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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 27, 2025

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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

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  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
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