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    Android also rose, leaving Microsoft in a tough place
  2. This Week in Plasma: new year, new accessibility features!
    Plasma developers are starting to trickle back from their vacations
  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
    The 273rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 4th, 2026.
  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
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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
    This post will show the NixOS way of adding a custom package and explain the benefits of this approach in the context of system immutability
  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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