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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 27, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Brett Wilson LLP Sent Us Almost a Gigabyte of E-mails and Our Inboxes Struggle to Cope [original]

   Is this a bad joke? No, it is Brett Wilson LLP.

2. The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Made Itself a Prisoner of Microsoft, a Back Doors Vendor [original]

   It's important for companies not to allow Microsofters to make any decisions and get themselves wrapped up in Microsoft to begin with

3. "Edge" (Buzzwords) and GNU/Linux: Avocado OS and More

   a pair of new stories

4. Raspberry Pi 500+ Launches as the Ultimate All-In-One PC Based on Raspberry Pi 5

   The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today the Raspberry Pi 500+ as the next generation of their all-in-one Raspberry Pi desktop computer, built on top of the Raspberry Pi single-board computer.

5. PostgreSQL 18 Released!

   This release makes major-version upgrades less disruptive

6. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers

   lots of "AI" fluff

7. Calibre 8.11 E-Book Manager Adds an “Ask AI” Tab to the Dictionary Lookup Panel

   It’s been three weeks since the last Calibre release, and now Calibre 8.11 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book management software.

8. Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Released with Ubuntu Touch Upgrader, Rabbit R1 Support

   The UBports Foundation released Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 today as the tenth stable update to their Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) for supported Linux devices.

9. System76 Releases COSMIC Beta Desktop Environment and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta

   Linux hardware vendor System76 announced today the general availability of the beta version of their up-and-coming COSMIC desktop environment written in Rust, along with the beta version of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS.

10. Helping the Pigeon [original]

    We released the pigeon and this pigeon seems to be happy

11. We Deserve Condolences, Not Threats [original]

    Microsofters are preparing to shell out millions of dollars for lawyers to harass us for several years

12. Google "AI" is Not AI, It's Just Parroting Our Own Descriptions of Ourselves (More Like Clever Plagiarism, Autocomplete Based on Other Sites' Text) [original]

    We're not going to participate in the hype, which will die along with companies that depend on it (cratering in Wall Street or outside it)

13. 6+ Months of Our Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP [original]

    We reported its abuses nearly 6 months ago

    New

14. Valnet Articles on Moving From Windows to GNU/Linux

    3 new ones

15. GNU/Linux and Development Leftovers

    mostly GNU/Linux

16. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers

    Red Hat stuff

17. Applications: FOSS Weekly, rebuilderd v0.25.0, and Kubernetes

    Software leftovers

18. today's howtos

    a few more howtos

19. today's leftovers

    4 misc. links

20. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Education, and Data

    FOSS and more

21. Programming Leftovers

    Development related picks

22. today's howtos

    9 howtos for now

23. Android Leftovers

    The first next-gen Android flagships have a rear screen that turns into a Game Boy

24. Incus 6.17 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released

    Incus 6.17 adds an early IncusOS CLI, OVN tunnel support

25. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

    This is free and open source software

26. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Programming, and Standards

    FOSS and more

27. Games: GOG Anniversary, Forza Horizon 6, Deus Ex Remastered, and More

    half a dozen GamingOnLinux articles

28. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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