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Updated This Past Day

  1. Media Says 4% for GNU/Linux, But It's Already 4.2% for GNU/Linux (Worldwide) [original]
    articles are appearing rather belatedly
  2. GNUnet 0.21.0
    We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.21.0

    New

  3. today's leftovers
    a mix of stories
  4. Mobile Systems: E-Ink QWERTY Phone, Casio F-91W/PineTime, and Fairphone
    3 stories about mobile
  5. Distributions and Operating Systems: CP/M, GNU/Linux Distributions for Your Data Cente, MakuluLinux, EasyOS, and FreeBSD
    a handful of OS stories
  6. Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly, mintCast, Linux Out Loud, and More
    Several new episodes
  7. Security and Windows TCO
    a couple of Windows TCO stories, but more of GNU/Linux
  8. Games: Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2, Linux Gaming With Anti-Cheat, Steam, Yuzu
    Some gaming related news
  9. Free Software: From Reference Management Software to PostgreSQL
    FOSS leftovers
  10. today's howtos
    many howtos for today
  11. Tor Browser 13.0.11 is Out, Mozilla Cozies Up to Columbia Institute of Global Politics
    Mozilla news
  12. Fedora Project Now Considering Dropping XOrg Session from Fedora 41 Workstation
    Fedora Project is considering dropping the XOrg session by default in the Fedora Linux 41 Workstation edition featuring the GNOME desktop environment.
  13. Zorin OS 17.1 Released with Enhanced Windows App Support, Education Edition
    The Zorin OS team released today Zorin OS 17.1 as the first update to the latest Zorin OS 17 operating system series adding various improvements and updating the Education edition.
  14. Pineberry Pi Unveils New Expansion Boards for Raspberry Pi 5
    Pineberry Pi introduces a new lineup for the Raspberry Pi 5
  15. openSUSE Leap 15.6 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing with GNOME 45
    The openSUSE Project released today the beta version of the upcoming openSUSE Leap 15.6 operating system release ahead of the final version on June 12th, 2024.
  16. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, PCB, Acorn, SparkFun, and More
    Hardware stuff, Linux focus
  17. Leap 15.6 Reaches Beta Phase
    The openSUSE Project is thrilled to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.6
  18. Fedora 41 Drops the GNOME Xorg Sessions
    Fedora Workstation 41 will not include GNOME Xorg sessions by default
  19. RHVoice – multilingual speech synthesizer
    This is free and open source software
  20. GTK 4.14 will be released very soon, with new renderers that were introduced earlier this year
    GTK 4.14 will be released very soon, with new renderers that were introduced earlier this year
  21. Programming Leftovers
    Coding related news
  22. Proprietary Malice, Microsoft Downtimes
    Microsoft news
  23. Windows TCO Leftovers
    The true cost of choosing Windows
  24. Games: EmuDeck, Direct3D, Proton, and More
    7 stories by Liam Dawe
  25. today's howtos
    handful of howtos
  26. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    2 of each
  27. Linux Weekly News on kernel and documentation
    Linux news outside the paywall now
  28. Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea
    from LWN
  29. A look at Nix and Guix
    Nix and Guix are a pair of unusual package managers based on the idea of declarative configurations
  30. Proprietary Imitations and FUD Against "Linux"
    3 leftovers
  31. NixBSD: This Project Mixes FreeBSD and NixOS in One!
    Wait, what? Two good things in one? What do you mean? Take a look here.
  32. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Represents People, Not Corporations
FSF isn't in the "business" of appeasing oligarchs
IBM: We Can't Make 'AI' (Voice Recognition) Do the Work of a McDonald's Teenager, So Let's Try the Same on Saudi Planes
IBM is lost. It's truly lost.
 
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More IBM Layoffs in India
It's not as simple as "laid off to be replaced by an Indian"
GAFAM Deeply Connected to Jeffrey Epstein, Richard Stallman (RMS) in No Way Connected to Jeffrey Epstein
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Linus Torvalds Has a Birthday This Coming Weekend, Thankfully He Still Controls His Main Project
GNU and Linux should remain under their control as long as they live
Mozilla is Getting Attention for All the Wrong Reasons, Take a Look at LibreWolf
Just last week Mozilla added a new top-level manager who (as usual) came from a "tech giant"
When Conformism Means Capitulation and Defeat
In an age of injustices like these, we all have some kind of moral obligation not to be conformist.
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Beyond the World Wide Web (WWW)
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Productive Year and Better Access to Techrights' Archives Going Back to 2006
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It speaks for Microsoft and for so-called 'AI' companies
Microsoft Has Practically Given Up on XBox Already
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
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Slop is Rare by Now
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Sirius Open Source is Now Imminently Dead (Struck Off)
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Dr. Richard Stallman, Invited by LibreTech Collective, is Giving a Public Talk in Georgia Tech Next Month (Scheller College of Business)
They can probably squeeze about 400 people into this room
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Judging by recent trends in Africa, many "Windows PCs" are being converted into GNU/Linux computers
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Scamfarms, Spamfarms, and Slopfarms in "Linux" Clothing
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