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  1. Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux and Linux Matters
    Two new episodes
  2. 4MLinux 47.0 Released with Installation Support for Virtual (KVM) Block Devices
    4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki announced today the release and general availability of 4MLinux 47.0 as the latest stable version of this mini Linux distribution featuring the lightweight JWM window manager.
  3. T2 SDE release version 24.12
    The release contains a total of 2158 changesets, including approximately 3280 package updates, 200 fixed issues, 206 packages or features added and 37 removed and around 20 improvements

    New

  4. Nobara Linux Takes on Fedora With a Custom KDE Plasma Desktop
    Based on Fedora, Nobara is a multimedia user's dream operating system
  5. 2024 Recap: Linux & FOSS Ecosystem’s Highlights
    Discover the biggest Linux updates, top FOSS breakthroughs, and community-driven innovations shaping the open-source landscape in 2024
  6. What will 2025 bring for Linux PCs?
    The year ahead has a lot in store for Linux users
  7. BSD: What Is It, and How Is It Different From Linux?
    BSD Is Dead, Long Live BSD
  8. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS news
  9. Web Leftovers
    Standards and Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG) news
  10. Programming Leftovers
    Development with R and more
  11. Open Hardware Leftovers
    Open Hardware and some gadgets
  12. Applications and Games, WINE
    Wine vs. VMs, gaming, and more
  13. Security and Windows TCO
    Windows TCO and more
  14. Regolith Linux Is a Great Introduction To Tiling Window Managers
    Modern GNU/Linux distribution
  15. Mixxx 2.5.0 Released! It Now Runs in iOS & Web Browser
    Mixxx, the free and open-source DJ software, released new major 2.5.0 version today
  16. Mixxx 2.5 Open-Source DJ App Released with Qt 6 Port, Improved Controller Support
    Mixxx 2.5 has been released as a nice Christmas gift for those who want to use one of the best open-source, free, and cross-platform virtual DJ software for performing live mixes.
  17. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical articles
  18. Games: Star Fox 64, Thrive, and More
    latest from GamingOnLinux
  19. Security Leftovers
    mostly CISA
  20. Perl, Kubuntu, and Mobile GNU/Linux
    today's leftovers
  21. Welcome /e/OS 2.6.3
    We’re thrilled to introduce /e/OS 2.6.3, the latest version of our privacy-first operating system!
  22. NethSecurity project milestone 8.4 (NethSecurity 8.4 is Out
    We are excited to announce the release of NethSecurity project milestone 8.4 with image version 8-23.05.5-ns.1.4.1
  23. Fedora Chooses Forgejo!
    The Fedora Council is pleased to announce that we have chosen Forgejo as the replacement for our git forge
  24. 3 reasons you get more viruses on Windows than on Mac or Linux
    While Windows devices are more prone to malware statistically
  25. What Is Wine for Linux, and How Does It Work?
    Linux is at the peak of its popularity, but it's still an extremely niche desktop operating system
  26. Videos: GNU/Linux and Free Software in Invidious (or YouTube)
    many videos from recent days
  27. Parabolic – tool to download web video and audio
    It’s free and open source software
  28. The 3 most Windows-like Linux distros to try because change is hard
    If you want to keep your machine running smoothly and feeling familiar, check out these Linux distros
  29. This Linux laptop has a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook
    If you're looking for a laptop with Linux pre-installed
  30. today's leftovers
    FOSS and standards
  31. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  32. Open Hardware/Modding: SBCs, ESP32, and More
    Hardware news
  33. Audiocasts/Shows: Bryan Lunduke on Wikipedia, LinDoz Preview, and Late Night Linux
    3 new videos/shows
  34. Canonical/Ubuntu: Weekly Newsletter and What to know when procuring GNU/Linux laptops
    a pair of updates
  35. Debian: free software career, Debian mirrors, dropping the git protocol, and more
    Debian people talking about projects
  36. Distributions and Operating Systems: DR-DOS and EasyOS/OpenEmbedded
    Some OS news
  37. BSD: zpool, OPNsense, and Emulating *BSD on ARM
    BSD picks for today
  38. Security Leftovers
    Security picks
  39. CapyPDF 0.14 is out
    It has required a lot of refactoring work in the color code of Inkscape proper
  40. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  41. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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    587 /n/2024/12/21/CachyOS_Now_Uses_AutoFDO_Kernel_as_Default_Across_All_Supported.shtml
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    508 /n/2024/12/17/Fedora_Asahi_Remix_41_Released_for_Apple_Silicon_Macs_with_KDE_.shtml
    507 /n/2024/12/19/_Kdenlive_24_12_Added_Multiple_Subtitle_Tracks_Removed_Qt5_Supp.shtml
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    507 /n/2024/12/23/today_s_howtos.shtml
    497 /n/2024/12/20/DXVK_2_5_2_Improves_Support_for_Alpha_Protocol_Borderlands_2_an.shtml
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The Word About the Upcoming Talk by Richard Stallman - Scheduled for Friday This Week - Has Spread ("The Cost of Freedom," Lausanne, Switzerland)
So the word is spreading
Microsoft Front Group Starts the Year by Championing Underage (or Child) Labour
the fake 'FSF'
Chatbots Are Not Data-Driven, They're Human-Censored and Rely on Wage Slaves (and Sometimes Unpaid Volunteers)
This is the Microsoft wage slavery
 
