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Updated This Past Day

  1. The Circular Financing Bubble Company, NVIDIA, Harming People With "Old" GPUs and GNU/Linux
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  2. Cross-platform Compatibility, WINE or Emulation: WinBoat, Lepton, and Homebrew
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  3. Games: Steam's November 2025 Hardware Survey and Microsoft Ranting About GNU/Linux Growing Among Gamers
    3 new picks
  4. Games: Steam Deck, Wild Blue Skies, Lepton, "Linux players on Steam hit an all-time high for November 2025"
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  5. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Includes Love [original]
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  6. The Health Benefits of Disconnecting [original]
    Going out is one thing (or the condition of being "out"); being disconnected is another

    New

  7. Android Leftovers
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  8. AlmaLinux Launches Media & Entertainment Special Interest Group
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  10. Free and Open Source Software
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  11. Nemesis Linux – Artix-based distribution
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  12. Alpine Linux 3.23 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.5
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  13. Linux 5.4.302
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  14. Mission-Center Delivers a Polished System Monitor for Linux Power Users
    Mission-Center might be the best system monitor available for Linux
  15. Wireshark 4.6.2 Is Out to Update Protocol/Capture File Support and Fix More Bugs
    Wireshark, the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer, has been updated today to version 4.6.2, the second point release to the Wireshark 4.6 series, addressing various bugs and security issues.
  16. Trying to Kill One Another Over Pseudo-politics in "Linux" [original]
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  17. Distributions and Operating Systems: GNU/Linux, BSD, and More
    today's leftovers
  18. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    Some more FOSS picks for today
  19. A Look at Collabora Office and Collabora’s XDC 2025 presentations
    Collabora news
  20. Devices and Hardware Hacking: Raspberry Pi, 3Duino, and More
    Some hardware leftovers
  21. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    some Red Hat buzzwords
  22. Debian and Ubuntu Updates and News
    Debian and Ubuntu leftovers
  23. Kernel: BSD, QEMU, Linux
    Linux and more
  24. New Releases of Applications: TLP 1.9.0, VLC 3.0.22, PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.2 , and Various GNU Projects (Coreutils, Gnuastro Etc.)
    Software releases
  25. Linux Kernel 5.4 Reaches End of Life After More Than Six Years of Maintenance
    This is your friendly reminder that the Linux 5.4 LTS kernel series has reached end of life after being maintained for more than six years, receiving over 300 maintenance updates.
  26. Programming Leftovers
    Development with Perl and a lot more
  27. Security Leftovers
    Security picks for today
  28. Release of WordPress 6.9 “Gene”
    Content Management Systems (CMS) news
  29. today's howtos
    only 4 more for now
  30. After everything else failed, Fedora Xfce saved my aging laptop
    After bearing with a very slow laptop, I tried out Fedora Xfce and the results were staggeringly good
  31. New Issue of Linux Magazine
    with a paywall (partial)
  32. Red Hat Promoting AWS, Canonical Promoting Windows/Microsoft
    GAFAM sellouts
  33. today's howtos
    a handful of howtos
  34. Mozilla's Latest Moves
    2 new updates
  35. Android Leftovers
    Your Android phone's document scanner is gearing up for a visual overhaul
  36. KDE Connect security advisory released due to possible authentication bypass
    KDE Connect is a popular cross-platform app that allows you to send files across devices and more
  37. Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward
    Whether you want a studio rig or a featherweight desktop, MX Linux spins have you covered
  38. Rocky Linux 9.7 Released With Updated Toolchains
    Rocky Linux 9.7 introduces post-quantum cryptography policies
  39. I've used every immutable Linux distro, and this is the one I'd install today - here's why
    The latest release of Ultramarine makes one very big change
  40. Free and Open Source Software
    Lotion is free and open source software
  41. LainOS – Arch Linux-based desktop distribution
    LainOS’s mission is to create a lightweight, powerful, and user-friendly Linux experience that empowers developers
  42. Last Two Weeks in KDE Apps: Performance improvement in Krita, Trust and Safety in NeoChat and files actions in Photos
    We are still doing our fundraisers and in the past 48 hours
  43. Not Every Browser is Built on Chrome: Explore These Firefox-based Options
    Think all popular browsers out there are Chromium based
  44. State of the Thunder 14: The 2026 Mobile Roadmap
    Welcome back to the latest State of the Thunder
  45. Red Hat Layoffs Will Continue in 2026 [original]
    In 2025 many in Red Hat received marching orders (to leave) and we expect the same next year
  46. Latest Schneier Book [original]
    when Schneier speaks people do listen
  47. Today in Techrights
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    976 /n/2025/11/29/Wine_10_20.shtml
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