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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 29, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Kiwi TCMS 13.1

   We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 13.1!

2. KDE Neon Distro Now Ships with the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment

   KDE neon, a rock-solid distribution based on Ubuntu LTS releases and leveraging the KDE community software, has been updated today to the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series.

3. KDE MegaRelease 6

   The KDE community proudly presents Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02

4. Countries Where Chrome is Already Near-Monopoly and Firefox is Under 1% [original]

   The Web is supposed to work according to standards rather than tested for some narrow set of Web browsers/rendering engines

5. GNU/Linux: 4.1% or a Lot Higher? [original]

   a quick and dirty approach

6. Complexity Is the Enemy [original]

   18 months have now passed since we changed to "static"

   New

7. today's leftovers

   misc. links

8. Fedora, Red Hat, and IBM Leftovers

   A few links from Red Hat

9. Security Leftovers

   Security links for today

10. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) From Microsoft Proxies

    OSI, Black Duck etc.

11. Software: Disk Encryption Tools, Centralized Log Management, and GNU Parallel 20240222

    FOSS picks

12. today's howtos

    more howtos for today

13. Mesa’s NVK Open-Source Vulkan Driver for NVIDIA Hardware Is Now Stable

    Collabora announced today that their NVK open-source Vulkan graphics driver for NVIDIA hardware in the Mesa graphics stack is no longer experimental and it’s now stable and ready for prime time.

14. Distrobox 1.7 Improves NVIDIA Support, Wolfi Containers, and Adds New Flags

    Luca Di Maio released today Distrobox 1.7 as a major update to this popular tool for running any Linux distro inside your terminal.

15. Kali Linux 2024.1 Penetration Testing Distro Is Here with Linux 6.6 LTS, New Look

    Offensive Security announced today the release and general availability of Kali Linux 2024.1 as the first update in 2024 for this Debian-based, rolling-release distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing.

16. Android Leftovers

    New Android update could supercharge video playback on midrange and older phones

17. KDE Plasma 6 Sets a New Standard for Linux Desktop Environments

    KDE Plasma 6 release is now officially available. Here's what's new.

18. FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Now Available

    The first RC build of the 13.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available

19. Microsoft Monopoly Abuse and Windows TCO

    Opposition news

20. today's leftovers

    FOSS and more

21. KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

    The KDE Project announced today the general availability of the highly anticipated KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment, along with the KDE Gear 24.02 and KDE Frameworks 6 software suites.

22. Openwashing, Buzzwords, Microsoft, and Bad Advice

    Deterioration of quality

23. Games: Stardew Valley, Thrive, and More

    8 stories from Liam Dawe

24. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino Projects and Raspberry Pi-Based DivingBoard

    3 new stories

25. today's howtos

    only 4 howtos for now

26. Mozilla Dabbling in Buzzwords, Firefox Nightly Report

    Some Firefox and Mozilla updates

27. Microsoft’s Layoffs and Windows TCO

    Some opposition news

28. IBM: App Brand Colors and Weekly status of Packit Team

    A couple of Fedora/IBM updates

29. Index – Qt-based file manager

    We tested Index with Ubuntu 23.10 and Manjaro. The latter is an Arch-based distro

30. 9 Best Free and Open Source Groupware Software

    The Linux platform offers an impressive set of collaboration software

31. Android security and privacy guide

    This ain't my first rodeo with Android privacy

32. 5 things to consider before leaping from one Linux distribution to another

    If you've grown tired of your current Linux distribution

33. Security and Integrity FUD Against "Linux"

    3 new examples with comments

34. Deep Dive: A Complete Automated Yocto-Linux Build Setup for RaspberryPi

    Triple Helix Consulting has released a complete Yocto Linux build for Raspberry Pi (RPI) to open source

35. Laptop/Desktop Operating System Market Share in Sweden Approaching 20%, Windows at All-Time Lows Internationally [original]

    As of the end of this month

36. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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