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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 21, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

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    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.
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  12. 5 pioneering Linux distros that quietly faded into history
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  13. Free and Open Source Software
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  14. ObsidianOS – Arch-Linux based distribution
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  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
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  29. Screw it, I’m installing Linux
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  30. Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
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  31. OsoLinux – 64-bit Linux operating system built on Fedora
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  36. Today in Techrights
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