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GNU/Linux news for the past day

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 19, 2024

Back side of a F/A 18 Hornet fighter, afterburners and arresting hook, taken at USS Midway Museum, San Diego, California, USA

Updated This Past Day

  1. postmarketOS selected for NGI Zero Core funding / The European Union must keep funding free software
    We are very grateful and eager to get started
  2. Is Linux the future of vehicle computers? Wind River and NETA Auto's collaboration suggests yes
    This controller functions as an integrated gateway, enhancing the safety, control
  3. Panthor open-source driver achieves OpenGL ES 3.1 conformance with Arm Mali-G610 GPU (RK3588 SoC)
    Collabora has just announced that the Panthor open-source GPU kernel driver for third-generation Arm Valhall GPUs

    New

  4. Open Hardware: Arduino and SparkFun
    3 stories for hardware hacking
  5. Nobara 40 Debuts with Major Overhauls and Enhanced Stability
    The Fedora-based Nobara Linux 40 rolls out with extensive updates

    New

  6. Programming Leftovers
    Programming related picks, esp. R
  7. Openwashing and Free Software Leftovers
    Mostly FOSS news
  8. Open Hardware: Arduino, ESP32, and More
    Some hardware news
  9. Microsoft Failures and Abuses
    Some Microsoft news
  10. Audiocasts/Shows/Videos: Late Night Linux, mintCast, and More
    New episodes and clips
  11. Security Leftovers
    With some "Linux" focus too
  12. today's howtos
    many howtos for the rest of the day
  13. A new Windows alternative could launch on PCs later this year
    now a version of it may finally land on PCs in the form of HarmonyOS Next
  14. WordPress 6.6 “Dorsey”
    Say hello to the latest WordPress!
  15. today's leftovers
    a bunch of stories for the day
  16. Kernel Space and Graphics
    3 stories for today
  17. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming
    mostly coding related
  18. today's howtos
    10 howtos from 3 domains
  19. Software: LibreChat, Traefik, and LibreOffice
    Some Free software news
  20. Security Leftovers
    Security stories for today
  21. PostgreSQL News: Tips, Integration and PGDay UK 2024
    Some postgres posts and news
  22. Android Leftovers
    This is the first Android phone with Qi2 wireless charging
  23. Wolfi Linux Might Be the Next Cloud Security Savior
    Can its innovative design launch a new solution for fortifying desktop distros, too
  24. $39 Acelink SM81 MediaTek Filogic 820 WiFi 6 system-on-module runs OpenWrt 23.05 or Debian 11
    Acelink says the module can run OpenWrt 23.05 or Debian 11.8 BullsEye with Linux 5.15
  25. NVIDIA 560 Linux Graphics Driver to Fully Adopt Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules
    NVIDIA announced their plans to fully transition to the open-source GPU kernel modules with the upcoming NVIDIA 560 graphics driver for Linux-based operating systems.
  26. Mozilla’s Policy Vision for the new EU Mandate: Advancing Openness, Privacy, Fair Competition, and Choice for all
    Greater openness, privacy, fair competition, and meaningful choice online have never been more paramount
  27. PeerTube 6.2 Introduces Automatic Subtitles
    PeerTube 6.2, a decentralized video platform, brings easier moderation
  28. Netfilter Announces nftables 1.1.0 Release
    nftables 1.1.0 is out now, packed with essential fixes and compatibility improvements for robust Linux firewalling
  29. OBS Studio 30.2 Adds Linux NVENC Encoding, Hybrid MP4 Support
    OBS Studio, the open-source leader in cross-platform screen-casting and streaming software
  30. Sparky 2024.07~dev0 with CLI Installer’s home encryption and Midori
    This is an update of Sparky semi-rolling iso images (MinimalGUI and MinimalCLI only)
  31. Best Free and Open Source Software
    Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style chart
  32. CentOS Linux end of life, CentOS Stream and the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux landscape
    CentOS Linux 7 reached its end of life - as highlighted by numerous articles across the IT world
  33. How SUSE Is Replacing Red Hat as the Linux and Open Source Enterprise Standard-Bearer
    SUSE seems to be poised to benefit from Red Hat’s errors
  34. today's leftovers
    3 more misc. links
  35. Security Leftovers
    3 security related picks
  36. Programming Leftovers
    Programming with C++, Python, and more
  37. Windows TCO: HardBit, Other Ransomware, and More
    The true cost of choosing Microsoft
  38. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
    the IBM stuff
  39. today's howto
    7 howtos for today
  40. Games: Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, No Man's Sky - Worlds Part I, and More
    New from GamingOnLinux
  41. Kernel: RDNA, Graphics, Bootlin's Work, and LWN
    mostly LWN
  42. Sxmo: a text-centric mobile user interface
    Sxmo, short for "Simple X Mobile", is described on its web site as ""a minimalist environment for Linux mobile devices""
  43. Security Leftovers
    Patches and more
  44. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-07-12 to 2024-07-18
    1168 /n/2024/07/13/Poof_Shaman_Holly_Million_Gnome_s_Executive_Director_Disappears.shtml
    1157 /n/2024/07/14/Linux_Kernel_6_10_Officially_Released_This_Is_What_s_New.shtml
    1055 /n/2024/07/13/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    984 /n/2024/07/12/TUXEDO_launches_InfinityBook_Pro_14_Gen9_Linux_laptop.shtml
    867 /n/2024/07/12/Mozilla_Thunderbird_128_ESR_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_.shtml
    846 /n/2024/07/13/TrueNAS_24_04_1_1.shtml
    838 /n/2024/07/15/Ubuntu_24_04_LTS_Can_Now_Do_What_It_Should_Have_Always_Done.shtml
    808 /n/2024/07/16/Mozilla_Selling_Out_Firefox_Users.shtml
    797 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_howtos.shtml
    790 /n/2024/07/13/today_s_howtos.shtml
    785 /n/2024/07/13/GNOME_47_Alpha_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_Support_for_Ac.shtml
    780 /n/2024/07/11/Zed_a_GPU_accelerated_IDE_Written_in_Rust_is_now_available_for_.shtml
    760 /n/2024/07/12/OBS_Studio_30_2_Released_with_NVENC_AV1_Support_on_Linux_Unifie.shtml
    760 /n/2024/07/12/today_s_howtos.shtml
    753 /n/2024/07/14/RISC_V_Based_Lichee_Pi_3A_with_16GB_RAM_and_PCIe_Support.shtml
    750 /n/2024/07/13/Reaching_Higher.shtml
    739 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    734 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_howtos.shtml
    722 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    716 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    712 /n/2024/07/14/Android_Leftovers.shtml
    711 /n/2024/07/13/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    710 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_leftovers.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Lies Need to be Corrected
the Court never invited us
 
