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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 20, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Armbian Team Launches New Official Imager for Flashing Armbian OS

   The Armbian team has launched a new official imager that simplifies flashing Armbian OS on single-board computers across macOS

2. analytics.usa.gov: Windows is Losing Market Share [original]

   What else does Microsoft have to offer?

3. Engineering Freeze 2025 Means the Site Will be More Accessible, But We'll Patch and Reboot This Weekend [original]

   A change freeze is in effect, starting today

4. Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Low in 'Capital of Europe', Belgium [original]

   It probably should not be so surprising given this year's policy shifts

5. NVIDIA 590.48.01 graphics drivers for Linux

   new release, several sources

6. Birds Are Fantastic Pets and Not Much Maintenance (Just Don't Put Them in Cages) [original]

   Birds in the wild are not domesticated and not traditional 'pets'

7. Fake Sites That Are Made by Bots Will Never Get Links From Tux Machines [original]

   LLMs need to go the way of the dodo

   New

8. Kernel Space / File Systems: linux-next, Rust CVE, OpenZFS, Fwupd

   Linux news

9. How to Install Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS on Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 25.04

   Linux 6.18 LTS is now the latest stable and long-term supported (LTS) kernel series, and Ubuntu users can install it on their machines via the official Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA archive. Here’s how!

10. today's leftovers

    mostly GNU/Linux picks

11. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

    FOSS picks

12. Programming Leftovers

    Development related picks

13. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and Hacking With Linux

    hardware leftovers

14. Red Hat's Latest and Its Buzzwords Machine

    mostly Red Hat's site

15. NetBSD, FreeBSD, and BSD Now

    BSD news

16. Update on KDE Home Automation (KIOT) and Qt Releases/News

    KDE/Qt news

17. today's howtos

    half a dozen howtos

18. Proprietary 'Linux': Docker, Systemd, and WSL (Windows)

    making Linux a blob

19. Games: Dune, Total War, and More

    7 new posts from GamingOnLinux

20. Android Leftovers

    You can now start customizing your Wear OS watch face with Androidify bots

21. You keep hearing about immutable Linux — here’s the simple explanation

    2025 has easily been one of the strongest years for Linux on the desktop

22. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

23. New Beta of Linux Mint

    Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena”

24. GNU/Linux Applications and Games

    last batch of leftovers for now

25. GNU/Linux and Open Hardware (or Devices)

    a few more new picks

26. Kernel Space: Intel Failure and 6.17 Reaches End of Life

    some Linux leftovers

27. IBM Red Hat and Fedora Pushing "AIOps" and Slop (Basically a Ponzi Scheme IBM Uses to Fake Its Worth)

    3 more examples of this

28. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

    FOSS picks

29. Security Leftovers

    Security picks, a handful of stories

30. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

31. Getting Earlier to Find and Curate GNU/Linux News [original]

    We recently added a number of new software tools that make it easier to manage this site and produce new, original stories

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