Over 10,000 Pages/Articles Per Year?
Probably my most productive month, ever
Last week: 8,000 Pages/Articles Per Year
The previous article (#15081), 4 weeks after this month's first (#14433), means a pace of almost 24 new pages/articles per day, aside from original articles in the sister site, namely the following:
- 2026-02-01
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- So Far 2026 Has Been a Good Year for GNU/Linux
- Roy Schestowitz : Seeing the sort of press coverage that we saw last month, it seems increasingly clear that 2026 will be a year of gains for GNU/Linux, even among gamers
- 'Traditional' Computing is Still the Best
- Roy Schestowitz : Don't "go with the flow" if that flow is dictated by GAFAM and media owned by GAFAM
- Trying to Injure Tux Machines Did Not Work
- Roy Schestowitz : Some time soon we'll discuss this matter with British politicians
- Bad Publicity or Good Publicity, It's Still Publicity
- Roy Schestowitz : sometimes mistakes (like misguided legal actions) result in more people showing interest in what someone wished to suppress
- 2026-02-02
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- What a Difference Four Years Make
- Roy Schestowitz : We've since then both created our own "proper" offices and are nowadays working close to wildlife
- Always Obeying Just Laws
- Roy Schestowitz : British libel law needs urgent reform. We're working on it.
- United Kingdom: ChromeOS and GNU/Linux at About 7%, Windows All-Time Low
- Roy Schestowitz : In Germany GNU/Linux is measured at about 6% this month
- South America Keeps Marching Towards GNU/Linux
- Roy Schestowitz : It is understandable that GNU/Linux rose to over 4% from about 2% last year
- GNU/Linux at All-Time High in Chile and Brazil (Almost 5%)
- Roy Schestowitz : When will it exceed 5%?
- Google is Not Your Friend (Even If It Uses Linux a Lot)
- Roy Schestowitz : instead of Google sending people to us it is taking our words and replicating them
- 2026-02-03
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- Zoo is Never the Right Place
- Rianne Schestowitz : I am saddened, as reading the news is something which I always do and is part of my daily routine
- Static Site Generators (SSGs) Made Life Easier and the Site Vastly Faster
- Roy Schestowitz : You'd hardly know or feel the site serving a lot of pages despite it being very modestly provisioned
- GNU/Linux Reaches 12% in Bulgaria, Says statCounter; Windows Down From 99% to 22%
- Roy Schestowitz : Bulgaria used to be almost 100% Windows
- Raising Awareness of SLAPPs in the UK (Filed by Americans Connected to Microsoft)
- Roy Schestowitz : In the coming years we'll go what we can to raise awareness of this problem and tackle it
- 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
- Roy Schestowitz : It's a lapdog, not a watchdog
- Daniel Pocock Filed a Lawsuit Against Debian, EFF, Gandi and Others
- Roy Schestowitz : It's almost 400 pages long
- 2026 Started Well for GNU/Linux in Albania
- Roy Schestowitz : Albania is a poor country (by European standards), but can it show the way out of GAFAM?
- 2026-02-04
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- Equilibrium
- Roy Schestowitz : Many people I know are overwhelmed by worries because they think of hypothetical scenarios
- GNU/Linux Usage Growing in Moldova This Year
- Roy Schestowitz : Moldova was recently in the news cycle (again)
- Microsoft's Problem in Israel is GNU/Linux
- Roy Schestowitz : GNU/Linux is trending up
- They Could Never Grind Us Down
- Roy Schestowitz : Our site grew a lot in the past couple of years
- Leaving Nature Alone
- Roy Schestowitz : The world is too small for so many people and this planet's land area gets smaller over time due to rising sea levels
- In Senegal, GNU/Linux Flies to 3%, an All-Time High
- Roy Schestowitz : Will it reach 4% later this year?
- A Year of Change in Tux Machines
- Roy Schestowitz : Don't just read the news, be the news
- This is Not What Fair Competition Looks Like
- Roy Schestowitz : Today's Web is a disgrace
- 2026-02-05
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- Keeping the Site and Capsule Accessible 100% of the Time
- Roy Schestowitz : We're generally pleased to say that over the past week we served about 8 million Web requests
- GNU/Linux Measured at 5.5% in Ecuador This Year
- Roy Schestowitz : Let's see if this can be sustained throughout the year
- Gifts of Nature and Other Empathetic Human Beings
- Roy Schestowitz : Empathy in humans isn't a universal thing
- 2026-02-06
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- Microsoft Windows Measured at Less Than 1% in American Samoa
- Roy Schestowitz : Expect a lot of Microsoft layoffs soon
- The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), Even If Now Run by a Lady, is Failing Ladies
- Roy Schestowitz : In a profession dominated by arrogant men
- 2026-02-07
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- In US Government Sites, Windows "Market Share" About 40%, Vista 11 Only About 10%
- Roy Schestowitz : The era of Windows domination ended some time ago
- A Meteoric Rise of GNU/Linux in Barbados?
