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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 07, 2026

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4 Days Til Party [original]

This coming Wednesday we travel up north

New
Servers, KDE at 30, and GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems

today's leftovers
EasyOS Focuses on Enabling Xlibre Instead of Experimental Wayland (With Limited Support From Applications)

Xlibre focus
Fedora, Red Hat, and CoreOS Leftovers

RHEL and more
Debian: Russell Coker's Work, Birger Schacht's Status and Steve McIntyre on Microsoft-Controlled Kill Switch and Back Door

Debian leftovers
Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, ESP32, and More

Hardware leftovers
Sharing and Standards: National Open Source Library, Slop Warning, and Why "You Still Need A Legacy TLD For Email"

3 more stories
Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers: Ladybird, RSS, Chromium, and Mozilla

WWW related news
Releases of GNU direvent version 5.5 and GNUtrition 0.33

two new GNU releases
Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Plan at EU (“Tech Sovereignty”)

a couple of updates
Programming Leftovers

Development picks
Security Leftovers

Security picks for today
Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

mostly but not only Linux
Applications: Creative Software, Proton Drive, and Terminal Programs

3 new stories
today's howtos

Instructionals/Technical picks
Games: Steam Machines Running GNU/Linux on the Way, A Peek at a Godot Game

gaming picks
Dank Linux and Hyprland on Nvidia

Hyprland news
Shelly 2.3.2.2 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves CachyOS Support

Shelly 2.3.2.2 open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions is now available for download with drag-and-drop AppImage installation, CachyOS updater parity, and other changes.
New Zealand: GNU/Linux Reaches New High [original]

Notice what has happened to Windows
Star Labs Releases Firmware 26.06 with Support for AMD Cezanne-Based Systems

Star Labs releases Firmware 26.06 with various improvements to enhance the reliability, performance, and overall experience of your Star Labs Linux machine.
Games: IGN Live Bundle, SteamOS, and Steam Machines

gaming picks from GamingOnLinux
If Europe Wants Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty, It'll Need to Adopt GNU/Linux Faster [original]

What will it take for Brussels to quit appeasing (or taking bribes from) GAFAM lobbyists and instead start deploying software and systems that Europe itself can control?
Sharing is Loving [original]

We need more Free software 'fanatics'
GNU/Linux Doing Well in Monaco in Recent Years [original]

This helps us debunk the stigma of "only poor people" would "choose Linux"
Android Leftovers

I get why battery protection exists on Android phones, but I’ll never use it
I switched to a tiling window manager on Linux and can't believe I wasted years dragging windows around

Regardless of the operating system you're on
These 4 package managers outlasted the Linux distros that created them

Linux distributions are oddly mortal for projects that spend so much time preaching stability
This Linux distro looks so much like Windows 11 that it's unsettling

The first time you'll boot into AnduinOS
Docker for Microcontrollers? AkiraOS combines Zephyr RTOS with WebAssembly (WASM) applications

AkiraOS is a Zephyr-based embedded OS that runs sandboxed WebAssembly applications on microcontrollers and lets users deploy and update firmware OTA without reflashing
Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

This is free and open source software
GNU/Linux Leftovers

GNU/Linux picks
Software Release: Fastfetch 2.64 and Rustdesk 1.4.7

2 new releases
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

FOSS and more
GSoC KDE Work on Font Subsetting and Porting KeepSecret to the Kirigami ActionCollection API

KDE development
Red Hat Leftovers

Red Hat picks
This Week in Plasma: Fixing all the things

This week the team continued polishing Plasma 6.7 for its release later in the month
Using Fedora Silverblue for Compositor Development

I’ve been using Fedora Silverblue on my desktop and laptop for the past
Sparrow Hawk runs Linux on Renesas R-Car V4H SoC

The Sparrow Hawk supports Yocto and Debian Linux distributions
6 easy ways I make Zorin OS even faster and more secure

Out of the box, Zorin OS is fast and secure
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

