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on they go - 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. - BSD: Release of GhostBSD 26.2 and ZFS
BSD picks - Linux Devices and Open Hardware Projects
4 picks for Sunday - 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. - OpenShot 4.1 Video Editor Is Out with Native ARM64 Linux Builds and Text Editing
OpenShot 4.1 open-source video editor is now available for download with native text editing, native Linux ARM64 builds, CLI automation, and more. - Linux Mint Devs Introduce New System Monitor and Terminal Emulator Apps
Linux Mint devs unveil new system monitor, archive manager, and terminal emulator apps for Linux Mint, along with a preview pane for Nemo and hibernation support. - Wine 11.21
The Wine development release 11.21 is now available - Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles - Essora Eos SonicDE — A New Home for X11, Built the Essora Way
A new home for X11. A modern desktop, built the Essora way. - Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.2 - 24.04-1.6: eMudhra CA Security Fix
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.2 and 24.04-1.6 release - Maze Linux 2026.10.26: Qlam 2, Maze Wallpaper and gaming out of the box
Last release was about fixing what was already there - RefreshOS 3.1
Updated the underlying Debian 13 “Trixie” system from the original Debian 13.4 build to include updates available through Debian 13.7 - ZelixOS Aurora 1.0.0
ZelixOS Aurora 1.0.0 release is here - Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.4 Release Candidate
Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) of the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel series for public testing and early adopters. - US Government Sites: GNU/Linux at 7.3%, About 11% When Limited to Desktops/Laptops [original]
Vista 11 has been out for over half a decade, it's the only version of Windows still supported, and GNU/Linux is quickly catching up with it in the US - GNU/Linux "Market Share" Very High in Germany [original]
Will Germans adopt Free software or just "Linux"? - Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.7 Is Out with Support for Ubuntu 26.10
Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) R14.1.7 desktop environment is now available with support for new distributions, new features, and various enhancements for nostalgic KDE 3.5 fans. - Budgie 10.10.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Improvements
Budgie 10.10.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the Wayland-only Budgie 10.10 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes. - Making More With Less [original]
When some Free software project abandons support for "old" things or demands more and more (not necessarily money but expensive things like new peripheral) we can rightly suspect that it jumps the shark - Linux is a Brand, Not a Philosophy [original]
It's also a project, a kernel - 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 1st, 2026
The 316th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending November 1st, 2026. - Announcing Gnoppix 26.11: Enhanced Control, Local AI Breakthroughs, and Universal Threat Protection
This release brings significant updates across network management, privacy services - Linux Kernel 7.2 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.3
Linux kernel 7.2 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 7.3 kernel series as soon as possible. - Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and More
standards also - Forcing a "#VALUE!" error in LibreOffice Calc and How Microsoft/Politics Interrupted Migration
Free software news - GNU/Linux Desktop and More
leftovers regarding GNU/Linux - KDE Activities and Plasma Oxygen Icons
KDE picks - Programming Leftovers
Development related picks - Emacs News and Hacks
Emacs leftovers - Intel 486 PC emulator in a browser
project of sorts - Security Leftovers
Security with Linux focus - GNU Project: Mtools 4.0.50, automake-1.19.92, and GNU Parallel 20261022
GNU releases - EasyOS: Yradio ripping improvement and depth of focus problem with action camera
2 stories from BK - PorteuX 2.9 Released with Linux 7.3, KDE Plasma 6.8, GNOME 51, and COSMIC 1.11
PorteuX 2.9 Linux distribution based on Slackware is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.3, KDE Plasma 6.8, GNOME 51, COSMIC 1.11, and various improvements. - Applications: Compatibility, YARA-X 1.22.1 Release, ZL Limiter
3 stories - today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical picks - Games: Grid, New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, PS5, and Rootkits
gaming picks - IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 205 is available for testing
IPFire protects networks all over the world, from home offices in Brazil to schools in Romania and companies in Japan - Best Free and Open Source Software
Each one helps readers find useful free and open source software - Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
I've started work on a new KDE application. It's called Kwi (pronounced kwee) - Distributary: my artwork proposal for Debian 14 "forky"
Debian is the river much of the Linux world forks from - A Linux Maintainer Wrote the NSA Into the Kernel Before Snowden
A chip no one could check was picking the numbers behind your keys. One Linux developer took that power away. - Kwi Is a New Ghostty-Based GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator for KDE Plasma
Meet Kwi, a new Ghostty-based GPU-accelerated terminal emulator app for the KDE Plasma desktop environment that promises up to 35x faster performance, a more modern UI, and better protocol support. - Today in Techrights
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