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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 17, 2026

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

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