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- Planet News Roundup for OpenSUSE, Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Project in OpenSUSE
pair of OpenSUSE picks - Linux drowning in ocean of slop (sloppy) commits and false reports, "Linux's strict memory overcommit mode" [original]
kernel picks - Applications: gThumb 4.0 RC Released, Tether Introduced, and More
a pair of picks - Good News! CERN is Migrating Over 2,200 Control Systems to Debian 13
The migration would move accelerator control computers out of the Red Hat ecosystem - Haiku OS Releases Beta 6
After just a little over 25 years of the Haiku project trying to keep the BeOS spirit alive - Ubisoft Does Not Like GNU/Linux, Blocks Users (Despite Full Compatibility)
DRM lovers wants rootkits - Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Snapshot 3 Is Now Available for Public Testing
Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Snapshot 3 is now available for public testing for early adopters and application developers. - Richard Stallman’s Stallman.org Back Online [original]
the front page is months old - Audacity 4.0 Open-Source Audio Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Audacity 4.0 open-source audio editor is now available for download as a major update with numerous new features and improvements. Here are the details! - Gloria Steinem Tackled Systemic Misogyny as an Activist and Journalist (Can be Both) [original]
Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 93 - Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles - today's leftovers
BSD, GNU/Linux, and more - Desktop Environments: XScreenSaver, Bugs in KDE, and GSoC in KDE
mostly KDE news - Working From PCLinuxOS and PCLinuxOS Screenshot Showcase
PCLinuxOS picks from latest issue (Sept.) - Licensing Issues Due to LLM Slop Plagiarism, Open Data Versus Political Manipulation
data issues - Web Browsers/Web Servers: Vivaldi 8.2, Bots, Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive
WWW related picks - Mozilla/Firefox Leftovers
Firefox for the most part - Programming Leftovers
Development related picks - Security News and Breaches
some big ones, too - Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in Targets GNU/Linux
3 new stories - Open Hardware/Modding: Linux, ESP32, Arduino/Zephyr, and More
hardware centric picks - Fedora and Red Hat (Promotion of Slop Plagiarism, Paid-for and Fake Journalism, and Buzzwords Instead of Linux)
IBM abandoned Linux - Games: METRO 2039, Rebounder, MOZA, and Much More
hardware and gaming - today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical picks, lots from PCLOS Magazine - 'Linux' Foundation Became a Trojan Horse for Rogue Companies (and Pyramid Schemes Too) to Influence Policies, Openwashing LLM Slop and Calling It Secure (Opposite of the Truth)
LF very rogue now - 1Password Gets Associated With David Heinemeier Hansson
3 picks - LibreOffice 26.2.6 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 30 Bug Fixes
LibreOffice 26.2.6 is now available for download as the sixth point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 36 bug fixes. - Hardware-accelerated Omarchy Linux comes to locked-down Apple Silicon
On a standard PC, installing Linux is straightforward, but on modern Apple Silicon Macs - Android Leftovers
I never have to type my phone PIN ever again after discovering this Android feature - I stopped getting lost in KDE’s settings after finding these simple shortcuts
Linux is well known for being receptive to customization, and KDE Plasma is no exception - Yes, no AI is now a feature
LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand - Tux Machines Opposes LLM Slop. This Upsets People Who Use Slop to Make 'Articles' and They Think the Problem is Me. [original]
"When you point the finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back to you" - I outgrew Linux Mint, but I didn't want a harder Linux distro
I've been using Linux more and more over the past year - These awesome Linux distros run completely in RAM and barely touch your SSD
Linux distributions built around "copy to RAM" boot modes decompress the entire file system to a RAM disk on boot - I loaded Ubuntu Touch on an old phone to "de-Google" my life—here's where it all went wrong
DeGoogling your digital life is difficult, though not impossible, when you have an Android phone - Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software - Droidian – Debian-based Linux distribution for mobile devices
Droidian is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed primarily for smartphones that originally shipped with Android - Tiny OSM-MF module runs Linux on Sitara AM67 and 4-TOPS AI
Ezurio’s software support includes Yocto Linux, Buildroot Linux, Android, Debian, and QNX for the Cortex-A53 cores - Grml 2026.09 Linux Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.1, Based on Debian 14 Forky
Grml 2026.09 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing/Forky and powered by Linux kernel 7.1. Here’s what’s new! - Open Hardware/Modding: Minimalist Transceiver, DIY, Raspberry Pi, and More
hardware stories - Today in Techrights
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