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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 15, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Web Browsers/Web Servers: Bots' Havoc, Vivaldi, and Mozilla's Latest Suicide Note (Slop)

   WWW news

2. Ubuntu LTS Releases Now Get 15 Years of Support

   Canonical is extending its support for Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) releases to 15 years, up from the current lifecycle window of 12

3. Games: SteamOS, ARC Raiders, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and More

   latest from GamingOnLinux

4. Dealing With Narcissists [original]

   From what I'm able to gather, what happens here is very typical

5. Nesting and Roosting, Modifying Recipes [original]

   Maybe, in due course perhaps, we can also release some of our own cooking recipes or "forks"

6. Why They Keep Attacking or Trying to Discredit Dr. Stallman [original]

   His foresight is why he gets attacked so much

7. Fedora Project Elections, Red Hat is Buying Fake Journalism About "AI"

   some IBM stuff

   New

8. Valve’s new Steam Machine is a gut punch to Microsoft, Xbox, and Windows

   some Steam news

9. AAC audio: Kdenlive beats DaVinci Resolve (Studio) on Linux...

   As a result of this weird situation, H.264 and H.265 video files with embedded AAC audio (the most common way audio is embedded there) are initially silent when played within DaVinci Resolve (Studio) on Linux

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

    FOSS and more

11. KDE Frameworks 6.20 Adds a Fancier Push/Pop Animation to System Settings Pages

    The monthly KDE Frameworks updates continue with KDE Frameworks 6.20, released today by the KDE Project as a companion to the KDE Plasma 6.5.2 desktop environment and KDE Gear 25.08.3 software suite.

12. Security Leftovers

    Security related picks

13. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

    mostly GNU/Linux

14. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Framework, and More

    Hardware leftovers

15. Red Hat's Festival of Buzzwords, Pretending to be European Company Too

    Red Hat PR fluff

16. today's howtos

    7 howtos for today

17. Thoughts on Funding Free Software Development

    This post has been a distillation of my thinking about free software and how it can be sustainably funded

18. Programming Leftovers

    Development picks

19. Privilege Escalation from lightdm Service User to root in KAuth Helper Service (CVE-2025-62876)

    a new flaw reported

20. Data Breaches and Windows TCO

    security leftovers

21. GNU/Linux Leftovers

    mostly GNU/Linux and howtos

22. Mesa 25.2.7 Release

    Mesa 25.2.7 implements the OpenGL 4.6 API, but the version reported by glGetString(GL_VERSION) or glGetIntegerv(GL_MAJOR_VERSION) / glGetIntegerv(GL_MINOR_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used

23. Android Leftovers

    Android games are making the jump to Steam

24. Recent Videos About GNU/Linux

    via Invidious

25. 5 Linux distributions that look as gorgeous as macOS

    Linux lagged in the aesthetics department, focusing more on functionality than on form

26. I don't miss any Windows features, but here's the one thing I want to see on Linux

    Many are making the switch to Linux

27. GNUnet 0.26.0 released

    We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.26.0

28. Easy Effects 8.0.0 Switched from GTK4 to Qt & KDE Framework

    Easy Effects, the free open-source audio equalizer and effects application for Pipewire

29. Best Free and Open Source Software

    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here

30. Planeta Tecno OS – Debian-based distro

    Planeta Tecno OS is a Uruguayan Linux distribution based on Debian’s “Stable” branch, featuring the MATE desktop

31. What’s next for Aurorae?

    Aurorae is a decoration engine that allows you easily using third party decoration themes from KDE Store

32. Stable kernels: Linux 6.17.8, and Linux 6.12.58

    I'm announcing the release of the 6.17.8 kernel

33. Proton 10 Released with Support for Far Horizon, The Riftbreaker, and Other Games

    Today, Valve released Proton 10 as the latest stable release of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components for playing Windows games on Linux systems.

34. GNU/Linux Leftovers

    mostly GNU/Linux focus

35. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

    FOSS leftovers

36. Security Holes, Breaches, and Windows TCO

    Security leftovers

37. Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Zephyr, Framework, and More

    Hardware and gadgets

38. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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