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- LibreOffice 26.2.7 Is Out as the Last Update in the LibreOffice 26.2 Series
LibreOffice 26.2.7 is now available for download as the seventh and last maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 20 bug fixes. - Fedora Linux 45 Released
Fedora 45 makes the Linux desktop better with new features and tighter security - Applications: Calendars, Affinity, Ghostty, and More
software picks - KDE Plasma 6.7.6 Desktop Environment Is Now Available with More Improvements
KDE Plasma 6.7.6 is now available as the seventh maintenance release in the KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes. - Linus 7.4-rc1
on they go - Steam Survey: GNU/Linux Up
two picks - WTF Ubuntu?
Ubuntu's website promises "timely patches for critical vulnerabilities." Ubuntu hasn't shipped the patch nine days after it was rated 9.8 and six days after a working root exploit. - 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. - Linux Mint 27 will Adds Hibernation Support, New Default Apps
Linux Mint 27, the next major release of the popular Ubuntu based distribution, will get hibernation support - Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
I've started work on a new KDE application. It's called Kwi (pronounced kwee) - 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. - Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles - Android Leftovers
Samsung’s Android XR ‘Intelligent Eyewear’ reportedly launches in December - I tested 3 popular Linux distros on an aging ThinkPad T480, and 1 clearly came out on top
I installed three popular Linux distros on an old laptop to see which one handled older hardware best - I tried this Linux distro on a PC with just 3GB of RAM – and came away impressed
Essora Linux is a fast, minimalist Linux distribution designed for practical use on modest hardware - GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
mostly GNU/Linux - Audiocasts/Shows: Late Night Linux, LINUX Unplugged, and More
new episodes - Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
FOSS and more - Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty Guidance
escaping traps - Loopwerk and Tor Browser 16.0
Web stuff - Programming Leftovers
Development and more - Security Leftovers
Security and more - Open Hardware, Privacy-Focused Linux-Powered Prism "Ambient Computer", and More
hardware leftovers - today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical picks - Games: Faugus Launcher, Fortnite, and More
Games and gaming - Libertix Introduced
2 picks - redhat.com is 75% Promotion of Slop Plagiarism, Not Linux
as usual from redhat.com - HypoPG 1.4.5 is out and security release for psqlodbc
postgres news - Pyramid Scheme of Slop Hurts Linux SBC Market
Slop and Linux - Fedora Asahi Remix 45 Released for Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.8
Fedora Asahi Remix 45 distribution is now available for Apple Silicon Macs based on Fedora Linux 45 and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment. - GNU/Linux Became a "Darling" of the Computer World [original]
It won't be long before people recognise that from a technical perspective, Apple and Microsoft haven't much to offer that GNU/Linux lacks - Screens as Applications (Sort of) [original]
More applications open at the same time can result in more distraction - Microsoft TCO: Microsoft Partner Cooks Frozen Foods in Over 1,000 Supermarkets Overnight
horrible damage - openSUSE Leap 16.1 Officially Released with Immutable Mode, Based on SLES 16.1
openSUSE Leap 16.1 operating system is now available for download as the first maintenance update to the openSUSE Leap 16 series, based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1. - Fedora Linux 45 Is Now Available for Download with GNOME 51 and KDE Plasma 6.8
Fedora Linux 45 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.2 and featuring the latest GNOME 51 and KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environments. Here’s what’s new! - These are the only 3 Linux distros I recommend to newcomers
Ready to try Linux but confused by the hundreds of distros out there - I Made The Switch To Linux Years Ago — Don't Make The Same Mistakes I Did
I personally made the jump to using Linux full-time as my main desktop operating system back in 2020 - Linux has a hidden cost. But I installed it on my old laptop anyway
In this economy—and increasingly chaotic era of cybersecurity—I decided Linux was worth the investment - I tested the 5 breakthrough Linux distros of 2026. Here's how I rank them
Linux has no shortage of distros - Ubuntu looks nicer and feels faster after changing these 7 settings
Every fresh Ubuntu install feels a bit like moving into a rented, furnished apartment - Migrating small businesses to LibreOffice and Linux
Today we’re talking to Mišo Oroz from Zerolock, a company in Italy that helps small businesses to switch to free and open source software (FOSS) - In Spain, Desktop Operating System Market of GNU/Linux Grew a Lot [original]
A year ago it was a lot lower - gThumb Gets Its First Bug-fix Release in The 4.0 Series
gThumb, the GNOME photo manager and image viewer, released new 4.0.1 version - Free and Open Source Software, and Review
This is free and open source software - France’s Weird Per-Gigabyte Data Tax Could Cost VLC Over €1 Million a Year!
France's National Assembly has voted in favour of a new "internet tax" that would charge companies for every gigabyte of data they send to users in France - I Came for This New Linux Distro’s Aesthetic Looks and Stayed for its Window Tiling
Yet another new Linux distribution has landed on Arch Linux as its foundation of choice - Security Leftovers
security with focus on FOSS - The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo
I'm extremely not interested in helping Canonical's project of replacing perfectly good C programs of long standing, many of them GPL'd, with non-GPL'd Rust reimplementations - United States: GNU/Linux Up Again [original]
It is definitely going up, also in Steam Survey - Cuba: GNU/Linux Back Above 10% [original]
This month it's back above 10% - Today in Techrights
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