 2, Capcom, and More
    4 articles by Liam Dawe
  31. 4MLinux 44.1 STABLE released.
    This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 6.1.69.
  32. ExTiX Deepin 24.2 Live based on Deepin 23 BETA 3 (latest) with Refracta Snapshot and kernel 6.7.4-amd64-extix :: Build 240209
    I’ve released a new version of ExTiX Deepin today (240209)
  33. GhostBSD 24.01.1 Now Available
    bugfixes
  34. Android Leftovers
    10 Of The Best Android Smartphones Ever Released
  35. Machine Learning in Linux: Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit adds text recognition
    This is free and open source software
  36. Microchip Launches Affordable PolarFire SoC Kit, Expanding Access to RISC-V and FPGA for Embedded Engineers
    The PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit is centered around a quad-core, 64-bit RISC-V processor, optimized for Linux and real-time applications
  37. More About Thunderbird And Mozilla Firefox
    A new year, a new progress report
  38. Closing in on a COSMIC Alpha
    We’re on approach towards an alpha version of the new COSMIC desktop environment for Pop!_OS and other distros
  39. today's leftovers
    applications, servers, and more
  40. Red Hat Leftovers
    and RHEL too
  41. Microsoft, Proprietary Stuff, and Chatbots
    Mostly Microsoft though
  42. Programming Leftovers
    Python, Java, R, and more
  43. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  44. Security Leftovers
    another handful of links
  45. today's howtos
    only a handful for now
  46. GNU/Linux in Denmark: Market Share Has Doubled in a Year, Now Tops 8% on Desktops and Laptops [original]
    this isn't a matter of being "too poor" to pay Apple and/or Microsoft
  47. Mixxx 2.4 Open-Source DJ Software Released with Major Changes
    Mixxx 2.4 open-source, free, and cross-platform DJ software designed to give you all the tools you need to perform live mixes arrived today as a major update that adds major new features and improvements.
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Real Security Elusive, Microsoft Layoffs to Coincide With Certificate Apocalypse
July 1
2026 is a Year of Strikes at the European Patent Office (EPO)
As it stands at the moment, to many people the EPO represents crime, not law
Only 1.5% Oppose the European Patent Office's (EPO) Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Until 2027
Among those polled/surveyed (in a ballot)
 
Microsoft Insiders - Not Limited to XBox - Expect a 'Bloodbath' (Their Own Word)
This isn't limited to XBox
Reports of "PIP" as Means of Mass Layoffs at IBM This Year
some insights into the PIPs
SLAPP Censorship - Part 112 Out of 200: Strangles Women, Then Refuses to Even Attend Any of His Own Hearings About It
It is meanwhile very apparent that Brett Wilson LLP is becoming a "mench sphere"
Gemini Links 20/06/2026: "There Was Never Supposed to Be a Camera" and "What Is A Programming Language"?
Links for the day
Geminispace Reaches Its 8th Year, Today It Has Turned 7
Gemini Protocol 'went live' 7 years ago, just before the COVID-19 pandemic
Links 20/06/2026: "Full Page Paralysis" and "Hopes For Xbox’s Future Might Be Over Before It Even Begins"
Links for the day
European Patent Office's (EPO) Strikes "at a Scale not Seen Since Battistelli", European Patent Grants Down by Over 25% in Past 3 Months
The actions are effective
Links 20/06/2026: Microsoft's "Year of Shame" and "Feed the Writers"
Links for the day
Web Browsers Are Technically Bloatware (No Matter What Runs in Them)
Don't make it a society that shames people into using a Web browser where none should be needed
Fedora Has Changed a Lot Since I Last Used It (IBM Dominates Almost Everything, IBM Agenda Displaces Community Goals)
"It is effectively 100% run by Red Hat/IBM employed people... even when they are community-elected representatives."
