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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 07, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. GIMP 3.0.6 Is Now Available for Download with Improved Photoshop Brush Support

   GIMP 3.0.6 has been released as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free image editing software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

2. Coffee Day [original]

   Vista 10 is running out of support (security patches that don't even solve the security problems), so expect to see many new GNU/Linux users "out there"

3. Working With People From Microsoft [original]

   Thankfully I never worked with people from Microsoft, only a few who were Microsoft "fans"

4. Sites Slow a Few Days Ago [original]

   Hopefully that won't happen again any time soon

   New

5. GNU/Linux, BSD, and Development Leftovers

   many links more

6. The Linux distro makes it super easy for me to create, edit, and stream - here's how

   Neptune

7. I've tested the best Linux office suites and these are my top 5 - most are free

   LibreOffice is the most widely used office suite on Linux

8. This new Linux desktop environment gives us what Microsoft never did with Windows

   The new COSMIC desktop entered beta just a couple of weeks ago, after spending over a year in alpha testing, and I decided to jump in and give it a shot

9. Linus Torvalds Criticizes Rust Format Checking and Pull Request Formatting in DRM Merge

   Linus first addressed what he saw as corrupted formatting in the pull request's changelog

10. Android Leftovers

    October 2025 smartphone lineup: Top launches, upgrades, and what's new this month

11. OpenSSH 10.1: New DSCP Handling, SHA1 SSHFP Deprecation Announced

    OpenSSH 10.1 is now available, featuring DSCP handling changes

12. Windows 11 25H2 reminds me why swapping to Linux was the best idea I've had this year

    However, it still reminded me that moving to Linux was the best idea I had this year

13. The latest Raspberry Pi OS images are now based on Debian 13 “Trixie”

    Since Debian 13 “Trixie” was released last August, it was just a matter of time until Raspberry Pi OS followed

14. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

    This is free and open source software

15. KDE neon testing now with Plasma 6.5 beta 2

    One of the key problems we identified with previous KDE neon releases was that only user edition was receiving any meaningful testing

16. openSUSE Leap Ready for Liftoff

    Users are stepping forward to share how Linux distributions like openSUSE power their projects

17. Graphics and Drivers for x86 in Linux

    5 new stories

18. KPhotoAlbum 6.1.0 released

    KPhotoAlbum out!

19. GNU/Linux and Hardware Leftovers

    mostly GNU/Linux news

20. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards

    FOSS and more

21. Programming Leftovers

    Development picks

22. today's howtos

    mostly idroot

23. FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 Now Available

    The fifth alpha build of the 15.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available

24. LibreOffice in Latin America: heading to Havana for the 2025 Latin American Congress

    From October 6 to 9, Havana, Cuba, will host the Latin American LibreOffice 2025 Conference

25. Best Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

26. Review: Linux Kamarada 15.6

    Let's talk about how Kamarada performs as a desktop distribution and what it bring to the table compared to its parent, openSUSE Leap

27. This Week in KDE Apps

    Getting back to all that's new in the KDE App scene, let's dig in

28. Arch Linux’s AUR Wasted My Time Until I Did This

    Arch rant

29. SysLinuxOS: The Go-To Linux for System Administrators

    At first blush, SysLinuxOS seems to be similar to Tails

30. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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