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Updated This Past Day

  1. Q4OS 6 Andromeda: More Than Just Debian on a Diet for Old Machines
    From hand‑me‑down laptops to brand‑new desktops
  2. ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 released: Enhanced PDF Editor, more signature options, Multipage View, Solver in sheets, and more
    The latest update for ONLYOFFICE Docs is here, bringing more than 30 new features

    New

  3. Busy News Day, Almost Spring [original]
    spring is off to a rough start
  4. Richard Stallman is the Last Crusader of the Software Freedom Movement
    You might have heard Linux Torvalds’ name a dozen times, but you might not have heard of Richard Stallman
  5. today's leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux news
  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: LibreOffice and Switching to European tech companies
    2 more picks
  7. GNU Project MediaGoblin Has New Release
    now out
  8. KDE SC/Qt: Kubuntu Focus, Typhoon, and Qt News
    KDE/Qt leftovers
  9. FreeBSD Foundation Q4 2025 Status Update and FreeBSD pkg autoremove
    Some BSD picks
  10. Red Hat Promotion of Telemetry and Slop
    latest 3 from redhat.com
  11. Ubuntu: Showtime, Ptyxis, and Upgrades from Zorin OS 17 to 18
    Canonical/Ubuntu leftovers
  12. Web Browsers and DNSSEC Picks
    Web and Net-related leftovers
  13. PostgreSQL: credcheck v4.6 and Other PostgreSQL News
    Databases news
  14. Security Leftovers
    Security patches, breaches etc.
  15. Content Management Systems (CMS): WordPress, Wikis, and Pure
    CMS picks
  16. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  17. Retro/Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Arduino, and More
    Hardware leftovers
  18. Applications: syslog-ng, VLC and More
    Some software news
  19. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts, mostly idroot
  20. BSD/Linux Kernel Space: Linux 7.0, 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18; ZFS and More
    mostly Linux
  21. Linux Foundation for Monopolies, Paid-for Spam (Disguised as 'Studies'), and Software Patents
    LF spammy pieces
  22. Android Leftovers
    I’ve tested dozens of Android launchers, and this is the only one I use on my phone
  23. The last barrier in Linux gaming is not code, it is cowardice
    Every year, someone on the internet declares that this is finally the year of the Linux desktop
  24. 3 Arch-based Linux distros that actually solve real problems (and aren't just reskins)
    Are you tired of Arch-based distros that are just reskins with slightly different system defaults
  25. Forget distro hopping: How to use any Linux distribution on one PC
    You don't need to dual-boot or switch between distros
  26. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  27. Krita 5.2.16 bugfix release!
    Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.16
  28. Linux, product and the art of essence
    Almost every day, I read Linux news (on a few select sites)
  29. ClusterCut Lets You Share a Clipboard Across Your Linux Desktop Fleet
    Tired of emailing yourself snippets and files between Linux systems
  30. Tails 7.5 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Updated Tor Client and Tor Browser
    Tails 7.5 has been released today as the fifth update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship.
  31. Fwupd 2.0.20 Firmware Updater Adds Support for HP Engage One G2 Advanced Hub
    Fwupd developer Richard Hughes released fwupd 2.0.20 today as the twentieth maintenance update to the fwupd 2.0 series of this open-source Linux firmware update utility.
  32. LibreOffice 26.2.1 Open-Source Office Suite Released with 65 Bug Fixes
    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 26.2.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with various bug fixes.
