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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 03, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. In 2025 Windows "Market Share" in India Fell Below 10%, Says statCounter [original]
    Maybe in 2026 we shall see it falling to 5% territories, more so if many migrate to GNU/Linux (or Android)
  2. Red Hat is Vanishing [original]
    Time will tell how much damage IBM is doing

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  3. Terminal-Based Web Browsing With Modern Conveniences
    Web Browsers for geeks... "sixel graphics to display a fully graphical web browser within a terminal"
  4. GNU/Linux Leftovers
    distros and more
  5. Games: Steam, Retro, SDL, and More
    GNU/Linux focus
  6. Arch People Looking Back at a Year of Development
    Arch Linux stuff
  7. MocaccinoOS Is a More User-Friendly Version of Gentoo Linux - The New Stack
    Gentoo was that GNU/Linux distribution that every user strived to build [...]
  8. I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
    Now if you don't mind I'm going to delete the root folder and see what happens.
  9. IceWM 4.0 Window Manager Brings Smarter Navigation and HiDPI Enhancements
    IceWM 4.0 is now available, introducing Alt-Tab improvements, live window previews, faster icon rendering, and better HiDPI support
  10. Letting Go and Another Attack on Richard Stallman (RMS) [original]
    Richard Stallman (RMS) is apparently under attack again
  11. Mozilla Firefox's Japanese Volunteers Gave Up, Not Hard to See What Led Them to That (Slop Was the Last Straw) [original]
    In Japan, Korea, and China Firefox is reduced to almost nothing
  12. Big Gains for GNU/Linux in Spain This Year [original]
    Will it stay this way the rest of the year?
  13. GNU/Linux Grew in Italy, Now Measured at 7% (Not Counting Chromebooks) [original]
    Let's hope the rest of the year will look like this
  14. today's leftovers
    not limited to Linux
  15. Programming Leftovers
    Development related things
  16. EasyOS: Linux 6.12.63, SeaMonkey 2.53.23, and Fixes EasySetup
    3 updates from BK
  17. Happy New Year, statCounter Sees GNU/Linux at 6% in the UK [original]
    more sessions from the UK (over the Web) come from GNU/Linux
  18. New Lows for Windows in Japan [original]
    Last month was a strong month for GNU/Linux there
  19. Canada Pivots to GNU/Linux [original]
    last year the "market share" of GNU/Linux nearly doubled in Canada
  20. Sweden's Move to GNU/Linux: Windows Down to 60%, GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Near 20% [original]
    Windows falling, whereas Chromebooks - probably adopted in schools - as well as "proper" GNU/Linux rising last year
  21. The People Who Say We Need a Friendlier Community and a Code of Conduct Keep Glamourising Violence [original]
    A "SJW" flair is often used by some of the worst, most antisocial people
  22. No Reboots Since 3 Years Ago [original]
    I was curious to check how many times I rebooted this laptop since purchasing it in February 2022
  23. HaikuOS on Gerrit, OSNews on End of HP-UX
    Distributions and Operating Systems in the news
  24. It’s Time To Make A Major Change To D-Bus On Linux, Chatbots Promote Rust (Controlled by Microsoft Proprietary Software) in Linux
    Kernel quips
  25. today's howtos
    half a dozen howtos
  26. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More
    Hardware picks
  27. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and More
    mostly FOSS
  28. Security and johnnycanencrypt 0.18.0 released
    3 more security picks
  29. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  30. KDE: 39C3
    I attended the yearly 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3), together with a number of KDE people and my local hackerspace Spline
  31. Microsoft LLMs Are Speaking, Spreading Misinformation by Slop About Ken Thompson and Unix [original]
    Ken Thompson can't be happy about this...
  32. Firefox Virtually Dead in India [original]
    If accurate, then Mozilla certainly isn't coming up with a potent strategy
  33. PCLinuxOS on Personal, Screenshot, "10 Commandments For Linux Users" and User "Hunter0one"
    4 more bits
  34. Why I Fell In Love With Linux, And Why PCLinuxOS Magazine Feels Like Home
    by Hazem Abbas
  35. Photoshop on Linux and Fortnite "on Linux" Satire
    real and fiction
  36. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  37. Systemd-Free Devuan GNU+Linux 6.1 Released with Unofficial Raspberry Pi Images
    The Devuan developers announced today the release of Devuan GNU+Linux 6.1 as a point release to the latest Devuan GNU+Linux 6 “Excalibur” for this Debian GNU/Linux derivative for software freedom lovers without systemd and related components.
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