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- Happy 35th Birthday, Linux!
Today is Linux’s 35th birthday so join me in wishing Linux many more awesome years to come and to celebrate its amazing journey. - Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave
Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing - New Release of Emacs
Emacs has a final release - KDE Gear 26.08 Software Suite Is Out with Many Improvements for KDE Apps
KDE Gear 26.08 open-source software suite is now available with improvements to many of your favorite KDE applications. Here’s what’s new! - Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” Released with Reproducible Builds, ARM64 Support
Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux and powered by Linux kernel 7.1 and featuring the latest GNOME 50 desktop environment. - Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles - GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
mostly GNU/Linux - Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
FOSS leftovers and more - Web, Content Management Systems, and Standards
misc. picks, WWW centric - Audiocasts/Shows: Ask Noah Show, Wonders of Web Weaving, What’s in the SOSS?
3 new episodes - Linux Leftovers
kernel picks, 3 selections - today's howtos
only 3 today - Games: Bazzite 44, 5 free games that make learning the Linux command line addictive, and more
gaming picks - Fedora Pushing Slop, Red Hat Pushing Slop, IBM Uses "Linux" Brand to Sell Expensive Hardware
Fedora and more - Unveiling of Arduino Ventuno Q SBC
Arduino picks - Open Hardware/Modding: Small Computers, PocketBook Q, RISC-V, ESP32, and More
gadgets, hardware, and more - Programming Leftovers
Development news and opinions - Security Leftovers
Security patches and incidents etc. - LLM Slop Versus Free Software: "Denial of Service Attack" by LLM Bots, 'Linux' Foundation Promotes Slop and "Attestation" for Microsoft, and More
slop concerns - Don't Talk to Bullies [original]
We move on and we focus on GNU/Linux news - LibreOffice 26.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New
LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite is now available for download with numerous new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new! - Android Leftovers
I switched from Android's default keyboard to an open source alternative to eliminate my constant typos - Linux has both GNOME and KDE because of a licensing war
Linux users can switch from GNOME to KDE Plasma today and treat the choice like any other distro preference - I've tried every major Linux distro, and this is the only one I can recommend for work
I've been distro hopping for years. While in school, I extensively used Fedora, Arch, and Ubuntu, and in the intervening years - Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software - Bac-Ha-OS – Linux Mint based distribution
Bac-Ha-OS is a Linux Mint-based desktop Linux distribution available with either the Cinnamon or MATE desktop environment - What’s Happening In KDE Remote Desktop – Improved Unattended Mode and More
Remote desktop has been one of the weaker areas of the transition to Wayland - UK Adoption of GNU/Linux Going Up, About 10% Now [original]
From what we can gather, the tram ticketing system does not use Windows; we never saw it crashing or rebooting (or showing some Windows logo) in decades, so we assume it runs some kind of Linux - Microsoft Back Doors a Hard Sell [original]
More nations move to GNU/Linux, recognising it's a matter of their national security - Microsoft is Nervous About China Moving to GNU/Linux [original]
Seeing the general direction, with more articles about China dumping Windows for GNU/Linux so far this week, Microsoft is in a state of panic - Advancing the Code at the Back End [original]
We still have some other work - stuff related to the editing of pages - which is work in progress and has been subjected to testing for many months - Today in Techrights
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