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  1. Linux Graphics: AMD, Collabora, and Tomeu Vizoso
    3 new stories about GPUs and such
  2. Fedora Project Announces Fedora Atomic Desktops for Immutable Fedora Spins
    The Fedora Project announced today a new family of Fedora Linux spins called Fedora Atomic Desktops, which serves as an umbrella for all the current and future Fedora Linux spins that offer an immutable file system.
  3. Microsoft Sabotages Linux, Then Blames Linux
    and media plays along
  4. We Love Animals as Much as We Love GNU/Linux [original]
    This site very routinely shows animal photos
  5. Old 'Windows PCs' Are Becoming GNU/Linux PCs [original]
    Europe shows GNU/Linux growth
  6. today's howtos
    a few for now
  7. Mozilla Corporation's Mitchell Baker Stepping Down
    finally it happens

    New

  8. Desktop YouTube Music App Musictube Gets ‘Major Overhaul’
    A new version of Musictube, a Qt-based desktop app that lets you stream music from YouTube, is available for download for Windows, macOS and Linux.
  9. today's leftovers
    5 more assorted stories/links
  10. Programming Leftovers
    coding related picks
  11. Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly corporate fluff
  12. Software: fooyin, Redis Managers, and Mindmapping Editors
    3 software-themed articles
  13. Security Leftovers
    OpenSSF, Reproducible Builds, and More
  14. today's howtos
    quite a few evening howtos
  15. VirtualBox KVM public release
    For the past few months we have been working hard to provide a fast, reliable and secure KVM backend for VirtualBox
  16. GNU lightning 2.2.3 released!
    GNU lightning has a new release
  17. Free Software: Licensing, Web, and More
    FOSS links
  18. Programming Leftovers
    Python and education, among lots more
  19. today's leftovers
    SUSE, CMS, and CRM links
  20. OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and BSD Now
    latest BSD picks
  21. PostgreSQL 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18 Released!
    The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update
  22. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, CERBERUS 2100, and More
    3 projects and products
  23. Windows TCO Leftovers
    Attacks on Firefox and data breaches
  24. Games: BORE BLASTERS, MangoHud, and More
    5 stories from Liam Dawe
  25. KDE: 15-Minute Bug Initiative update
    Well, it’s been two years, so how did it go
  26. CERBERUS2100: A Multi-CPU Open-Source Educational Microcomputer
    Olimex recently featured the CERBERUS 2100
  27. Android Leftovers
    10 Best GPS Spoofing Apps for Android in 2024
  28. What is a swap file in Linux and how much should you use?
    Add some virtual memory to your Linux PC
  29. Debian͏ vs ͏Ub͏untu: Which i͏s the͏ best Linux di͏s͏tro in͏ ͏2024?
    Debian and Ubunt͏u are widely used di͏stri͏butions amon͏g Linux u͏se͏rs
  30. ODROID-M1S review – Part 2: Ubuntu 20.04 benchmarks and features testing
    One user mentioned Ubuntu 22.04 is supported, but that’s supported by a third party and we used the official image for testing
  31. Gameeky released
    After three months of development, Gameeky reaches its first public release
  32. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  33. Kernel and LWN: Linux, Joe Brockmeier, and Paying for Tests
    4 new articles
  34. Security Leftovers
    Security related stories
  35. today's howtos
    only 3 more for now
  36. I Switched to Linux Full Time. There’s seemingly been a recent uptick…
    I’m a big fan of Linux, and after Windows 11 couldn’t take the sheer amount of advertisements on a operating system you pay for
  37. Windows, DRM, and Microsoft
    opposition news
  38. Clear Linux, Zorin OS, Damn Small Linux, and More on Distributions
    a couple of news picks and FOSS Weekly
  39. Linux-Friendly Devices and Arduino IDE 2.3
    3 stories more
  40. Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast and FLOSS Weekly
    2 new episodes
  41. World Wide Web: Curl, Firefox, Mozilla
    3 stories about Mozilla and former Moz (Daniel)
  42. Programming Leftovers
    only a few spillovers for the time being
  43. Free Software Reviews/Overviews in Medevel
    half a dozen new ones
  44. Red Hat Leftovers
    redhat.com's latest
  45. NetBSD 10.0 RC4 available!
    please help testing

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Richard Stallman's Site Still Offline (Third Day), But Richard Stallman is Active Online
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PIP Layoffs at Microsoft, Even in India
Microsoft is trying to hide the true scale of the layoffs
Layoff Trackers Are a Sham, They're Like US 'Unemployment Data'
Layoff trackers are similarly misleading as they only measure what companies openly admit and register with WARN notices
The Peculiar Case of OSNews, Which Experiments With Slopfarming
It wasn't published in error. It has been there for two months.
Russian Federation is Removing Windows From Computers
Windows is going "out of fashion"
XBox CEO Has No Clue What She is Selling
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That's one way to support their work
PIP/GVSA at Microsoft: Mass Layoffs Disguised as Something Else
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Maybe all those people really deserve one another
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 31, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, August 31, 2026
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Links for the day
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there are days when they work 17 hours a day (barely any time left to sleep and eat) and work starts at 5AM
IBM Defrauds Shareholders With Fake News (Bribed Press) About "Quantum"
That says a lot about the state of "Tech Giants" and also the utterly shameless state of the media
Record Highs for GNU/Linux, Especially in the United States of America
the "market share" of GNU/Linux is about 9%, still about a third of what Vista 11 stands at
PIPocalypse at IBM
Silent layoffs
Spending Over a Million Bucks on Lawsuits Abroad When There's a Big Mortgage to Pay in America
Priorities, priorities...
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Links for the day
Richard Stallman's GNU Turns 43 in 4 Weeks, FSF Growing
In a few weeks GNU turns 43
IBM's Cuts Are Worsening Security in GNU/Linux
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Links 31/08/2026: Anthropic Sued Again for Copyright Infringement of Massive Scale, 'Tokenmaxxing' Shows Slop is a Worthless Liability
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Working for Microsoft is foolish
In the UK, Bing (Microsoft) Down to Lowest Level Since January
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 167 Out of 200: The Court of Appeal Might be the Next Step
Today is our last vacation day
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Microsoft Layoffs Perpetual But Silent, People Pushed Out Using Pressure or Incentive Schemes
Earlier this month we named some of the programs
Links 30/08/2026: Apple Rant and LLM (Slop) Scrapers Target Gemini Protocol and Gopher
Links for the day
Salaries Are Counted in Money, Not in Participation in the Employer's Scheme
articles greatly exaggerating GAFAM salaries
Walls in Free Software
mind your own business and move on
Even Linux Cannot Cope With Slop
Bots on the Web are truly obnoxious
What a Summer!
Tomorrow is the last day of this month
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Links for the day
Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux Rising to 11% This Past Week
Is it the year of "Linux in China"?
Links 30/08/2026: Russian Strike on a Ukrainian Warehouse and Rhetoric Escalations
Links for the day
Gemini Links 30/08/2026: Photography, Paper Books, Linux Kernel and the Debian Projects Permitting Slop Plagiarism
Links for the day
Imagine a World Where Nobody Fights for Software (and Computing) Freedom
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FSF Has Grown (More Staff) After a Year of Financial Growth
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GNU/Linux Has Become More Mainstream in the United Kingdom
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 166 Out of 200: Garrett Wasn't Found Innocent Per Se, the Court Wanted More Evidence of Who Was Behind Particular Accounts Using Tor
It's complicated
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 29, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, August 29, 2026