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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 23, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. elementary OS 8.1 Released with Wayland Session by Default, ARM64 Support

   The elementary OS team released today elementary OS 8.1 as the latest stable version of their Ubuntu-based distribution using the modern Pantheon desktop environment.

2. The Net's Sleeping Giant: Gemini Protocol [original]

   At the moment, Geminispace grows rather than shrinks over time

3. Corporate Mobs vs the Free Software Community [original]

   politics are only a distraction from the core motivations of the mob

4. In 2025 Linux Got $8.4 Million, GNU Received a Lot Less [original]

   giving capital to hosting of GNU projects and various other essential functions

5. "No Kings" in Free Software [original]

   if your project or a project you rely on is stuck in GitHub, then Microsoft is your king.

6. In the Name of Love [original]

   The Web is filled with hate and vitriol

7. Calm Week Ahead, Looking Forward to 2026 [original]

   This year this site added over 10,000 new pages

   New

8. Valnet on KDE, Feodra, Arch, and More

   XDA and HowTo Geek on GNU/Linux

9. Moving to GNU/Linux With Proprietary Software and Impression

   a pair of articles

10. Valnet Articles on Using Raspberry Pi Devices

    3 Raspberry Pi articles

11. Distributions and Operating Systems: Nitrux, Distros That Look Better Than Vista 11, and Kolibri OS

    roundup of 3 recent articles

12. João Carrasqueira Explores Moving From Windows to GNU/Linux Distros

    4 articles, mostly João Carrasqueira

13. Trying the Terminal Instead of GUIs

    a bunch of recent articles

14. Docker and Proxmox: Working With Containers and Virtual Machines

    4 very recent articles

15. Audacity was too clunky, so I switched to this modern open-source audio editor

    Tenacity is a forked version of Audacity, but this open-source audio editor was born out of necessity when Audacity's ownership changed

16. Qubes OS 4.3 Brings Fedora 42, Debian 13, and Whonix 18 Templates

    The Qubes OS 4.3 release updates default templates to Fedora 42

17. Best Free and Open Source Software

    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here

18. Luxonis OAK 4 CS Edge-Inference Camera with CS-Mount Optics and PoE

    The platform runs Luxonis OS, a Linux-based operating system built on kernel 5.15

19. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

    mostly GNU/Linux

20. Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, mintCast, and Linux Out Loud

    3 new episodes

21. Games: Old ROMS and GNU/Linux Games via Steam

    gaming leftovers

22. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming Leftovers

    FOSS and coding

23. Hardware/Modding: Jetson Orin Nano, ESP32, and More

    Hardware leftovers

24. GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems: ObsidianOS, Dual Booting, and ChromeOS

    3 new stories

25. Android Leftovers

    How to navigate with maps in Android Auto without cell service

26. Chimera Linux Releases New Images With Kernel 6.18

    Chimera Linux has published new December 2025 images based on kernel 6.18

27. 5 hidden terminal surprises you can try on Ubuntu right now

    If you're trying to get into the terminal app on your Ubuntu computer

28. Kubuntu Focus M2: The power and privacy of Linux without the hassle

    Security experts often recommend installing Linux to avoid these problems

29. Add a Pixel Santa to Your Ubuntu Desktop for Christmas

    In past years I’ve shown you various ways to give Ubuntu a Christmas makeover,

30. Linux 6.19-rc2 is out

    before xmas

31. Ubuntu 26.04 Wallpaper Competition Opened for Submissions

    Wallpaper Competition for Ubuntu 26.04, Resolute Raccoon, opened for submissions. 6 of them will be included in the disc images

32. Free and Open Source Software

    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here

33. Review: The best open source operating systems of 2025

    As the calendar draws to the end of 2025 I would like to take a few minutes and look back at some of the highlights of this year

34. EU OS: Which Linux Distribution fits Europe best?

    This post concerns the requirements of a Linux distribution for Europe in the context of the EU OS project and offers a comparison of Linux distributions

35. GNU/Linux Leftovers

    GNOME, GNU/Linux, and more

36. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards Leftovers

    FOSS and more

37. Programming Leftovers

    Development related picks

38. Hardware and Retro: ZuluSCSI, Raspberry Pi, and More

    hardware picks

39. Debian’s git transition and UCS (Univention Corporate Server) 5.2-4 released (based on Debian)

    Debian news

40. Grml - new stable release 2025.12 available

    code-named ‘Postwurfsendung’

41. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

42. XBox is Dead, What Next? [original]

    The future of gaming looks increasingly bright for "Linux", not "Windows"

    New

43. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 21st, 2025

    The 271st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on December 21st, 2025.

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