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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 27, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

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    The pace is going up a bit; no more trotting
  2. Americas Left the Office This Week, Vista 11 Usage Has Taken a Plunge [original]
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  3. Norway: GNU/Linux and Android at 28%, Windows 26% [original]
    As of today
  4. What Now for the CD Collections... [original]
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  5. Free Software Foundation Inc Starts the Year 2026 With Expenses All Covered [original]
    Zoe Kooyman (Executive Director) did well for herself. Huge salary increase.
  6. Newer is Not Better, the Case of Bush/Argos/Sainsburys [original]
    The notion that "newer is better" is easily disgraced by such experiences
  7. Living Within One's Means [original]
    In a few hours Rianne and I will unwrap boxes

    New

  8. PorteuX 2.5 Is Out with Flatpak Support, Cinnamon 6.6, COSMIC 1.0, and Linux 6.18
    The Slackware-based PorteuX 2.5 distribution, inspired by Slax and Porteus and designed to be super fast, small, portable, modular, and immutable, is out today with various updates and changes.
  9. Inkscape 1.4.3 Open-Source SVG Editor Improves PDF Import and Text on Path
    Inkscape 1.4.3 open-source SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor is now available for download with new features and enhancements.
  10. Milestone Reached on Boxing Day: 4,800 Known Gemini Capsules (Known to Lupa) [original]
    Notice where tuxmachines is at, on top of that milestone
  11. Moving Between Operating Systems and Desktop Environments
    3 stories
  12. GNU Bash, Grep, and "10 terminal commands that helped me finally understand GNU/Linux"
    CLI stuff
  13. Applications and Projects: Jellyfin, VLC, Homey, and RISC-V
    4 Valnet articles
  14. Moving From Windows to GNU/Linux on the Desktop/Laptop
    2 new stories
  15. Turning Old PCs Into GNU/Linux Servers
    Old laptops make better home servers than most people realize
  16. Servers, Linux, and Distributions
    Operating Systems' leftovers
  17. WinBoat, WinApps, and Windows Mislabeled as "Linux"
    3 new articles
  18. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS leftovers
  19. Programming Leftovers
    Ruby 4.0 and more
  20. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More
    Hardware leftovers
  21. today's howtos
    a handful of howtos
  22. Wayback 0.3 Preview Arrives With Fedora and Alpine Availability
    Wayback 0.3, a X11 compatibility layer that allows running X11 desktop environments using Wayland
  23. BSD Leftovers
    3 more picks about BSD
  24. GStreamer 1.26.10 Released with Support for FLAC Audio in DASH Manifests
    The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.10 as the tenth maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular and powerful open-source, free, and cross-platform multimedia framework.
  25. Unboxing Day [original]
    The news cycle's old pace won't resume any sooner than Monday or maybe the Monday after that
  26. GStreamer 1.26.10 Brings Fixes for FLAC Opus and Matroska Handling
    The GStreamer team has released the tenth bug-fix update, 1.26.10
  27. Arch Linux Website Hit by DDoS and Temporarily Limited to IPv6
    Arch Linux has confirmed an active DDoS attack during Christmas
  28. CachyOS Plans New Server Edition With Hardened Defaults
    Arch-based CachyOS is working on a new Server Edition aimed at NAS, workstations
  29. Skip these 3 popular distros (and use these instead)
    As part of my job, I read about Linux distributions, test them out, and discuss them
  30. 9 New Linux Distros That Could Grow Big in 2026
    We do not need a mythical “year of the Linux desktop” for Linux to keep growing
  31. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  32. LeafKVM is a Rockchip-based self-contained KVM with touchscreen and browser access
    On the software side, LeafKVM runs a Buildroot-based Linux system intended to remain modifiable
  33. CamThink NeoEyes NE301 is an open-source STM32N6-based edge AI camera
    the runtime environment remains bare-metal or RTOS-based rather than Linux
  34. The "revolt against Windows 11"
    Eric S. Raymond, one of the luminaries of the open-source movement
  35. From Great to Greater: Our 5 Favorite ‘Distro of the Week’ Picks
    Forget arguing about Ubuntu vs. Debian
  36. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  37. Accessing This Site With Browsers That Only Use Megabytes or RAM (Just 10MB or Thereabouts) [original]
    Browser bloat isn't a "third-world" issue
  38. Unboxing, Detoxing, Adopting Lighter Software [original]
    This site used to use up a lot of RAM when it ran Drupal
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