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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 16, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Games: Moonsigil Atlas, Zotac Zone, and More

   only a pair for now

2. Nobara 42: SteamOS alternative updated with better driver manager, custom app store, and new Linux kernel

   Nobara Linux 42 packs a handful of interesting upgrades over the previous version of the gaming-centric Linux distribution

3. You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 24.10 to Ubuntu 25.04, Here’s How

   After almost a month of waiting, Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) users can finally upgrade their installations to the latest Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) release.

4. BRICS and GNU/Linux Revisited [original]

   The demise of Windows is measurable

5. Arch Linux Installer Now Supports Labwc, Niri, and River Wayland Compositors

   Archinstall, the menu-based installer for the Arch Linux distribution, has been updated today to version 3.0.5, the fifth maintenance update in the Archinstall 3.0 series, bringing some new features and many bug fixes.

6. Sorting Out the ~250,000 Pages in This Site [original]

   Search soon?

   New

7. KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Environment Enters Beta Testing with Many New Features

   The KDE Project released today the beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series for public testing, a major update promising many new features and improvements.

8. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

   FOSS picks

9. Security Leftovers

   Security related stories

10. Programming Leftovers

    Development related picks

11. Open Hardware/Retro: ESP32, ODROID, and More

    hardware picks

12. Events Leftovers

    Educational and more

13. Linux Kernel and Graphics Leftovers

    Linux and more

14. Applications: Kubernetes, Turtl, GNU Health, and More

    Software news and reviews

15. GNOME: Ptyxis, GSoC, Qemu, and More

    some GNOME picks

16. Red Hat and IBM Leftovers

    mostly Red Hat's site

17. today's howtos

    many howtos from today

18. Microsoft Broke Linux PCs; Now Microsoft Sites Credit It With 'Fixing' What It Broke (a Year Later)

    spin as usual

19. Firefox is Proprietary DRMware Hosted by Microsoft Now, People Explore Contingencies (E.g. LibreWolf)

    Mozilla blew it

20. KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta Release

    Here are the new modules available in the Plasma 6.4 beta

21. Suriname Public Healthcare System embraces GNU Health

    The government of Suriname has adopted GNU Health for the Public Healthcare system

22. Android Leftovers

    Android is making stolen phones unusable with enhanced theft protection

23. today's leftovers

    shows and Ubuntu

24. Security and Fake Security

    back doors, too

25. IBM Red Hat Serving Microsoft and Promoting Buzzwords, False Marketing

    IBM at it again

26. Best Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

27. Games: Steam Data Breach, Mesa Changes, Moonsigil Atlas, and More

    10 stories from GamingOnLinux

28. LWN on Linux Kernel and the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit

    now outside paywalls

29. Debian's AWKward essential set

    Simon Josefsson observed that the Fedora project's container images do not have an AWK interpreter

30. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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