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Updated This Past Day

  1. Keeping the Server Cool as the Planet Warms Up [original]
    load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
  2. How We've Defeated the Internet Trolls and Misogynists [original]
    The way to defeat them is make that costly to them
  3. Catching Up With Tux Machines When Updates Are Rapid and Seemingly Superfluous [original]
    We do our best to compress or cluster related stories
  4. From the Free Software Community to Local Politics [original]
    She's an honest person - a person of true integrity
  5. Ubuntu Reveal Codename of Next Year’s 26.04 LTS
    Ubuntu has announced the codename of its next release, 26.04 LTS, as “Resolute Raccoon”
  6. Servers, Operating Systems, Games, and More
    today's leftovers
  7. Richard Stallman to Give 3 Talks in Europe This Coming Week: Finland, Sweden, and Italy [original]
    There may be more to come, but those are the ones publicised so far
  8. Recent Articles From Valnet and "AI" Hype About to Die
    GNU/Linux focus

    New

  9. ClamAV 1.5 Open-Source Antivirus Engine Released with Major New Features
    ClamAV 1.5 has been released today as a major update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware, and other malicious threats.
  10. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux focus
  11. Security Leftovers
    Security related leftovers
  12. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  13. Retro, Open Hardware, and Mobile Systems
    hardware picks
  14. Firefox Nightly and Mozilla Thunderbird
    Some Moz news
  15. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  16. Audiocasts: LINUX Unplugged, Late Night Linux, Destination Linux, Linux User Space, and More
    Some new episodes
  17. Applications: WGDashboard 4.3 WireGuard UI, U-Boot v2025.10, and More
    Application related picks
  18. today's howtos
    mostly from idroot
  19. Android Leftovers
    My Android productivity setup is 100% open-source
  20. Gnoppix KDE 25.10 Launches with Debian Trixie Base
    Gnoppix KDE 25.10 debuts with major performance boosts, privacy upgrades
  21. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  22. Open Source and EVerest Are Driving the Future of EV Charging
    EVerest is the open source approach that’s quietly driving change in the EV energy infrastructure
  23. Stable kernels: Linux 6.17.1, Linux 6.16.11, Linux 6.12.51, and Linux 6.6.110
    I'm announcing the release of the 6.17.1 kernel
  24. The Church of Emacs
    by J X Self
  25. Arti 1.6.0 released: Circuit padding, side-channel attack mitigations, OpenTelemetry, and more.
    Arti 1.6.0 brings experimental support for circuit padding, mitigations for DropMark side channel attacks
  26. Games: LEGO The Incredibles, Unreal Redux, and More
    10 stories from Liam
  27. The 5 fastest Linux distros I've tried - and they're all free
    RedoxOS and more
  28. Here’s How I Batch Install All My Old Apps When Switching Linux Distros
    I'm not the only one who loathes bloat
  29. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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GNU/Linux news for the past day
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