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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 26, 2025

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    This is very unusual

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  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

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  3. Proprietary Software is Not a Luxury [original]
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  5. Grav-Mass Today [original]
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  6. Calm Year [original]
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  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
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  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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