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incidents and patches - Happy 35th Birthday, Linux!
Today is Linux’s 35th birthday so join me in wishing Linux many more awesome years to come and to celebrate its amazing journey. - SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview
SteamOS 3.9.0 news - Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.3 Release Candidate
Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) of the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series for public testing and early adopters. - Debian Project Says LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Can be Tolerated and Unpaid Volunteers Will Need to Accept It
debian-project losing integrity? - California’s Age Attestation Bill to Exclude Linux and All Open Source OSes
California’s Digital Age Assurance Act will exempt open source operating systems and applications from its age-verification requirements. - Debian 11 Long Term Support reaches end-of-life
The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 11 "bullseye" support has reached its end-of-life today - OpenShot 4.0 Open-Source Video Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
OpenShot 4.0 open-source video editor is now available for download with screen/webcam recording support for Linux on Wayland, new Recording View, new effects, and more AI features. - LLM Slop Attacking Linux (Kernel)
crawlers without borders - Cloudflare Sees GNU/Linux on About 7% of Desktops/Laptops in Switzerland [original]
The "neutral country" Switzerland cannot afford the risk of GAFAM colonialism anymore - Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles - Mozilla Thunderbird 155 Adds Custom OAuth Support for IMAP and SMTP Servers
Mozilla Thunderbird 155 open-source email client is now available for download with new features, improvements, and numerous bug fixes. Here’s what’s new! - Steam Client Now Supports HDR Streaming on Steam Deck OLED
Valve released a new stable Steam Client update with support for HDR streaming on Steam Deck OLED via Remote Play, and improvements across Steam Input, Friends & Chat, and Big Picture Mode. - Equatorial Guinea: GNU/Linux at 10% [original]
It is a very small country, but don't count it out - Free Software, Coding, and Standards Leftovers
4 more assorted stories - Olaf Alders and Matt Routley on Attaining Digital Sovereignty
2 blog posts - First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 7.2 Is Now Available for Download
Arch Linux 2026.09.01 is now available for download as Arch Linux’s ISO release for September 2026, powered by Linux kernel 7.2 and featuring the latest Archinstall 4.4 text-mode installer. - Servers: Kubernetes, Boring Host Names, and Istio Releases
4 new picks - Events: DjangoCon US 2026, FOSSY 2027, and NYCBug
3 events - Canonical/Ubuntu: Ubuntu 26.04, Data Mesh, and More
3 stories - IBM Abandons Red Hat Security (Michael Catanzaro) and Promotes Slop Plagiarism for Fake 'Work'
2 picks for now - Linux Devices and Open Hardware: Breaches, Boards, and More
hardware picks - OpenSUSE: Slop Peddling and Polkit Authentication Bypass
two stories - Audio/Videos: Netdev 0x1A, Late Night Linux, and This Week in Linux
3 new picks - Google says "the web is full of turmoil" and goes 'full MAGA'
Google news - Mozilla: July in Servo, Localization, and 'Privacy' Posturing
Privacy? Really? - Applications: gThumb 4.0 RC Released, Tether Introduced, and More
a pair of picks - today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical posts - Games: Grieving at Microsoft (Mass Layoffs, Studios Shut Down), Steam Deck / SteamOS (GNU/Linux) Reaches Huge Milestone
gaming news - Audacity 3.7.9 Open-Source Audio Editor Released with FFmpeg 9 Support
Audacity 3.7.9 open-source digital audio editor and recording software is now available for download with support for the latest FFmpeg 9 multimedia framework and various bug fixes. - Programming Leftovers
Development related news - Android Leftovers
I evaluated dozens of digital measuring tools on Android to see if phone sensors can replace physical hardware - Best Free and Open Source Software
This month alone, we’ve published 133 new and updated roundups - ReactOS Gets An Upgrade
A perennial in the esoteric operating system space is ReactOS - Why governments worldwide are abandoning Windows for homegrown Linux alternatives
Here are some of the governments building their digital infrastructure around Linux - GNU/Linux + ChromeOS Got Big in Belize [original]
It's not a large country, but this is still something - postmarketOS – Alpine-based Linux distribution for mobile devices
postmarketOS is an Alpine Linux-based distribution primarily developed for smartphones - RisingOS – Debian-based Linux distribution with Xfce
RisingOS is a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian and the Xfce desktop environment - PureOS Development Report: July 2026
Parity with Trixie - This Month in KDE Linux: August 2026
Welcome to this edition of This Month in KDE Linux, dedicated to KDE’s next-generation operating system - Kdenlive 26.08.0 released
We are happy to announce the summer release of Kdenlive 26.08 - Aquila IQ8 takes Dragonwing IQ-8275 designs from prototype to production
Toradex lists support for Linux, Yocto, and its Torizon platform - Ventuno Q runs Ubuntu on Dragonwing IQ8 with 40-TOPS NPU along with real-time STM32H5
The Ubuntu installation is bundled with an Ubuntu Pro license - Modernizing Fingerprint Management in GNOME Settings
For a while now, the fingerprint management UI in GNOME Settings (gnome-control-center) has felt outdated - What do I want in a Linux distribution?
I’ve been a Debian user since 1999, and a Debian developer since 2000. Given recent events it’s worth thinking about why that that is - Cloudflare Reckons GNU/Linux Already Exceeds 10% in China [original]
In Russia, likewise, Windows is collapsing - Today in Techrights
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