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  1. OpenSUSE Planet News Roundup, OpenSUSE Build Service (OBS), and Tumbleweed's Review of the Week
    OpenSUSE news
  2. This Week in Plasma: 6.7 beta release
    This week we released a public beta of Plasma 6.7, ready for testing
  3. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software

    New

  4. Rescuezilla 2.6.2 System Recovery Live ISO Adds Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Support
    Rescuezilla 2.6.2 distribution is now available for download with a new build based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Racoon” and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
  5. GNOME Graphs and GLib/GObject (Christian Hergert After Red Hat)
    GNOME picks
  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards Leftovers
    mostly FOSS leftovers
  7. FreeBSD: Experience With FreeBSD on OVH; FreeBSD Resource Monitoring, Accounting, and Troubleshooting
    FreeBSD picks
  8. Kernel Space: Anbernic RG DS Gets a New Linux Firmware and Leveraging zram to Save Money
    a pair of news picks
  9. Databases: CloudNativePG Has New Releases, MariaDB Hack, and More
    DB-related stuff
  10. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks for this weekend
  11. GNU Projects: coreutils, emacs, and GIMP
    some GNU news
  12. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi's Resort to Slop, and More
    Hardware related news/projects
  13. Ubuntu 26.04 Review and More Canonical/Ubuntu Picks
    Canonical/Ubuntu leftovers
  14. Freexian Collaborators' Debian Contributions and New Debian Contributors
    Contributions and more
  15. Fedora, Red Hat, and Rocky Linux Leftovers
    various RHEL-related things too
  16. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  17. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    little of the latter
  18. Kubernetes v1.36 and Various Roles in Server, Even Slop Fondling
    Server centric uses
  19. Games: Subnautica 2, SteamOS Manager, New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, and More
    about a dozen new picks
  20. GNOME Desktop: GNOME Foundation Update and This Week in GNOME
    GNOME news roundups
  21. Debian 13.5 “Trixie” Released with 144 Bug Fixes and 103 Security Updates
    Debian 13.5 is now available for download as a new point release to Debian 13 “Trixie” with 144 bug fixes and 103 security updates.
  22. Recent Leftovers: howtos, Fedora/Red Hat, Mobile, and Obnam
    misc. leftovers
  23. 6 Linux distros that were huge once, but barely matter now
    Linux was the Wild West of computing in the late 1990s and early 2000s
  24. 2 beginner Linux distros that don't force you to use the terminal
    Are you switching over from Windows to Linux
  25. Anbernic RG DS gets a brand new Linux OS, and you don't need to uninstall Android
    Anbernic has released a Linux-based OS for its RG DS dual-screen handheld which ships with Android
  26. There is no digital sovereignty without ODF
    This is why LibreOffice, and its derivatives such as Collabora Office and Online
  27. Stable kernels: Linux 7.0.8, Linux 6.18.31, Linux 6.12.89, Linux 6.6.139, Linux 6.1.173, Linux 5.15.207, and Linux 5.10.256
    I'm announcing the release of the 7.0.8 kernel
  28. Heroes of Fedora Quality for Fedora 44
    Fedora 44 is out, and in this post we’d like to highlight the top Fedora Quality contributors who helped us reach the finish line
  29. Shelly 2.3 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Brings Performance Improvements
    Shelly 2.3 open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with performance improvements, translations support, code clean ups, and bug fixes.
  30. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  31. Videos: GNU/Linux, Free Software, and More
    Linux focus
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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    1177 /n/2026/05/11/Linux_7_1_rc3.shtml
    1077 /n/2026/05/10/Good_Job_Dell_and_Lenovo_Hope_Others_Follow_You.shtml
    1036 /n/2026/05/10/Parrot_7_2_Is_Now_Officially_Available_for_Download_with_Copy_F.shtml
    1021 /n/2026/05/12/Fedora_Hummingbird_Taking_the_Hummingbird_model_to_the_full_ope.shtml
    1009 /n/2026/05/12/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    944 /n/2026/05/11/Review_Fedora_44.shtml
    923 /n/2026/05/12/Sasha_Levin_GAFAM_Wants_Killswitch_for_Linux_the_Kernel.shtml
    917 /n/2026/05/11/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml
    862 /n/2026/05/11/Pi_Slate_A_Raspberry_Pi_5_handheld_Linux_cyberdeck_with_a_5_inc.shtml
    856 /n/2026/05/13/KDE_Receives_Over_1M_from_Sovereign_Tech_Fund_for_Software_Deve.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Microsoft: Work Weekends Too
Microsoft literally working its workers to death
Stallman Has Explained Slop is "Marketing Hype Campaign" and Torvalds Agreed. The Difference is the Bribes.
So be like Stallman
 