- Roy Schestowitz : In some places, GNU/Linux rears its head
- Amutable, a Microsoft Satellite
- Roy Schestowitz : replacing freedom-respecting systems with ones controlled by Microsoft at many levels
- Tux Machines So Far in 2026
- Roy Schestowitz : GNU/Linux makes many advances this year (in gaming also!)
- 2026-02-08
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- 22 Years of Curating GNU/Linux Links
- Roy Schestowitz : We've not changed much since 2004
- The Media Isn't Dying, It's Being Assassinated (Divestment), We Need to Fill the Gap
- Roy Schestowitz : GNU/Linux in its original form is a grassroots system. To keep is that way we need community-driven, community-centric, community-focused news.
- This Year Gemini Protocol Will Turn Four for Us
- Roy Schestowitz : We moved to our own SSG back in 2022
- 2026-02-10
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- The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Says It Cannot Keep Up With Abusive Legal Cases in the UK
- Roy Schestowitz : Rianne will soon contact her politicians (representatives) about this
- Microsoft's Implosion Will be an Opportunity for Further GNU/Linux Gains
- Roy Schestowitz : Microsoft's layoffs will focus on Windows and XBox (gaming has been a complete catastrophe for Microsoft), so there will be room for GNU/Linux gains
- When the UK's Regulatory Authorities Are Systematically Failing Women
- Roy Schestowitz : This isn't the last resort but one of several
- analytics.usa.gov Shows Rapid Erosion of Windows Market Share Since 'End of 10' (Vista 10)
- Roy Schestowitz : "There were 2.23 billion sessions in the last 30 days.
- Institutional Failure at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Reported to Politicians
- Roy Schestowitz : Because of the SRA, malicious "hired guns" harassed my wife for several years
- 2026-02-11
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- Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Low in Lithuania, Says statCounter
- Roy Schestowitz : Windows was near 99% back in the Vista 7 days
- Apple's iOS Looks Like It's About to Exceed Microsoft Windows Market Share in Switzerland
- Roy Schestowitz : Microsoft's dominance wanes
- 2026-02-12
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- Microsoft Attack Dogs/Operatives Try to Put the Operators of Techrights and of Tux Machines in Prison
- Roy Schestowitz : The hired guns in London are eager to turn the UK into another China
- 2026-02-13
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- Bullies Versus GNU/Linux Sites
- Roy Schestowitz : Promoting GNU/Linux and condemning people who attack GNU/Linux is not a crime
- The British Legal System Fails People Who Expose Crimes and Wrongdoing
- Roy Schestowitz : We'll soon show messages that we transmitted to politicians
- 2026-02-14
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- 6 Months From Now It'll Be 5 Years After Vista 11 Came Out, Its "Market Share" in US Government Sites is 13.5%
- Roy Schestowitz : This coming summer it'll be 5 years since Vista 11 first got 'leaked'
- 800 Days Soon
- Roy Schestowitz : One week from now it'll be 800 days of uptime for this modest laptop
- ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Reach 5% in El Salvador
- Roy Schestowitz : ChromeOS isn't for freedom, but at least it is not Windows
- 2026-02-15
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- GNU/Linux in Greece
- Roy Schestowitz : Why does Greece like the platform more than the rest of Europe (on average)?
- Never Give Up
- Roy Schestowitz : For new adopters of GNU/Linux there are sometimes reasons to just "give up" or "call it quits"
- GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Hit 5% in Anguilla
- Roy Schestowitz : Anguilla is not a poor country
- Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Puff Pieces Won't Solve SRA Problems
- Roy Schestowitz : The SRA is guarding against justice
- Microsoft Windows' Decline, as Seen From Maldives
- Roy Schestowitz : It seems like a global thing
- Keeping the Site Fast in Spite of Annoying Bots
- Roy Schestowitz : Running sites takes a lot of work and many skills
- 2026-02-16
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- The 'Bird Kitchen'
- Roy Schestowitz : 4 weeks ago we needed to confront some locals over the feeding of birds
- 2026-02-17
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- Chromebooks and GNU/Linux Appear to Have Gained Much Ground in Samoa (Independent State of Samoa)
- Roy Schestowitz : Having just checked the data statCounter has on Samoa, it looks very encouraging for GNU/Linux
- The Efforts to Silence People Are Proportional to Their Positive Effect
- Roy Schestowitz : Our community is besieged by thugs, bullies, and Microsoft money
- 2026-02-18
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- Recursive Resolver Upgrade
- Roy Schestowitz : If all goes well, it'll be over (the at-risk window) by 3AM tomorrow
- Why We Still Won't Link to Linuxiac (Anymore)
- Roy Schestowitz : Even 1% slop is too much
- A Unique 22nd Anniversary for Tux Machines, Motif Will be Green
- Roy Schestowitz : Community anniversary party
- Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Firms That Have Nothing Left Except a Legal Licence
- Roy Schestowitz : The SRA is worse than feeble
- Spain: Windows at All-Time Low
- Roy Schestowitz : Windows goes down steadily
- 2026-02-19
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- In Egypt, statCounter Can Only Verify About Half of Web Requests From Desktops/Laptops Are Windows
- Roy Schestowitz : Windows used to be identified on 100% of client requests (99.6%), now it's down to almost 50%
- The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Fiasco Continues: Antisemitism and the SRA
- Roy Schestowitz : Right now the SRA is having its month of reckoning because many people speak out about what the SRA did (or did not do) for them
- Helping Animals is Fun (and the Animals Benefit From It)
- Roy Schestowitz : The BBC has published a video (from Manchester!) about vets and volunteers with their "pigeon repair kit"
- 2026-02-20
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- Why We Write About the The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Delusion
- Roy Schestowitz : After the weekend we'll write some more about the SRA, sporadically at least
- Uptime of 800 Days
- Roy Schestowitz : Will it exceed 1,000?
