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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 01, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. GNOME 50 dropped support for accessing Google Drive files

   If you’re used to accessing your Google Drive in the Nautilus file manager

   New

2. AerynOS 2026.03 Released with the Latest GNOME 50 Desktop Environment

   AerynOS 2026.03 independent distro is now available for download with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, and Linux kernel 6.18 LTS. Here’s what else is new!

3. April Showers [original]

   90 days have already gone by in 2026

4. GNU/Linux Leftovers

   some GNU/Linux news

5. Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast, Late Night Linux, and Linux User Space

   Shows, 3 episodes

6. Web Browsing, Open Data, and Standards

   some leftovers for today

7. Free Software Directory Meeting and LibreLocal Meetups in Montreal, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and Milan

   upcoming events

8. New Release: Elive 3.8.50 Stable ’Retrowave’ is released!

   We are happy to offer this release in both 32‑bit and 64‑bit versions, absolutely free of charge, now and in the future

9. MiniDebConf and Canonical/Ubuntu News

   The Debian base

10. Open Hardware/Modding: Seeed Studio, Raspberry Pi, Coreboot 26.03, and More

    Hardware and gadgets

11. Programming Leftovers

    Development picks

12. Security Leftovers

    patches and more

13. today's howtos

    Instructionals/Technical posts

14. Proprietary Software, Microsoft Slop, and More

    Proprietary leftovers

15. OpenVPN 2.7.1 Released with New Features, Improvements, and Bug Fixes

    OpenVPN 2.7.1 is now available for download as the first maintenance update to the OpenVPN 2.7 series with a couple of new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

16. Red Hat Leftovers, Mostly Slop and Microsoft (Not Linux)

    loss of focus

17. GNOME 49.5 Is Out to Improve Accessibility of App Folders in GNOME Shell

    GNOME 49.5 is now available as the fifth point release to the GNOME 49 desktop environment series with various bug fixes and improvements across several core components and default apps.

18. GNU/Linux Leftovers

    misc. links about GNU/Linux

19. Games: Rootkits ("Anti-cheat"), SteamOS, and More

    10 new or recent stories

20. Tux Machines Seems to Have Only Angered Bad People [original]

    As the saying goes, "haters gonna hate"

21. Linuxiac is Still LLM Slop (Chatbots as 'Articles') [original]

    Linuxiac is not a legit site anymore

22. Android Leftovers

    If Google is serious about Android scams, there's a bigger problem than sideloading

23. Archinstall 4.0 finally makes installing Arch Linux bearable for normal people

    If not, then I'd recommend giving installing Arch Linux without tools a try

24. I installed this Arch-based distro my way in under 5 minutes - so can you

    Thanks to the Prism Linux installer

25. Mageia’s next General Assembly will be on April 22, 2026

    Mageia’s next General Assembly will be held online on Wednesday

26. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

27. GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems: Blame, Gaming, and Discarding Windows

    3 Valnet articles

28. Applications: Waydroid, TrueNAS, FFmpeg, and GNU/Linux Package Management

    software and more

29. GNU/Linux puts you in charge and the "right way"

    2 XDA articles

30. Recent Valnet Articles on Proxmox and Homelabs

    7 articles

31. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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