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Instructionals/Technical posts - KDE and GNOME Events: Akademy and GUADEC
two individuals' takes - Linux 7.3-rc3
new RC is out - Mozilla Firefox 156 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 156 open-source web browser is now available for download with improved memory and CPU usage when displaying large JPEG images and various other changes. - Red Hat is Selling Microsoft (Proprietary, Back Doors Included), Slop Plagiarism, and Mass Surveillance Marketed as "Confidential"
disgrace again - Fedora Linux 45 Beta Released with Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, and KDE Plasma 6.7
Fedora Linux 45 distribution is now available for public beta testing powered by Linux kernel 7.2 and featuring the GNOME 51 desktop environment. Here’s what to expect from the final release. - KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing
KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment is now available for public beta testing with various new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new! - Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles - Matthew Garrett Cannot Even Afford to Fix His Laptop Anymore [original]
hoping for sympathy - Linus Torvalds No Longer Principled, His Stance on LLM Slop Shows That [original]
This is not the way to go - today's leftovers
GNU/Linux and more - Security Leftovers
Security bugs and FUD - Programming Leftovers
Development related news - Events and Education: Slop Hype, GNUHealthCon, Hackaday Europe, and More
5 picks - PostgreSQL Databases: Tomas Vondra's Take and Release of pgAssistant 3.8.0
PostgreSQL news - Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers: Tab Importance, Sponsored Servo Development, and Tor Browser 15.0.23
mostly browsers - Open Hardware and Devices: Arduino, wolfSSL, Raspberry Pi, 3-D Printing, and More
hardware related picks - Canonical/Ubuntu: Trying to Dodge GPL/Copyleft With Poor-Quality Imitations Controlled by Microsoft, Formal Posts About ROS 2 and RISC-V ISA
Ubuntu news - Debian: Freexian, strongSwan, Model-Based System Design
Debian leftovers - Red Hat and Fedora Promote Plagiarism Engines for Code, to Appease Non-Coders or Bad Coders
a couple of examples - Desktop/Laptop: 'Secure' Boot (Kill Switch, Back Door, TPM/DRM) Kills Ubuntu Downloads, Wired Reviews System76 Pangolin Pro Linux Laptop
a pair of stories - Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Matters, Wonders of Web Weaving, Rubenerd, and The Cyber Show
4 new episodes - EasyOS: Audacious is back, German translations, X cursor in Chromium 151
a few improvements noted - Kernel Space: Sockets, eBPF, and Linux 6.11 On The ESP32-S
Linux stories - Applications: Super Productivity, Orion, and Ventoy
GNU/Linux software roundup - Talos Enterprise Linux and More (Adding Native Hypervisor and Direct Container Scheduling)
3 picks regarding Talos - Raspberry Pi 'Modernises' Its Desktop Operating System
3 picks - Games: Godot, Microsoft's XBox Self-Harm, OpenRGB, and New Release of SteamOS
gaming related links - GNOME 51 “A Coruña” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
GNOME 51 desktop environment is now available as a major release that introduces numerous new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new! - Android Leftovers
Android 17's 'Continue On' might finally make me stop emailing myself drafts - Games: Veloren, Steam Deck, Heroic Games Launcher
gaming picks - Survive any Linux catastrophe with a Btrfs snapshot – these GUIs make it easy
Want to ensure your Linux system can recover from a catastrophe - 7 pioneering Linux applications that never needed replacing
Linux has changed dramatically since the early days of the kernel - My tablet runs a full Linux distro, and it's the best testing ground I've found for new operating systems
I like running Linux on a tablet - I found the best speech-to-text tool for Linux, and I’ll never dictate notes again without it
If dictation is your favorite method of taking notes and Linux is your desktop OS - Windows finally lost its last excuse to stay on my gaming PC
It’s only (relatively) recently that I made the switch to Linux - Linux Fu: Speak Up!
Of course, the good news is that many of the Linux tools are open source and the models are quite good - Don’t install Linux until you’ve read How-To Geek’s distro cheat sheet
Most Linux advice targeted at newcomers starts and ends with “just pick Ubuntu or Linux Mint,” but I find that to be an oversimplification - Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
This is free and open source software - XBian – Debian-based media center Linux distribution
XBian is a lightweight Debian-based Linux distribution designed to turn small form factor computers into dedicated media centers - Akira Linux – Niri-based rolling-release Linux distribution
Akira Linux is a rolling-release desktop Linux distribution built on Vostok, a Void-based system - The Simplest Method to Extract All Images from a Document in LibreOffice
Saves a lot of time and effort as you don't have to manually save all the images one by one - LibreOffice 26.8 and the languages for which nobody is paid
The most significant new features in LibreOffice 26.8 concern writing systems - Potions in Mageia. 04 – How proper cooking makes the final recipe pleasing to our users
This time, as promised in this new phase of publications on our official sites - Today in Techrights
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