Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 13, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Joining This Year's Tux Machines Anniversary Party [original]

   exactly 4 weeks away

2. LibreOffice 25.8.7 Announced as the Last Update in the LibreOffice 25.8 Series

   LibreOffice 25.8.7 is now available for download as the seventh and last maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with more than 10 bug fixes.

   New

3. GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating System Leftovers

   a few more links

4. GNOME Desktop/GTK: Agile Rates After Launch and Flatpak Sandbox Escape via Yelp

   Red Hat and others

5. Security Breaches, Patches, and Linux Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation

   FUD and more

6. Education and Standards in the News

   3 more stories

7. Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers Leftovers

   Firefox and more

8. Programming Leftovers

   Development news

9. cURL's Stenberg: "Mythos" is Marketing Hype by Sleazy Slop Peddler, Anthropic

   indeed

10. Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): Hosting, WordPress, "Out With the JS, In With the HTML"

    mindset changes

11. GNU and Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Leftovers

    freedom-focused picks

12. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More

    Hardware picks

13. Audiocasts/Shows: Social Control Media, Linux User Space, LINUX Unplugged, and Late Night Linux

    4 new episodes

14. Linux Foundation Tries to Devote Resources to Kernel (Linux) After Criticism, Partners With Sonatype

    2 news picks

15. News About BSD and ZFS in Particular

    ZFS and more

16. 'Tech' Media Keeps Hyping Up Local Privilege Escalation, Cites Microsoft as 'Linux Authority' (FUD Source)

    poor coverage

17. Sasha Levin (GAFAM) Wants 'Killswitch' for Linux (the Kernel)

    some articles on 'killswitch'

18. Debian: Freexian Collaborators, Colin Watson, and Tails Release

    Debian news

19. Microsoft, Slop, and Paid-for Red Hat Pieces

    Red Hat leftovers

20. Databases: PgBouncer 1.25.2, gAdmin 4 9.15, Ajqvue 3.6, pgFormatter v5.10, and More

    mostly but not only postgres

21. Games: Moving to GNU/Linux, Godot 4.7 Beta 2, New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, and More

    gaming leftovers

22. today's howtos

    Instructionals/Technical posts

23. Android Leftovers

    Android Owners: You Could Get Part of Google's $135 Million Data Settlement

24. Two years without a laptop taught me what Android can't do (and Linux can)

    Two years ago, I replaced my laptop with an Android-based desktop

25. Free and Open Source Software, and Benchmark

    I’ll put this mini PC through its paces from a Linux perspective

26. ALBA Linux Project – Japanese Linux distribution

    ALBA Linux Project is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that’s developed by a Japanese student

27. Linux Mint vs. Elementary OS: I compared both distros, and here's my advice

    If you're looking for a user-friendly Linux distribution

28. Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system

    At Red Hat Summit 2026, we’re announcing Fedora Hummingbird — a new container-based rolling Fedora Linux distribution

29. KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Is Out Now to Improve Performance for NVIDIA GPU Users

    KDE Plasma 6.6.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.

30. Fwupd 2.1.3 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for SHIFT6mq and SHIFTphone 8

    Fwupd 2.1.3 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for the SHIFT6mq and SHIFTphone 8 modular smartphones, as well as various other improvements.

31. Android Leftovers

    Android 17 could let you remove a major Pixel feature

32. Switching From Windows to Linux? These 15 Pro Tips Make Ubuntu Feel Like Home

    I've been using Ubuntu for decades. Whether you're new to the OS or returning to it after a while

33. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

34. Milk-V Jupiter2 brings SpacemiT K3 RISC-V platform to Pico-ITX form factor

    Software support listed by Milk-V includes Bianbu 3.0, Ubuntu 26.04, OpenHarmony 6.0, OpenKylin, Deepin, and Fedora

35. Ubuntu 26.04 vs. Fedora 44: After years of testing both Linux distros, here's my verdict

    Ubuntu and Fedora are two powerhouse Linux distributions

36. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

37. GStreamer 1.28.3 Adds NXP i.MX 8M Plus Hardware-Accelerated H.265 Encoding

    GStreamer 1.28.3 has been released today as the third maintenance update to the latest and greatest GStreamer 1.28 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.