Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2025

Updated This Past Day

Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

This is free and open source software
GNU/Linux and Sharing

FOSS and more
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

13 stories from GamingOnLinux
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

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

More Shutdowns at Microsoft, Hundreds of Workers Impacted Shortly: It's not the entire wave, just part of it
The World Needs Activists With Social Skills and Perseverance: An everyday activist makes life better for everybody, everywhere (not for personal gain or even credit)
As Usual, Late on a Friday XBox (Microsoft) Releases Evidence of Its Demise: We covered several such Friday announcements earlier this year
Gemini Links 24/10/2026: Break/Fix and OpenStreetMap: Links for the day
Links 23/10/2026: Slop "is Scaling Transnational Repression" and Infringement and DMCA Suits Against Suno/Anthropic (Plagiarism Blenders): Links for the day
The Register MS: About 60 Mentions of "AI" in One Day Are Paid-for Spam (Sponsored Hype, Composed by the Companies Covered): The Register MS is a dying site
Links 22/10/2026: MElon (Elon Musk) Election Interference and Perl/Raku Foundation by the Numbers: Links for the day
Techrights Audience Grew as a Function of the Intensity of Attacks on Its Existence: We try to publish fewer stories but better (not necessarily long but at least important) stories
TechRepublic is Becoming a Slopfarm: It seems like TechRepublic became LLM slop (maybe all of it, maybe only some of it for now)
Techrights is Not About GNU/Linux, Tux Machines Is: When we say "GNU/Linux" we emphasise the GNU
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XII - Lawfare to Cover Up Microsoft's Restricted Boot Calamity (Microsoft as Authority Over Linux), Garrett Wants to Talk About Penises Instead: When lawsuits become a political weapon
Without Microsoft's Monopoly (and Monopoly Rents) the Inevitable Microsoft Mass Layoffs Carry on Endlessly: Microsoft Windows is not retaining the dominance it once had
IBM's Debt Grew About $2 Billion in 3 Months: The silent layoffs still seem to impact Red Hat
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 22, 2026: IRC logs for Thursday, October 22, 2026
Gemini Links 22/10/2026: Solar MiniBBS, Building Major Tom, and Zig: Links for the day
Links 22/10/2026: Busan’s Celebrity Shark in Canal Again: Links for the day
Links 22/10/2026: "Software Developers Have Been Promoted Into Incompetence": Links for the day
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XI - Losing Over a Million Pounds (Borrowed Money) to Try to Silence Critics of Restricted Boot With Microsoft-Controlled "Certificates": Garrett is also very jealous of Daniel Pocock
Links 22/10/2026: eBay to Lay Off a Tenth of Staff (Again), Node.js and PHP Security Crises, Climate News: Links for the day
Red Hat Layoffs Still Going on This Week (Whilst IBM's Debt Grows in Spite of Mass Layoffs): IBM is bluffing/cheating the shareholders again
IBM's Debt Continues to Increase While the Company Rapidly Shrinks: This is what a dying company looks like
Linux Kernel Needs Diversity and Diversity of Good Code, Not LLM Slop: Linux (and Linus) are kicking a can down the road
Microsoft Shrinks Every Year: Microsoft will try to spin or twist this as "efficiency"
Gemini Links 22/10/2026: Holiday Inn and Emacs: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 21, 2026: IRC logs for Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Techrights Was Right About a Fake Security Model Built Around Lies or Built Upon Trust in "Certificates" and "Authorities" (like Microsoft): We have begun to amass some media reports and blog posts from technical sites
Windows Monopoly is No Longer Sustainable (the Case of Oceania): This is why Microsoft layoffs are happening all the time
Some Downtime Possible Shortly (Router Work): We don't use PHP in the site anymore
Mass Layoffs at Microsoft This Week and/or Next Week: Cannot pull a bunny out of some hat
With Its Future on the Line, EPO Management (Dictatorship) Resorts to Further Escalations to Fake 'Production' and Curtail Industrial Actions: It's clear that with a yearlong campaign of industrial actions - including strikes - Campinos cannot save face anymore
Gemini Links 21/10/2026: Summer Day in Tokyo (30c in Late October) and Whole Food for the Whole World: Links for the day
Links 21/10/2026: "Zelensky Took the Gloves Off This Time With Convicted Felon" and "Cellebrite iPhone Radio Zero-Day": Links for the day
Reuters is Becoming Slop, Not a News Agency (Treat Reports From Reuters Sceptically): In their own words
Disclosure/s Crisis at The Register MS (Promoting a Ponzi Scheme for Money): So now they sell several schemes/scams at the same time, not limited to the slop
Links 21/10/2026: "The Tragic Death of the Republican Party" and "No War But Data Center War": Links for the day
Internet Relay Chat Still Growing: The numbers go up, not down [...] Don't believe the doomers
Intercontinental Brigading - Part X - American Back Doors Inside Our Computers, With Transatlantic Swatting Against Critics Thrown 'Into the Mix': "If your Windows PC's Secure Boot certificates are out of date, your system is vulnerable to malware like rootkits."
Gemini Links 21/10/2026: A Walk Through Amsterdam and Pythagorean Theorem: Links for the day
More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Weeks From Now, Then Again Months From Now: Microsoft's crisis is not limited to XBox
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 20, 2026: IRC logs for Tuesday, October 20, 2026