Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 12, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Apple and Microsoft Running Out of Cash Cows is an Opportunity for GNU/Linux [original]

   Many people are currently looking for a "way out" (from Windows, from Apple gadgets and so on)

2. The World Wide Web Has Become Chrome (Proprietary), Let's Adopt More of Gemini Protocol Instead [original]

   There are more active Gemini capsules today (3,209) than ever before, based on Lupa

3. Android Leftovers

   How To Install Custom Fonts On Your Android Device

4. Microsoft is Gaming the Market [original]

   How much longer will we let Microsoft rig or game the market?

5. Only One Universal Distro? No, Thanks. [original]

   don't take away freedom and choice, which are connected concepts

6. Tux Machines Runs on Very Little CPU and RAM [original]

   We've basically reduced the environmental/carbon footprint of the site by a factor of ~100 (2 orders of magnitude)

7. Scheduled Maintenance Tomorrow [original]

   It is expected that network redundancy will make this maintenance invisible to us, but IRC hangups or general slowness are still a possibility

   New

8. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

   Mozilla, GNU Taler 1.1, and more

9. Standards/Consortia: ODF 1.4 Release, Rather Impressive Image Compression, Recursive DNS, and More (Unicode, UTF-8)

   Some leftovers regarding standards

10. Programming Leftovers

    Development related picks

11. GNU/Linux Leftovers

    3 more GNU/Linux picks

12. A Pragmatic Leap

    In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor developed an algorithm that runs on a sufficiently powerful quantum computer

13. Graphics: Newly Submitted Linux Patches and Long Update From Dave Airlie

    Graphics in Linux

14. GNOME: Christian Hergert's Work, Ignacy Kuchciński on Digital Wellbeing, and Managing GNOME Shell Extensions from Command Line

    GNOME leftovers

15. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers

    mostly from Red Hat's official site

16. Canonical/Ubuntu: VCF, Google Compute Engine, and More

    Ubuntu leftovers/misc

17. Digital Restrictions (DRM), Linux Devices, and Open Hardware

    Hardware centric leftovers

18. Security Leftovers and Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) Against "Linux"

    FUD and more

19. Applications: Public-inbox 2.0.0, Calcurse, XkbConfigurationManager, and "Must-Have Kali Linux Tools for Cybersecurity Specialists in 2026"

    software leftovers

20. today's howtos

    many howtos and technical articles for Tuesday

21. qBittorrent 5.1.3 Adds Native Wayland Support to the AppImage, Fixes More Bugs

    qBittorrent 5.1.3 has been released today as the third maintenance update to the latest qBittorrent 5.1 series of this open-source, cross-platform, and free BitTorrent client for GNU/Linux.

22. Firefox 146 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

    With Firefox 145 being offered to the stable channel today on all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 146, to the beta channel for public testing.

23. KDE Plasma 6.4.6 Released with Numerous Bug Fixes for Plasma 6.4 Users

    The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.4.6 as the sixth and last maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series to address more bugs, crashes, and other issues.

24. The Evolution of Copyright: From Progressive Idea to Control Mechanism

    The idea of copyleft was formulated by Richard Stallman. Its essence, embedded in licenses like the GNU General Public License (GPL)...

25. GNU/Linux and Hardware Leftovers

    some more links for today

26. Rust Coreutils Not Compatible With GNU Coreutils, It's Breaking Ubuntu Already

    Rust Coreutils sucks

27. Games: Crimson Freedom, THRASHER, and More

    GamingOnLinux on games

28. Ironclad OS project popping out Unix-like kernel in a unique mix of languages

    There's more to safer systems languages than Rust

29. ‘Phases of Moon’ Brings Lunar Tracking to GNOME Shell

    Clicking on its panel icon shows a large illuminated moon synced to the current phase

30. Breaking my Linux install taught me more about computers than Windows ever did

    In the time between when I first installed Linux and today (a whole five months)

31. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

32. Why AI won’t “Kill Open Source”

    In a recent ZDNet piece, David Gewirtz warns that open source may not survive the rise of generative AI

33. Plasma Mobile 6.5

    About three weeks ago we released Plasma 6.5 and it's high time we talk about the plethora of improvements and bug fixes that arrived in Plasma Mobile and related projects

34. Back to Normalcy and High Productivity [original]

    The coming month is expected to be very cold, so we'll stay indoors a lot more and probably produce more stories than before

35. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

36. The Bot Issue [original]

    The Internet is becoming like a giant botfarm

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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.