Over at Tux Machines...
Updated This Past Day
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New Low for Microsoft Windows in Slovakia [original]
Windows falling to all-time lows
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Firefox DRM: Proprietary Software Downloaded, How Long Before the "AI" Company (Mozilla) Puts It There by Default? [original]
The same old name/brand/logo, albeit not the same product
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Bulgaria: Windows Sank to All-Time Low, GNU/Linux Surged to 12% [original]
the total number of GNU/Linux users observed there is about 2.5 times smaller than Vista 11 users
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Keeping Things Simple [original]
The more bloated and complex something becomes, the more it should be considered worth avoiding
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Firefox and Mozilla Commit Suicide With Slop
really bad
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MidnightBSD 4.0 Release Notes
"I’m happy to announce the availability of MidnightBSD 4.0 for amd64 and i386"
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GNU/Linux Near 5% in Bangladesh, Land With Nearly 200 Million People [original]
Of course this is becoming a huge problem for Microsoft
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Tux Machines Becoming a Lot More Productive [original]
We reckon we can produce a dozen a day if we can fully focus on what matters
New
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Security Leftovers
only a few more for now
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today's howtos
only 3 more for now
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FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and Year of Advocacy, Community, and Growth
FreeBSD news
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Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, ESP32, HealthyPi
hardware leftovers
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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
mostly GNU/Linux for today
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WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world
Content Management Systems (CMS) gone rogue
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Programming Leftovers
Python, Rust, and Ruby
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Security Leftovers
Security patches, incidents, news
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Tor Browser, Mozilla "Dinosaur", and More
Firefox and related news
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Events/Audiocasts/Shows: Kodsnack, LibreOffice, and Linux Plumbers Conference
4 new picks
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Updates From Debian/Freexian Collaborators
3 new updates
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Open Hardware/Modding: MicroPython, Raspberry Pi, and More
Hardware leftovers
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Fedora Pivots to Slop (Bad News), IBM Buys Chatbot Nonsense, Red Hat Promotes Ansible
Red Hat news/noise
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Android Leftovers
Android will let you disable Wi-Fi sharing on multi-profile devices
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Standards/Consortia: "D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop"; State of HTML 2025
rants and raves
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Mabox Linux 25.12 Released With Panel Improvements and GTK2 Removal
Manjaro-based Mabox Linux 25.12 introduces panel and menu improvements
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Programming Leftovers
Development picks
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Rhino Linux 2025.4 Brings Lomiri Packages and Updated Kernels
Rhino Linux 2025.4 introduces new Lomiri packages
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After Decades, Linux Finally Gains Stable GPIB Support
The GPIB is a short-range 8-bit, multi-master interface bus that was standardized as IEEE 488
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There's no such thing as a beginner Linux distro (and there never will be)
I can't count how many times I've seen articles titled "The X Best Linux Distros for Beginners" or some variation on that theme
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I've tried nearly every Linux package manager - these remain my favorite
I've used Linux for decades
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The 5 best Linux apps for students
So, you've decided to use Linux for your studies
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Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Framework Desktop, and More
Devices and Linux
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Games: Vampire Crawlers, Tingus Goose, and More
mostly from GamingOnLinux
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Free and Open Source Software, and Review
This is free and open source software
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Parrot OS Switches to KDE Plasma Desktop
Yet another distro is making the move to the KDE Plasma desktop
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Automotive Grade Linux Business Intelligence Journey: Introduction
Coming from the open source world, we are naturally used to showcasing what we do in the open
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Microsoft Windows May Have Fallen Below 3% "market Share" in Sudan
Perhaps many "Windows PCs" became GNU/Linux and most new purchases are Android devices, i.e. Linux
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How Free Software Probably Improves Physical and Mental Health [original]
That brings us to Free software
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Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles
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Another Year Goes By... [original]
We're in good hands and very robust as a platform
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Security Leftovers
Security related picks
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today's leftovers
with focus on Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Audiocasts/Shows: Destination Linux and What’s in the SOSS?
2 new episodes
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Plasma 6.5 review - Solid improvements, destination unknown
several dubious ergonomic choices, improved Wayland behavior and performance
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today's howtos
many howtos for today
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Red Hat, Fedora, and Vojtux
4 links from/about Red Hat
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