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  1. MX-25 Has 3 New Distro Releases (ISOs) That Do Not Contain Systemd [original]
    Beta for now
  2. FLX1S is a new Linux phone that’s... mostly a downgrade from the FLX1
    While that price might seem a little steep for a phone with those specs, there are a few things that make the FLX1S unusual
  3. Applications: VLC, libgnunetchat 0.6.0, and Yay
    Software leftovers

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  4. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
    today's leftovers
  5. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks for today
  6. Akademy 2025 and Goodbye kwrite-devel@kde.org
    KDE news
  7. Christian Hergert on Foundry and This Week in GNOME
    GNOME news
  8. Games: Commodore 64 Ultimate, New Steam Games, and More
    Gaming news
  9. today's howtos
    many howtos for Monday
  10. Android Leftovers
    My old Android was laggy until I toggled this setting
  11. MX-25 “Infinity” Beta Launches with Debian 13 “Trixie” Base
    MX Linux 25 “Infinity” Beta arrives with Xfce, KDE, and Fluxbox editions
  12. Kdenlive 25.08.1 Released with Stability Fixes and UI Improvements
    The first maintenance update of Kdenlive 25.08 video editor improves usability and stability with key fixes for rendering
  13. 6 free file managers on Linux that are better than anything on Windows
    Pretty much every GUI operating system ships with a utility to help you browse your directories, files, and documents
  14. I tried using a FreeBSD distro that's meant to be run off a flash drive
    The sheer number of distributions is one of the many factors that separate Linux from Windows and macOS
  15. LMDE 7 "Gigi" Beta Released With Debian 13 Base
    LMDE 7 is shaping up well, but you will need to wait a little longer for the final release
  16. 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Switching to Linux from Windows
    Frustrated with Windows and considering switching to Linux
  17. It's important to always keep a USB recovery media ready
    This open-source app installs once
  18. 4 lightweight Linux tools I could never go without
    Linux is a slippery slope for new users, albeit one of the most rewarding
  19. Zorin OS 18 Beta – A beautiful new chapter for Windows Switchers and Linux Lovers
    With Windows 10 reaching its end of life on October 14, 2025, millions of current Windows 10 users face a difficult decision
  20. gThumb 3.12.8 added Viewing GPS Position Support
    gThumb, the Gnome image viewer, browser, and organizer application, released new 3.12.8 version in last week
  21. Sparky 2025.09 Special Editions
    There are new iso images of Sparky 2025.09 Special Editions out there
  22. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  23. Review: An alternative OS for work and play
    After five days I was happy to return to Linux where even the less hand-holdy distributions tended to do what I wanted with minimal fuss
  24. Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Compact Released with 2230 NVMe Support
    Raspberry Pi OS automatically detects connected NVMe drives, and with the latest firmware
  25. RPM 6.0 Released with Support for Multiple OpenPGP Signatures per Package
    RPM 6.0 has been released today as a major update to this package manager system for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Linux-based distributions.
  26. Linux 6.17-rc7
    "Let's keep the testing going, and we'll have the final 6.17 in a week"
  27. Review: An alternative OS for work and play
    At the end of August I decided to try a slightly different approach
  28. MX Linux 25 “Infinity” Enters Public Beta Testing Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”
    The MX Linux team announced today the general availability of the beta version of the upcoming MX Linux 25 distribution based on the recently released Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series.
  29. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux and more
  30. Programming Leftovers
    coding and more
  31. Recent Articles From Valnet
    With GNU/Linux focus
  32. TempleOS and 9front in Review
    lesser known operating systems
  33. today's howtos
    4 howtos for now
  34. Homelabs and Proxmox
    mostly Proxmox articles
  35. I turned my broken laptop into the most useful device in my home without fixing it
    Then I set upon the only way I could put my old, broken laptop to good use: as a home server.
  36. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    3 misc. links
  37. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS related picks for Sunday
  38. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  39. Kevin Fenzi on Fedora and Fedora-based Qubes OS 4.3.0-rc2
    Some Fedora picks
  40. Lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers
    Canonical/Ubuntu related stuff
  41. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More
    Hardware stories
  42. KDE and GNOME Leftovers
    some desktop news
  43. Kernel: Collabora, AirPort, and Multikernel
    kernel related leftovers
  44. today's howtos
    idroot and more
  45. Games: Proton Experimental, DOOM, and Standing Desk
    gaming related news
  46. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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Gemini Links 26/07/2026: European Eclipse, Writing About Writing, and Comments on Formatting Gopher Posts
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Gemini Links 26/07/2026: Beach Day, CAs, and Plaintext
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Maintenance Today
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this is vastly worse than then 2008 subprime mortgage crisis
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PIP the CEO
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IBM is going down the drain
IBM is Killing the Fedora Community, Replacing It With LLM Slop From IBM Staff
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Why can't people accept that a "modern "smart" "phone" isn't necessary to check the time (overkill) and playing social control media "on the go" is far from necessary?
Earlier This Year Dan Williams Prepared for Scenario Where Linus Torvalds Dies
He had only just started a job at NVIDIA
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Gemini Links 25/07/2026: Poetry and Plaintext Pages
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Poor Piece From Valnet: Microsoft Keeps Sabotaging GNU/Linux, So You Should Quit Using GNU/Linux
Really awful take
We Need More Encryption, Not Less of It
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At 3PM on a Friday The Register MS Collects Some 'Pyramid Scheme' Money From Communist China (ZTE)
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Car Companies Fail Because They Don't Manufacture What Costumers Actually Want
They try to impose their dumb vision on purchasers
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Linuxiac is Plagiarism
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They will tell us this is "innovation", not a failure, and that only "Luddites" would oppose this
You've Been Conned If You Ever Believed That MElon (MUSK, Elon) Was a Trillionaire
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The People Who Tried to 'Cancel' (or Deplatform/Censor) Daniel Pocock Are Annoyed That He's Mentioned in Dozens of Press Articles
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Speeding Up 'Down Under': Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania...
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Google's Debt Trebled in Only 9 Months and It's Not Even the Full Picture (There's Secret Debt, Too)
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Links 24/07/2026: Mass Layoffs at Patreon, Netflix Deemed Bad for People's Brains
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Microsoft Layoffs in India
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Deregulation is Blowing Up the Economy, Which Has Become a Multi-Level Scheme or Pyramid Scheme
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Google Spreads Misinformation, Google's Slop Makes Stuff Up and Calls That "Intelligence"
Google very well understands (and even publicly admits so, albeit only for legal reasons) that the slop does not work
Daniel Pocock Proves Wikipedia is for Rich People or People Who Work for Very Rich People (the True Owners of Wikipedia)
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GNOME: Your Personal Opinions Must Overlap GAFAM's (Otherwise Those Opinions Are Impermissible)
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US is Insolvent, GAFAM is Buying Time by Hiding (Not Disclosing) Its True Debt Which Explains Never-ending Layoffs (Unrelated to Slop or "Efficiency Drives")
Five Tech Giants are Hiding $1.65tn in AI Debt, Using the Trick that Toppled Enron
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Linux Must be About People (Humans), Not Bribery From Slop Companies Trillions of Dollars in Debt and in Pursuit of Positive Press
We've lost Williams
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Once they're gone (offline), the slopfarms cannot carry on for much longer
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