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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 19, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. How We Curate News in Tux Machines (Turning Thousands of Entries Into a Few Dozen Daily Pages/Clusters of Links) [original]
    The vicious attacks on us mostly serve to affirm the importance of what we do here
  2. Heading Back Home [original]
    In the meantime we're happy to report that more people get involved in helping us with the sites
  3. Only Americans Ever Attacked Tux Machines [original]
    We find it kind of funny if not ironic that this site, originally an American site, got legal harassment only from Americans

    New

  4. Back Market revives old Windows 10 PCs with ChromeOS, Linux
    The company further describes planned obsolescence as a strategy adopted by big tech companies like Microsoft,
  5. Winux is a Linux distro Windows 11 lookalike with questionable value
    Heard of Linuxfx and Wubuntu?
  6. KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing
    The KDE Project announced today the release of the beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment series, a major update that will introduce new features, improvements, fixes, and other enhancements.
  7. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    Debian, Red Hat, and more
  8. Databases, Open Data, and Standards
    Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and beyond
  9. GNUnet 0.25.0 and GNU Emacs
    FSF and GNU leftovers
  10. Games: Dolphin Emulator 2509, Retro, and More
    GNU/Linux and beyond
  11. Mozilla and Privacy (or Lack of It)
    Mozilla's latest
  12. Security Leftovers
    Security picks
  13. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  14. Open Hardware/Modding: GuitarPedal, LattePanda, and More
    hardware projects and more
  15. KDE KWin Project and GNOME HDR Wallpapers
    some desktop updates
  16. Audiocasts/Show: FLOSS Weekly and Destination Linux
    2 new episodes
  17. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  18. GNOME 48.5 Improves Support for WPA(2) Enterprise Networks, Legacy Tray Icons
    The GNOME Project announced today the release and general availability of GNOME 48.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” desktop environment series.
  19. New in LWN (Outside LWN Paywall)
    from LWN only
  20. How to easily switch your PC from Windows to Linux Mint and how to install Ubuntu On A Chromebook
    installing GNU/Linux
  21. Games: House of Necrosis, Flick Shot Rogues, and More
    7 new picks
  22. Tails 7.0 Anonymous Linux OS Released, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”
    Tails 7.0 is out today as a major update to this portable Linux OS based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that protects users against surveillance and censorship.
  23. How and why Linux has thrived after three decades
    'Just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU...'
  24. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  25. Testing the 2-in-1 Framework 12 Laptop
    Framework supports Linux, but it does not sell systems with it pre-installed

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  26. Introducing Space Grade Linux
    at the Embedded Linux Conference

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

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