Andy (Cyber Show) on His Teacher Who "Squeezed Every Last Drop Out of Life, With Gratitude, Humility, Generosity and Mettle"
Some call them "eccentric" and are dismissive about what they have to offer
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 19, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, June 19, 2026
Gopher/Gemini Links 20/06/2026: Slop With Tcl/Tk and Nokia 770 Perishes
Links for the day
SLAPP Censorship - Part 111 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley (the Latter Arrested for Strangling Women) Keep Ousting Their Collaboration in Litigation, Lawfare in a Foreign Continent
it's not law, it's just warfare disguised as "law"
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Lobbying in Lisbon...
reappointment campaign lobbying has not been restricted to the "home front" in Portugal
Slop Making Its Way Into Terms Where It Does Not Belong
Hopefully by year's end Google News can successfully cull (and deprive of traffic) almost all slopfarms
Links 19/06/2026: Microsoft Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures in Europe, "World Cup of Internet Resilience"
Links for the day
Links 19/06/2026: Salesforce Data Thefts and GAFAM's Conspiracy Theories That Data Center Opposition is a Foreign Plot
Links for the day
Links 19/06/2026: The Retweeting Class and Data Centres as National Security Risk
Links for the day
Don't Attack the Wives (or Spouses) of Pundits/Activists/Journalists
We will be writing several series about this in the future
Society Will Only Improve Owing to People Who Push Boundaries
Push boundaries with ideas and facts, not with forbidden language
Internet Relay Chat (Shorthand IRC) is Still Growing
Contrariwise, social control media is waning
The Register MS Published a New Page With "AI" 21 Times in It. It Was Paid SPAM.
The former editor of the The Register MS admitted to me (directly) that he knew all this "AI" stuff was stupid hype
Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Associates Dependence on a Ponzi Scheme With "the Future"
Those ludicrous ads (disguised as rankings) from WSJ deserve scorn and ridicule
The XBox Story is Still Fast-Developing, the Layoffs Are Confirmed to be Happening Already (Mid-June), Just Not "Officially"
Workers have Microsoft have long braced for what is happening this summer and will accelerate further in two weeks' time
Fake News From Rupert Murdoch's WSJ Could Not Keep IBM From Sinking
"2026 Best Companies for the Future"?
To GNU, AV2 Adoption May be a Year If Not Years Away
The leap between versions means that there is fertile ground for incompatibilities
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 18, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, June 18, 2026
Gemini Links 19/06/2026: "Born and Raised by the Internet", Fifteen Years in Gopher
Links for the day
Links 18/06/2026: Clown Computing Has Harmful Sound, Facebook "Must Face the Music (Infringement Litigation)"
Links for the day
Digital Sovereignty Discussed in the United Kingdom (UK)
Digital Sovereignty would be nice, but let's remember what contributes to it
IBM Adds Only More IBM Staff to the Fedora Council, They Like LLM Slop for Posting 'Articles'
It's like Canonical with Ubuntu, only worse
IBM Common Stock Down to About $250, It Was at $330 Just 17 Days Ago
Happy birthday IBM!
Microsoft's CEO Openly Admits XBox is Not Sustainable and Microsoft is Beginning to Admit Slop Isn't Working and Is Not Not Sustainable Either
Expect Microsoft cancellations next month (or later this month) to impact far more than XBox and some studios
EPO and Disabilities: Payments Allegedly Disabled
But people who do cocaine can claim paid "sick leave" (over 100,000 euros for no work at all) if the President sleeps with them
SLAPP Censorship - Part 110 Out of 200: Anti-SLAPP Reform Formally Advanced in the United Kingdom (UK) the Same Week the Serial Strangler From Microsoft (US) Does Forum-Shopping in the UK
The only language they understand is money. They don't understand privacy.
Links 18/06/2026: UK Social Media Ban for Minors, Finland Lifts a Nuclear Weapons Ban
Links for the day
'Article' With "AI" 27 Times in the Page, It's "Partner Content" (Paid Spam) as Usual at The Register MS
We deem this a timely reminder that a lot of the hype around slop is paid-for lies
Microsoft Layoffs Have Reportedly Already Started at ZeniMax
The overall scale is unknown
Cyber Show: "Our independence remains intact and we're set to continue relentlessly probing the world of digital technology with hard questions"
As one should
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Leveraging the Lusitanian Connection
Mendonça no longer functions as an independent agent but rather as a fig-leaf for a mafia-like entity that prizes obedience over integrity and self-preservation over truth
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 17, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, June 17, 2026