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Links for the day
Angola: Microsoft Windows Falls Below 10%
Microsoft has a really bad 2024 in Africa
[Meme] Twitter ("X") Has Been Grooming Radicals Since 2022
Musk's very own "grooming gang"
[Meme] What Free Speech Ought to Mean
It does not sound like RMS suggests anything other than quitting social control media
Gemini Links 13/01/2025: RestFest, Yule, and Deedum
Links for the day
Modern Web Browsers as Web Censorship Software
We continue to recommend Geminispace
Two Weeks From Now Dr. Richard Stallman Speaks at The Summit of Future 2025 (India)
he will be giving a "Keynote Address" in India
Microsoft is Tight With Money: It's About the Salaries ('Cost' of the Workers)
a question of cost, not skill
Google Got People Sort of Addicted to Android So It Can Cash in (Services, App Store, Advertising) Decades Later
This is not software freedom
The Free Software Foundation Reaches 370k Dollars in Funding, Due Date is January 17th When Richard Stallman is Guest of Honour in Lausanne (Switzerland)
Even fellow board members seem unaware of it
Record Lows for Windows (Microsoft) in Botswana
The market share of Vista 11 is seen as going down
Preserving Deleted Articles About Bill Gates Talking Like a Drug Dealer About Computer Users
Now it's 2025. Different challenge.
Links 13/01/2025: Disinformation, Social Control Media Actively Promoting Nazism, and Catchup With Ukraine
Links for the day
TPM Boosters Inside Debian (TPM Isn't About Security, It is About Control Over Users and Their Machines)
We're not rushing to any conclusions
Aaron Swartz Died 12 Years Ago After a Vicious Government Campaign to Stop Him
The Aaron Swartz story is a reminder of the importance of having verifiable/verified information out there for the general public to see
Links 13/01/2025: GitLab Enshittification and Minimalism and Efficiency with Gemini Protocol
Links for the day
Links 13/01/2025: Hardware, Health, and Conflicts
Links for the day
Microsoft Appears to Have Fallen to Only 15% in Maldives
This is a problem for Microsoft
Rumours of IBM Canada Layoffs
We'll keep a vigilant eye on this
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 12, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, January 12, 2025
Bots Covering Debian Releases
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Gemini Links 12/01/2025: No Country For Old Men, Burned Homes, and "Planet P is Clean"
Links for the day
Slopwatch: Brittany Day and Brian Fagioli Are Still at It, Googlebombing "Linux" With LLM Slop (Taking Away Traffic From the Articles They're Plagiarising)
Some more sites that used to cover GNU/Linux have turned into slopfarms
Links 12/01/2025: Microsoft Admits It's Laying Off Staff Only Where Staff is "Expensive" (Race to the Bottom)
Links for the day
[Meme] Being High on Drugs Isn't Happiness (Likewise, Being a "Star" in Social Control Media is Temporary)
Many entities - or people - will regret telling everybody "follow me on Twitter"
[Meme] They Say That RMS Says the "F" Word (Freedom) Too Much...
About 32.7k US dollars are now left for the FSF to raise (in 6 days)
Links 12/01/2025: More Sanctions Against Russia, SCOTUS Signals Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban Will Stay
Links for the day
[Meme] A Jihad Against Servers the User Controls
We need to strive for and work towards greater control by users over "their" servers
Microsoft Azure-Only Bugs in "Linux" Can "Compromise the System."
From ubuntu.com and linux.org a few days ago
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 11, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, January 11, 2025
Gemini Links 12/01/2025: DHL Express Does Not Deliver, Oddmuse Update
Links for the day
Links 11/01/2025: Social Control Media Facing Sanctions, Carter Respected at Funeral
Links for the day
If TikTok (China) Has the Rights of American Persons, Then ByteDance Can be Sentenced to Death
TikTok - like Julian Assange - does not enjoy any protections of the First Amendment and since it's not a person it would lack these protections as an American company, too
After a Year of Layoffs in Microsoft Nigeria (and Microsoft in Africa at Large) Windows Falls to New Lows and Bing Falls to 0.46% "Market Share"
Of course Microsoft gave bribes in Nigeria to suppress GNU/Linux adoption
An Important Lesson About Patents and Patent Maximalism (They Drive People and Companies Away)
This previously happened in Texas, where companies perceived their presence (in any form) to be a liability as patent trolls could drag them to friendly courts and win "damages"
When It Comes to Fentanylware (TikTok), a Digital Weapon of a Hostile Entity, Common Dreams is Jumping the Shark Again (Years After It Ran Out of Steam or Money)
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BetaNews is Now Officially a Spamfarm With Phantom Authors and Fake Text (SPAM and Linkspam Made With LLM Slop)
That's it, the site is virtually dead now (maybe that was the plan all along)
Hazem Abbas of medevel is Ruining His Site With LLM Slop
Some of his articles are original, but now everything is suspect
[Meme] Real and Fake (or "several influential "open source" organizations [which] have come to be dominated by large companies")
The Free Software Foundation has not sold out
Free Software Foundation: Anchoring the FSF in its values
Original by Free Software Foundation
GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time Highs in Greenland, Windows Sinks to All-Time Lows
a lot of GNU/Linux gets detected there lately
Microsoft's "Donald Trump First" Doctrine
national deficits growing
Microsoft in Trouble as Azure Breaks and Only Days After Promising Investment in "Datacentres" Construction of Actual Datacentres Paused (Expect More Azure Layoffs Very Soon)
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Gemini Links 11/01/2025: Wildfire, Militia and the Mole, IRC vs Social Control Media
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 10, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, January 10, 2025