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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 05, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

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    Android also rose, leaving Microsoft in a tough place
  2. This Week in Plasma: new year, new accessibility features!
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  3. Tux Machines Has Changed, This Year It'll Turn 22 [original]
    Tux Machines is changing and it'll produce more original material, aside from curated news links

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  4. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 4th, 2026
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  5. Australia in 2026: New High for GNU/Linux [original]
    Let's see if that's sustainable this year
  6. Manjaro 26.0 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, Xfce 4.20, KDE Plasma 6.5, and GNOME 49
    Arch Linux-based Manjaro Linux 26.0 distribution has been officially released today as a major update that introduces some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies and open-source software.
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    with GNU/Linux focus
  8. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Scientific Publishing, and Standards
    FOSS and more
  9. Programming, Databases, Education With Free Software
    Development picks
  10. Web Browsers/Web Servers Leftovers
    Web things and Internet
  11. Open Hardware/Modding: FPGA Dev Kit, HackerBox, and More
    hardware picks
  12. Kernel Space: Xen and Intel Defective Chips Getting Slower
    Linux and more
  13. today's howtos
    a mixture of howtos
  14. FreeBSD: Upgrade and Home NAS
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  15. Pebble Round 2 Revives the Iconic Smartwatch With Open-Source PebbleOS
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  16. Recently I decided to try using Xfce as my main desktop environment on my primary tower PC
    Recently I decided to try using Xfce as my main desktop environment on my primary tower PC
  17. Archboot Adds COSMIC Desktop as a New Install and Rescue Option
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  18. KDE Ni! OS – installing packages from source – Plasma Pass
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  19. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  20. KDE onboarding is good now
    I made substantial changes in the KDE Developer Platform documentation over the years
  21. MYIR SoM Leverages Zynq UltraScale+ with Arm and FPGA Integration
    Software support includes a ready-to-run Linux 6.6.40 platform based on PetaLinux 2024.2
  22. Iran's GNU/Linux Usage Measured at All-Time High in 2026 [original]
    Protests in the country aside, will it seek technological independence?
  23. GNU/Linux Rising in Egypt [original]
    What is the "tech trend" in Egypt? Well, not Microsoft it seems...
  24. Today in Techrights
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  25. Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Low in Cuba This Year [original]
    We can suppose that for political reasons more of the same will be seen ahead
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    2198 /n/2026/01/02/Microsoft_LLMs_Are_Speaking_Spreading_Misinformation_by_Slop_Ab.shtml

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