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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

    New

  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.
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

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Approved industrial actions [...] Notice how none of the media or even so-called 'IP' blogs write about it
 
Slides From the Presentation Discussing EPO Strikes Until End of June or Until End of 2026 (Maybe Next Year Too)
More to come soon (later today)
IBM Cuts Are Everywhere (Global), the Aim is to Lower the Pay
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Mozilla is Not a Privacy Company, Mozilla is Run by GAFAM Executives and Managers Who Came From American Surveillance Companies
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That he gets banned from large social control media platform is hardly surprising given his combative communications
Ubuntu Started as Free With ShipIt, Now It Becomes Payware That Exploits Debian Volunteers (Slaves)
"Ubuntu" the distro now replaces the GNU components inherited from Debian with a bunch of Microsoft GitHub (proprietary) things that reject reciprocal licences
Last Night The Register MS Published a Fake Article. It Mentioned "AI" 27 Times.
Paid-for nonsense! [...] What's left of once-respectable news sites actively harms society
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GNOME Has No "Real" Executive Director, Only an IBM (Perma)'Interim' One With No Openings in Sight
GNOME is having financial problems
Microsoft Experiencing "Leadership Exodus"
Microsoft's current position is no better than Meta's (Facebook)
GNU/Linux Distros Should Reject "Age Verification" and Uphold Software Freedom for Users
It's not about protecting children
Slop Plunge
we can already "smell the blood" of the so-called 'AI industry'
IBM Media Puff Pieces While Layoffs Go On and On
Has the PR industry absorbed the press?
Media Says Microsoft Hiring Freezes, But There Are Already Microsoft Layoffs
They want the public to talk about Microsoft as if it's just not hiring when it is actually firing
Richard Stallman lynchings: Sruthi Chandran splitting Debian
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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Links 26/03/2026: Tor Relay at National Taiwan Normal University, Copyright Hammers Fall
Links for the day
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Links for the day
The World Wide Bots
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Links for the day
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Altering Perceived Reality to Make It Seem Like Microsoft is Thriving, Not Failing
pretend XBox did not die
SLAPP Censorship - Part 24 Out of 200: The Failed Effort by Brett Wilson LLP to Strike Out My Lawsuit and My Wife's Lawsuit Against Garrett (the Master Allowed Our Lawsuits to Proceed)
This is lawfare
Official New Figures Show That Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Sees Rise in Dishonesty Among Law Firms Forcibly Shut Down ('Euthanised' Due to Misconduct)
It's rather if in our little country as many as 16 law firms were found to be so dishonest that they needed to be shut down
Back to Normalcy
In our datacentre at least
IBM is "Increasing Its Temporary and Part-time Headcount" While Net Headcount Falls (Despite Buying Many Companies and Their Workforce)
Headcount is a rather superficial yardstick.
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He'll probably attract a fairly large crowd
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Gemini Links 25/03/2026: Resisting Authoritarianism and Why Slop Needs to Go Away
Links for the day
Fedora Maintainer-ship Using Slop (Mistakes) Would Make Fedora Less Reliable
It won't produce reliable code or stable systems one can rely upon
IBM's "Legacy Employees" (Experienced Workers, IBM Management Dubs Them 'Dinobabies')
This notion of "legacy employees" seems like something overlapping with "expensive" (well paid) staff, even if not entirely equivalent
EPO's "Current Industrial Actions Are Likely to Intensify Further."
There is another strike in 5 days
This Morning The Register MS Published Slop Promotion With the Term "AI" 15 Times In It. The Register MS Was (As Usual) Paid to Do This
This is not a serious publisher
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How much damage can a person do to oneself in pursuit of cover-up of legitimate technical concerns?
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Links 25/03/2026: Airports Further Militarised, "Slopification and Its Discontents", Microsoft 'Open' 'Hey Hi' Shutting Things Down
Links for the day
Gemini Links 25/03/2026: Blogging Fright and Absolutely Useless 'Apps' Made by Slop Machines
Links for the day
Rise in Energy Prices Will Significantly Accelerate the Death of So-called "AI Companies"
It should be noted that fake news about Microsoft OpenAI doubling workforce (mere words, not actions) can serve as a nice distraction from the death of Sora due to divestment
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There's a widespread stigma of lawyers being manipulative and chronically dishonest
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We'll cover this in depth in the future
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