When Short is Way Too Short (Superficiality, Lowering of Entropy): Demonstrating how truly worthless social control media was all along
NVIDIA's Crisis Has Only Just began: NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA) is set to open in the red tomorrow
IBM Has Destroyed Red Hat and Hashicorp, Insiders Say It's the Usual From IBM:: Bluewashing is a death wave
Techrights Was Right About Slop Destroying Development Communities and Projects: Slop does not improve your project. It kills the community. Without community, what is left? A 'botfarm'?
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXXI - Harassment Law and "Things Are Unfairly Asymmetric" (Exploring the Boundaries of Death Threats and Various Threats From America): the sort of "technofascism" that our country must learn to confront rather than facilitate
Techrights Hates Slop Bots: They benefit nobody
The Economy is Fine! (If Only for China!): The future is slop! If not, then it's China's fault! It's "sabotaging" the "Western hey hi" in this "hey hi arms race!"
"IT" as "Musical Chairs" (on the Deck of The Titanic): Each generation will get worse for "IT"
Salesforce in Trouble, Debt Nearly Quadrupled in 9 Months: Salesforce is perishing in a deep pool of debt
"Microsoft is Next IBM": The words of a Microsoft insider and responses to that
IRC is Decentralised: Bye, Microsoft Teams/Skype
Links 15/11/2026: Murdoch's "WSJ Buries Stephen Miller's Racism" and "America Has Entered a New Age of Propaganda": Links for the day
In the UK, GNU/Linux Usage Soared During Microsoft Downtime: since the massive outage GNU/Linux usage soared to over 10%
Google Slop About Richard Stallman Shows Stallman Was Right, LLMs are BS Generators: Google slop is the "new Google"
Spouse of Garrett Needs to Get "Several Firearms" to Feel Safe Amid Divorce (Garrett Has a "Girlfriend" Now): Seems like Isis and my wife have a lot in common when it comes to Garrett
Vista 11 is Small: Can Microsoft survive the fall of Windows?
Six Richard Stallman and FSF Talks This Month (FSF Staff at Ohio State University): Dr. Stallman's talks in Ecuador are well timed because of the collapse of the LLMs (slop) pyramid scheme
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 14, 2026: IRC logs for Saturday, November 14, 2026
Gemini Links 15/11/2026: "The Bastards Can Never Win" and "The Last Low-Tech Generation": Links for the day
Links 14/11/2026: Wuhan Corruption and "Aid Isn’t Reaching Ebola’s Epicenter": Links for the day
Rahul Kumar Has Turned tecadmin.net Into a Slopfarm That Promotes Slop and Microsoft (as Usual): Slop promoting slop - a death knell of once-active "Linux" sites
Large-Scale Layoffs - Not Just PIPs - at Red Hat and IBM This Month: Mainstream media has quit covering mass layoffs
Links 14/11/2026: "The Claude Delusion" and "The Microsoft Outage is a Warning for the World": Links for the day
Ethics in Perspective, Free Software and Morality: top clients of Jeffrey Epstein are one happy family
Richard Stallman (RMS) at Universidad Central del Ecuador (Guayaquil), Cuenca, Campus Sur Universidad Politecnica Salesiana (Quito), and Ohio State University: Long live the message and mission of RMS
They Paid Workers in 'Shares' (That Lost Almost Half Their Value in One Month): Welcome back 1999 or 2007
The Register MS Made Millions of Pounds by Participating in the Slop Hype Campaign (It's Still Doing It), Now It Admits That It's Just a Bubble: the slop frenzy played a role in the Microsoft meltdown
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXX - Pyramid Schemes (Planned Plunder) and Canceled/Botched Surgeries Aren't "Funny", They Cause Serious Harm and Distress: We were right about Microsoft
Links 14/11/2026: "OpenAI Is Sustaining Enormous Losses" and Slop "Loses the Popular Vote": Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 13, 2026: IRC logs for Friday, November 13, 2026
Gemini Links 14/11/2026: Code of Conduct, Back to Gemini, and Gemlog to Inbox: Links for the day
Slop Promotion, Including Paid-for Slop Promotion for So-called 'Linux' Foundation (Its Clients Are Slop Companies): We've noticed a lot of this lately in "It's FOSS" and to a lesser degree in "FOSS Force"
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Productivity Metrics and Antenna Outage: Links for the day