  33. Games: Valve, Brotato, and More
    half a dozen news picks
  34. LWN Articles About Kernel Space
    Linux, GCC, and more
  35. Slop Versus Free Software and Free Software Combatting Slop ("AI" Scammers, Plagiarism, Plunder)
    4 new articles from LWN
  36. Android Leftovers
    Android Auto Update Breaks Head-Up Display Navigation — Drivers Are Furious
  37. App verification isn't Google's only evil
    Google has proposed a plan to require Android developers to submit to onerous restrictions just to be allowed to publish their applications
  38. The once beloved PCLinuxOS is back - and it's still a great Windows escape
    There's another Linux distribution that's ready to welcome Windows users with open arms
  39. This KDE add-on brought Home Assistant controls to my Linux desktop
    Home Assistant is fantastic on its own, but with one open-source project and about 10 minutes
  40. 4 reasons I can no longer use Linux as my daily driver
    After a decade of using Linux, it has now been two years since the last time I loaded up a distro to get work done
  41. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  42. Finally! 3,300 Active Gemini Capsules Known to Lupa, a Geminispace Crawler and Analyser [original]
    Lupa indicates a new milestone was reaching this morning
  43. GNOME 50 is a brilliant release - but I had to look twice to see why
    This latest (still beta) version of the Linux desktop is faster
  44. The Currency of Software Freedom [original]
    People who do all this for financial gain are easy to corrupt
  45. Want your Linux looking more like Windows? KDE Plasma makes it easy - here's how
    If you'd like to use Linux
  46. Stricter is Less Popular [original]
    Reprinted with permission from Alex Oliva
  47. Scheduled Network Maintenance This Month and Next Month [original]
    Hopefully no downtimes or timeouts will be experienced by anybody
  48. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  49. Hardware Black Boxes [original]
    Reprinted with permission from Alex Oliva
  50. GStreamer 1.28.1 Released with Support for the AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder
    GStreamer 1.28.1 has been released today as the first maintenance update to the latest and greatest GStreamer 1.28 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform multimedia framework.
  51. Wireshark 4.6.4 Updates Protocol and Capture File Support, Fixes More Bugs
    Wireshark 4.6.4 has been released today as a minor update in the Wireshark 4.6 series of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform network protocol analyzer.
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Explains Late March Meetings Coinciding With Commencement of the Non-Stop Strikes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
The fifth meeting report and sixth meeting report show some of the concerns leading up to the mass strikes
thenextweb.com (TNW) Appears to Have Become a Slopfarm, Fake Articles About France and GNU/Linux Flood the Web
If you're not against slop, you're part of the problem
Almost 3 Days Later, Still Zero Press Coverage (Except One Publisher) About Mass Layoffs at Red Hat, Almost 500 People Laid Off (Over 400 for Sure)
"A document posted by FOSS advocacy site Techrights appears to be that memo and explains that Red Hat has devised a location strategy under which it has identified key sites for prioritized hiring and strategic workforce investment."
The Register MS, About 6 Million Pounds in Debt, Helps Promote Microsoft's Gartner Group and Prop Up the Ponzi Scheme of Slop Plagiarism, Fake Article Mentions "AI" About 20 Times
What was now known as The Register UK not only works against the interests of the UK; it works for charlatans and frauds
 
SLAPP Censorship - Part 43 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Particulars of Claims Almost Identical and 5RB Needs to Investigate Its Barristers (Its Reputation is at Stake)
Scrolling up and down in social control media
Gemini Links 11/04/2026: Floppy Disks on Linux and Junix
Links for the day
statCounter: Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Low This Month in France
French government agencies are ordered to move to GNU/Linux
Disgruntled IBMers Explain Why IBM is Circling Down a Death Spiral, Gerstner (Recently Deceased) Destroyed IBM in April 1993, and IBM Now Weaponises PIPs to Attack Its Own
We've just checked if anyone has covered mass layoffs at IBM Red Hat. Nope.
Gemini Links 11/04/2026: Critique of Delta Chat and Why Trying to Emulate Centralised, Addictive "Facebook" is Misguided
Links for the day
Links 11/04/2026: Scam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI and EFF Quitting Twitter
Links for the day
Links 11/04/2026: Twitter Presence Considered Harmful to News Sites, "The Future of Everything is Lies"
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 10, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, April 10, 2026
Three Years Ago We Disconnected From the United States, Now France Does the Same
Maybe in the coming months France will recruit loads of UNIX/Linux specialists
While Thousands of EPO Workers Are on Strike the President of the EPO, Who Bribes His Voters, Gives Himself Millions of Euros and 5,000 Euros Per Month in Housing Allowance
Campinos is immune, inherently corrupt, and habitual briber of his 'voters'
IBM and Red Hat Whistleblowers Versus a Dying Fourth Estate (Journalism Seems to Have Died as Silently as IBM RAs Go)
What a crazy world we live in!
