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- 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. - Ubisoft Does Not Like GNU/Linux, Blocks Users (Despite Full Compatibility)
DRM lovers wants rootkits - 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. - 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. - LibreOffice 26.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New
LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite is now available for download with numerous new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new! - Good News! CERN is Migrating Over 2,200 Control Systems to Debian 13
The migration would move accelerator control computers out of the Red Hat ecosystem - 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. - Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles - Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Snapshot 3 Is Now Available for Public Testing
Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Snapshot 3 is now available for public testing for early adopters and application developers. - September Already Passing By [original]
September is well underway and we mark three anniversaries later this month - today's leftovers
with GNU/Linux focus - Kubernetes v1.37 and Incus 7.4
management tools - today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical picks - Games: JSAUX, ONTOS, and More
mostly GoL picks - Wayland is a Problem for KDE, KDAB is Dabbling in Slop Plagiarism for Hype's Sake (Marketing)
KDE picks - Red Hat: Slop, VMs, Risk, and Red Hat Satellite 6.20
from redhat.com - Debian and Canonical/Ubuntu Compromised by Slop Plagiarism (LLM Bubble Based on Trillions in Loans)
fall of integrity - Linux Devices, Open Hardware, and Phones
hardware picks - Free Software, Digital Sovereignty, and Standards
FOSS and more - Web Browsers/Web Leftovers
mostly browsers and Tor - GNU Projects: FreeIPMI 1.6.19 and GNU Parallel 20260822 Released
GNU Project updates - Programming Leftovers
Development related picks - Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
Security related picks - Linux drowning in ocean of slop (sloppy) commits and false reports, "Linux's strict memory overcommit mode" [original]
kernel picks - Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software - SlyOS – lightweight Arch-based distribution
Built on Arch Linux, SlyOS provides a preconfigured desktop operating system designed to make the Arch foundation more approachable without removing its flexibility - Potions in Mageia. 03 – Elograf or how have voice dictation with Mageia
Have you ever needed voice dictation but couldn’t find a way to do it on Linux? Mageia offers Elograf with everything you need to get it working with just a few clicks - Audacity 4.0 Open-Source Audio Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Audacity 4.0 open-source audio editor is now available for download as a major update with numerous new features and improvements. Here are the details! - Mozilla Keeps Pushing Slop Plagiarism and Spying on Firefox Users (Mozilla Does Not Work for Users, It "Monetises" Them)
2 new stories - One week of LibreOffice 26.8 – The stats!
One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 26.8, our brand new major update - Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software - SweetPotatOs – Arch-based Linux distribution for low-spec PCs
SweetPotatOs is an Arch-based Linux distribution designed to breathe new life into older and low-spec PCs - Stable kernels: Linux 7.2.3, Linux 7.1.13, Linux 6.18.49, Linux 6.12.108, Linux 6.6.156, Linux 6.1.187, Linux 5.15.220, and Linux 5.10.269
I'm announcing the release of the 7.2.3 kernel - LWN's Latest: Linux 7.3, Remind, Licensing, and Hype
6 articles outside paywall - Today in Techrights
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