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Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

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GNU/Linux and Sharing

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Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly, Ask Noah Show, and Going Linux

3 new episodes
Benchmarking 3D graphic cards and their drivers, mesa 25.2.1 released

graphics news
Applications: Self-hosting With Proxmox, PKGget, Neovim vs Vim Comparison, and Newelle

software updates
Debian and Ubuntu Leftovers

3 stories
Web Browsers/Web Servers/Web Frameworks

Some Web and FOSS updates
KDE: Giving It a Try and Krita Monthly Update

a pair of KDE posts
Retro and Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32 and SPARCs

Hardware blog posts and more
Programming Leftovers

Development picks
Security Leftovers

updates and more
Red Hat Leftovers

Red Hat publications, mostly in its site
today's howtos

idroot and more
Tails 6.19 Brings Tor, Thunderbird, and Browser Updates

Tails 6.19, a privacy-focused Linux distro, is out with updated Tor Browser 14.5.6
Perl-Critic – static analyzer

Perl::Critic is an extensible framework for creating and applying coding standards to Perl source code
Security Leftovers

Security related leftovers
LWN Articles About Python

2 new articles
ArchWiki Talk and Bluestar 6.16.1 is Out Based on Arch

Arch news
Games: Proton Experimental, iRacing Arcade, and More

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Android Leftovers

7 open source Android apps that made my phone (and life) simpler
What to Expect From ClamAV 1.5 Open-Source Antivirus

ClamAV 1.5 antivirus RC is out, bringing FIPS-compliant signature verification
Forty years, forty links

The Free Software Foundation (FSF)'s fortieth anniversary is approaching
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Stable kernels: Linux 6.16.2, Linux 6.15.11, and Linux 6.12.43

I'm announcing the release of the 6.16.2 kernel
Want to learn Linux? These 5 games make it fun - and they're free

Does the thought of learning Linux seem daunting
LWN on Kernel, Python, and Arch

6 new articles
StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers

StarDict on Wayland doesn't have this problem, because Wayland prevents applications from being able to capture text from other applications by default
Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

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Parties and Milestones Again: we've begun putting up about 40 balloons
Microsoft is Disloyal Towards Its Most Loyal Employees: Against its most faithful enablers
Following the Line of Cocaine All the Way to the Top: Even a million denials and spin-doctoring won't distract from the core issue
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 27, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, October 27, 2025
Google News Drowning in Slop (and Slopfarms That Hijack About Half the Results): Google News seems to be drowning in this stuff
Gemini Links 28/10/2025: "How to Maximize Your Positive Impact" and ASCII Art and Artist Attribution: Links for the day
PETA and Activism: Being staff or volunteer in PETA isn't easy
Big Blue, Huge Debt: debt will soar again
Links 27/10/2025: Mass Surveillance Sold as "AI", People Reluctant to Lose Physical Media: Links for the day
Techrights' 19th Anniversary: Bronze: Time to go back to preparing for this anniversary
Our Latest European Patent Office (EPO) Series Will Last Several Weeks, Will Ask the EPO Management and the European Union (EU) Very Difficult Questions: If nobody loses a job (or jobs) over this, then the EU basically became no better than Colombia or Nicaragua
Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, Brian Fagioli, and Google News: We focus on stories that are fake or LLM slop that disguises itself as "news" about Linux
Links 27/10/2025: Wikipedia Vandalism, Bruce Perens Opens up on Childhood: Links for the day
This Site Could Not be Done by LLMs Even If It Wanted to (Because It's Not a Parrot of What Other Sites Say): LLMs have no knowledge or deep understanding
19 Years, No Censorship: No factual information is ever going to be removed, more so if it is in the public interest
We Are Not a Conventional Site, That's Why They Hate (or Love) Us: Throughout the week this week we'll be focusing on the EPO
The Cocaine Patent Office - Part I: António Campinos Brought Corruption and Nepotism to the EPO, Then Came the Cocaine: High-level manager at the European Patent Office (EPO) caught in public with cocaine, the Office has some answering to do
Purchasing/Possessing Computers Isn't the Same as Controlling Computers: Let's strive to put computers back under the control of their users, no matter who purchased these (usually the users)
Gemini Links 27/10/2025: Alhena 5.4.3 and Fixing Bash: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 26, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, October 26, 2025
Thankfully We've Made Copies of More Interesting Data From statCounter: If statCounter (the Web site or the 'webapp') vanished overnight, we'd still have something left of it
More Silent Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat: when the media counts such layoffs or presents tallies the numbers are very incomplete
Links 26/10/2025: Microsoft Spies on Gamers, Open Transport Community Conference: Links for the day
Links 26/10/2025: LLM Slop / Plagiarism Programs Continue to Disappoint, CISA Layoffs Threaten Systems: Links for the day
Gemini Links 26/10/2025: Gemsync and Joining the Small Web: Links for the day
India.com a Click-baiting, SEO-Spamming, Slopfarming Heap: They do this almost every day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 25, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, October 25, 2025
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