EPO Staff Representation Lacks Social Dialogue With Relevant Management, Controversial and Sometimes Illegal Policies Implemented Without Necessary Input
"In this open letter, the CSC requests that the President submits an agenda item in the next available General Consultative Committee (GCC) meeting on setting up regular meetings between the CSC and the higher management of DG1."
Links 16/10/2025: Political Leftovers and Gemini Protocol Links
Links for the day
Slopwatch: Guardian Digital (linuxsecurity.com), Slashdot, Google News, and More
Maybe one day, once the bubble pops completely, Google News will just outright delist all slopfarms
Lufthansa Modern Slavery, Joerg Jaspert (ganneff) & Debian NSB Softwareentwicklung charade
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Links 16/10/2025: US Starting More Trade Wars With China, CIA War on Venezuela
Links for the day
SUSE Blog is Still LLM Slop, Marketing Manager at SUSE Cannot Write
Would you buy from a company or seek support from a company that cannot even write (or fakes writing)?
Pretend You're Not Dead: Microsoft Spent Almost Two Decades Rebranding Things as "Cloud, Then "AI", Now "XBox" and "Quantum"
"AI" bubble pops, Microsoft harping about "quantum" already
IBM Allegedly Found New Tricks for Silent Layoffs: LPI, Then MIS (Not PIP)
Remember that "Red Hat layoffs" won't be reported after the bluewashing
Links 16/10/2025: Red Lines and Feeding of Microsoft Trolls
Links for the day
MIT as a Propaganda Mill of GAFAM, Paid by GAFAM
"the news" today
Links 16/10/2025: Lies Euphemised as ‘Dueling Versions of Reality’ and Microsoft "Open" "Hey Hi" Resorts to Porn as No Business Model Was Found
Links for the day
The Local Staff Committee Munich (Representation of the EPO's Staff) Explains When Cluster of Pregnancies May Result in Reduced Pay
"...even one week of part-time working is sufficient to reduce the salary you perceive during the entirety of your maternity leave."
Another Black Eye for 'Secure Boot', Microsoft Media Tries to Blame "Linux"
It enables Microsoft to remotely control computers, even computers that don't run Windows and never had any Microsoft software installed
Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT, linuxsecurity.com, and Various Slopfarms in Google News Attacking "Linux"
A new survey of the Web said that the majority of the Web is now slop (that's being said in the news this week)
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Links 16/10/2025: Increased Use of Social Control Media Surveillance in US, French Rage Over Pensions
Links for the day
Links 15/10/2025: Qantas Airways Loses Control of Sensitive Data and Software Patents Are Being Thrown Out
Links for the day
Vista 10 is 'Dead', Here's Why People Should Move to GNU/Linux (or the BSDs)
Today we try to make an outline of reasons move away from Windows to GNU/Linux
Our Sites Continue to Improve
LLM slop has had no noticeable impact on us
Gemini Links 15/10/2025: Neovim, Helix Compared and Gemlog.blue Now Closed
Links for the day
Links 15/10/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon, OneDrive Spyware Revved Up, More 'Gen Z Protests'
Links for the day
The EPO's Staff Engagement Survey 2025 is Already Tainted by Intimidation by EPO Management (Trying to Influence Outcomes by Scaring Genuine, Honest Critics)
"[W]e have received reports that, following the previous survey, teams with negative responses were reproached or questioned about their answers..."
The DDoS Attacks by Microsoft's Scam Altman and Other Slop Charlatans and Frauds is Hurting the FSF, Delinking It From Copyleft Projects
This impacts a lot more than access to the licences
Microsoft Scanning Faces in Photos People Upload to Microsoft (Even Unconsciously), Slashdot Turns Report About It Into "Microsoft Sez" (Says)
Or "let's repeat the lies from a PR person/Microsoft's publicist"
