Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 21, 2025

Manhattan Bridge, New York, USA

Updated This Past Day

  1. Today's Judgement [original]
    There are many good things that I've seen from the judgement
  2. 2026 Around the Corner, It'll be a Great Year for Free Software on Desktops/Laptops [original]
    Six weeks from now it is 2026 already

    New

  3. today's leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux
  4. Distributions and Operating Systems: GNU/Linux, BSD and More
    some OS leftovers
  5. Sharing and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  6. Security Leftovers and Microsoft TCO
    Security picks for today
  7. Programming Leftovers
    Development with Rust, R, and more
  8. Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly from Red Hat's own site
  9. today's howtos
    a handful of howtos
  10. PHP 8.5 Released with Pipe Operator, URI Extension, and Clone With Functionality
    PHP 8.5 has been released today as the latest major update of this widely-used, general-purpose, and open-source scripting language that is especially suited to web development.
  11. Android Leftovers
    I turned Obsidian into the ultimate Android productivity app — here's how
  12. 5 pioneering Linux distros that quietly faded into history
    While some Linux distros have stood the test of time
  13. Free and Open Source Software
    I’m going to experiment with a variety of different Linux distributions
  14. ObsidianOS – Arch-Linux based distribution
    ObsidianOS is a UEFI‑only, systemd‑based operating system for x86_64 systems
  15. GDM Settings adding Toggles for Light Mode & Fingerprint Authentication
    GDM Settings, the graphical configuration tool for GNOME Login Screen, updated recently with new toggle options
  16. Deploy Your Thanksgiving Dinner with Cranberry sOSS
    This $13.37 jar of cranberry sauce can help open source
  17. Wireshark 4.6.1 Released with Updated Protocol Support and Various Bug Fixes
    Wireshark, the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer, has been updated today to version 4.6.1, a minor point release to the latest and greatest Wireshark 4.6 series, addressing various bugs and updating protocol support.
  18. Protecting Privacy With Tails, Release of Tor Browser 15.0.2
    Tor news for today
  19. Latest in LWN: filesystems, magic kernel functions for BPF, unstable pages and direct I/O, and bootc for workstation use
    Kernel news
  20. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly the latter, from Red Hat's site
  21. Games: Primal Survival, Megabonk, Steam Machine, and More
    New from GamingOnLinux
  22. Android Leftovers
    Survey shows a ton of readers didn't know about this Android Auto feature
  23. Proxmox VE 9.1 Released With OCI-Based LXC Deployment
    Proxmox VE 9.1 debuts OCI-based LXC containers, Linux kernel 6.17
  24. Immich 2.3 Adds Multilingual OCR Models
    Immich 2.3, a self-hosted photo and video management platform
  25. 6 things I wish I knew before moving from Windows to Linux
    A lot of people come to Linux because they think it's magic
  26. Here's how I rank the most popular lightweight Linux desktops
    If you want to use Linux to breathe life back into an old PC
  27. Ubuntu Budgie vs. Pop!_OS: I've used both Linux distros - here's how to choose
    If aesthetics and efficiency top your list of needs, there are several Linux distributions that are right up your alley
  28. Fedora vs. Ubuntu: How to choose your next Linux distro (and which one I use)
    If you're looking for a new operating system or want to do a bit of distro hopping
  29. Screw it, I’m installing Linux
    I am going to put Linux on my gaming PC
  30. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  31. OsoLinux – 64-bit Linux operating system built on Fedora
    OsoLinux is a 64-bit live Chinese-focused Linux operating system built on Fedora that can run on USB sticks
  32. gabeeOSLinux – Void Linux respin
    gabeeOSLinux is a Void Linux respin that combines the power and lightness of Void with three window managers
  33. From Commodity Trap to Sustainable Innovation: Convincing Automotive Executives to Embrace Open Source
    Doing Open Source the right way: freeing up people and capital to focus on what truly matters
  34. Samsung A54, One UI 8.0 & Android 16 update
    One UI 8.0, Android 16. What. So soon
  35. 83% of organizations see value in adopting open source, but report major gaps in security and governance
    A new Linux Foundation report reveals how organizations worldwide are adopting, using, and perceiving open source software
  36. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2025-11-14 to 2025-11-20
    1229 /n/2025/11/15/Mesa_25_3_Open_Source_Graphics_Stack_Improves_Support_for_Many_.shtml
    1096 /n/2025/11/20/Today_s_Judgement.shtml
    1052 /n/2025/11/15/PostgreSQL_18_1_17_7_16_11_15_15_14_20_and_13_23_Released.shtml
    1050 /index.shtml
    1037 /n/2025/11/15/Debian_13_2_Trixie_Released_with_123_Bug_Fixes_and_55_Security_.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVII - The Relevance of Silent Layoffs at Microsoft
"Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act: strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs)"
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVI - The Faustian Pact That Irritates Hired Guns is Still a Distraction From the Serious Harm Done by Their Clients to GNU/Linux Users (Notably Plagiarism and Back Doors)
We'd rather talk about the harms caused
Microsoft 'Buyouts' Sound Just Like 60,000 Layoffs of 'Expensive' or More Experienced Staff ('Soft' Layoffs or Even Worse, Negligible Severance)
This is not a "gift" to staff, it's just a pink slip with a hundred dollar bill attached to it
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XV - Annualised Consequences for Opposing Microsoft Back Doors in Linux Since 2012
a roundup of what we got from GGG
 
