Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 18, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Canonical and ESWIN announces EBC77 RISC-V SBC with Ubuntu 24.04 support

   ESWIN Computing, in collaboration with Canonical, has announced the EBC77 Series single board computer (SBC) with support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and designed for education

2. What LLMs do to software freedom [original]

   Tux Machines boycotts sites that use LLMs

   New

3. GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers

   today's leftovers

4. Security Leftovers

   Security related picks

5. Red Hat Leftovers (Official Site)

   redhat.com latest

6. Programming Leftovers

   Development picks

7. Applications: Camera, Slop, and ProtonUp

   Software news

8. today's howtos

   lots from idroot

9. Audacious 4.5 Released with Playback History & LRCLIB Support

   The new release of this lightweight free open-source player features new plugin, new lyrics provider, and various other improvements

10. Stable kernels: Linux 6.15.7, Linux 6.12.39, Linux 6.6.99, Linux 6.1.146, Linux 5.15.189, Linux 5.10.240, and Linux 5.4.296

    I'm announcing the release of the 6.15.7 kernel

11. LibreOffice 25.2.5 Rolls Out with Over 60 Bug Fixes

    LibreOffice 25.2.5 rolls out with over 60 bug fixes

12. Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Installing to the eMMC

    This is a series of articles focusing on RISC-V single board computers running Linux

13. LibreOffice 25.2.5 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 63 Bug Fixes

    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with more bug fixes.

14. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

15. today's leftovers

    GNU/Linux and Windows stuff

16. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and More

    some hardware picks

17. Android Leftovers

    5 reasons I'm finally uninstalling Gmail on Android – and what I'm replacing it with

18. Hyprland 0.50 Lands with New Render Scheduler and Tons of Fixes

    Hyprland 0.50 tiling Wayland compositor drops legacy rendering

19. Fastfetch 2.48 System Information Tool Brings Fedora Variant Support

    Fastfetch 2.48 system information tool adds Fedora variant detection

20. Review: the NovaCustom V54 is an outstanding Linux laptop with Dasharo coreboot firmware

    Truly open source hardware – open down to the firmware level of individual components

21. Ubuntu 25.10 Fixes Something You Didn’t Know Needed Fixing

    When Ubuntu Dock is in dock mode (not full width), corner radii are out of whack with the corner radius used elsewhere

22. Org Mode, GNU Guix, Mattermost, and more projects to participate in the FSF's hackathon

    Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the projects that will participate in the virtual FSF40 hackathon on November 21-23 and opened general registration

23. Best Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

24. Purism: That one task

    In our last post, we mentioned that there was a key task remaining for gnome-control-center, the GNOME Settings application

25. Android Advanced Protection - Solid but overcomplicated

    I want to take a look at Android's Advanced Protection mode

26. Games: Silence of the Siren, Rootkits ("Anticheat"), and More

    half a dozen stories from GamingOnLinux

27. today's leftovers

    4 more links

28. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

    Security mostly

29. Latest Kernel- and Python-Centric LWN Articles

    and one non-LWN

30. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

    ---

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