Bonum Certa Men Certa

Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 24, 2026

Bee garden

Bee garden

Updated This Past Day

  1. GNU Guix on Using Codeberg and GIMP 0.54.1 Released Again in 2026
    GNU Project umbrella
  2. Richard Stallman's FSF Looking to Raise Money This Month [original]
    Led by a young man (Ian), Richard Stallman's FSF is still devoted to Software Freedom

    New

  3. COSMIC 1.1 Desktop Environment Released with COSMIC Monitor and Improvements
    COSMIC 1.1 desktop environment is now available with COSMIC Monitor and improvements to COSMIC Files, COSMIC Term, COSMIC Edit, COSMIC Applets, COSMIC Comp, and more.
  4. Microsoft Second to Unknown in Ghana [original]
    What happens in Ghana is happening in many countries
  5. Security Leftovers
    Security incidents and more
  6. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  7. Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers Leftovers
    browsers and more
  8. GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems: Nix, OpenSUSE, Debian, and EasyOS
    distro news roundup
  9. Applications: Astra and BudsLink
    a pair of articles about software
  10. Steam Machines and Valve Leftovers
    mostly Steam Machine
  11. Canonical on Arm64, RISC-V, and Ubuntu Summit
    Canonical/Ubuntu news
  12. Raspberry Pi Handhelds and A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W-based DIY Camera
    Raspberry Pi projects or products
  13. Red Hat's Latest (Slop Promotion Dominates) and Latest From CentOS
    redhat.com mostly
  14. AUR Hit Again with Malicious Packages and 6 Essential Arch Linux Maintenance Tasks for a Stable System
    Arch news
  15. KDE: Krita, Network Shares, and More
    KDE picks
  16. Miracle-wm and preview release of Xfce's Wayland compositor
    Wayland news
  17. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  18. Kernel: eBPF, NVIDIA, and 7.2 (Linux)
    Linux picks
  19. Audiocasts/Shows/Videos: Late Night Linux and More
    4 picks of interest
  20. Games: Steam Machine, FSR Upscaling, OpenMW 0.51, and More
    latest 9 from GamingOnLinux
  21. Valnet Articles on GNU/Linux and More
    mostly GNU/Linux
  22. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  23. Open Hardware, Arduino, and Homelabs
    Some projects for hackware/hardware hacking
  24. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  25. GNU nano 9.1 CLI Text Editor Released with Minor Improvements and Bug Fixes
    GNU nano 9.1 open-source command line text editor for Linux-based operating systems is now available for download with a couple of improvements and various bug fixes.
  26. KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Desktop Is Out with Fixes for Kickoff, Discover, and KWin
    KDE Plasma 6.7.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment series with various bug and regression fixes, and some small improvements.
  27. 12,000 Pages Per Year [original]
    The team behind the site continues to grow, become more efficient, and develop better tools for improved curation
  28. Android Leftovers
    5 Android Phones That Will Stop Getting Support In 2026
  29. Ubuntu 26.04 Gimmicks, Dumping Ubuntu Server
    3 recent articles
  30. Games: Immutable distros, SteamOS, and undervolting
    gaming news
  31. KDE: COSMIC and Leaving GNOME
    two Valnet pieces
  32. HexOS and Lightwhale OS
    Two from Valnet
  33. Valnet on Proxmox and Homelabs
    4 recent articles
  34. I finally got KDE looking the way I always wanted — and it starts with one setting most people skip
    KDE isn’t particularly pretty looking out of the box
  35. The Cyber Show on Free/Libre Software and Ethics
    2 new articles
  36. openSUSE Tumbleweed is the unsung rolling distro for people afraid of rolling distros
    When you approach the world of Linux
  37. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  38. Sailfish OS is Linux on a phone for people who don’t want Linux on a phone, and I love it
    No terminal needed
  39. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  40. Canonical Announces Live Kernel Patching Support for Ubuntu on ARM64
    Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today that its Canonical Livepatch live kernel patching is now available for Ubuntu systems running on the ARM64 (AArch64) architecture.
  41. Kubuntu Focus M2 and Zr Linux Laptops Now Ship with Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus
    Kubuntu Focus launches refreshed versions of the Focus M2, Focus Zr, and Focus XE laptops, along with a new Focus Ar laptop with latest generation Intel processors.

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2026-06-17 to 2026-06-23
    936 /n/2026/06/17/KDE_Plasma_6_7_has_way_more_useful_features_than_I_expected_and.shtml
    921 /n/2026/06/17/Sailfish_OS_GNU_Linux_on_Commodore.shtml
    915 /n/2026/06/21/postmarketOS_26_06_Alpen_Avocado_Released_with_GNOME_50_and_KDE.shtml
    814 /intro.shtml
    804 /n/2026/06/17/Raven_Prism_is_a_Linux_Computer_That_Happens_To_Be_A_Pair_of_Gl.shtml
    779 /n/2026/06/19/Microsoft_Has_Put_a_Microsoft_Kill_Switch_Inside_Linux_and_Linu.shtml
    768 /n/2026/06/19/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml
    742 /n/2026/06/20/I_tested_9_Arch_based_Linux_distros_here_s_how_I_rank_them.shtml
    740 /index.shtml
    739 /n/2026/06/21/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    733 /n/2026/06/19/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    705 /n/2026/06/19/Debian_Based_SparkyLinux_2026_06_Rolling_Brings_Linux_Kernel_7_.shtml
    701 /n/2026/06/19/today_s_howtos.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Intercontinental Brigading - Part XI - Losing Over a Million Pounds (Borrowed Money) to Try to Silence Critics of Restricted Boot With Microsoft-Controlled "Certificates"
Garrett is also very jealous of Daniel Pocock
Linux Kernel Needs Diversity and Diversity of Good Code, Not LLM Slop
Linux (and Linus) are kicking a can down the road
 
