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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 26, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Christmas Day Bird [original]

   This is very unusual

   New

2. Investing One's Hard-Earned Money in Doing the Right Thing [original]

   In life, people must make sacrifices to do what's right and just

   New

3. Proprietary Software is Not a Luxury [original]

   Proprietary software is not a Luxury. It is a liability.

4. Don't Forget to Help Animals [original]

   Wild animals depend on visitors

5. Grav-Mass Today [original]

   Love, passion, and happiness cannot be bought

   New

6. Calm Year [original]

   Running sites and adding GNU/Linux news (curating stuff) requires calm because better assessment or objective curation would not work if one feels highly emotional

7. GNU/Linux Reaches 4% in Colombia [original]

   GNU/Linux is finally at 4% in Colombia

8. Repair Café Foundation Replaces Microsoft Windows With GNU/Linux [original]

   "They are actively promoting the use of Linux to replace mswin. Definitely a good thing."

   New

9. GNU/Linux Leftovers, Software Freedom Conservancy Messed Up Copyleft Case

   today's leftovers

10. Programming Leftovers

    Development related picks

11. "Windows apps on Linux" and Applications for GNU/Linux (Free/Mostly Libre)

    FOSS leftovers

12. ZDNet on CachyOS vs. Nobara, 5 favorite distros of Linux past, and ZDNet's SJVN at The Register MS

    Jack and SJVN

13. Newly discovered Unix V4 tape

    UNIX is sort of back

14. Open Hardware/Modding/Hacking: Raspberry Pi 5 SBC, Arduino, and More

    hardware-centric picks

15. today's howtos

    Instructionals/Technical posts

16. Security Patches, Security Breach, and Microsoft Promises Back Doors Would Get Even Faster!

    3 picks

17. Going boldly into the COSMIC desktop environment

    Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM) for the few: "As the version number indicates, this release is based on Ubuntu's 24.04 LTS, which has been out for about 18 months now"

18. Games: Proton Experimental, "Second Year of the Linux Desktop", and More

    Gaming and graphics

19. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

    FOSS leftovers

20. Android Leftovers

    Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1.1 Released for Pixel Phones!

21. Kitty Terminal 0.45 Released With New Keyboard-First File Selector Kitten

    Kitty, one of the most feature-rich, GPU-accelerated, and highly efficient cross-platform terminal emulators

22. FreshRSS 1.28 Feed Aggregator Released With New Sorting Options

    FreshRSS 1.28 self-hosted RSS feed aggregator introduces advanced search

23. Linux 6.19 and 2025 Maintainers Summit at LWN

    new in LWN

24. 5 New Linux Distributions We Discovered in 2025

    No, this is not a list of all the new distros that came up in 2025

25. The Civil Infrastructure Platform after (nearly) ten years

    Yoshitake Kobayashi talked about the goals of this project and where it is headed in the future

26. Want real privacy? Ditch big-tech OSes and go Linux

    Linux is built on fundamentally different principles

27. Ubuntu's new opt-in, open-source telemetry is a win-win for Linux users - here's why

    Fortunately, Canonical has shown how it can be done right

28. Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations

    These extraordinary donations, both made to the FSF in the cryptocurrency Monero

29. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

30. My Holiday Hopes for Linux and Open Source

    As the old year is replaced by the new, here’s Jack Wallen’s wish list for Linux and open source in 2026

31. Getting scanning to work with Gimp on Trixie

    Trixie ships Gimp 3.0.4 and the 3.x series has gotten incompatible to XSane

32. QEMU 10.2 Officially Released with Live Update Support and Improvements

    QEMU 10.2 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with new features and improvements for supported architectures.

33. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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