- Maintenance Over, No Downtime/Issues Encountered
- Roy Schestowitz : We, the community (programmers, sysadmins etc.), do not anticipate any further interruption this month
- Microsoft Windows Does Not Dominate Japan Anymore
- Roy Schestowitz : Can Japan regain true independence by technical means?
- Learning the Shells
- Roy Schestowitz : they keep the tanks nice and clean
- 2026-02-21
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- "GNU Linux-libre turns 18 tonight"
- Roy Schestowitz : "before that, every distro that wanted to respect its users' freedom had to remove itself all of the binary blobs that were distributed as part of the kernel Linux's so-called sources"
- In the US, Apple's Operating Systems Seem to Have Already Outpaced Microsoft's (Linux Also Nearly Catching Up)
- Roy Schestowitz : Definitely something to stare at and think about
- 2026-02-22
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- Projects as Gifts to Tux Machines' Community
- Roy Schestowitz : Maybe those additional projects can become a "gift" to the community as it turns 22
- Everything Down to the Basics
- Roy Schestowitz : Thankfully our community pays to run the site and can cope with pricing burdens
- Working With Plants
- Roy Schestowitz : Our 'offices' are simple and fun to work in
- Not Tolerating Intolerance
- Roy Schestowitz : Intolerance is a big problem
- 2026-02-23
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- Science is the Root of Free Software
- Roy Schestowitz : It's hardly surprising that some of the loudest opponents of Software Freedom and its luminaries also disregard or bend facts
- Despite Problems at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and SLAPPs From London, the UK Remains a Decent Place to Do Journalism
- Roy Schestowitz : Let's face is, the media is universally (globally) under attack
- Curating the News, a Community-Powered Endeavour
- Roy Schestowitz : We're happy to say our community continues to grow and we get more people involved
- 2026-02-24
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- Several Web Surveys Agree: Microsoft Windows Lost Majority Market Share in Its Home Country, Now Below 40%
- Roy Schestowitz : "Old Enough To Remember" when Windows was at over 90%
- 4 Days Till Spring, a Rebirth in Nature!
- Roy Schestowitz : This year's colour motif is green
- 2026-02-25
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- Start of Gardening
- Roy Schestowitz : Today it's expected to be partly sunny with temperatures rising as high as 15
- Helping Birds in Manchester Recover From Injuries
- Roy Schestowitz : Recently (this past week) a limping bird started visiting us
- 'Bottle' is Back
- Roy Schestowitz : It seems like birding is seeing a surge after COVID-19
- 2026-02-26
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- Hardware Black Boxes
- Roy Schestowitz : Reprinted with permission from Alex Oliva
- Scheduled Network Maintenance This Month and Next Month
- Roy Schestowitz : Hopefully no downtimes or timeouts will be experienced by anybody
- Stricter is Less Popular
- Roy Schestowitz : Reprinted with permission from Alex Oliva
- The Currency of Software Freedom
- Roy Schestowitz : People who do all this for financial gain are easy to corrupt
- Finally! 3,300 Active Gemini Capsules Known to Lupa, a Geminispace Crawler and Analyser
- Roy Schestowitz : Lupa indicates a new milestone was reaching this morning
- Busy News Day, Almost Spring
- Roy Schestowitz : spring is off to a rough start
- 2026-02-27
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- Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Low in Antigua And Barbuda (57.48%)
- Roy Schestowitz : The world's preferences are fast changing
- In 2026 Tux Machines is Improving
- Roy Schestowitz : We have a common mission and every week we make measurable advancements
- Years Ago Tux Machines Quit Social Control Media. Now Entire Nations - Liberal States Too - Recognise It as a Threat and Accordingly Ban Social Control Media (First for Children/Adolescents)
- Roy Schestowitz : Social Control Media made society so much worse off
- 2026-02-28
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- March About to Commence
- Roy Schestowitz : Today we were out all morning
- In Praise of Catalyst2, My Webhost Since 2004
- Roy Schestowitz : Here's to the next 22 years!
- Dr. Andy Farnell on Pulling the Plug
- Roy Schestowitz : Who does your technology serve?
Combined with stuff I post in my personal blog, it averages at almost 30 per day, which would be over 10,000 this year (assuming this publication pace).
Last year I started sleeping more and spending more time away from the keyboard, yet that didn't negatively impact productivity. It improved focus. █