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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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  2. What Freedom Means to Me [original]
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  3. If You Value Software Freedom, Consider Downloading a Gemini Client (Browser) and Using Geminispace [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]
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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]
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  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)
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  32. Problems with lax licenses, FSF President Ian Kelling, and more in the winter 2025 Bulletin
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  33. Free and Open Source Software
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  34. Purism Liberty Phone Exists vs. Delayed T1 Phone
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  36. KDE Ni! OS
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  37. Another Magnificent Milestone [original]
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  38. GNU/Linux Reaches About 5% in Austria [original]
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  39. Upcoming "black building test" [original]
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  41. When a Bird Dies [original]
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  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)
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