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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 19th, 2025

The 223rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 19th, 2025.
Rhino Linux 2025.1 Brings Dynamic Workspaces, Hello Rhino App

The Ubuntu-based Rhino Linux 2025.1 rolls out dynamic workspaces
Linux Kernel 6.13 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Today, Linus Torvalds announced the release and general availability of Linux 6.13, the latest stable kernel version that introduces several new features and improvements, better hardware support, and more.
Our Gemini Capsule is Already Used a Lot [original]

all the same pages albeit in GemText format

New
Videos: Latest in Invidious

GNU/Linux focus
Latest From the Fake Copycat of FSF ("FSFE")

3 blog posts
Announcing the Release of RELIANOID 7.6.0 (Community Edition)

the release of RELIANOID 7.6.0 (Community Edition)
today's leftovers

GNU/Linux and more
Programming Leftovers

Development picks
today's howtos

another batch, some a bit older
today's howtos

only 4 more for now
Kernel and Graphics (Technical)

Linux mostly
Applications: dijo, Ecere SDK, and xcalc

Applications in review
Android Leftovers

Don't slack, just stack: How I tamed my growing Android widget obsession
Distrobox 1.8.1: NVIDIA Integration and Zsh Improvements

Distrobox 1.8.1, a containerized Linux environment, is a bug-fix release that includes fixes for the NVIDIA toolkit
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Review: CentOS 10 Stream

This project, CentOS Linux, was killed off and, in its place, Red Hat set up CentOS Stream
Is Manjaro ARM dead?

Did the Manjaro ARM project die and nobody noticed
today's howtos

many howtos for day's start
Open Hardware/Retro: Commodore 64, Raspberry Pi, and More

