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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 12, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft-Connected Sites Taking Note of GNU/Linux Seeing "a Fivefold Increase" in 15 Years on Desktops/Laptops [original]

   "Linux had a market share of just 0.68% in 2009. In 2023, that share had ballooned to 3.82%."

   New

2. Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

   This post is in part a response to an aspect of Nate’s post “Does Wayland really break everything?“

3. Linux, SerenityOS, GNU Hurd, and Native GNU/Linux Clients in Gaming

   today's leftovers

4. Programming Leftovers

   R and more

5. Ubuntu: Colin Watson Leaves Canonical, Ubuntu 22.04 Users Can Now Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.5

   Some Ubuntu news

6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: OpenTofu and “Delayed Open Source Publication” (DOSP), FOSS Weekly

   Some FOSS news/videos

7. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and ESP32

   about half a dozen stories, Linux focus

8. PipeWire Camera Support Is Coming to OBS Studio for Linux Desktops

   GNOME developer Georges Stavracas has merged today the PipeWire Camera support into the master branch of the popular OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app.

9. Security Leftovers

   Security stories

10. Software/'Apps': Mail Transfer Agents, Textual, IRC Clients, Media Downloader, and More

    5 stories about applications

11. today's howtos

    many howtos for the day

12. Android Leftovers

    How To Check Android Build Number

13. Firefox: Fixing keyboard navigation in Inspector Rules view

    Starting Firefox 122, when editing a selector, a property name or a property value in the Inspector

14. Canonical on High Performance Computing and Servers One Can Control

    A couple of ubuntu.com posts

15. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

    FOSS news

16. Programming Leftovers

    Shell, Raku, Rust, and more

17. Trisquel on arm64: Ampere Altra

    Having had success running Trisquel on the ppc64 Talos II, I felt ready to get an arm64 machine running Trisquel

18. Devices: 'Dumb' Home, Home Screen, Raspberry Pi Zero, and More

    Open Hardware and more

19. Web Browsers: PSL un Curl, Brave, and Firefox

    3 stories from smaller sites

20. Software: Introducing Spiel, Fast Image Resizer, and Office Suites

    4 links for applications

21. today's howtos

    many howtos for now

22. Games: Valve, Townseek, Usurper, and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

    7 articles by Liam Dawe

23. Windows TCO Leftovers

    4 stories about Windows TCO

24. Android Leftovers

    This new thing happens with Gboard when you connect a physical keyboard to your Android tablet

25. Gabriel-Cezarin Popovici helps the campaigns team to spread the message that we need to fight for our digital freedom

    My reason for using GNU/Linux up until 2018 was because it was just plain better than Windows

26. Android Leftovers

    How to take a screenshot on Android? 7 best ways explored

27. Min 1.31 Released as a New Bug Fix Update for Lightweight Browser

    Min 1.31 (Lightweight Browser) introduces the ability to select and manage multiple tabs seamlessly, improved userscript customization experience and more.

28. Kodi 20.3 "Nexus" released as a last bug-fix update

    Discover the improvements in Kodi 20.3, address DVD playback issues, enable automatic recovery in the Music Library, and resolve platform-specific quirks for an all-encompassing media solution.

29. LWN, Linux, and Benchmarks

    Kernel news

30. Security Leftovers

    patches, issues, and incidents

31. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles