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    some Canonical/Ubuntu news
  2. Our Reach Grows [original]
    We seem to have attracted new readers and we assume that more and more people are adopting GNU/Linux
  3. Dr. Andy Farnell to Speak at Digital Inclusion Coffee Morning in Portsmouth, England [original]
    "This month we are joining a Digital Inclusion Coffee Morning in Portsmouth. For this event most of the audience will be older people. We're keen to get some new input."
  4. Half of September is Gone Already [original]
    COVID-19 started in late 2019. In 2022 we dumped Drupal. In 2023 we moved to UK hosting. In 2024 we fought back against Microsofters, who had attempted to censor us...

    New

  5. Budgie 10.9.3 Now Available
    The latest version of this elegant and configurable Linux desktop aligns with changes in Gnome 49
  6. Android Leftovers
    Samsung Reveals When Your Galaxy Will Get Android 16
  7. Transform Your Raspberry Pi 5 Into a Desktop Powerhouse with Alpine Linux
    Have you ever wondered how to turn your Raspberry Pi 5 into a sleek
  8. This 17MB Linux distro runs on just about any PC
    Tiny Core Linux is a distribution that doesn’t try to compete with the giants
  9. Linux Mint picks up the pace with LMDE 7 and Wayland-ready Cinnamon
    The Linux Mint team plans to speed up its release cycle and get two more versions out in the next few months
  10. Free and Open Source Software, and Review
    This is free and open source software
  11. today's leftovers
    3 more stories
  12. Graphics: Fixes for Xorg Wizard and radv takes over from AMDVLK
    Graphics-related news
  13. Games: Cattle Country, Godot 4.5, and GNOME’s Tetris Clone Quadrapassel
    gaming leftovers
  14. ESP32 Projects and GNU/Linux Terminal App in Android
    Linux and devices
  15. Mobile Progress Report From Thunderbird and Mozilla Tells Users to Trash 'Old' Computers
    Mozilla leftovers
  16. Programming Leftovers
    Development leftovers
  17. Events: Linux Plumbers Conference, Open Source Summit Europe, and SIDO
    Events being covered
  18. GNOME/GTK Report From Christian Hergert and Gedit News
    GNOME news
  19. Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast and Late Night Linux
    2 new episodes
  20. Applications: Readest, ty, VirtualBox, and FreeIPMI
    software overviews, releases
  21. today's howtos
    some more howtos for today
  22. Security Patches and More
    Security leftovers
  23. Openwashing: Microsoft OSI Having a Crisis, Fake "Open Source" Slop (Not "AI") Criticised
    3 stories
  24. Installing Ubuntu Questing Quokka Beta
    If you are thinking of switching to Linux, I don’t recommend starting with a test build
  25. Firefox 144 to Strengthen the Encryption of Logins in the Firefox Password Manager
    With Firefox 143 hitting the stable channel today on all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 144, to the beta channel for public testing.
  26. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  27. Programming Leftovers
    Development and more
  28. Web Browsers/Web Servers: Varnish 8.0.0, Hosting A Website On A Disposable Vape, and Firefox 143
    WWW leftovers
  29. today's howtos
    idroot and more
  30. Red Hat Hype ("AI") and RHEL
    mostly from redhat.com
  31. Fedora Linux 43 Beta Released with Linux 6.17, GNOME 49, and KDE Plasma 6.4
    The Fedora Project released today the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 for public testing to give us a glimpse of the new features and report potential bugs.
  32. Monty Widenius 'heartbroken' over Oracle's MySQL job cuts
    Around 70 members of the team behind the open source database have been shown the door as part of Oracle's latest round of redundancies, according to one high-level source in the MySQL community
  33. Games: Super Mario Bros Remastered, Slay the Spire 2, and More
    10 new articles from GamingOnLinux
  34. Android Leftovers
    You can now turn your Android phone into a mini Nintendo Switch
  35. 4 reasons why I have started to look for NixOS alternatives
    I have been using NixOS for a few months now and have been enjoying it a lot
  36. I tried using Linux's AntiX OS on my super old laptop and it works like a charm
    I found solace in antiX
  37. Free and Open Source Software, and Review
    This is free and open source software
  38. PureOS Crimson: August 2025 – Alpha Released
    We have released alpha images for PureOS Crimson for all Librem devices and have closed the first milestone!
  39. This beautiful Linux distro deserves to be better known - here's why
    The Ubuntu-based Voyager Linux checks all the boxes
  40. Cantillon Lessons Guide Shift to Open-Source
    Switching to Linux distributions like openSUSE reverses this imbalance
  41. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
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