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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 19, 2026

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  1. 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch
    The AsteroidOS 2.0 release aims to provide a stable
  2. A Unique 22nd Anniversary for Tux Machines, Motif Will be Green [original]
    Community anniversary party

    New

  3. Security Leftovers
    Security picks for today, not many
  4. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Web, Standards, and More
    FOSS and more
  5. Tor Browser 15.0.6 and 16.0a3
    releases for the week
  6. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  7. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux, BSD, and more
  8. Red Hat Leftovers
    latest 4 from Red Hat
  9. 3D Printing, Retro, Olimex, and More
    Open Hardware/Modding leftovers
  10. Applications: Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in GNU/Linux Terminal and Docker
    Application/software leftovers
  11. today's howtos
    for now, for today
  12. Spain: Windows at All-Time Low [original]
    Windows goes down steadily
  13. Games: SCOPECREEP, Astro Protocol, and More
    8 stories from GamingOnLinux
  14. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  15. Oh Là Là! Red Hat Open Sources Digital Sovereignty Readiness Tool
    With a new digital sovereignty assessment and an open framework
  16. KDE endorses the UN's Open Source Principles
    The UN Open Source Principles are comprised of eight guidelines and provide a framework to guide the use
  17. Linux, 'FSFE', and Perl
    today's leftovers
  18. Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Firms That Have Nothing Left Except a Legal Licence [original]
    The SRA is worse than feeble
  19. Android Leftovers
    Why you should check your backup settings after the latest Android update
  20. The 14th Anniversary of Our Foundation
    17 February 2026 marks the 14th anniversary of The Document Foundation’s recognition as a non-profit organisation under German law
  21. These 5 underrated Linux desktop environments need more attention
    Are you tired of the GNOME vs. KDE debate when neither feels quite right
  22. 5 atomic Linux distros I trust for stress-free OS updates - and why
    Atomic Linux distros keep updates from breaking your system
  23. I just set up a new Linux desktop, here are the first 5 things I did
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  24. These are the only Linux distros I recommend for developers
    Linux is popular with developers, and for good reason
  25. Why We Still Won't Link to Linuxiac (Anymore) [original]
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  26. Maintaining what we love all year long
    February is a month to celebrate love for many things
  27. Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again?
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  28. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  29. Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming
    matrixOS brings OSTree atomic upgrades to Gentoo with a simple motto...
  30. KDE 6_26.02 for Slackware-current
    Today I released a fresh batch of KDE Plasma6 packages for 32bit and 64bit Slackware-current to my ‘ktown‘ repository
  31. Mrhbaan Syria! Fedora now available in Syria
    I am happy to share that as of 10 February 2026, Fedora is now available in Syria
  32. Recursive Resolver Upgrade [original]
    If all goes well, it'll be over (the at-risk window) by 3AM tomorrow
  33. 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 2026-02-12 to 2026-02-18
    1137 /n/2026/02/12/Linux_mint_Monthly_News_January_2026.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

"How Many Friends Do You Have?"
"Do bots count?" "Friends in Facebook?" "Does a girlfriend chatbot count as a friend?"
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Responds to Crises Only After It's Way Too Late
The SRA does not do its job. The new chief's job is face-saving PR in the media.
The Techrights Team Makes the Platform Faster
The infrastructure is already fast
 