Slopfarms We Forget About Because They Silently Die
The hard reality (for slobs and sloppers) is, slopfarms have no future
Gemini Links 10/04/2026: Flexiveganism, What Happened to Twitter, and Algorithm Fetishes
Links for the day
Links 10/04/2026: Indonesia's Social Control Media Bans Extend to Google YouTube, "I.M.F. Says Iran War Will Drag Global Growth Lower"
Links for the day
Media Blackout Regarding Mass Layoffs at Red Hat
To be very clear, what happened is certainly real
IBM 'Value' Fell 20%, The Executives Took Bonuses and Bonus Hikes
IBM is paying more and more money to the executives
SLAPP Censorship - Part 42 Out of 200: Getting the Very Basic Technical Concepts Very Wrong, or Where Miscomprehension Begets "Plausible Deniability"
It's difficult to argue with people over things that they do not even understand
This Coming Weekend and Next Week We'll Cover EPO Scandals a Lot, There Are Still Perpetual Strikes That the Media Intentionally Avoids Covering
Expect our focus on EPO corruption to grow again
More Information on IBM Red Hat Layoffs in April 2026, Hundreds of Skilled GNU/Linux Engineers Laid Off (300+ Simultaneously)
How long can the corporate media ignore IBM layoffs for?
Raw: Extensive Evidence of Red Hat's Mass Layoffs in China (IBM Meets Geopolitics)
This has nothing to do with workers' performance
We'll Never Ever Do Social Control Media, Nate Silver's Article Helps Explain Why
If you want to research and publish, stay away from it
SLAPP Censorship - Part 41 Out of 200: More Misuse of UK-GDPR (for US Citizens), More Copy-Pasting for Garrett and Graveley, Alleging That Publishing Unflattering Information is a 'Privacy' Issue
No wonder his own colleagues thought poorly of him (the junior barrister)
Links 10/04/2026: Pseudoscience and "Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles" and More Attacks on American Journalism
Links for the day
Dr. Andy Farnell Blasts Misuse of the Term "AI" to Describe Plagiarism, Plunder, and Misinformation
Dr. Stallman wrote about it back in the early 1980s
A Sign of Progress?
We'll solve war hunger and colonise Mars soon, according to men who never graduated from College
The Slop Delusion: This Morning We Broke Story on Red Hat Layoffs in Two Posts, Google is Already Plagiarising Them With Slop and Getting the Basic Facts Wrong
Google does not have "AI"; it has slop, which means it scrapes other people's work, then imitates it poorly
"IBM is Constantly Laying Off People" (Not Just in Red Hat)
IBM as a company is collapsing
Many Layoffs at IBM Red Hat, as the Rumours Said
Red Hat mass layoffs [...] "this was a difficult decision to make."
Microsoft, Drowning in Net Debt, Will Make Many More Cuts
The company is a net negative to society
April 15: Richard Stallman to Speak at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas
Next Wednesday in the afternoon Dr. Stallman will speak in a US college for the second time this year and for the second time in nearly 8 years
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 09, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, April 09, 2026
Gemini Links 10/04/2026: Cycling, Slop, and Software to Keep Photos Organised
Links for the day
Henry Abbott (TrueHoop) Says Microsoft Taken Public by Alvin Bernard "Buzzy" Krongard (in New Interview About Jeffrey Epstein)
He has claimed that the man who took Microsoft public was a banker and also connected to the CIA (former Executive Director)
Quick Roundup of "Linux" Slop
Today we saw a slopfarm again in Google News
Links 09/04/2026: Microsoft Attacking VeraCrypt and "Canada’s New Surveillance Law"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 09/04/2026: Shopping, LLMs That Ruin the Net, and Moving to GNU/Linux
Links for the day
Links 09/04/2026: TikTok Sets Up Another Outpost in Finland (EU), "Trump Attacks On Public Media Blocked by Judge"
Links for the day
Microsoft's DevDiv Executive Has Quit (Is GitHub on the Chopping Block?)
CodePlex all over again?
Chatbots (or LLMs) Are Killing Us, and We Ought to Talk About It
We need to talk (to each other, not to bots)
Microsoft Also Fires Senior Executives
Microsoft is a very feeble company pretending to be a giant
Microsoft Windows in Ireland: From 90% to Just 16%
When it comes to Ireland's Web usage, not much of it is from Windows anymore
SLAPP Censorship - Part 40 Out of 200: Putting Forth Frivolous Claim Only a Few Days Before Running Out of Time (12 Months)
my response to a frivolous claim from Graveley
IBM Layoffs by Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) and More Evidence of Layoffs at HashiCorp After IBM Took Over
Notice how the media does not cover IBM layoffs
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 08, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, April 08, 2026
Gemini Links 09/04/2026: On the Radio, Boogie Notes, Slop in Search Engines and USENET
Links for the day