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Updated This Past Day
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GOG calls Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
People wouldn't develop games for Linux because gamers didn't use it
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Brax Open_Slate offers an open source Ubuntu and Android tablet with M.2 SSD support
Privacy-focused hardware company Brax returns with an open-source 2-in-1 tablet offering a user-replaceable battery
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Games: Terraria, Valve Lawsuit, MECHBORN, GOG, Heroic Games Launcher, and More
latest from GamingOnLinux
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Recent News/Developments: Server, Birds, Trolls, and Richard Stallman [original]
More coverage about Richard Stallman (RMS) will likely follow in February
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GNU/Linux "Market Share" Measured at 5.2% in Croatia [original]
GNU/Linux is making gains in eastern Europe
New
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Security Leftovers
Security picks like breaches
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Free Software, Standards, and Open Data
FOSS and more
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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
mostly GNU/Linux
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Firefox Tooling Announcements and Mozilla is Promoting Slop Instead of Web
as usual
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FOSDEM 2026 - Call for Volunteers and the "Drew DeVault" Problem
Drew DeVault in focus again
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ESP32, Jetson, Raspberry Pi, and "Running DOOM On Earbuds"
Hardware hacking and more
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Fedora, Red Hat, and CentOS (More People Exit Red Hat, Join Amutable)
some IBM stuff
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Desktop Environments: COSMIC Desktop and Xfwl4
some lesser known options
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Games: $903 Million Lawsuit Against Valve and Heroic Games Launcher on GNU/Linux
Games-related news
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Kernel: Preparing for Disaster and "AMD Prepares Radeon Low-Latency Video Decode for Linux Drivers"
some kernel picks
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Applications: Astrology Hooey, Notepad Next, Ptyxis, and IBKR Desktop
Application news for GNU/Linux
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today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical picks
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Google’s Desktop Operating System "Aluminium OS" Has Leaked
As a test unit, this marks a significant shift from the Android OS used on mobile Arm-based systems, as Aluminium OS now operates smoothly on x86 architecture
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Open Invention Network is Trying to Make Money Out of Its Software Patents 'Protection Racket' (Piggybacking the "Linux" Name)
OIN again
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VirtualBox 7.2.6 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.19
Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.6 today as the third maintenance update in the latest VirtualBox 7.2 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform virtualization software for Linux, Solaris, macOS, and Windows.
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GNU/Linux Leaps to Almost 10% in Trinidad And Tobago This Year [original]
This leap is unbelievably steep/sharp
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Debian-Based GParted Live 1.8 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, GParted 1.8
Following the release of GParted 1.8 as a major update to the popular open-source partition editor, Curtis Gedak released GParted Live 1.8 today as the latest version of this Debian-based live system to graphically manage disk partitions.
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Krita 5.2.15 bugfix release!
Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.15
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TUXEDO Computers Unveils Intel-Powered InfinityBook Max 15 Gen10 Linux Laptop
Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the Intel variant of the InfinityBook Max 15 Linux-powered laptop, which was previously only available for purchase with an AMD processor.
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Programming Leftovers
Development related picks
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today's leftovers
howtos and more
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Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Arduino, and More
Hardware picks for today
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PostgreSQL News: WAL-G 3.0.8, pgDay Paris 2026, and Nordic PGDay 2026
3 PostgreSQL picks
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Android Leftovers
One of my favorite Android security features just got even better
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Linux is still a developer OS, and that’s why it won’t go mainstream
Linux fans like to dream of the day when Linux is a mainstream OS instead of a hacker's tool
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I switched to Linux and I can't imagine going back to Windows in 2026
I had heard that people were giving Linux Mint a try after Pewdiepie did a video on it, and I thought, why not
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I turned my phone into a Linux desktop with this free app
You can already install multiple distros with Termux
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Why desktop Linux matters, even if (almost) no one uses it
Linux—you've heard of it, and maybe you've given it a try once or twice
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3 reasons KDE Plasma is still my go-to Linux desktop
If you read our Linux newsletter, you know that I've tried several desktop environments over the years
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Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software
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KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Release
This is second beta of Plasma 6.6
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Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web
Roomy is an open-source, decentralized platform built for communities that value privacy and control
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It’s time for the Mageia 10 art contest!
As in previous releases, the artwork for Mageia 10 will be made with input from our community that uses
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Audiocasts/Shows: This Week in Linux, LINUX Unplugged, Late Night Linux
3 new episodes
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Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles
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Transmission 4.1 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released as a Massive Update
Transmission 4.1 has been released today as a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform BitTorrent client that features GTK and Qt-based interfaces, a headless daemon, and a web UI.
The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):