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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 10, 2025,
updated Nov 10, 2025

Walked up on this young elk, not knowing mother was bedded down in the woods nearby, Elk County Pa on Rt 555 in September

Updated This Past Day

  1. MX Linux 25 “Infinity” Is Now Available for Download, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”
    The MX Linux 25 (codename Infinity) distribution has been released today for download based on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system stable series.
  2. Probably Our Most Active and Energetic Week, Ever [original]
    This coming week should be equally busy and active
  3. Next Milestone: Adding Search, Making Archives Easier to Navigate [original]
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  4. 10 Days Ago We Were Down in London [original]
    Our Time in London
  5. $120 GNU/Linux Gaming PC and "Is indie game dev even viable as a business in 2025?"
    gaming leftovers
  6. Lupa Knows of 3,208 Active/Online Gemini Capsules, Tux Machines Currently on Top [original]
    Gemini Protocol keeps being adopted and Geminispace is expanding
  7. Productive Week Behind and Another Productive Week Ahead [original]
    We'll probably have another productive week this coming week
  8. Sick Culture Online [original]
    and offline too, to a degree...

    New

  9. Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.4 Is Out with Linux 6.17, COSMIC and LXQt 2.3 Desktops
    The Slackware-based PorteuX 2.4 distribution, inspired by Slax and Porteus and designed to be super fast, small, portable, modular, and immutable, is out today with various updates and changes.
  10. Recent GNU/Linux Videos (via Invidious)
    Audiocasts/Shows/HowTos
  11. Bazzite Fall Update: Fedora 43, Xbox Allies, Legion Go 2, Nvidia GTX
    Combined with Oversteer - a fantastic control panel for customizing your wheel’s settings and profiles you can pick in Bazaar, we hope this creates an amazing racing experience on Bazzite
  12. OpenIndiana Snapshot 2025.10 Available
    with Librewolf 143
  13. Sculpt OS release 25.10
    Sculpt OS 25.10 improves performance, updates device drivers, and accepts a new human-readable configuration format
  14. Besgnulinux JWM 3-1 version is ready for use
    Based on Debian Trixie (stable)
  15. NebiOS X “Cappadocia” 10.0 — Final/RTM Release Notes
    With NebiOS X, the X11-based NebiDE Legacy era has officially come to an end
  16. Ventoy as "perfect travel-ready productivity toolkit" and SageMath as Mathematica replacement
    a couple of new Valnet articles
  17. Open Hardware/Modding: Homelab projects, OPNsense on Proxmox, and Raspberry Pi projects to try this weekend
    some hardware endeavours
  18. 4 Arch Linux myths that need to stop spreading
    We need to stop these myths before they scare away the Linux newcomers
  19. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    Debian, Oracle, and more
  20. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Real Ownership, and Sharing
    FOSS and more
  21. Google Summer of Labour in NetBSD, Swift Programming Language Now Available for FreeBSD
    BSD news
  22. Security Leftovers
    Security news and morwe
  23. Hardware: BeagleBoard, Raspberry Pi, and More
    hardware hacking and Linux
  24. today's howtos
    a handful of Sunday howtos
  25. I made a portable Linux drive that boots on nearly any computer
    While you could run Windows 11 off a live USB, I wouldn't suggest it for long-term use
  26. WINE or Emulation: Bottles 52.1 Released and Retro PC Gaming the Easy Way with DOSBox Pure Unleashed
    Gaming and more
  27. Android Leftovers
    Warning issued to all Android users who own these popular smartphones
  28. The original Raspberry Pi's end-of-life countdown has just started
    One thing I really love about the Raspberry Pi Foundation is how they've kept supporting and producing their older hardware to this day
  29. Crystal Linux: An Avant-garde Mix of Arch Linux and GNOME
    Crystal Linux is an upcoming Arch-based distro with a focus to make the setup easy while using latest technologies
  30. A Debian-Based Distro and Hardware Upgrades Come to the PINE64 RISC-V Tablet
    PINE64 has quietly upgraded the PineTab-V tablet, with it now shipping with a new Debian-based Linux distribution developed by StarFive and some new hardware
  31. FreeBSD 15.0-BETA5 Now Available
    FreeBSD has new release soon
  32. I fell in love with Ubuntu 25.10—but only after making these 7 tweaks
    Do you find Ubuntu 25.10 too minimal—offering bare-bones functionality
  33. My handheld gaming console is also my portable Linux workstation
    Gaming is often cited as the reason that people wouldn't use Linux
  34. QuickBib – fetch BibTeX for DOIs and arXiv identifiers
    This is free and open source software
  35. LibraZiK – Debian-based Linux distribution for music production
    LibraZiK is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for music production
  36. 5 reasons I’ve never used Arch Linux as a daily driver and never will
    Arch Linux has always fascinated me from a distance. It is lightweight
  37. After 5 years, I’m finally leaving Ubuntu for this Linux distro
    I’ve been seeing a lot of people trying to find the perfect Linux distro to replace Windows 10 with
  38. I'm finally jumping on the CachyOS bandwagon this weekend
    After a long while of messing around with EndeavourOS
  39. KDE Plasma 6.6 and KDE Plasma Automatic Time Zone
    KDE news
  40. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  41. Luberri – Linux Mint-based distro for Basque speakers
    Luberri Linux is a desktop-oriented distribution based on Linux Mint
  42. Building Chromium for Slackware
    Slackware users should have a choice of browsers
  43. Proton Experimental and Hardware Leftovers
    3 misc. links for today
  44. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles

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