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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 21, 2025

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 19th, 2025

The 223rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 19th, 2025.
Rhino Linux 2025.1 Brings Dynamic Workspaces, Hello Rhino App

The Ubuntu-based Rhino Linux 2025.1 rolls out dynamic workspaces
Linux Kernel 6.13 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Today, Linus Torvalds announced the release and general availability of Linux 6.13, the latest stable kernel version that introduces several new features and improvements, better hardware support, and more.
Our Gemini Capsule is Already Used a Lot [original]

all the same pages albeit in GemText format

New
Videos: Latest in Invidious

GNU/Linux focus
Latest From the Fake Copycat of FSF ("FSFE")

3 blog posts
Announcing the Release of RELIANOID 7.6.0 (Community Edition)

the release of RELIANOID 7.6.0 (Community Edition)
today's leftovers

GNU/Linux and more
Programming Leftovers

Development picks
today's howtos

another batch, some a bit older
today's howtos

only 4 more for now
Kernel and Graphics (Technical)

Linux mostly
Applications: dijo, Ecere SDK, and xcalc

Applications in review
Android Leftovers

Don't slack, just stack: How I tamed my growing Android widget obsession
Distrobox 1.8.1: NVIDIA Integration and Zsh Improvements

Distrobox 1.8.1, a containerized Linux environment, is a bug-fix release that includes fixes for the NVIDIA toolkit
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Review: CentOS 10 Stream

This project, CentOS Linux, was killed off and, in its place, Red Hat set up CentOS Stream
Is Manjaro ARM dead?

Did the Manjaro ARM project die and nobody noticed
today's howtos

many howtos for day's start
Open Hardware/Retro: Commodore 64, Raspberry Pi, and More

hardware picks
today's leftovers

mostly GNU/Linux
Programming Leftovers

Development picks
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Society Will Only Improve Owing to People Who Push Boundaries: Push boundaries with ideas and facts, not with forbidden language
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
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
The "Official" Numbers That Say "Microsoft Layoffs" Will be Misleading: The scale of the layoffs in gaming will be unprecedented
SLAPP Censorship - Part 109 Out of 200: When You Drag Family Members Into a Case Unrelated to Them Because Their Relative Published Something: This did not exactly surprise us given what we had already encountered
SUEPO Munich Informs/Contacts the German Government About the Situation at the European Patent Office (EPO): Salary Erosion Procedure: Two letters to Germany
Gemini Links 17/06/2026: Feeling "Useful"; PISA Pen-and-Paper Cipher: Links for the day
Trajectory of O'Reilly: From Publisher of Books to Microsoft Advertiser: The state of the media is not good and when prolific book publishers start running ads as 'articles' or videos (never mind the disclosure) it is rather tasteless
Links 17/06/2026: Slop's “Crack Cocaine” Approach to Pricing, Microsoft's Rapid Shrinking of Gaming Business: Links for the day
Links 17/06/2026: "How Developers React to Slop-Scented Blog Posts", Police Caught Fabricating Evidence Using Slop: Links for the day
More Than 90% in European Patent Office (EPO) Ballot Vote for Continuation of Industrial Actions/Strikes, About Half Wish to Further Intensify These: Ballot results on intensification of actions
If Not Now, Then When?: If you are not part of the solution/s, then you're merely a vessel or passive participant
Microsoft Offers People 'Retirements' (Again) to Fake (Artificially Lower) Number of Layoffs, Those People Are Nowhere Near Retirement Age: Microsoft implicitly affirms huge cuts are coming
Gemini Links 17/06/2026: 10 Years in Canada, Wild Flower Explorations, and Microslop: Links for the day
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Portuguese Prodigy: In this part we will present some additional background information about Mendonça's activities before he joined the EPO
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 16, 2026: IRC logs for Tuesday, June 16, 2026