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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 13, 2025

Birds fly above the water

Updated This Past Day

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    I am not a lawyer (IANAL), but something doesn't seem right
  2. What Freedom Means to Me [original]
    Freedom is a 7-letter word which in English can mean all sorts of things
  3. If You Value Software Freedom, Consider Downloading a Gemini Client (Browser) and Using Geminispace [original]
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  4. Keep an Eye on GNU/Linux in Turkey [original]
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  5. Which Gemini? [original]
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  6. Another Week Comes to an End, But It Has Been an Exceptionally Productive One [original]
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  7. GNU/Linux in Spain as 2025 Ends [original]
    Our guess is that Spain wishes and is capable of becoming self-sufficient for "tech"
  8. Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder
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  9. Feeding 'John' [original]
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  10. Not Everything and Everyone is for Sale [original]
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  11. Social Control Media Props Up Narcissists and Liars (Who Fake Their Alleged Popularity or Supposed Importance) [original]
    It's the same in YouTube
  12. Record Traffic in Gemini Protocol [original]
    Maybe owing to a large volume of pages, our capsule grew a lot and we serve about 30,000 requests per day (this week)
  13. Gamers Are Flocking Away From Microsoft and From Windows [original]
    Give it another year (2026) and let's see is Steam Survey shows GNU/Linux at over 5%

    New

  14. Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
    patches, incidents, and more
  15. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
    FOSS and standards remnants
  16. today's leftovers
    BSD and more
  17. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  18. Hardware: Home Assistant, SBC, Purism, and More
    some gadgets and such
  19. Haiku R1/beta5 as a "Daily Driver" and Creating User-Friendly Installers Across Operating Systems
    Some New regarding "Distributions and Operating Systems"
  20. BSD and Linux Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization
    ZFS and more
  21. Linux Graphics: NVIDIA news and benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi
    3 stories
  22. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  23. Red Hat on Buzzwords and Paid-for 'Articles' About Oneself
    Red Hat leftovers
  24. Articles on the Duel Between GNU/Linux and Windows, Which Microsoft is Ditching (or Whose Users Get Abandoned)
    Wallen and more
  25. today's howtos
    5 howtos
  26. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Pebble Index 01, and More
    Hardware picks
  27. Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
    There’s an odd tendency in modern software development; we’ve collectively decided that naming things after random nouns
  28. Games: Kitten Space Agency, Project Zomboid, and More
    8 stories from GamingOnLinux
  29. Ubuntu’s New Telemetry Tool Will ‘Phone Home’ Monthly
    Changes are afoot for Ubuntu’s opt-in telemetry service
  30. Bazzite isn’t the best Linux gaming option anymore — this is
    I’ve tried pretty much every major Linux distro out there
  31. ShaRPiKeebo pocket Linux computer will start shipping soon (3 years after crowdfunding)
    The keyboard is a QMK-compatible USB keyboard that can be used to interact with a Raspberry Pi
  32. Problems with lax licenses, FSF President Ian Kelling, and more in the winter 2025 Bulletin
    In the winter 2025 Free Software Foundation (FSF) Bulletin
  33. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  34. Purism Liberty Phone Exists vs. Delayed T1 Phone
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  35. Setting up distributed compilations with sccache
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  36. KDE Ni! OS
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  37. Another Magnificent Milestone [original]
    There are already many SSGs out there
  38. GNU/Linux Reaches About 5% in Austria [original]
    Germany is dumping Microsoft
  39. Upcoming "black building test" [original]
    (or Blackout Test)
  40. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  41. When a Bird Dies [original]
    No, it wasn't a cat's fault
  42. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
    mostly the former
  43. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux
  44. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS stories
  45. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, KiCad, and More
    Hardware leftovers
  46. Outreachy in GNOME and Rewriting Cartridges (GNOME)
    GNOME picks
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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