Gemini Links 22/10/2026: Solar MiniBBS, Building Major Tom, and Zig
Links for the day
Links 22/10/2026: Busan’s Celebrity Shark in Canal Again
Links for the day
Links 22/10/2026: "Software Developers Have Been Promoted Into Incompetence"
Links for the day
Links 22/10/2026: eBay to Lay Off a Tenth of Staff (Again), Node.js and PHP Security Crises, Climate News
Links for the day
Red Hat Layoffs Still Going on This Week (Whilst IBM's Debt Grows in Spite of Mass Layoffs)
IBM is bluffing/cheating the shareholders again
IBM's Debt Continues to Increase While the Company Rapidly Shrinks
This is what a dying company looks like
Microsoft Shrinks Every Year
Microsoft will try to spin or twist this as "efficiency"
Gemini Links 22/10/2026: Holiday Inn and Emacs
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Techrights Was Right About a Fake Security Model Built Around Lies or Built Upon Trust in "Certificates" and "Authorities" (like Microsoft)
We have begun to amass some media reports and blog posts from technical sites
Windows Monopoly is No Longer Sustainable (the Case of Oceania)
This is why Microsoft layoffs are happening all the time
Some Downtime Possible Shortly (Router Work)
We don't use PHP in the site anymore
Mass Layoffs at Microsoft This Week and/or Next Week
Cannot pull a bunny out of some hat
With Its Future on the Line, EPO Management (Dictatorship) Resorts to Further Escalations to Fake 'Production' and Curtail Industrial Actions
It's clear that with a yearlong campaign of industrial actions - including strikes - Campinos cannot save face anymore
Gemini Links 21/10/2026: Summer Day in Tokyo (30c in Late October) and Whole Food for the Whole World
Links for the day
Links 21/10/2026: "Zelensky Took the Gloves Off This Time With Convicted Felon" and "Cellebrite iPhone Radio Zero-Day"
Links for the day
Reuters is Becoming Slop, Not a News Agency (Treat Reports From Reuters Sceptically)
In their own words
Disclosure/s Crisis at The Register MS (Promoting a Ponzi Scheme for Money)
So now they sell several schemes/scams at the same time, not limited to the slop
Links 21/10/2026: "The Tragic Death of the Republican Party" and "No War But Data Center War"
Links for the day
Internet Relay Chat Still Growing
The numbers go up, not down [...] Don't believe the doomers
Intercontinental Brigading - Part X - American Back Doors Inside Our Computers, With Transatlantic Swatting Against Critics Thrown 'Into the Mix'
"If your Windows PC's Secure Boot certificates are out of date, your system is vulnerable to malware like rootkits."
Gemini Links 21/10/2026: A Walk Through Amsterdam and Pythagorean Theorem
Links for the day
More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Weeks From Now, Then Again Months From Now
Microsoft's crisis is not limited to XBox
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 20, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Gemini Links 20/10/2026: The Brothers Who Fought Mussolini and a Dying Main Laptop
Links for the day
Brett Wilson LLP Has Almost Zero Litigation Clients This Year (in the Area They Specialise in)
The silence on the financial front, combined with the lack of new clients, is deafening
Where to Celebrate the 20-Year Anniversary
let us know in IRC
Cheapening of the Workforce at IBM and Microsoft, Typically Without Even Announcing Any Layoffs
from leadership to compelled "retirement"
Help Us Improve Techrights
The site relies on teamwork in a growing community; even readers are part of it
Links 20/10/2026: $100 Million ICE “Intelligence” Program and France Riots
Links for the day
Gemini Links 20/10/2026: GAFAM GCP Outage in the UK and New Oddμ Release
Links for the day
Articles in The Register MS Composed by Employees of the Companies They're About
The Register MS is the place to be
Intercontinental Brigading - Part IX - Swatting is Not Funny, Swatting is a Murder Attempt
“Swatting is not harmless. It is a serious crime that can lead to dangerous situations and divert law enforcement away from someone facing an actual emergency. What callers may believe to be a ‘joke’ actually risks the public safety of our communities and can carry lifelong consequences for those responsible”
Links 20/10/2026: Facebook Scraping and Plagiarising News Sites, Copyright Act Turns 50
Links for the day
Microsoft's XBox Leadership and Strategy is Slop
XBox sales are already worst in the entire history of XBox
81% Voted in Favour of EPO Strikes Until End of This Year
Who's in the line of succession at EPO?
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 19, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, October 19, 2026
Gemini Links 20/10/2026: Old Movies, Bandera Hike, and Mongolian
Links for the day