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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 17, 2026

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Lunar Eruption - Brisk Action

Updated This Past Day

  1. Linux Mint Will Adopt a Longer Development Cycle Starting with Linux Mint 23
    Linux Mint devs announced that they will adopt a longer development cycle starting with the upcoming Linux Mint 23 release, as well as other important changes to the distribution.
  2. KDE Gear 26.04 Software Suite Is Out with Many Improvements for KDE Apps
    KDE Gear 26.04 open-source software suite is now available with improvements for many of your favorite KDE applications. Here’s what’s new!
  3. Feeding the Fish [original]
    Fish are an easy kind of pet
  4. Hardware Projects and Mobile Leftovers (Linux-centric)
    gadgets and more

    New

  5. Proton 11 Enters Beta Testing with Support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces
    Proton 11 is now available for public beta testing with support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces, Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, and many other Windows games.
  6. Android Leftovers
    You can soon turn this Android handheld into an ultra-powerful Linux handheld
  7. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
    This is free and open source software
  8. Shift OS – Ubuntu based Linux distribution
    Shift OS is an Ubuntu LTS-based Linux distribution aimed at developers, creators, and gamers who want a streamlined desktop without unnecessary extras
  9. GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems: News, Releases, Activity
    today's leftovers
  10. Threats to GNU/Linux
    4 new picks
  11. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Sharing Leftovers
    mostly FOSS news
  12. Web Browsers and Back Doors in Web Plugins
    Web messy
  13. Digital Sovereignty / Software Freedom Gaining Traction
    Some new picks
  14. Mozilla: Firefox Nightly, Policy, MozPhab, and YouTuve
    half a dozen picks for today
  15. Back End/Databases Leftovers
    a handful of link picks
  16. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  17. Debian: Freexian Report and Updates in Raspberry Pi OS and Tails
    Debian leftovers
  18. Security and Windows TCO
    mostly Windows TCO today
  19. Red Hat Selling Slop, Clown Computing, and OpenShift Pipelines 1.21
    redhat.com's latest
  20. BSD: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, 2.11BSD, and More
    BSD leftovers
  21. Graphics: The Origins of GPU Computing and DRM Chaos in HDMI 2.1 Hurting Linux
    HDMI 2.1 is malicious
  22. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  23. Canonical Releases Mir 2.26 with Initial Rust Implementation of Wayland Frontend
    Mir 2.26 compositor is now available for download with initial implementation of the Wayland frontend in the Rust, as well as many other Wayland improvements.
  24. They Weren't Joking: Gentoo WAS Ported To GNU Hurd
    GNU Hurd is a microkernel architecture, based originally on the Mach kernel
  25. Games: ScummVM, Road to Vostok, Luanti, and More
    latest from GamingOnLinux
  26. Android Leftovers
    Android XR's April update brought new bugs, but Google's working on fixes
  27. Every Linux user told me to try Niri, so I finally did and it wasn't for me
    There’s a very specific kind of pressure that only exists in Linux circles
  28. Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager
    Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished
  29. Orange Pi Zero 3W – An Allwinner A733 SBC in Raspberry Pi Zero form factor
    Orange Pi Zero 3W is Raspberry Pi Zero-sized SBC powered by an Allwinner A733 octa-core Arm Cortex-A76/A55 SoC paired with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM
  30. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  31. Back Home [original]
    Today we mostly catch up with news, including some of yesterday's
  32. KDE Mega Sprint 2026
    This April, KDE once again had a sprint in Graz, Austria
  33. I found a way to roll back buggy Google Services updates on Android - in just a few clicks
    If Google Services update on your Android is giving you problems
  34. LWN: Scuttlebutt, fre:ac, and Kernel
    New outside the paywall
  35. Ubuntu's GRUBby plans
    Ubuntu provides two versions of GRUB: one for UEFI systems that enables Secure Boot (referred to as the "signed" builds), and another for systems with legacy BIOS or systems that otherwise don't support Secure Boot (the "unsigned" builds)
  36. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  37. Games: Necesse, Warhammer, Sentinel, and More
    latest from GamingOnLinux
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2026-04-10 to 2026-04-16
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    1564 /n/2026/04/10/French_government_says_it_s_ditching_Windows_for_Linux_country_.shtml
    1447 /n/2026/04/12/Linux_Kernel_7_0_Officially_Released_This_Is_What_s_New.shtml

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