The Real Issue With The Register MS is Not the Politics of Some Staff's "Tweets", It's That The Register MS Publishes Fake Articles for Sponsors (50,000 Pounds Minimum): AWS and Google each pay millions for fake articles which beget journalistic bias too (they literally pay the salaries of the 'reporters')
Microsoft Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): We Need Accountability Because Many People Die and It's Because of Microsoft Diehards or People Bribed by Microsoft to Deploy Microsoft Where Lives Are at Risk: They're trying to save face right now
What the Media Misses: It's Not an NVIDIA Issue, Super Micro Computer Inc Also Fell From $45 to $26 in the Period NVIDIA Lost 33% of Its Faked 'Value', NVIDIA is Collapsing Like Intel: History goes in circles
It's Not About China or Sex, It's About Corruption at NVIDIA and a Pyramid Scheme Perpetrated Under the Guise of "Hey Hi Revolution" (That Wasn't, It's Manufactured and Hyped by Bribes, Subsidised by Multi-Trillion-Dollar Loans, People's Pension Funds and More): What's at stake here is a lot bigger than the "Ponzi hub" of Jensen Huang
No, You're Not a "Most Valuable Company" When Everything is Down for Half a Day in the Entire Planet: Still down, still no explanation (maybe they too aren't sure)
Waste of Money: Giving More Money to Toothless Regulators That Don't Even Examine Evidence: Shame in SRA
"Techrights Statement on Phoronix" Still Valid Five Years Later: Our position as stated in early 2022 has not changed
Vista 11's 'Growth' Has Stalled, It's Measured at Only 17.9% in the US This Year: That helps put in perspective Microsoft's attempt to discard almost 30% of its remaining workforce
"NVIDIA is Enron" (Subsidising the Pyramid Scheme That It Profited From), Microsoft is Next to be Down for the Count: Microsoft increasingly looks like the "next NVIDIA"
Richard Stallman Travels to South America to Give Talks About Free Software in Spanish, FSF Raises Money: The FSF is raising money (goal is $400,000) and the FSF has just mentioned the upcoming talks by the FSF's founder
United States Adding ~300 Billion in Government Debt Per Month, Wall Street Shaves Off Trillions in 'Value' in Less Than One Week: cushioning "assets" by helping them fake "value"
Microsoft: Pay Us for the Stuff That's Offline and We Cannot Fix: Learn to take control of the technology that you rely on
Links 13/11/2026: "Copyright-Strike-for-Hire" and "Stevie Wonder Photo Lawsuit": Links for the day
The Slop Bubble (or Pyramid Scheme) Relied on Trust and Patience (Being Patient as Losses Grow and Debt Explodes, Trusting the Roadmap of Cheaters and Frauds): Remember that it all began with trust
Anthropic's IPO Depends on $895.4 Billion in Debt (Money It Doesn't Have, It Loses Over 100 Billion Dollars Per Reporting Period), NVIDIA Has Just Lost Almost 2 Trillion Dollars In Value and Its Debt Trebled in Three Months: This coming week will be very, very entertaining for slop critics/sceptics to watch
At Microsoft, "Buyouts" or "Global Voluntary Separation Agreement" (GVSA) Not Much Different From Layoffs (Severance Shockingly Low): From what we are able to gather, many people are leaving Microsoft 'voluntarily'
Is Microsoft the Next Fake-Valued Corporation to Lose 35% in "Market Value"? Is Slop Bringing Microsoft Down?: Will NDAs prevent people talking or journalists finding out the true cause?
Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) the Latest of Many to Quit Linux Development Over Linus Torvalds' Obsession With Slop (Linus Wants to Work With Bots, Not Humans Who Understand Whatever Code They Write): Linus caught the 'brain virus'
Silent Layoffs at IBM (and Red Hat) Continue in November 2026: IBM's CEO is "a Palliative Care Doctor Who Slides [IBM] Gently Into the Night"
Microsoft Asks 60,000 Workers to Leave, Some Leave, Services Go Down: Microsoft laid off about 40,000-50,000 people in past years
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Roku Exits the Smart Home Market and Poor Reporting/Journalism Regarding Slop Plagiarism: Links for the day
Links 13/11/2026: "Apple Support Community Forums to Permanently Close" and "The Slop Market is Getting Nervous": Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 12, 2026: IRC logs for Thursday, November 12, 2026