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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 03, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. KDE Plasma 6.3.4 Is Out Today to Fix the Most Common Crashes and Other Bugs
    Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.3.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with more bug and crash fixes, as well as some improvements.
  2. We're Turning 21 in a Couple of Months! [original]
    Will it make it till 40 (19 more years) like the FSF?

    New

  3. Security Leftovers
    Security-related and Linux-focused picks
  4. GNU/Linux and Hardware Leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux
  5. Releases and News on Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
    FOSS picks
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  7. Latest From Red Hat and Red Hat-Sponsored Marketing Mills
    some Red Hat stuff
  8. KDE: Akademy 2025 Plans and Preparing KEcoLab Technical Documentation in Season of KDE ‘25
    Some KDE picks
  9. Debian Leftovers and Sparky Picks
    Debian stuff for today
  10. So-called Linux Foundation for Microsoft Hype and Proxies
    nonsense again
  11. Backup Solutions with OpenZFS and HardenedBSD March 2025 Status Report
    BSD picks
  12. Tumbleweed Monthly Update and Seamless Migration from Windows to openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed
    some opensuse picks
  13. today's howtos
    many howtos again
  14. GoboLinux 017.01 Released
    New release of GoboLinux
  15. Mozilla Thunderbird 137 Open-Source Email Client Released, Here’s What’s Changed
    The Mozilla Thunderbird 137 open-source email, calendar, address book, chat, and news client has been released with various changes and several bug fixes to improve existing functionality.
  16. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    Some more FOSS-related stories
  17. Web Browser News and Views
    Web with FOSS slant
  18. Tor Browser 14.0.9 and Arti 1.4.2
    Tor-related news
  19. Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.0 Distro Released with GNOME 48 and Linux Kernel 6.14
    PorteuX 2.0 is out today as a new update to this portable Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux and inspired by both Slax and Porteus distros, designed to be small, fast, portable, modular, and immutable.
  20. Linux Lite 7.4 Released with Kernel 6.8 and GUI Tweaks
    Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 7.4 launches with kernel 6.8, new app versions, and enhanced stability
  21. Steam Rolls Out April Update with Fixes and UI Improvements
    Steam's latest update fixes UI bugs, improve download estimates and enhances controller support, HDR rendering, and Remote Play functionality
  22. No Snap or FlatPak! Linux Distros Agreed to Have Only One Universal Packaging
    Is this the end of fragmentation for Linux
  23. 5 Linux distros built for developers and game developers
    While it is true that any Linux distro can be installed and customized for any range of computing tasks
  24. Inkscape 1.4.1 is out! Initial Linearity Curve Import & Splash Screen
    Inkscape 1.4.1, the free open-source vector graphics editor, is out with new features and many bug-fixes
  25. Best Free and Open Source Software
    What are the best free and open source alternatives
  26. NV8600-Nano AI Kit: Jetson Orin Nano Super Mode + 4x GbE, CANBus, MIPI
    It also supports Linux-based operating systems, including NVIDIA JetPack 6.0 and above
  27. Dave Täht RIP
    From the LibreQoS site comes the sad news that Dave Täht has passed away
  28. As a Linux power user, this is the distro with the most refreshing take on OS design
    NixOS features a well-designed OS with an array of layouts
  29. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi 5, Arduino, and More
    Hardware leftovers
  30. Games: Monster Train 2, Victoria 3, and More
    half a dozen new stories
  31. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Parties and Milestones Again
we've begun putting up about 40 balloons
Microsoft is Disloyal Towards Its Most Loyal Employees
Against its most faithful enablers
Following the Line of Cocaine All the Way to the Top
Even a million denials and spin-doctoring won't distract from the core issue
Thankfully We've Made Copies of More Interesting Data From statCounter
If statCounter (the Web site or the 'webapp') vanished overnight, we'd still have something left of it
More Silent Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat
when the media counts such layoffs or presents tallies the numbers are very incomplete
 
Google News Drowning in Slop (and Slopfarms That Hijack About Half the Results)
Google News seems to be drowning in this stuff
Gemini Links 28/10/2025: "How to Maximize Your Positive Impact" and ASCII Art and Artist Attribution
Links for the day
PETA and Activism
Being staff or volunteer in PETA isn't easy
Big Blue, Huge Debt
debt will soar again
Links 27/10/2025: Mass Surveillance Sold as "AI", People Reluctant to Lose Physical Media
Links for the day
Techrights' 19th Anniversary: Bronze
Time to go back to preparing for this anniversary
Our Latest European Patent Office (EPO) Series Will Last Several Weeks, Will Ask the EPO Management and the European Union (EU) Very Difficult Questions
If nobody loses a job (or jobs) over this, then the EU basically became no better than Colombia or Nicaragua
Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, Brian Fagioli, and Google News
We focus on stories that are fake or LLM slop that disguises itself as "news" about Linux
Links 27/10/2025: Wikipedia Vandalism, Bruce Perens Opens up on Childhood
Links for the day
This Site Could Not be Done by LLMs Even If It Wanted to (Because It's Not a Parrot of What Other Sites Say)
LLMs have no knowledge or deep understanding
19 Years, No Censorship
No factual information is ever going to be removed, more so if it is in the public interest
We Are Not a Conventional Site, That's Why They Hate (or Love) Us
Throughout the week this week we'll be focusing on the EPO
The Cocaine Patent Office - Part I: António Campinos Brought Corruption and Nepotism to the EPO, Then Came the Cocaine
High-level manager at the European Patent Office (EPO) caught in public with cocaine, the Office has some answering to do
Purchasing/Possessing Computers Isn't the Same as Controlling Computers
Let's strive to put computers back under the control of their users, no matter who purchased these (usually the users)
Gemini Links 27/10/2025: Alhena 5.4.3 and Fixing Bash
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 26, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, October 26, 2025
Links 26/10/2025: Microsoft Spies on Gamers, Open Transport Community Conference
Links for the day
Links 26/10/2025: LLM Slop / Plagiarism Programs Continue to Disappoint, CISA Layoffs Threaten Systems
Links for the day
Gemini Links 26/10/2025: Gemsync and Joining the Small Web
Links for the day
India.com a Click-baiting, SEO-Spamming, Slopfarming Heap
They do this almost every day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 25, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, October 25, 2025
Without XBox Consoles, XBox is No More, It's Just a Brand (More Rumours of Microsoft Ending XBox, Then Laying Off Lots of Staff)
All signs indicate that Microsoft wants to "exit" the XBox business (not brand), but it does not want to publicly admit this as it would alarm staff and shareholders