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- Canonical Plans to Revive Its Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop Flavor
Ubuntu maker Canonical is bringing Ubuntu Core Desktop back from the dead, and this time, they mean business. - System76 Teases Thelio Prime AMD Mini Linux PC Running Pop!_OS with COSMIC
System76 unveils Thelio Prime as a Linux-powered mini PC running the Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS distribution with the COSMIC desktop environment. - LibreOffice 26.8.2 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 30 Bug Fixes
LibreOffice 26.8.2 open-source is now available for download as the second point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with over 30 bug fixes. - Scribus 1.6.7 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Improvements
Scribus 1.6.7 free and open-source desktop publishing software is now available for download with various improvements, as well as bug and security fixes. - Today in Techrights
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We don't expect to travel to London this year - Emacs turns 50
MIT Technology Review marks 50 years of EMACS, one of the first full-screen text editors and still in use today. It grew out of TECO, a text editor Dan Murphy wrote in 1962 for the PDP-1 at MIT, and Carl Mikkelsen’s Control-R add-on from 1971, which showed edits on video terminals as they happened. - Security Leftovers
Security patches and more - today's leftovers
FOSS and more - PostgreSQL Releases, Events, and More News
a handful today - Mozilla and Firefox Leftovers
mostly Firefox today - Programming Leftovers
Development picks - Serial Sloppers Versus LibreOffice, Collabora Office Surrenders to Slop, and More
Slopping frenzy - Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): WordPress 7.1.4, Bear Blog, and More
3 picks - It's FOSS SPAM (Also Slop Promotion), Debian Based Distros
Debian leftovers - Open Hardware/Modding: BeagleBoard, ESP32, and More
Hardware picks with Linux proximity - Red Hat on OpenShift and Promotion of Slop Plagiarism (As Usual Under IBM's Spell and Influence)
from redhat.com - BSD: Release of GhostBSD 26.2 and ZFS
BSD picks - Linux Plumbers Conference and Linux Kernel Leftovers
Linux leftovers - Applications: AppCenter, Alternatives to DRM and More
three picks - Games: Call Of Duty Controversy, RecompLauncher, Godot, and More
mostly Liam at GoL - today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical picks - Android Leftovers
XREAL AURA launches as first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR - Kubuntu is the Linux distro for people who never want to open a terminal
Linux has a reputation for being difficult or tedious to work with because it involves using a command-line interface all the time - Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software - Tor Browser 16.0 Anonymous Browser Brings Native ARM Support on Linux
Tor Browser 16.0 is now available for download as a major update to this open-source anonymous web browser based on the Tor technologies and Firefox web browser with ARM support on Linux and more. - IPFire Project Releases fireperf, a New Network Performance Measurement Tool
fireperf is a new open-source network performance measurement tool for those who work with firewalls, routers, and other systems that maintain a state for each network connection. - TUXEDO Nano Pro Gen15 Mini Linux PC Launches with Intel CPU, Up to 128 GB RAM
TUXEDO Computers unveils the TUXEDO Nano Pro Gen15 mini PC with a fast Intel processor, a wide range of internal and external ports, and up to 128 GB of DDR5 RAM. - PipeWire 1.6.11 Is Out with More Bluetooth and ALSA Plugin Improvements
PipeWire 1.6.11 audio/video server for Linux is now available for download with improvements to Bluetooth, ALSA plugin, SPA, and modules. - Android Leftovers
Why Googlebooks are still worse than Android tablets - Networking: CA Key Compromise, Tor, and Waterfox
3 picks - Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software - Why Linux never needed defragging, while Windows relied on it for decades
Linux entered the scene. Its inventor, Linus Torvalds - Here's how I replicated 3 of the Googlebook's best features on a $60 Linux laptop
If you've never tried KDE Connect, go install it now - hybrid-d77 – Chimera Linux-based distribution with Sway and niri
hybrid-d77 is a Chimera Linux-based distribution developed by Daniel Azevedo - Gnomarchy – Arch-based Linux distribution with a customised GNOME desktop
Gnomarchy is an Arch Linux-based distribution that combines the developer-oriented tools and configuration philosophy of Omarchy with a customised GNOME desktop environment - Ghostty 1.4 Is Faster and Uses Less RAM, but Drops Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Support
The Ubuntu 24.04 support drop is thanks to the native builds requiring some newer dependencies - LWN Picks: Kernel, SUSE, and Nix
9 new items from LWN (outside LWN paywall) - Today in Techrights
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