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Updated This Past Day

  1. Red Hat Gives You Less and Less Over Time [original]
    If the future of GNU/Linux is Software Freedom, then this future isn't Red Hat or IBM
  2. Attacking People Accomplishes Nothing [original]
    When people start attacking those who advocate sharing it's not hard to see who the aggressor really is
  3. Publishing Originals is Hard [original]
    Perhaps I underestimated how much time would be occupied or spent with a growing volume of news
  4. Small/Mobile Systems: AOSP (Android), Raspberry Pi, and RISC-V
    some hardware picks
  5. Check Point Spreading Fear of Linux, Without Explaining the Real Cause
    as usual from Check Point
  6. GNU/Linux Rose to All-Time High in Bolivia This Year [original]
    Will it be over 5% by year's end?

    New

  7. GRUB 2.14 Released with EROFS, Argon2 KDF, and Shim Loader Protocol Support
    GNU GRUB 2.14 has been released today as a major version for this popular multiboot boot loader that can be found on almost all of today’s GNU/Linux distributions and UNIX-like operating systems.
  8. Wireshark 4.6.3 Released with Updated Protocol and Capture File Support
    Wireshark 4.6.3 has been released today as the third point release to the Wireshark 4.6 series of this popular network protocol analyzer, with support for new and updated capture file and protocol support.
  9. Servers and Hi-Dee [original]
    Today, for the second day in a row, the server exceeds a million requests (this time by 8PM)
  10. What to Use Except Ubuntu and Ubuntu-Based Distros [original]
    There are many fine distros based on Debian and Devuan
  11. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux
  12. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks
  13. Mozilla Firefox: Tooling Announcements, Developer Experience, and Firefox Nightly
    Firefox news
  14. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks, releases
  15. Games: Playing Factorio On A Floppy Disk Cluster, Cooking Pot For Doom, and Vanilla OS vs. Bazzite
    GNU/Linux and other
  16. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly from Red Hat's site
  17. Debian: Freexian Collaborators Outline, 30,000 FAIme Jobs, and Debian Libre Live 13.3.0
    3 updates from Debian teams/people
  18. Canonical/Ubuntu: ‘Mass Rebuild’ of All Archive Packages, Spring Boot, 'Debloated' Ubuntu for a Fee
    4 picks for today
  19. Praises of Joplin and More
    Free software coverage right now
  20. Early Coverage About Upcoming FOSDEM 2026
    FOSDEM 2026 about to begin
  21. today's howtos
    many howtos for this evening
  22. Security and Microsoft Zero-Days Exploited
    as usual also
  23. Android Leftovers
    Is your Android Phone’s Volume Button Glitching? You’re not Alone, Google Says
  24. Our members help secure the future of a free society
    Three more days: that's how long we have before our deadline to reach our goal of welcoming 100 new FSF associate members
  25. Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server Remain the World’s Most Popular Databases
    Relational databases continued to dominate enterprise and cloud workloads in 2025
  26. Unraid Plans Internal Boot Support and Multiple Arrays for 2026
    Unraid’s 2026 plans include booting without USB flash drives
  27. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  28. KDE Ni! OS – Plasma Login Manager teaser
    I’ve read somewhere that Fedora will be the first distribution to replace SDDM with Dave’s brand new Plasma Login Manager
  29. KDE Gear 26.04 release schedule
    This is the release schedule the release team agreed on
  30. Games: "Games For Everyone", Hytale, Winnie's Hole, and More
    9 stories from GamingOnLinux
  31. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2026-01-08 to 2026-01-14
    2349 /n/2026/01/11/Orion_Browser_Takes_First_Step_Toward_Linux_Availability.shtml
    2341 /n/2026/01/11/I_replaced_Windows_with_Linux_and_everything_s_going_great.shtml
    2310 /n/2026/01/11/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml
    2307 /n/2026/01/11/5_Windows_like_Linux_distros_you_should_try_out.shtml
    2295 /n/2026/01/11/Manjaro_Is_Arch_Linux_for_Newbies.shtml
    2275 /n/2026/01/11/Linux_made_my_old_PC_fast_again_and_it_hasn_t_slowed_down_since.shtml

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