Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 14, 2025

Picture of a cleaning truck cleaning the sand on the beach in Ocean City, MD

Updated This Past Day

  1. UEFI Secure Boot Failing, as Expected for Nearly 15 Years Already
    in the media
  2. GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-09-12
    It’s been another busy week for the GNOME Foundation
  3. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
    today's leftovers

    New

  4. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
    GNU/Linux mostly
  5. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  6. Content Management Systems, Web Readers, and RSS
    Some WWW leftovers
  7. Debian: Timezones, Collabora, and JavaScript in Debusine
    some Debian leftovers
  8. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly Fedora leftovers
  9. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, and More
    Hardware leftovers
  10. Games and Benchmarks in Linux
    3 new picks
  11. Wine 10.15
    The Wine development release 10.15 is now available
  12. today's howtos (and "tips made my transition from Windows to Linux much easier")
    4 more technical pieces
  13. Security Leftovers
    "Security" related things and FUD
  14. Have we finally reached the year of Linux on the desktop?
    1999 was, for me, not the year of Linux on the desktop, but I did try
  15. Open Data: Toronto Election Data, Forced Disappearances, and "Clinical Trial Reporting"
    4 "new" picks
  16. Tumbleweed's "Review of the week" and OpenSUSE Planet News Roundup
    OpenSUSE news
  17. Standards: Open Document Format, CVSS, Samba 4.23 Release, and More
    Standards/Consortia leftovers
  18. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  19. Kernel: Linux Alternatives, Bcachefs in (or Outside) Linux, and FreeBSD
    kernel stories
  20. IBM Red Hat (Red Bait) Pushing Buzzwords ("AI"), Energy Waste, OpenShift, "Edge Computing" (More Buzzwords)
    Buzzwords everywhere
  21. Proxmox Datacenter Manager 0.9 Beta Arrives with Debian 13
    Proxmox Datacenter Manager 0.9 Beta lands with Debian 13, Linux kernel 6.14
  22. Immich 1.142 Brings Default Beta Timeline, New Resume-All Button
    Immich 1.142 sets the beta timeline as the default
  23. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  24. Libadwaita 1.8
    Another six months have passed, and with that comes another libadwaita release to go with GNOME 49
  25. Games: DRAGON QUEST VII Reimagined, Fanatical Bundle Fest, Steel Knight's ARMIS, and More
    10 gaming picks from GamingOnLinux
  26. Security Leftovers
    Security picks
  27. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS and coding
  28. Warzone 2100 and Lenovo Legion Go S With SteamOS
    gaming news
  29. GNU/Linux Going Well in in Benchmark Showdown
    2 new articles
  30. today's howtos
    3 howtos
  31. Open Hardware/Modding: Fairphone, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Hardware picks
  32. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

How We Do Techrights (and What's Changing Next Week)
Many former news sites no longer yield much non-meaningless news (not anymore); there's a gap to be filled
Links 12/07/2026: Palantir Unrest and Wireshark 4.6.7
Links for the day
Links 12/07/2026: New Instrument Time and PalmOS Experiences in 2026
Links for the day
Red Hat Staff Says IBM Policy Has Stigmatised Him as a Tool and a Slopper With Plagiarism Tools
IBM is killing Red Hat with slop
Freedom of Choice or Freedom Versus Choice (or When All Choices Are Incompatible With Freedom)
When some business asserts that it gives people different options, then it can rightly argue that it offers some choices, but that is not the same as freedom
Techrights IRC Turns 5 Without a “Code of Conduct”, “Code of Conduct Committee”, and All Those Bureaucratic Nightmares
18+ years if one counts our time in Freenode as well
Why U No Use AI???
Many hype waves come and go
There Are Still Slopfarms in Google News
Google is trying to participate in if not lead this pyramid scheme
The Cyber Show Explains How Slop and Promotion of Slop is About Taking Control Away From Computer Users
"On making a trustworthy machine"
Keeping Available the Site at All Times
Informal arrangements and crowdfunding keep our work available despite resistance (including from people who break the law)
What If "Era of AI" and "AI Revolution" (Fake News) Never Happened?
So how much longer before the bust (or bubble-burst)?
GNU/Linux Approaches 5% in Australia
5% by year's end?
Europe/EU is Moving Towards Independence, Fast to Adopt Free Software
More and more states (governments, public sector) in Germany are dumping Microsoft
GNU/Linux Grows at the Expense of Windows
People who want to get work done already left Windows
Tux Machines Growing as a Volunteers-Run Site
Historically the site did not have many original stories, but this changed as the audience grew and the site gained more recognition
Links 12/07/2026: European Commission Versus ‘Addictive Design’, "Google Loses Final Appeal Over $4.7 Billion EU Android Antitrust Fine"
Links for the day
GNU/Linux Market Share Increases Some More Today, statCounter Measures It at 7.3%
Will more such thresholds and records be broken?
Gemini Links 12/07/2026: Studying Languages and 2026 Old Computer Challenge (OCC)
Links for the day
EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XIII - At the EPO, Cocaine Addicts and Their Friends Are "Protected Class"
What does that tell us about the EPO?
Increasing Output by Focusing on Originals
It's probably more important to carry on with these than it is to keep abreast of non-crucial news
Amid Strikes and Industrial Actions, Young Professionals at the European Patent Office (EPO) Kept on 'Short Leash', According to the Local Staff Committee The Hague
Issues affecting Young Professionals
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 11, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, July 11, 2026
Blogs May be Making a Comeback (They're Not Fediverse, They Are Joined by RSS Feeds)
Don't fake expansion where none existed
ChromeOS and GNU/Linux in the United Kingdom Reach 11%
the UK shows signs of digital maturity
Corporate Media: Blame the People Who Enter the Abandoned IBM Buildings, Not IBM for Abandoning Workers in Pursuit of IT Sweatshops
When the media spreads falsehoods stocks can go up (a lot higher), but at whose expense and how long for?
Canonical is Selling Microsoft, It Pays The Register MS to Sell Microsoft
It's all about money to them. And they call this journalism.
When Red Hat's HR Becomes the Same as IBM's HR (Bluewashing)
Red Hat keeps sacking very experienced engineers and adding temporary interns
GNU/Linux Growing in East Asia
Assuming this is more or less accurate, we could use a plausible explanation
SUEPO Munich Report on the Recent EPO Demonstration and Rolling Strikes That Continue to Grow
"increasing registrations for the 'rolling strikes' running until autumn"
Over a Week After Microsoft Discontinued Some XBox Models It Apparently Exits Some Markets Altogether
We seem to be witnessing the end of XBox
Gemini Links 11/07/2026: Old Computer challenge, Poems, Antenna, and More
Links for the day
Links 11/07/2026: "Trademark wars of Influencer Culture", Xinuos Uses Copyrights Versus UNIX
Links for the day
North America: GNU/Linux Measured at 10%
To better understand what contributes to the gains
Following Corrections and Adjustments statCounter Sees GNU/Linux at 7.1%, an All-Time High
There is a lot of layoffs at Microsoft this month
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 10, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, July 10, 2026
Links 11/07/2026: Wednesday-Saturday News Catch-up
Links for the day
Prioritising High-Importance News
In order to fully catch up with news we'll not publish many new articles until next week