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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 13, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Future Ubuntu Releases Will Ship with the Latest and Greatest Linux Kernel

   Canonical has finally given up and changed its policy for kernel version selection on Ubuntu releases, finally delivering the latest and greatest Linux kernel series starting with Ubuntu 24.10 in October 2024.

   New

2. Python Bans Prominent Dev for Enjoying the Wrong Old SNL Sketch

   I could find no example of Tim Peters actually "Defending Reverse Racism" anyway. This appears to be made up entirely, as far as I can tell.

3. Audiocasts/Shows: This Week in Linux and Many Videos

   Mostly Invidious

4. EU Funding for Free Software

   Comments by Google-funded front group

5. BSD, Linux, and games

   today's leftovers

6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

   FOSS picks and some DB stuff

7. Programming Leftovers

   Programming related picks

8. Chromium (With Rust Complexity) Makes Life Harder for Slackware (un-Googled) and Chrome+Clones Have Malicious Features Other Than Google's and Microsoft's

   getting worse over time

9. today's howtos

   many howtos for today

10. Security Leftovers

    Security related stories

11. Donald Trump and Local Governments Hit by Microsoft/Windows TCO

    despite media spin

12. Android Leftovers

    Does Galaxy Ring work with non-Samsung Android phones

13. Free and Open Source Software

    containerd is an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity

14. Canaima – Venezuelan desktop based distribution

    Canaima Linux is a Venezuelan desktop distribution based on Debian

15. Review: TrueNAS 24.04.2 "SCALE"

    TrueNAS is an operating system (or family of operating systems) sponsored by iXsystems for network attached storage systems

16. The colors of GTK

    Everything is better in color. Even better if it is HDR

17. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 11th, 2024

    The 200th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 11th, 2024.

18. GameBar Overlay: A Linux Alternative to Microsoft Game Bar

    Discover a new GameBar Overlay GNOME extension for the GNOME DE that offers a similar experience to Microsoft's Game Bar, but for Linux.

19. Linux 6.11-rc3

    Nothing particularly strange or interesting going on, things look normal

20. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

21. Security and Windows TCO

    Especially Windows TCO

22. Software and Debian Activities

    Some more Free and non-free software

23. Programming Leftovers

    Programming related

24. Open Hardware and Retro: PineTime, Pi, and Video Game Preservation

    hardware picks

25. Audiocasts/Shows: Talk by Aleix Pol and GNU World Order

    2 new shows/presentations

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