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- Mesa 26.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Mesa 26.2 open-source graphics stack is now available for download with new features and improvements across all supported drivers. Here’s what’s new! - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt: Microsoft Pundit Calls "Linux" Users "AI" Because the Data Looks Bad for Windows
as usual - Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles - New Debian 13 Kernel Security Update Fixes “Zapscape” and “SCTPhantom”
A new Linux kernel security update has been released for Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” to fix 28 security vulnerabilities in Linux 6.12 LTS. Update as soon as possible! - Billions of Sessions' Web Survey: GNU/Linux at 7% [original]
Days ago it said 6.4%, now it's up to 6.8% - GNU/Linux Desktop Share More Than Doubled in a Year in Guam [original]
That seems to be changing this year - Next Week It'll be 3 Months of Shell Tank [original]
Today ends the first week of August - Signing Off for a Bit [original]
We already average at about 35 new pages per day - GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
mostly GNU/Linux - Free Software, Digital Sovereignty, and Standards
FOSS and more - WordPress 7.0.3 is Out, "I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write"
blogging news - Programming Leftovers
Development picks - GNOME: Icon for KawaiiFi and Sovereign Tech Fellowship for GNOME Design & Community Management
GNOME aesthetics - Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
Hardware leftovers - Games: DRM-free, MECCHA CHAMELEON, and More
GamingOnLinux articles - Dual Booting Done Wrong, or How Microsoft Has Made It Harder to Boot Into GNU/Linux
2 articles - Red Hat: Paid-for SPAM (Disguised as Recommendations and Journalism), US Army, Slop Plagiarism, and More
shallow coverage/blog posts - Security Leftovers
Security breaches, patches, and more - today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical picks - 'Linux' Foundation on Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), Revisionism (GNU/Linux Started in 1983), and Promotion of Slop Plagiarism Using the "Linux" Brand
LF leftovers - Kernel: Linux Plumbers 2026, Concerns About Slop Disrupting Developers' Workflow, Aarch64, GNU Hurd Reemerges
kernel news - Audiocasts/Shows: Internet Archive and BSD Now
2 new episodes - Desktop/Laptop: EU’s Age Verification, Old PCs, Trying GNU/Linux, and "Linux Use Surges in North America"
4 new stories - Could your old computer have a second life?
Security matters here as well. Because Linux is built differently, it is targeted far less often by malware and ransomware - Why some tech users are ditching Android for Linux phones
Because SailfishOS is built on Linux, users can SSH into the phone from a PC, either wirelessly or over USB, to troubleshoot or tinker - Android Leftovers
Google Rolls Out August Android 17 Update With Pixel 10 Stability Fixes - 250 Billion Euros Wasted on Proprietary Stuff (Mostly American) Instead of Investing in Local IT Talent and Free (Libre) Code [original]
Will Europe realise that GAFAM is a risk, not a suitable "IT provider"? - Your favorite Linux distro probably descends from one of these three operating systems
Trace the ancestry of many Linux distributions still in widespread use - After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro
For years I thought I had strong opinions on Linux distros. Ubuntu was too heavy or it felt - Free and Open Source Software, and Review
This is free and open source software - Stable kernels: Linux 7.1.7, Linux 6.18.43, Linux 6.6.149, Linux 6.1.181, Linux 5.15.214, and Linux 5.10.263
I'm announcing the release of the 7.1.7 kernel - Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles - Calibre 9.13 E-Book Manager Improves PDF Output, Content Server, and More
Calibre 9.13 open-source ebook manager is now available for download as a bugfix release that addresses various regressions introduced in the previous release and other issues.
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