hardware picks
today's leftovers

mostly GNU/Linux
Programming Leftovers

Development picks
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

99.99% Uptime in First Half of 2025: Since January there was only one noticeable outage
When People Call a Best/Close Friend of Bill Gates a "Serial Rapist": Good thing that the Linux Foundation keeps the "Linux" trademark ("Linux Mark") clean
Microsoft Bankruptcy in Russia, Shutdown in Pakistan, What Next?: It seems possible that in 2025 alone Microsoft will have laid off over 50,000 workers
What Matters More Than "Market Share": The goal is freedom, not "market share"
Credit Suisse collapse obfuscated Parreaux, Thiébaud & Partners scandal: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
UK Media Under Threat: Cannot Report on Data Breach, Cannot Report on Microsoft Staff Strangling Women: The story of super injunction (in the British media this week, years late)
The Law Firm SLAPPing Us For the Microsofters Lost 72% of Its Tangible Assets in the Past Year, According to Its Own Reports: That might help explain why they're willing to tolerate serial stranglers from Microsoft as clients
Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity.com Slopfarm and Slopfarms Propped Up by Google News: "As LLM slop is foisted onto the WWW in place of knowledge and real content, it now gets ingested and processed by other LLMs, creating a sort of ouroboros of crap."
Links 18/07/2025: Weather Events and Health Hazards: Links for the day
Microsoft's All-Time Low in Finland: Microsoft is in a freefall
Security: Shane Wegner & Debian statement of incompetence: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 17, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, July 17, 2025
Gemini Links 17/07/2025: "Goodreads for Gemini" and Defence of "The Small Web": Links for the day
Links 17/07/2025: Anger and Morale Issues at Microsoft, Wars and Conflicts Get Digital: Links for the day
CALEA / CALEA2 is the Real Problem, Not Chinese Operatives Exploiting CALEA / CALEA2 (as Any Other Nation Can): CALEA / CALEA2 is more of a front door than a back door
Nils Torvalds and Anna "Mikke" Torvalds (née Törnqvis) Hopefully Use GNU/Linux by Now: "Torvalds Family Uses Windows, Not Linus’ Linux"
Attack of the Slopfarms: FUD-amplifying bots with slop images, slop text (LLM slop)
Not My Problem, I Don't Care: Context/inspiration: Martin Niemöller
Honest Journalism About the European Patent Office Ceased to Exist After SLAPPs and Bribes to the Media: The EPO is basically a Mafia
Life Became Simpler When I Stopped Driving and I Don't Miss Driving When I See "Modern" Cars: Gee, wonder why car sales have plummeted...
Why I Believe Brett Wilson LLP and Its Microsoft Clients Are All Toast: So far our legal strategy has worked perfectly
EPO Jobs Are Very Toxic and Bad for One's Health: Health first, not monopolies
Response to Ryo Suwito Regarding the Four Freedoms: the point of life isn't to make more money
Microsoft's Morale Circling Down the Drain: Or gutter, toilet etc.
Tech Used to be Fun. To Many of Us It's Still Fun.: You can just watch it from afar and make fun of it all
Links 17/07/2025: "Blog Identity Crisis" and Openwashing by Nvidia: Links for the day
Greffiers and the US Attorney of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft: The lawsuit can help expose extensive corruption in the American court system as well
The People Who Promoted systemd in Debian Also Promote Wayland: This is not politics
Victims of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Alex Balabhadra Graveley, Wanted to Sue Him But Lacked the Funds (He Attacked Their Finances): Having spoken to victims of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft
Links 17/07/2025: Science, Hardware, and Censorship: Links for the day
Gemini Links 17/07/2025: Staying in the "Small Web" and Back on ICQ: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 16, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Under the Guise of "MIT Technology Review Insights" the Site MIT Technology Review Posts Corporate Spam as 'Articles': Some of the articles aren't even articles but 'hit pieces' against Free software and some are paid advertisements
Brett Wilson LLP Has Track Record in Scam Coin Cases (e.g. Craig Wright and More), Now It Works for 'Crypto' Scam Purveyors: But wait, it gets worse
Exclusive: corruption in Tribunals, Greffiers, from protection rackets to cat whisperers: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Will Brett Wilson LLP Handle Its Own Winding Up Petition or be Struck Off for Overt Abuse of Process?: Today we sue not only the first Microsofter
Links 16/07/2025: Chip Bans and Microsoft’s “Digital Escort” Program: Links for the day
Ubuntu Becomes Microsoft GitHub, Based on Decision Made by British Army Officer: You're hopeless, Canonical
Revolving Doors: One Day You're a Judge, the Next Day You're an Attorney Paying Public Officials and Working for Violent and Dangerous Microsoft Employees: how the US justice system works
Sharing Code and Recipes: It helps explain the triviality of software freedom
Slopwatch: Noise, Plagiarism and Even Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation: What are we meant to do to prevent a false association or misleading connotations? Game the LLMs? No. Boycott slopfarms.
How Many Women Has Microsoft's Alex Balabhadra Graveley Already Strangled and Where Does That End?: If you too are a victim of this man and wish to share information, contact us
Gemini Links 16/07/2025: BaseLibre Numerical System and Simple Web Browsing with TLS: Links for the day
Links 16/07/2025: Fascist Slop Takes "Intelligence" Clothing, New Criminal Case Against MElon: Links for the day
"We Might Save Somebody's Life": I follow the example of my father
Why I am Suing the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Alex Balabhadra Graveley, in the UK High Court This Week: Out of respect to the process and to the Court, I shall not share any pertinent details about the case
Links 16/07/2025: China’s Economy Grows Steadily, France Takes Action Regarding Harm to Children by GAFAM and Fentanylware (TikTok): Links for the day
It is Not About Politics: Beware the people who try to make this about politics
Good Journalism Saves Lives: a shocking number of women die or get seriously hurt every day due to violence from a partner
Recognition of Women's Contributions to Free Software: Being passive is not an option when bad things are happening
Slopfarms Are Going to Perish Because Public Opinion is Changing: Many slopfarms will simply go offline
19 Years of Standing Up for Justice, Equality, and Truth: This week we shall take it up a notch
Gemini Links 16/07/2025: Tmux and OCC25 Working TLS: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 15, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, July 15, 2025