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Arch Linux-Based EndeavourOS Mercury Lands with Linux Kernel 6.13 and Xfce 4.20

The EndeavourOS team announced today the release and general availability for download of EndeavourOS Mercury as the latest stable version of this Arch Linux-based distro featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment.
today's leftovers

GNU/Linux and more
Games: MAME Update and a GNU/Linux Ban

a pair of picks about games
FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025 and More BSD Leftovers

BSD picks
Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Laptops, and More

Hardware picks
Programming Leftovers

Development related news
GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems: OSMC Deprecating Vero 4K and 4K+ and GNU/Linux Distros Optimised for Handheld Devices

a pair of articles
today's howtos

only 3 howtos for now
Applications: Qalculate, k0rdent, 8 Types of Linux Terminal Programs

Applications in a nutshell
Events/Education: Emacs Meetup, FOSDEM, and PGConf

event coverage
Free and Open Source Software

It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix players
Slint – blind-friendly Linux distribution

Slint is an easy-to-use, versatile, blind-friendly Linux distribution for 64-bit computers
Review: Serpent OS 0.24.6 and Aurora

A few weeks ago a colleague messaged me and asked about my opinion on Serpent OS
Linux 6.14-rc2

just out
today's leftovers

only 3 more for now
Latest in Linux Gizmos: Raspberry Pi CM4 Carrier, CM5, BeagleBoard, ESP32-H2 Thread/Zigbee Gateway Module

Open Hardware/Modding leftovers
today's howtos

today's first batch
Games: MakuluLinux GameR, Steam Deck, and More

gaming-related news
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 9th, 2025

The 226th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 9th, 2025.

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

Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

Span from 2025-02-04 to 2025-02-10
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684	/n/2025/01/28/Facebook_Censors_GNU_Linux_Advocacy.shtml
635	/n/2025/02/04/Someone_got_Linux_running_inside_a_PDF_file_because_its_users_a.shtml

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Linux is Sabotaged by Botspam and Bloat (de Facto Denial of Service Attack in "Intelligence" Clothing After Rust in "Security" Clothing): Linux is becoming orphaned, devalued and diluted by GAFAM slop
Switzerland No Longer Wants Microsoft's 'Swiss Cheese' (Back Doors): Switzerland's patience with Microsoft is wearing thin
Debian is Not a Community, Many Debian Developers Work for Large Companies Including GAFAM (US): "Community" sounds like friendship and amicability
Links 08/09/2026: Slop Companies Attack Some More Sites, Nvidia Bribes 'Linux' Foundation for Some More Openwashing and for Saying Slop is "Secure": Links for the day
Gemini Links 08/09/2026: Ultra Introverts, BlackBerry Bold in 2026, and Laughing at LLMs: Links for the day
Microsoft Layoffs in October 2026: Microsoft is a market leader. In NDAs.
Links 08/09/2026: "The Green Revolution Has Failed Africa" and Palantir/Microsoft Harming NHS: Links for the day
Microsoft's Silent Layoffs Are the New Normal at Microsoft: Microsoft has a ton of layoffs all the time, but the media isn't mentioning those as no WARN notices get issued
SLAPP Censorship - Part 175 Out of 200: Implicit and Explicit Coalition Against the UK's SLAPP Industry: SRA recognises the problem
Further Transparency Problems at the EPO: The EPO was never meant to be profitable
Gemini Links 08/09/2026: "Everything Must Go", Announcing Perigee, and Presentations in a Browser: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 07, 2026: IRC logs for Monday, September 07, 2026
Alleged Manager at IBM Says "[t]here are likely to be a lot (and I meant, A LOT) of RAs before December.": "We’re getting pressure from above to put some team members on PIPs."
Links 07/09/2026: Amazon Cargo Plane Crash, .org/.net/.com Domains Considered Risky: Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/09/2026: Cheese, Text-based Life, and Icons in Swaybar: Links for the day
Freedom, Not Fame, is His Goal: pursuit of money can be not only tiring but also involve abandoning one's freedom
Links 07/09/2026: Slop Trashes Memory of Parton, Flock Surveillance Infuriates Everyone: Links for the day
Getting Better After 20 Years: Exactly two months from now this site is turning 20
EPO Hiding Cocainegate and Abandoning Transparency (Even Access to Very Basic Information is Denied): The EPO isn't just becoming like a private for-profit corporation. It's also becoming more secretive.
Richard Stallman Has Resurrected Lost Updates: We didn't ask about it
SLAPP Censorship - Part 174 Out of 200: Cascading Scandals and a Path Towards Much-Needed, Long-Awaited Reform: Reform the UK's law, not "Reform UK"
EPO's Gema Requena Sempere (PD People) Contacted Regarding Children With Disabilities: In the coming week we may be in fruitful contact with some media regarding EPO scandals
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
Gemini Links 07/09/2026: Music Composition, Free Stuff, and Self-hosting Git Repos: Links for the day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 06, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, September 06, 2026
People Who Enforce the GPL Banned From Linux Foundation Board (After Bribes From Prolific GPL Violators), Now They're Banned From Giving Talks at Events: about the "LF" ('Linux' Foundation)
Gemini Links 06/09/2026: The Slop Plagiarism 'Holy War' (Hype, Scam, Scheme), Burning CD-Rs, and Hardcopy Mono: Links for the day
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Inaction and Incompetence - Part IV - Insufficient Resources in the Face of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) by Lawyers: it's about 120KG
OpenStreetMap is the Future, Dictatorship is the Past: OpenStreetMap helped us check maps for transport, various overlays with addresses, and there was 0% reliance on GAFAM or "Google" anything
Silent Layoffs, Cool-down, and Cool-off: How GAFAM and IBM Operate (the Law Doesn't Apply to Them): Laws? What laws?
How Strikes at the European Patent Office Are Seen by Striking Staff in Berlin, Germany: We have some more EPO scandals to cover later this year and next year
Association for Computing Machinery Cites Techrights in Relation to GemText and Gemini Protocol: published yesterday, Open Access
Links 06/09/2026: More XBox Trouble (Microsoft Unrest, Many Silent Layoffs This Month), John Duffy as Next USPTO General Counsel: Links for the day
Gemini Links 06/09/2026: Avoiding 'Smart' 'Phones' and Setting up Gemini for the First Time: Links for the day
Links 06/09/2026: Sabotage by Slop and "What Happens If 'Open' 'AI' Dies?": Links for the day
How Back Doors Became the 'Normal' or 'Norm': "We also allowed a lethal monoculture to fester"
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Inaction and Incompetence - Part III - The SRA is Vastly Worse Than Brits Realise, We Have a "Wild West" in London: In the next part we'll begin looking at correspondence with the SRA
SRA and Manslaughter: How the SRA Contributed to Agony in Proprietary Software Scandals With Clear Misuse of "Without Prejudice": Trying to prevent the public from finding out the criminal stuff that went on, resulting in many deaths
Canonical (or Ubuntu) Rejecting IRC Isn't the Widespread Trend: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) adoption still growing by some yardsticks
SLAPP Censorship - Part 173 Out of 200: Two Years: It was exactly 2 years ago that we filed lawsuits against Garrett
Linux of America: We could not help but notice GNU/Linux in North America yesterday
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 05, 2026: IRC logs for Saturday, September 05, 2026
Gemini Links 06/09/2026: Internet Limiting (Limited Time Allotted) and Solar MiniServer: Links for the day
Eight Months of Strikes in EPO, Organised by the Staff Union (SUEPO) Also in Berlin: In Berlin, only one member of staff voted against the action plan