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Arch Says Goodbye to Redis, Adopts Valkey

Redis, a popular in-memory data store, is being deprecated in Arch Linux's repo
Let's talk about this "EU OS"

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Kdenlive is the best free and open-source video editor for most people

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Full Steam Ahead with RISC-V and Fedora Linux 42

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Forget Windows 11. These mad lads made Linux look like Windows XP!

You can use the Windows XP interface (as well as other Windows versions) on the Linux distribution Q4OS
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Michael “Monty” Widenius: It Started in 1983 With Richard Stallman (RMS): The other co-founder of MySQL is a bit notorious for confronting RMS rather viciously
For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Microsoft Lunduke Makes False Accusations Against Senior Red Hat Staff to Incite a Despicable 'Troll Army': Nothing that Microsoft Lunduke claims of says can be trusted
su lisa && rm -rf /home/ibm/power: Novell was ruined by another person from IBM, Ronald Hovsepian
A Record Demand at Microsoft: Demand to Cancel: What we're witnessing is a very ungraceful destruction of XBox
Richard Stallman is Going to Finland to Give a Talk Next Thursday: A day later he speaks in Sweden
Links 02/10/2025: 'Open' 'AI' Resorting to Gimmicks and Fake Funding, Europe’s ‘Drone Wall’ Discussed: Links for the day
Links 02/10/2025: Brave Passes 100M Users Milestone, Kodak Selling Its Own Film Again: Links for the day
Microsoft is Losing Europe: Hence all the "support" and "discount" offers that are limited to Europe
The Free Software Foundation Starts Fund-raising for 40th Anniversary: New pop-up 2-3 days ahead of the 40th anniversary event
Systemd Breaks Networking in Debian and Microsoft Staff Rushes to Make Face-Saving Excuses in LWN: Microsoft's bluca is already there in the comments, his Microsoft money pays for LWN to let him leave comments early
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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 01, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, October 01, 2025
What the End of XBox Will Look Like: a Fiery Crash: XBox is the next Skype. It won't last much longer. Expect many more layoffs.
Gemini Links 02/10/2025: SMTP Pipelining and End of ROOPHLOCH 2025: Links for the day
Slopwatch: Plagiarism, Fake Articles, and FUD About Linux: not a day goes by without Google News feeding FUD from slopfarms
Gemini Links 01/10/2025: Chat Control and End of Life: Links for the day
Links 01/10/2025: Long Covid Risk Reiterated, "Bitcoin Queen" Caught: Links for the day
Links 01/10/2025: EA $55 Billion Deal is Debt and Slop "Raises Vishing Risks": Links for the day
Bluewashing at Red Hat Means Redundancies: The man who sold Red Hat to IBM meanwhile became a Microsoft Mono booster
After Killing OpenSource.com, IBM ('Red Hat') and OSI Told Us OpenSource.net Would Replace It (But That Didn't Happen): Now it's time to move on, perhaps tarnishing the "Open Source" label some more (for whatever sponsor wants this)
Linux is Not a Community Project, It's a Wall Street Product: The core goal should be freedom
Bad Actors Abusing the Free Software Community, Vandalising It Using Rogue Politics and Old Tactics: Oil giants have long attempted to do this; now, the digital equivalent of Big Oil does this in technology
Social Control Media Isn't the Future, The Federation or Fediverse Isn't Growing, People's Accounts Vanish for Good: users' accounts will get deleted, not just become inactive
IBM is Failing, This Helps Show Wall Street is Entirely Detached From Actual Commercial Performance: IBM is unable to grow, it's just constantly shrinking
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IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 30, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Clerical Aspects of Publishing and Development: In Free software, the management aspects are considerably reduced
Slopwatch: Fake Articles and Google News Promoting "Linux" Spam or Bot-Generated Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD): These slopfarms help misplace blame
Third Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in September, This Time Many in Liverpool Affected: Be ready for more waves of layoffs ahead of the so-called "results" in late October
Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Motorcycling in Central Oregon, Protocol Styles and the Flag of Sark: Links for the day
Links 30/09/2025: Death Sentences, Internet Censorship, and Internet Shutdowns: Links for the day
Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Social Control Media and ROOPHLOCH: Links for the day
Richard Stallman About to Give More Talks in Europe, Some Confirmed Already: In Göteborg
Links 30/09/2025: CERN in "Have I Been Pwned" and More Windows TCO Blunders: Links for the day
Microsoft Canonical is Selling Mass Surveillance and Back Doors as "Security for Ubuntu": If you are looking for a GNU/Linux distro to use, just remember that Microsoft has Ubuntu in the bag
Justice for Wildlife: animals cannot speak to humans who hate animals
Cowboys Gonna Be Cowboys (on the Internet, They're Not a New Problem): Boys will be boys
Cowboys of the "Left" and Cowboys of the "Right": Don't believe the lie that this is some "leftist" thing
When Codes of Conduct Serve to Protect Criminals From Much-Deserved Scrutiny: CoCs are typically unfit for purpose because enforcement lacks context and suitable understanding of the full background (the "full story")
It Took the Open Source Initiative (OSI) 4+ Years to Address the 'Data Breach' or Data Protection Violation Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) in March 2025: We may never know the dialogue or its nature
Even Microsoft's Biggest Boosters (and Media Operatives) Are Turning Against Microsoft: Expect many more layoffs before the fake "results" next month
GNU Was Right 42+ Years Ago: Since then the abusive, user-hostile technology has spread like mushrooms
Old Isn't Always Inadequate: How many gadgets manufactured today (in 2025) will still work in 2075?
The Monkey Business of Rust People: Compatibility won't matter
Almost Half of the FSFE's Money (the Fake 'FSF', Misusing the Brand) Comes From Vodafone: That money always comes with strings, even if they're invisible to most of us
Microsoft Lunduke Spreads Deliberate Lies to Incite Online Mobs: Has he lost his reading comprehension skills?
Our 19th Birthday (in Just Over 5 Weeks From Now): We meanwhile have ongoing, solid plans to cover patent-related issues when the FSF turns 40
British GNU/Linux Distro FydeOS Tops DistroWatch: That seems like a decent site and decent effort to keep an eye on
We'll Soon Have 75,000 GemText Pages: avoid many perils of today's Web
Google Used Free Software to Build a Monopoly. Now Google Kicks Free Software to the Curb: The "G" in "Google" does not stand for GNU. It never did. It's just another greedy company.
Gemini Links 30/09/2025: Retro Hardware, Federated Fragmentation, and Nex Server Written in C: Links for the day
4 More Days Till "4 decades, 4 freedoms, 4 all users": We are now just 4 days away from the rare anniversary
Two Months After Merging to Hide GitHub Losses Microsoft is Doing It Again (This Time Windows): Merging those two together is not a sign of strength but a tightening of budget
Speculations About the Next Large Wave of IBM/Red Hat Layoffs: the mass layoffs are likely to happen on week 3 or 4 in October
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