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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Open Hardware: RAM-flation Impacts Raspberry Pi and "Meet the Garbage PC"
    Hardware news
  2. 2026 Started Well for GNU/Linux in Albania [original]
    Albania is a poor country (by European standards), but can it show the way out of GAFAM?
  3. Daniel Pocock Filed a Lawsuit Against Debian, EFF, Gandi and Others [original]
    It's almost 400 pages long
  4. The UK's Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is in Trouble, It Doesn't Know How to Tackle SLAPPs, It Only Wastes a Lot of Money [original]
    It's a lapdog, not a watchdog
  5. Skywave Linux v5.10 Released
    Skywave Linux has been upgraded to version 5.10
  6. Zoo is Never the Right Place [original]
    I am saddened, as reading the news is something which I always do and is part of my daily routine

    New

  7. Security Leftovers
    Security related stuff
  8. GNU/Linux, Games, and Hardware Leftovers
    today's leftovers
  9. Distributions and Operating Systems: Haiku and GNU/Linux
    a few OS related picks
  10. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    only 3 for now
  11. today's howtos
    idroot and more
  12. Kernel Space: Issues in Public Transport, Grooming of Greg Kroah-Hartman, and Plan for Post-Torvalds Scenario
    3 kernel related picks
  13. This tiny Linux USB tool can save almost any broken PC
    Not every written-off PC is broken due to hardware failure
  14. Linux Gaming Is Finally Legit: Why Steam Players Are Switching From Windows
    hanks to Valve’s Proton compatibility layer, a huge part of the Windows game library on Steam runs on Linux with barely any extra effort
  15. System76 Releases COSMIC 1.0.5 with New Option to Show Battery Percentage
    Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.0.5 today as the latest stable update to this Rust-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS Linux and other GNU/Linux distributions.
  16. Raising Awareness of SLAPPs in the UK (Filed by Americans Connected to Microsoft) [original]
    In the coming years we'll go what we can to raise awareness of this problem and tackle it
  17. Games: GOG, TerraTech Legion, and More
    GamingOnLinux's latest 10
  18. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Development, and Standards
    FOSS and more
  19. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  20. PCLinuxOS Magazine: Screenshots, Making Quality Music Easily, and Another Great Loss For PCLinuxOS
    some new updates/community news
  21. Android Leftovers
    What’s new in Android’s February 2026 Google System Updates
  22. Xubuntu Development Update February 2026
    Winter 2026 is proving to be a cold one around these parts
  23. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  24. GNU/Linux Reaches 12% in Bulgaria, Says statCounter; Windows Down From 99% to 22% [original]
    Bulgaria used to be almost 100% Windows
  25. Static Site Generators (SSGs) Made Life Easier and the Site Vastly Faster [original]
    You'd hardly know or feel the site serving a lot of pages despite it being very modestly provisioned
  26. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2026-01-28 to 2026-02-03
    918 /n/2026/01/29/What_Happens_to_Linux_After_Linus_Torvalds_We_Finally_Have_the_.shtml
    915 /n/2026/01/05/New_GeForce_NOW_native_Linux_support_could_lure_Windows_10_refu.shtml

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SLAPP Censorship - Part 84 Out of 200: New Legislation Against SLAPPs on the Way (After We Reached Out to Ministers)
They dealt with the matter individually too, but we won't share this in public, at least not at this time
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