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  1. Understanding the Foundation Board’s Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem
    During BSDCan, the FreeBSD Foundation holds its annual meeting and Board elections

    New

  2. DXVK 3.0.2 Brings Fixes for Dying Light: The Beast, Halo CE, Overwatch, and More
    DXVK 3.0.2 open-source Vulkan-based implementation of D3D8, D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with more improvements for your favorite games.
  3. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux picks and Haiku
  4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  5. Ubuntu 26.04 Bugs (Too Busy Adding Buggy Clones That Don't Work), Ubuntu DDoS Attack Discussed
    Ubuntu picks
  6. IBM Red Hat Mostly Focused on Slop Plagiarism, Not Much About Linux These Days
    IBM agenda
  7. Server: Istio 1.30.3, Istio 1.29.6, and 10ZiG
    3 more picks
  8. Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Matters and BSD Now
    two episodes for now
  9. KDE Mega Sprint 2026 and Server-side Drop Shadows
    KDE leftovers
  10. Accessibility in GNOME and Icon for Demostage
    last week's updates on GNOME
  11. BSD: OpenZFS, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and OPNsense
    BSD leftovers
  12. Open Hardware/Modding: Right to Repair, ESP32, RISC-V, and More
    Hardware picks
  13. Events/Education: Workshop Basel, EuroPython 2026, and IndieWeb Event for Southeast Asia
    recent and upcoming
  14. Technological Sovereignty, FSF Raising Money, and Paleoenshittification
    FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty leftovers
  15. Programming Leftovers
    Development leftovers
  16. Standards/Consortia: ITU, USB, HEIC, and More
    Standards and more
  17. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    Security picks
  18. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical leftovers
  19. Games: RPCS3, Godot, Denuvo Workaround, and Performance
    gaming leftovers
  20. Slopfarms Rejoice as After Boss of Linus Torvalds Receives Millions to Promote Slop Plagiarism, Then Torvalds Becomes His Master's (Money) Voice
    Really bad, Linus Torvalds
  21. 'Secure' Boot Redundant and Only a Net Loss for Security
    2 more stories
  22. Technical Computer Scientist and Free Software Expert Running for a Seat (Clacton-on-Sea by-Election) [original]
    We envision he'll soon do some media interviews and some Web pages will help bring exposure to his message
  23. GNU/Linux Rises to About a Quarter of OS Usage in Iraq [original]
    For a long time Windows was measured at 100% there
  24. Open Source Won’t Save Us
    The FSF fights for your freedom.
  25. Winner Takes It All, the Loser Can Take 'Bronze' [original]
    There is a match tomorrow night. If England can get 'bronze', it'll a consolation prize for Thomas Tuchel, as France is a very potent opponent
  26. Pocock-on-Sea: nomination for Clacton by-election, 13 August 2026 [original]
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  27. Wayland 1.26 Is Now Available for Download with New Features and Improvements
    Wayland 1.26 open-source replacement for the X11 window system protocol is now available for download with support for new events, funxtions, and requests, and bug fixes.
  28. Games: Steam Machines, Jagex, Humble Handhelds Bundle, and More
    mostly from GamingOnLinux
  29. Productivity on the Rise Again [original]
    "...tasks expand to fill the time available"
  30. Belize: GNU/Linux Up to About 10% [original]
    Compared to about 8% internationally this month
  31. Linux doesn't force me to use the terminal—these 3 tools prove it
    I'm still a novice Linux user, but the more time I spend with it
  32. AMD driver causing massive performance loss on all major Linux distros
    Ubuntu warns an upcoming Linux kernel severely slows AMD down in certain compute workloads due to a drive issue
  33. Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out
    Linux users love to talk about how much faster their systems are compared to Windows
  34. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  35. Vocalinux Turns Your Speech Into Text Without Giving Away Voice Data
    An open source, speech-to-text tool for Linux called Vocalinux has just introduced its 0.14 beta release
  36. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2026-07-11 to 2026-07-17
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    868 /n/2026/07/11/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml

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Linux Foundation is Plagiarism Hub, Linux is at Risk From It
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
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