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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 18, 2026

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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

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