Microsoft's "AI CEO" (Slop Propagandist) is Projecting, Many Microsoft "Jobs to be Replaced With All-Indian Low-Paid Staff in 12 Months"
Windows is perishing
Very Little Slop
We are not finding much slop anymore
Links 19/02/2026: Illegal Kangaroo Court for Patents Attracts Aggressive Firms, Public Domain Review Grows
Links for the day
Gemini Links 19/02/2026: Taxing the Rich, Raspberry Pi 4 Tinkering
Links for the day
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Links 18/02/2026: DMCA Weakened, Anna’s Archive Still Thriving
Links for the day
Links 18/02/2026: Gig 'Economy' Condemned, Microsoft Insulting/Stressing People With False Slop Predictions
Links for the day
Twitter Falling to 1% in Africa's Largest Nation (Algeria)
About 15 years ago the regime in Egypt got toppled (and others had been too) partly because of social control media such as Twitter
Mozilla Firefox Died in Afghanistan
Mozilla has been a complete disaster
Gemini Links 18/02/2026: Astronomy and Texinfo
Links for the day
Are IBM CEO and IBM CFO Ready for Financial Audit That Topples the Shares by 50% in One Day?
The same "chefs" that cooked up Kyndryl Holdings Inc are still in charge of the IBM kitchen
France Does Not Need Digital Weapons Disguised as Social and as Media
French people lost interest in Social Control 'Media' (or Networks)
"Senior AI Reporter" at Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica Has Written Nothing in Nearly a Week, Did Conde Nast Suspend Him for Fake Articles With Fake Quotes?
Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica is having a serious credibility issue right now
Linux Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com
More of the same then
The Register MS Paid-for 'Articles' (Ads) Seem to be LLM Slop Again
If it's true that The Register MS is resorting to these marketing tactics, will they later delete the evidence (as they did months ago)?
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Microsoft Had Mass Layoffs Every Month Last Year, This Year It's Delaying a Lot to "Prove" Rumours That Crashed Its Stock... 'Wrong'
Building a bigger snowball for later
Red Hat Is Not a Company Anymore, Amid Bluewashing and Mass Layoffs It's Merely IBM "Division" or "Brand" or "Product"
systemd at this point is sort of like IBM/Microsoft thing
IBM suffers "worst weekly drop in six years", Microsoft's MSN calls it "buying opportunity"
Ask Cramer what to do
Still Some Slopfarms in View, Sometimes Targetting "Linux"
That's a total of at least 4 in Google News today, coming from 3 sources
Gemini Links 17/02/2026: 3D-Printed Stainless Steel Smartwatch and Gopher Bay Offline
Links for the day
Links 17/02/2026: Machine Rage and Microsoft Kills XBox Social Clubs
Links for the day
EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules
The EPO's "Cocaine Communication Manager" would hate to see the next "productivity" metrics
The Problem is Not Technology, the Problem is Really Bad Things Sold or Imposed as "Tech" (Like a Religion Built Around Technology)
Don't hate technology, hate the corporations that abuse it to promote coercion, exploitation etc.
Resisting IBM and EPO Corruption
Rise up against EPO dictatorship next week
Where Slop Meets Ghostwriting: It's a False Analogy
It's a false analogy
Links 17/02/2026: Why OpenClaw is Very Sleazy and Ars Technica Exposed as Hub of LLM Slop (Credibility Destroyed Overnight)
Links for the day
Benj Edwards (Ars Technica) Used Fake Articles to Promote Ponzi Scheme for Conde Nast and Its Client (Marketing)
What Ars Technica and Conde Nast do here helps defraud the general public
Slop Technica: Ars Technica Seems Like Repeat Offender, a Part-Time Slopfarm
The culprits are repeat offenders, but the publisher will never admit this in public
Only One in 50 Saudis Would Use Microsoft for Search, Almost Same as Would Use Russia's Yandex
If statCounter is to be trusted
Microsoft's "AI" Concerns Are All Indian (or Low-Paid Workers Who Work Extra Hours Unpaid)
portraying charlatans and frauds like they're some kind of visionaries and luminaries
Microsoft Turned Bing Into Censorship Machine of China, But Bing Is Pegged at a Mere 2% in Asia, Yandex is Bigger
Expect many Bing layoffs some time soon (like in past years)
Just Like The Register MS, Conde Nast's Ars Technica Has Just Publicly Admitted That It Published Fake Articles (Slop) Made by LLMs About Serious Subjects
Conde Nast might shut Ars Technica down to escape the bad publicity/association
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Way Too Slow to Respond to Financial Fraud at Law Firms, in Effect Helping Those Law Firms Defraud Many More People (Fleecing Clients)
Who will hold the SRA accountable for this?
Techrights Became a Hub for News That IBM/Red Hat Doesn't Want You to See (and Pays Mainstream Media to Distract From)
the more viciously the notorious organisation attacks the reporter, the greater the interest in what the reporter has to say
EPO's Central Staff Committee on Fourth Technical Meeting, Two Days Before First of (At Least) 4 Winter Strikes at the Second-Largest European Institution
“future orientations on the salary adjustment procedure”
IBM's Collapse Continues, Half of EU Countries to Have Mass Layoffs, "IBM Clearly Disinvests From Europe" Says IBM European Works Council
Recent publication
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GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 16, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, February 16, 2026
Gemini Links 17/02/2026: Alpenglow Industries' Closure and Gemini Server Issues
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