[Teaser] Angel Aledo Lopez the Manipulator (Nepotism, Poll Rigging, and Other EPO Corruption)
We'll discuss this later today or tomorrow, based on internal EPO material
Attacks on Techrights Are Only Making Techrights Bigger and Even More Popular
A week ago they offered to settle with us
Epic Metaphor for End of IBM: "The IBM Demolition is Down to the Last Shards!"
Nothing lasts forever
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Proprietary and DRM Prisons Spiralling Down the Sinkhole? Not Just Yet.
Let's hope that more people will flee to GNU/Linux
The European Patent Office (EPO), the Second-Largest Institution in Europe, is Cracking Down on Recreational Activities
Without AMICALE activities, and as staff already says it's pressured to work more for less, how can the EPO recruit bright people?
Transparency: FSFE financial reports exclude speaker fees and expenses
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Many Developers Have Many Political Views, They'll Never Agree on Everything
It's an effort to divide and destroy, not build
Gemini Links 14/10/2025: An Opportunity to Consider GNU/Linux and Another Simple IRC Client
Links for the day
Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT, LinuxSecurity, Google News, and the Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli
Nothing of merit here, just more slop
Links 14/10/2025: Lack of Trust in Slop and "Retirement Challenges"
Links for the day
EPO Staff Can Go Listen to Richard Stallman Next Week in Munich (Technical University of Munich, Rudolf-Diesel Hörsaal (MW2001) on Campus Garching at 18:00)
"The talk is open to the public and attendance is free. Registration is not required."
Rhonda D'Vine, Gerfried Fuchs, Pronouns & Debian pregnancy cluster
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
At IBM, Relocation Means Layoffs (Downsizing)
Silent or 'invisible' layoffs?
Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office (EPO) Warns That EPO Management is Robbing or Manipulating Pension Funds Again
Faking "growth" is just about as bad as forgery
Probably a Lot Worse Than LLM Slop: GNOME Tying Itself to Divisive Politics, Even Where It's Clearly Not Relevant
Something has gone terribly wrong in GNOME
Links 14/10/2025: Microsoft OneDrive Scanning Faces in Photos (Without Asking First), "OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut"
Links for the day
They Generally Don't Like Scholars, as They're Less Compelled or Pressured to Repeat What Corporations and Oligarchs Say
People who loathe scholars have an agenda in mind that, unlike that of reasonable people, revolves around controlling people
Dystopian Trends in Technology Make Richard Stallman More Relevant Than Ever
It's good to see him attracting vast audiences
Belated New Article About Last Thursday's Lecture by Richard Stallman in Helsinki, Finland
there are good reasons to pay with cash, not limited to privacy
Attacking Richard Stallman Has Become 'Career Suicide'
If you're going to viciously attack somebody, make sure your arguments are rock-solid
Microsoft's Failing XBox Business Has Turned Games Into Funerals
How does it feel to depend on Microsoft?
Yesterday's "Distinguished Lecture" by Richard Stallman Possibly Attended by Close to 1,000 People
The capacity of the place is about 900
Slop Poisons Everything
Imagine wanting to find what Torvalds has just said or what has just been released
Taking Software Freedom 'Mainstream'
interest in Software Freedom must have grown
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 13, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, October 13, 2025
Gemini Links 14/10/2025: Ada Lovelace Day, Sony CLIE PEG-TG50 Review, Why to Avoid Network Solutions
Links for the day
Richard Stallman (RMS) Announced His Talk Less Than 24 Hours Before It Took Place and Still Filled Up the Auditorium at Sapienza Università di Roma
Photos from yesterday evening [...] It looks like it was a very successful event