Richard Stallman's Site Still Offline (Third Day), But Richard Stallman is Active Online
he is busy online despite his site not being accessible so far this week
PIP Layoffs at Microsoft, Even in India
Microsoft is trying to hide the true scale of the layoffs
Layoff Trackers Are a Sham, They're Like US 'Unemployment Data'
Layoff trackers are similarly misleading as they only measure what companies openly admit and register with WARN notices
The Peculiar Case of OSNews, Which Experiments With Slopfarming
It wasn't published in error. It has been there for two months.
Russian Federation is Removing Windows From Computers
Windows is going "out of fashion"
XBox CEO Has No Clue What She is Selling
Some people believe Microsoft will parcel and offload the whole "gaming" unit to some other companies
analognowhere.com and xkcd.com Selling Physical Copies of Webcomics
That's one way to support their work
PIP/GVSA at Microsoft: Mass Layoffs Disguised as Something Else
Microsoft is trying to cheapen the workforce because the numbers don't add up
Microsoft Lunduke Uses Twitter ("X") Because It's Algorithmically Designed to Boost His Worldview/s, He Ignores What "X" Is
Maybe all those people really deserve one another
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 31, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, August 31, 2026
Censorship by Threats
It should be noted that the Web site of Richard Stallman will soon enter its third day of downtime
In Romania, GNU/Linux Reaches 6%, According to Clownflare
Tomorrow we'll see the latest data from statCounter (for September)
Gemini Links 01/09/2026: Denali Park Train Trip, Crafts, and Community-Building in smol.pub
Links for the day
Microsoft Workers Doing 80 Hours a Week After Microsoft Culled Their Colleagues
there are days when they work 17 hours a day (barely any time left to sleep and eat) and work starts at 5AM
IBM Defrauds Shareholders With Fake News (Bribed Press) About "Quantum"
That says a lot about the state of "Tech Giants" and also the utterly shameless state of the media
Record Highs for GNU/Linux, Especially in the United States of America
the "market share" of GNU/Linux is about 9%, still about a third of what Vista 11 stands at
PIPocalypse at IBM
Silent layoffs
Spending Over a Million Bucks on Lawsuits Abroad When There's a Big Mortgage to Pay in America
Priorities, priorities...
Gemini Links 31/08/2026: Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2026, smol.pub Discussion, and LLM Plagiarism Engines Target Geminispace
Links for the day
Richard Stallman's GNU Turns 43 in 4 Weeks, FSF Growing
In a few weeks GNU turns 43
IBM's Cuts Are Worsening Security in GNU/Linux
IBM is still run by the same idiot who proposed taking over Red Hat
Links 31/08/2026: Anthropic Sued Again for Copyright Infringement of Massive Scale, 'Tokenmaxxing' Shows Slop is a Worthless Liability
Links for the day
Links 31/08/2026: "Teslas Are Still Driving Into Oncoming Freight Trains" and "LLM Moats Quickly Evaporating"
Links for the day
Debian Project Discards About 25% of the Votes on LLM Slop, Microsoft Votes in the General Resolution (GR)
"[t]he rules of the vote saw community members asked to rank each of the eight proposals. Just under 600 people voted, but Debian’s election team rejected many for unspecified reasons, leaving almost 450 valid votes to count."
Essentiality of Rest and Killing Oneself for Vicious Companies
Working for Microsoft is foolish
In the UK, Bing (Microsoft) Down to Lowest Level Since January
our tax money being passed to Microsoft via MoUs (back door deals with kickbacks)
SLAPP Censorship - Part 167 Out of 200: The Court of Appeal Might be the Next Step
Today is our last vacation day
German Government Sponsors IBM Because of GNU/Linux
Flatpak is sponsored by, run, and controlled by IBM
Richard Stallman Speaks to Christine Hall of FOSS Force, stallman.org is Down for Over a Day
interview does a good job addressing the hype about LLMs too
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 30, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, August 30, 2026
Gemini Links 31/08/2026: Holidays, Stream of Consciousness, and Posting Online
Links for the day
Anniversaries Next Month
The month should be otherwise quiet and uneventful for us
Coding is Not Obsolete
we drown ourselves in chaff to meet "LOC" objectives while ignoring everything else
Microsoft Layoffs Perpetual But Silent, People Pushed Out Using Pressure or Incentive Schemes
Earlier this month we named some of the programs
Links 30/08/2026: Apple Rant and LLM (Slop) Scrapers Target Gemini Protocol and Gopher
Links for the day
Salaries Are Counted in Money, Not in Participation in the Employer's Scheme
articles greatly exaggerating GAFAM salaries
Walls in Free Software
mind your own business and move on
Even Linux Cannot Cope With Slop
Bots on the Web are truly obnoxious
What a Summer!
Tomorrow is the last day of this month
Links 30/08/2026: Soldiers in Niger Attack Presidential Palace and Airport, Nepali City Struggles to Handle the Many Dead Bodies
Links for the day
Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux Rising to 11% This Past Week
Is it the year of "Linux in China"?
Links 30/08/2026: Russian Strike on a Ukrainian Warehouse and Rhetoric Escalations
Links for the day
Gemini Links 30/08/2026: Photography, Paper Books, Linux Kernel and the Debian Projects Permitting Slop Plagiarism
Links for the day
Imagine a World Where Nobody Fights for Software (and Computing) Freedom
The community keeps fighting back, so some of these ambitions are delayed or watered down
FSF Has Grown (More Staff) After a Year of Financial Growth
On October 4 the FSF turns 41
GNU/Linux Has Become More Mainstream in the United Kingdom
It's a long weekend here and we guess some people dabble in GNU/Linux migrations, at least at home
SLAPP Censorship - Part 166 Out of 200: Garrett Wasn't Found Innocent Per Se, the Court Wanted More Evidence of Who Was Behind Particular Accounts Using Tor
It's complicated
Criminals Don't Obey Laws, California Does Not Enhance Online Safety
It has been a while since we last mentioned so-called 'age-verification' laws
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 29, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, August 29, 2026