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- Linux Kernel: GAFAM and Rust Inside Linux Advisory Board (TAB), "An Issue With DKMS and Kernel initramfs Images in Fedora 44"
2 stories - Ubuntu 26.10 Official Flavors Are Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
Ubuntu 26.10 official flavors are now available for download, so here’s a look at what’s new in Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Unity, and Ubuntu Kylin. - Standards/Consortia: The Politics of Standards (ODF), Digital Sovereignty, and "Leap Second Is No More"
3 stories - Epic Games Launcher Turns to Slop, "Epic is bringing Fortnite to Linux"
Slop festivals - Linus Torvalds Turns to Slop, Creates More Problems in Linux
Linus Torvalds caught getting lazy - Fighting 'Til the End [original]
ManCity shows that despite pressure from some jealous people it can continue to win, and win, and win... - Microsoft Perishing [original]
It cannot do business without cheating - KDE Plasma 6.6.7 Is Out with Support for Monitoring GPU Usage for Intel A380 GPUs
KDE Plasma 6.6.7 is now available as the seventh maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and numerous bug fixes. - Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles - Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles - Free Software and Openwashing by Microsoft OSI
FOSS and more - Modern Internet and Firefox Leftovers
WWW related news - GNU/Linux Leftovers
5 stories - Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications: Android Development, NexPhone, and More
Linux centric - BSD: 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD and OpenZFS Mastery
pair of BSD picks - Audiocasts/Shows: Hackaday Podcast, Environmental Factors, and Slop
3 new picks - Graphics: Intel, NVIDIA, Natalie Vock on Slop Plagiarism, and LLM Junk in Mesa
Linux graphics bits - today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical picks, a handful - KDE: Testing Kdenlive and KDE Gear 26.12 release schedule
KDE news - Introducing GNOME OS Preview and This Week in GNOME
GNOME news - Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers
hardware with Linux or similar - Programming Leftovers
Development news - Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
bugs and more - New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, "Did Nintendo Kill Switch Emulation?" and GNU/"Linux Now Runs on PS5"
3 stories - GNU/Linux Finally Gets 64-Bit Steam Client and More Steam News
5 stories - Wine 11.20
The Wine development release 11.20 is now available - GNOME 50.6 Desktop Environment Released with Fixes for Nautilus, GNOME Shell
GNOME 50.6 is now available as the sixth update to the latest GNOME 50 desktop environment series with various bug fixes, updated translations, and other changes. - More People Can Agree Software Freedom (Not Linux Made by LLM Slop) Matters [original]
Software Freedom is the only thing that matters at the end - Games: Archrebel Tactics, Digiphile Orcatober Aquatic Horrors Bundle, RimWorld's Waylith, and More
latest from GamingOnLinux - Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Rolls Out with Support for Volla Tablet, Various Updates
Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 rolls out with support for Volla Tablet, updated Morph Browser, flashlight support for Volla Phone Plinius, a security fix, and other changes. - Android Leftovers
This Android phone has the most ridiculous speaker, and I (mostly) love it - PeaZip 11.4 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Various Improvements
PeaZip 11.4 open-source archive manager is now available for download with improvements to sanitization of input file names in multiple stages of the scripting engine. - Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software - I switched to Fedora expecting a polished desktop and got half-finished features instead
Fedora has a reputation as the Linux distribution that gets things right first - These 3 Linux distros have officially replaced CentOS
Red Hat gutted CentOS in 2020, and after CentOS 7 reached its final EOL in June 2024 - SpectrumOS – Arch-based Linux distribution with Hyprland
SpectrumOS is an Arch Linux-based distribution offering a customised Hyprland desktop - FilzaOS – Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with a customised GNOME desktop
FilzaOS is an experimental Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - This Week in Plasma: New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard
This week we released Plasma 6.8, but we didn’t stop there: work on Plasma 6.9 has been coming in hot and heavy
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