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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 06, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Where Tux Machines 'Lives' [original]
    We deem this scenery motivational and inspiring
  2. Don't Use YouTube, Use inv.nadeko.net Instead (to Access YouTube Videos Without All the Nasty Parts of YouTube) [original]
    Google does not want alternatives to exist
  3. Agate (or AGate) is 5 This Year, It's Running Our Gemini Capsule [original]
    The number of capsules that use Agate is unknown, but many capsules exist
  4. FSF's Anniversary Party Will Hopefully be Uploaded to PeerTube [original]
    so that people who missed the anniversary can "catch up"
  5. IBM is Changing Fedora and Red Hat for the Worse [original]
    The culture of the original Red Hat is going away
  6. Tux Machines Loves Software Freedom [original]
    If Software Freedom is the goal, then we must focus on how to get there

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  7. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Sharing
    Sharing and FOSS picks
  8. GNU/Linux and More
    some leftovers
  9. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  10. today's howtos
    not so many for Sunday
  11. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 5th, 2025
    The 260th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 5th, 2025.
  12. KPhotoAlbum 6.1.0 released
    I’m delighted to announce the new 6.1.0 release of KPhotoAlbum
  13. Introducing KRetro: a Libretro game emulator from KDE! (Alpha Release)
    It is designed to be convergent, usable across all Plasma Platforms
  14. Android Leftovers
    I have used dozens of Android smartphones but these Pixel features still amaze me to date
  15. Free Software Foundation at 40 (FSF40) Hackathon Starts in 1.5 Months [original]
    It's possible that the FSF will manage to raise some money for these activities
  16. Vicinae is basically Raycast for Linux, and it's (almost) everything I wanted
    Linux, replicating its UI and many of its features
  17. 4 Linux kernel tweaks I made that actually improved performance
    If you want something that offers stability, flexibility, and performance, you'll want to consider a Linux distribution
  18. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  19. A Mac-like experience on Linux
    In 2016, after being a Mac guy for 23 years, I took the plunge and made a full-time switch to Linux
  20. 40 Years of Freedom
    let's travel back to the late 1970s and early 1980
  21. FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president
    The day began with a conversation between board members Christina Haralanova, Geoffrey Knauth, Gerald J. Sussman, Ian Kelling, and Richard M. Stallman, who discussed the FSF's mission and their vision for the FSF's future
  22. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  23. Recent Valnet Articles With Focus on GNU/Linux
    GNU/Linux leftovers

    New

  24. I replaced WSL with a full Linux VM, and here’s why it’s actually better
    It's pretty seamless with VMs
  25. You can turn any sketchy PC into a private one with a single USB
    Turn any computer into a secure system

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