We've Already Begun Work on the 20th Year of Techrights
We'll do a yearlong endeavour of improvement instead of a one-day hurrah
Volunteers or Unpaid Developers Won't Bother Interacting With Mindless LLMs That Pass Labour From Lazy Companies to Human Beings
The people who run Debian are killing the will to do Free software
Slop is Killing the Open Web
The Web is a jungle and "open sites" (without restrictions or walls) are exposed to the 'feeding frenzy' of reckless plagiarists who call their "theft" something like "super intelligence" or "training"
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 26, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, October 26, 2026
As Microsoft Tells Close to 30% of Its Staff to Leave IBM Takes Notes
IBM does the same with PIPs
It's Perfectly Possible That Microsoft Has Just Told Most of Its American Workers to Leave
A better news headline might focus on the US and give a figure like 50%, not "quarter"
Richard Stallman Was Right About "Hey Hi"
Now the chicken come home to roost
Gemini Links 27/10/2026: "To Change or Not To Change?" and "Initial Planner Plans"
Links for the day
Links 26/10/2026: Microsoft Chaffbot "Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users", Man Executed for Childhood Offenses
Links for the day
Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Writing Down Dreams and "Sabbath as Resistance"
Links for the day
The Register MS Gets Rid of Disclosures About Paid-for Spam Regarding "AI", It Also Composes Fake News for the Sponsors
Selling away its credibility is known as "Sellout"
This is How Microsoft Ends (Over a Quarter of the Company Now on the Chopping Block)
Microsoft has quit pretending
Search Without Encryption for Legacy Systems (Permacomputing) and Full Backward Compatibility
At your own risk
Shift to the Lula (Left)
Lula is a friend of Free software and ODF
More Stories and Material Than We Can Publish
We're gaining or have amassed material faster than we manage to publish
European Patent Office Takes From the Poor to Give More to the Rich
The "pension schemes are overfunded at 120.5%"
Links 26/10/2026: China’s Communist Party Plenum and Aleksandar Vucic Concedes Defeat
Links for the day
In Reporting, Timing is Everything
If you keep calling people "paedophiles" when you yourself are connected to paedophiles (or are a paedophile), you're attracting a lot of unwanted attention to yourself
Links 25/10/2026: Microsoft Layoffs and Cuts, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wins Election
Links for the day
Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Brazilian Politics and Leaving Bear Blog
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 25, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, October 25, 2026
Another Form of Microsoft Silent Layoffs: Workers That 'Expire'
When the media becomes a lapdog, not a watchdog, false narratives gain traction
Carte Blanche for GPL Violations 4 Days Ago (by Torvalds)
Slop disclosure is no longer required for the Linux Kernel
There Are No Women That Are Kernel Developers Sent by Corporations Which Claim to Champion Diversity
As noted the other day
Sites with "Linux" in Their Name Cannot Slop and Retain Readers
if they write about "linux "(or "Linux") using LLMs they will be caught, then shunned
At Microsoft, the Silent Layoffs Impact Executives Also
Microsoft hid the real story of Helen Chiang
Linus Torvalds Defected to Enshittification
Linus Torvalds is betraying a generation of high(er) standards
Links 25/10/2026: TMZ Revisits Epstein's Connections to Bill Epsteingate, "Italy Hit by New Cost of Living Protests"
Links for the day
Microsoft’s Spin About Mass Layoffs and Shutdowns: They "Never Should Have Existed"
Microsoft-sponsored spin
It's Slop
Maybe we'll exclude It's Slop from our curation. It's a Linux Foundation outpost of sorts, an apologist of sloppy code and plagiarism.
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XIV - Six Years of Learning Irish, But the Real Issue Was Microsoft-controlled 'Secure' (Restricted) Boot
Had I not opposed back doors in Linux, not of this would come about
Gemini Links 25/10/2026: Moana (2026) and OpenBSD Updates
Links for the day
The Netherlands Fast to Adopt GNU/Linux, "Market Share" Rises to Two-Digit Value (on Desktops/Laptops)
It peaked at around 20% yesterday
DST Still Needs to Get Abolished
Get rid of DST, efficiency will improve and systems will become more reliable
PHP2Shell as Paid-for FUD Campaign (Intended to Help Sell Slop and Fake "Market Value" of Slop Pushers)
PHP2Shell considered overhyped [...] Remember all the paid-for hype regarding Mythos? What happened to all that?
Microsoft Sort of Tried to Sell XBox Piecewise (Offloading Microsoft)
XBox is in a morbid state
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 24, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, October 24, 2026