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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

    New

  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.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

The Real Issue With The Register MS is Not the Politics of Some Staff's "Tweets", It's That The Register MS Publishes Fake Articles for Sponsors (50,000 Pounds Minimum)
AWS and Google each pay millions for fake articles which beget journalistic bias too (they literally pay the salaries of the 'reporters')
Microsoft Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): We Need Accountability Because Many People Die and It's Because of Microsoft Diehards or People Bribed by Microsoft to Deploy Microsoft Where Lives Are at Risk
They're trying to save face right now
What the Media Misses: It's Not an NVIDIA Issue, Super Micro Computer Inc Also Fell From $45 to $26 in the Period NVIDIA Lost 33% of Its Faked 'Value', NVIDIA is Collapsing Like Intel
History goes in circles
Waste of Money: Giving More Money to Toothless Regulators That Don't Even Examine Evidence
Shame in SRA
At Microsoft, "Buyouts" or "Global Voluntary Separation Agreement" (GVSA) Not Much Different From Layoffs (Severance Shockingly Low)
From what we are able to gather, many people are leaving Microsoft 'voluntarily'
Is Microsoft the Next Fake-Valued Corporation to Lose 35% in "Market Value"? Is Slop Bringing Microsoft Down?
Will NDAs prevent people talking or journalists finding out the true cause?
Silent Layoffs at IBM (and Red Hat) Continue in November 2026
IBM's CEO is "a Palliative Care Doctor Who Slides [IBM] Gently Into the Night"
Links 13/11/2026: "Apple Support Community Forums to Permanently Close" and "The Slop Market is Getting Nervous"
Links for the day
 
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Productivity Metrics and Antenna Outage
Links for the day
It's Not About China or Sex, It's About Corruption at NVIDIA and a Pyramid Scheme Perpetrated Under the Guise of "Hey Hi Revolution" (That Wasn't, It's Manufactured and Hyped by Bribes, Subsidised by Multi-Trillion-Dollar Loans, People's Pension Funds and More)
What's at stake here is a lot bigger than the "Ponzi hub" of Jensen Huang
No, You're Not a "Most Valuable Company" When Everything is Down for Half a Day in the Entire Planet
Still down, still no explanation (maybe they too aren't sure)
"Techrights Statement on Phoronix" Still Valid Five Years Later
Our position as stated in early 2022 has not changed
Vista 11's 'Growth' Has Stalled, It's Measured at Only 17.9% in the US This Year
That helps put in perspective Microsoft's attempt to discard almost 30% of its remaining workforce
"NVIDIA is Enron" (Subsidising the Pyramid Scheme That It Profited From), Microsoft is Next to be Down for the Count
Microsoft increasingly looks like the "next NVIDIA"
Richard Stallman Travels to South America to Give Talks About Free Software in Spanish, FSF Raises Money
The FSF is raising money (goal is $400,000) and the FSF has just mentioned the upcoming talks by the FSF's founder
United States Adding ~300 Billion in Government Debt Per Month, Wall Street Shaves Off Trillions in 'Value' in Less Than One Week
cushioning "assets" by helping them fake "value"
Microsoft: Pay Us for the Stuff That's Offline and We Cannot Fix
Learn to take control of the technology that you rely on
Links 13/11/2026: "Copyright-Strike-for-Hire" and "Stevie Wonder Photo Lawsuit"
Links for the day
The Slop Bubble (or Pyramid Scheme) Relied on Trust and Patience (Being Patient as Losses Grow and Debt Explodes, Trusting the Roadmap of Cheaters and Frauds)
Remember that it all began with trust
Anthropic's IPO Depends on $895.4 Billion in Debt (Money It Doesn't Have, It Loses Over 100 Billion Dollars Per Reporting Period), NVIDIA Has Just Lost Almost 2 Trillion Dollars In Value and Its Debt Trebled in Three Months
This coming week will be very, very entertaining for slop critics/sceptics to watch
Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) the Latest of Many to Quit Linux Development Over Linus Torvalds' Obsession With Slop (Linus Wants to Work With Bots, Not Humans Who Understand Whatever Code They Write)
Linus caught the 'brain virus'
Microsoft Asks 60,000 Workers to Leave, Some Leave, Services Go Down
Microsoft laid off about 40,000-50,000 people in past years
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Roku Exits the Smart Home Market and Poor Reporting/Journalism Regarding Slop Plagiarism
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 12, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, November 12, 2026
Gemini Links 12/11/2026: A Firing of a Boss and Geminispace Growing Fast
Links for the day
Bill Epsteingate-Funded BBC "Totally Ignoring the $1.7 Trillion Wiped off NVIDIA Stocks"
Imagine how many pension funds are tied to this NVIDIA pyramid scheme
A Few Hours Before NVIDIA CEO Canned (and NVIDIA Shares Plunged) the NVIDIA-Funded The Register MS Published Paid Spam With "AI" 18 Times in It
Anything to inflate the bubble
Links 11/11/2026: NVIDIA Decapitated, "The Company That Published Fake Journalists in Sports Illustrated is Collapsing Dramatically"
Links for the day
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIX - We Didn't Start the Fire
It started in 2012
Photo Ops Are Liabilities
NVIDIA is not a "family business" and its CEO isn't some modest genius
NVIDIA’s Total Debt Trebled in Three Months!
Not the hallmark of a rich company unless its accounting is fraudulent
NVIDIA Turns Out to be Serial Cheater, Stock Plunges 33% in 5 Weeks
The "slop bros" have long relied on patience and blind faith
Adopting LLM Slop is Still Suicide
Suicide (in the literal sense) is also linked to adoption of chatbots
On Laundering Licences and Code
A "Second SCO" waiting to happen
The Cyber Show on Slop and the Ministry Of Truth in "Nineteen Eighty Four"
"cultural erasure" by slop
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXVIII - Keeping Both Eyes on the Ball
One upside of these disputes is that they raise at least two very important issues concerning the law
Gemini Links 12/11/2026: Encryption is Easy, Human Emacs, and Legislation in Italy
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 11, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Links 11/11/2026: End of Novaya Gazeta (Assassinated by Putin) and North Koreans Too Poor to Buy Rice
Links for the day
Gemini Links 11/11/2026: The Tyrant’s Moat and Rants About Slop Causing Problems
Links for the day
Links 11/11/2026: Skydance Games and Boeing Hit By Layoffs, "Time Out for Timeouts"
Links for the day
IRC is for Communities, Social Control Networks Are for Broligarchs (by Broligarchs)
Unlike Reddit, it's not a company
JavaScript is the Problem, Not the Answer
Making the Web better is about making things better, not slapping more JavaScript 'walls' at it
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXVII - "Making a False Complaint to Police is a Crime." (British Cops Aren't American Mercenaries)
"In the United Kingdom, the Foreign Enlistment Act 1819 and the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 make it unlawful for British subjects to join the armed forces of any state warring with another state at peace with Britain."
The Label 'Anti-AI'
They make it sound like opposing plagiarism or cheating is an act of intolerance or hatred
Intolerance and Violence
Intolerance in the software world is not a new problem
António Campinos Hiding From Staff Amid Strikes, Won't Participate in Dialogue
They voted to continue striking until Christmas
Silent Layoffs at IBM (Rolling Layoffs), Now Curbs on H1B (Mostly Indian Applicants)
Little will change at IBM except the gravity (global distribution) of its workforce will go east
Links 11/11/2026: Moving from Proton to Posteo and "Floating in Space"
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 10, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, November 10, 2026