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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 03, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) While Microsoft Transmits Malware
    some FUD and more
  2. Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark
    Linux 3.05% +0.41%
  3. Wine 10.18 is Out
    new wine release

    New

  4. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 2nd, 2025
    The 264th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 2nd, 2025.
  5. I deleted Windows from my PC after using Linux for five months
    "Linux keeps treating me well"
  6. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux
  7. Canonical/Ubuntu: Launchpad, NebiOS 10.0, and Microsoft E.E.E.
    3 more Ubuntu stories or Canonical stories
  8. Open Hardware/Modding With Linux, and Phones With Lineage OS
    gadgets and more
  9. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    projects, events, and CMS stuff
  10. GNOME at the Surveillance Giant's Summer of Labour and "Most Annoying Problems With These GNOME Extensions"
    a pair of GNOME stories
  11. Web Browsers: Tor Browser, Helium, Firefox, and More
    WWW software outline
  12. Programming Leftovers
    four more picks
  13. Security Leftovers
    Security patches, incidents, more
  14. LibreOffice, OpenDocument, and International Criminal Court dumps Microsoft Office
    some Productivity Software/LibreOffice picks
  15. Red Hat and IBM Leftovers (Lots of Slop)
    hype and more
  16. Fedora Leftovers
    Releases and derivatives
  17. today's howtos
    Sunday's batch of howtos
  18. Now’s the Best Time to Ditch Windows and Mac for Linux
    I will detail why both Windows and macOS are terrible options and why Linux is the only sensible choice
  19. Android Leftovers
    Nova Launcher's surprise update to could mark an end of era for Android
  20. Arch’s Pacman 7.1 Package Manager Brings Stronger Signature Enforcement
    Pacman 7.1 package manager for Arch Linux enforces signature verification by default
  21. Incus 6.18 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released
    Incus 6.18 adds macOS agent support, VirtIO sound for VMs
  22. Interview with Simon Budig, GIMP developer
    GIMP is Free and Libre Open Source Software
  23. Debian’s APT Package Manager to Integrate Rust Code by May 2026
    Debian developers confirm that Rust will become a hard dependency for APT starting May 2026
  24. Ikey Doherty Missing from AerynOS for Six Months
    AerynOS maintainer confirms that founder Ikey Doherty hasn’t been in contact for six months but assures the project remains stable and on track
  25. 3 Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (Oct. 31 - Nov. 2)
    But in Linux repositories, there are countless tools for all sorts of jobs
  26. Terminal Geeks Rejoice! Proton VPN's Long-Awaited Linux CLI is Finally Here
    Manage Proton VPN from the command line on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora
  27. Adios, Windows: These alternatives make switching from Microsoft easy
    Windows is not the perfect operating system for everyone
  28. Best Linux Distros for Development
    Not only does Linux have all of the development tools you need
  29. AcreetionOS – user-friendly Arch-based Linux distribution
    AcreetionOS is an approachable and user-friendly distribution based on the powerful Arch Linux core
  30. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  31. 4 hard Linux lessons I learned early - and I was better off for it
    My Linux journey started many years ago, and it got off to a really rocky start
  32. Sculpt OS – component-based desktop operating system
    Sculpt is a component-based desktop operating system that puts the user in the position of full control
  33. Ximper Linux – Russian Linux distribution
    Ximper Linux is a Russian, rolling-release distribution based on ALT Linux
  34. This Week in GNOME: #223 Spooky Updates
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from October 24 to October 31
  35. GNU/Linux, BSD, and Security Leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux picks
  36. New Releases: AerynOS 2025.10 and Unraid 7.2 Released
    as covered by Linuxiac
  37. Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers
    some news about Canonical/Ubuntu
  38. EasyOS Sticks With XLibre and Has New Release
    XLibre and EasyOS news
  39. It's FOSS on Software and Free Software News
    some picks from It's FOSS
  40. today's howtos
    many howtos
  41. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  42. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  43. LWN on the Hostile Takeover of RubyGems.org (an Ongoing Coup)
    Ruby battles
  44. This Week In Rust, Rust 1.91.0, and DebugFS on Rust
    Rust news
  45. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Slop Technica: Ars Technica Seems Like Repeat Offender, a Part-Time Slopfarm
The culprits are repeat offenders, but the publisher will never admit this in public
Where Microsoft's Bing Cannot Even Reach 1% "Market Share"
Looking at "I" countries
Links 16/02/2026: Barack Obama Responds to Racist Cheeto and Benjamin Mako Hill Studies Online Communities
Links for the day
 
