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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 27, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Year of the Horse, Galloping Ahead [original]

   The pace is going up a bit; no more trotting

2. Americas Left the Office This Week, Vista 11 Usage Has Taken a Plunge [original]

   tracking as many as 2 billion sessions per month

3. Norway: GNU/Linux and Android at 28%, Windows 26% [original]

   As of today

4. What Now for the CD Collections... [original]

   pile of crap repackaged as "retro" will never work as reliably as the original those are meant to replace

5. Free Software Foundation Inc Starts the Year 2026 With Expenses All Covered [original]

   Zoe Kooyman (Executive Director) did well for herself. Huge salary increase.

6. Newer is Not Better, the Case of Bush/Argos/Sainsburys [original]

   The notion that "newer is better" is easily disgraced by such experiences

7. Living Within One's Means [original]

   In a few hours Rianne and I will unwrap boxes

   New

8. PorteuX 2.5 Is Out with Flatpak Support, Cinnamon 6.6, COSMIC 1.0, and Linux 6.18

   The Slackware-based PorteuX 2.5 distribution, inspired by Slax and Porteus and designed to be super fast, small, portable, modular, and immutable, is out today with various updates and changes.

9. Inkscape 1.4.3 Open-Source SVG Editor Improves PDF Import and Text on Path

   Inkscape 1.4.3 open-source SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor is now available for download with new features and enhancements.

10. Milestone Reached on Boxing Day: 4,800 Known Gemini Capsules (Known to Lupa) [original]

    Notice where tuxmachines is at, on top of that milestone

11. Moving Between Operating Systems and Desktop Environments

    3 stories

12. GNU Bash, Grep, and "10 terminal commands that helped me finally understand GNU/Linux"

    CLI stuff

13. Applications and Projects: Jellyfin, VLC, Homey, and RISC-V

    4 Valnet articles

14. Moving From Windows to GNU/Linux on the Desktop/Laptop

    2 new stories

15. Turning Old PCs Into GNU/Linux Servers

    Old laptops make better home servers than most people realize

16. Servers, Linux, and Distributions

    Operating Systems' leftovers

17. WinBoat, WinApps, and Windows Mislabeled as "Linux"

    3 new articles

18. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

    FOSS leftovers

19. Programming Leftovers

    Ruby 4.0 and more

20. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More

    Hardware leftovers

21. today's howtos

    a handful of howtos

22. Wayback 0.3 Preview Arrives With Fedora and Alpine Availability

    Wayback 0.3, a X11 compatibility layer that allows running X11 desktop environments using Wayland

23. BSD Leftovers

    3 more picks about BSD

24. GStreamer 1.26.10 Released with Support for FLAC Audio in DASH Manifests

    The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.10 as the tenth maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular and powerful open-source, free, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

25. Unboxing Day [original]

    The news cycle's old pace won't resume any sooner than Monday or maybe the Monday after that

26. GStreamer 1.26.10 Brings Fixes for FLAC Opus and Matroska Handling

    The GStreamer team has released the tenth bug-fix update, 1.26.10

27. Arch Linux Website Hit by DDoS and Temporarily Limited to IPv6

    Arch Linux has confirmed an active DDoS attack during Christmas

28. CachyOS Plans New Server Edition With Hardened Defaults

    Arch-based CachyOS is working on a new Server Edition aimed at NAS, workstations

29. Skip these 3 popular distros (and use these instead)

    As part of my job, I read about Linux distributions, test them out, and discuss them

30. 9 New Linux Distros That Could Grow Big in 2026

    We do not need a mythical “year of the Linux desktop” for Linux to keep growing

31. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

32. LeafKVM is a Rockchip-based self-contained KVM with touchscreen and browser access

    On the software side, LeafKVM runs a Buildroot-based Linux system intended to remain modifiable

33. CamThink NeoEyes NE301 is an open-source STM32N6-based edge AI camera

    the runtime environment remains bare-metal or RTOS-based rather than Linux

34. The "revolt against Windows 11"

    Eric S. Raymond, one of the luminaries of the open-source movement

35. From Great to Greater: Our 5 Favorite ‘Distro of the Week’ Picks

    Forget arguing about Ubuntu vs. Debian

36. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

37. Accessing This Site With Browsers That Only Use Megabytes or RAM (Just 10MB or Thereabouts) [original]

    Browser bloat isn't a "third-world" issue

38. Unboxing, Detoxing, Adopting Lighter Software [original]

    This site used to use up a lot of RAM when it ran Drupal

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