Links 17/02/2026: Why OpenClaw is Very Sleazy and Ars Technica Exposed as Hub of LLM Slop (Credibility Destroyed Overnight)
Links for the day
Benj Edwards (Ars Technica) Used Fake Articles to Promote Ponzi Scheme for Conde Nast and Its Client (Marketing)
What Ars Technica and Conde Nast do here helps defraud the general public
Only One in 50 Saudis Would Use Microsoft for Search, Almost Same as Would Use Russia's Yandex
If statCounter is to be trusted
Microsoft's "AI" Concerns Are All Indian (or Low-Paid Workers Who Work Extra Hours Unpaid)
portraying charlatans and frauds like they're some kind of visionaries and luminaries
Microsoft Turned Bing Into Censorship Machine of China, But Bing Is Pegged at a Mere 2% in Asia, Yandex is Bigger
Expect many Bing layoffs some time soon (like in past years)
Just Like The Register MS, Conde Nast's Ars Technica Has Just Publicly Admitted That It Published Fake Articles (Slop) Made by LLMs About Serious Subjects
Conde Nast might shut Ars Technica down to escape the bad publicity/association
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Way Too Slow to Respond to Financial Fraud at Law Firms, in Effect Helping Those Law Firms Defraud Many More People (Fleecing Clients)
Who will hold the SRA accountable for this?
Techrights Became a Hub for News That IBM/Red Hat Doesn't Want You to See (and Pays Mainstream Media to Distract From)
the more viciously the notorious organisation attacks the reporter, the greater the interest in what the reporter has to say
EPO's Central Staff Committee on Fourth Technical Meeting, Two Days Before First of (At Least) 4 Winter Strikes at the Second-Largest European Institution
“future orientations on the salary adjustment procedure”
IBM's Collapse Continues, Half of EU Countries to Have Mass Layoffs, "IBM Clearly Disinvests From Europe" Says IBM European Works Council
Recent publication
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 16, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, February 16, 2026
Gemini Links 17/02/2026: Alpenglow Industries' Closure and Gemini Server Issues
Links for the day
The Southern California Linux Expo (“SCALE”) or SCALE 23x Becomes Microsoft
It's not supporting the event, it is buying it.
Microsoft to Focus on Name-Dropping Buzzwords to Distract From Declining Business, IBM RAs (Layoffs) With Staff Stack-Ranked
Calling everything cloud or reclassifying as "AI"
Another EPO Strike One Week From Now, Local Staff Committee Munich to Discuss It This Week
Campinos MIA while Office staff goes on strike at least 4 times
Gemini Links 16/02/2026: Task Completed by Avoidance and "Playing Again With Akkoma"
Links for the day
Happy Birthday (or Anniversary) to SoylentNews
"Happy Birthday SoylentNews"
Techrights' Architecture
Stability is the main goal
IBM Reduces the Thresholds for Acceptance (and the Salaries)
Are chatbots good enough as IBM staff?
When It Comes to Rust, Keep All the Eyes on the Ball (Technical and Legal Perils, Sustainability Questions)
It's not about security or politics
Linux Foundation Continues Falling Off a Cliff in Geminispace
Gemini Protocol will turn 7 this summer
Links 16/02/2026: cURL’s Daniel Stenberg Asserts That Slop is DDoSing Free Software, But Still Uses a Plagiarism and GPL-Violating Blender (Microsoft GitHub)
Links for the day
The Techrights Community Never Needed Money, Only Goodwill
We accomplish things by a track record of suppressed facts
"AboutCode" is a Microsoft Proxy and Microsoft's Acquisition of the OSI Advances Via OSI Moles
presenting direct evidence anybody can verify
Social Control Media is Just a Digital Weapon
Social control media is not social and not media
They Will Call Smart People "Luddites"
Is society "seeing the light"?
Microsoft Amutable Already Reveals That Its Focus Is Not Linux, It'll Promote "Remote Attestation"
This is basically an attack on Software Freedom, even if they toss around the brand "Linux"
More People in Chad Move to GNU/Linux
Last year we began to see GNU/Linux rising there - a trend which continues this year
Dr. Andy Farnell on How Universities and Culture of Education Got Crushed by "Technofascist Nightmare"
Farnell says he "already soft-quit in [his] mind"
Debt of Broadcom Grew by More Than 50%, Broadcom is Deeper in Debt Than Google
Expect many more cuts
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 15, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, February 15, 2026
Links 15/02/2026: Slop, Politics, and Gemini
Links for the day
Small is Beautiful (in Cascading Style Sheets/Inheritance Rules)
If done correctly, pages can take a tenth of a second to fully load
Microsoft Has Fallen to New Lows in Hong Kong This Year
That Windows "market share" falls there is perhaps expected
Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 1.5 Million Dollars This Winter, Almost 50% More Than in All of 2024 Combined
Verbal advocacy goes a long way
Spread the Word About EPO Strikes and Patent Injustices in Europe
Corruption in Europe is a real thing
The Register MS is Promoting Slop, Promotion Connected to Microsoft (Trying to Replace Judges With Microsoft)
marketing spun as "science"
He Did Not Have Enough Souls
A lot of the subjects we cover here no other site dares touch
"Mix Vale" is a Slopfarm
3 "articles" about "ubuntu"
Links 15/02/2026: Roy Medvedev Dead at 100, Rise of "YouTube Politicians"
Links for the day
Links 15/02/2026: How Alexey Navalny Was Executed by Putin, Erdogan Helping Iran
Links for the day
IBM Fedora Keeps Promoting Slop, Red Hat Has Been Turned Into Chaff and Trash to Help IBM's Stock (With "AI" Storytelling)
Red Hat's Fedora is an old brand (20+ years). It no longer stands for what it meant to people in the Fedora Core days (I was a Fedora user back then).
What IBM Said About 2026 Layoffs and What's Happening in Practice
t'll leave IBM at the very bottom, in due course (customers will notice something profound has changed)
Gemini Links 15/02/2026: "Already Midway February" and Loadbars Remembered
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 14, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, February 14, 2026