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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 02, 2023

Updated This Past Day

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32+ Years Ago Richard Stallman Said the Free Software Movement Was Doomed Because of Software Patents

Richard Stallman Thought GNU/Linux Was Doomed Due to Software Patents

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Audiocasts/Shows: pfSense Makes no Sense, Cyber|Show on Fixing The System

2 episodes

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KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

The KDE Project released today the first beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment for public testing three weeks after the alpha development milestone.

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This week in KDE: the Plasma 6 feature freeze approaches

At this point nearly all the planned features for Plasma 6 are done

New

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Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles

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Fourteen new GNU Release and Free Software Directory Meeting This Coming Friday

Some GNU news

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Advocating a better Kernel Integration for all

The testing ecosystem in the Linux kernel has been steadily growing, but are efforts sufficiently coordinated?

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Distributions: Comparing Options, Distributions Devroom at FOSDEM 2024, and Development of EasyOS

3 news picks

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Canonical/Ubuntu: Hardware, Ubuntu Summit 2023, and Switching Workspaces

Some Ubuntu-centric news and such

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Inkscape 1.3.2 solves data loss bug in previous release

data loss bug in 1.3.1

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today's howtos

many for this Saturday

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Android Leftovers

Big Android feature drop adds some cool new Wear OS and smart home tricks

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today's leftovers

4 links for now

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Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 Brings Secure Boot Compatibility

Based on Debian 12.2 “Bookworm,” Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 ships with secure boot and local sync jobs support

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BSD: Upgrade to FreeBSD 14.0 and Hosting a Gopher Hole on a Raspberry Pi 4 via FreeBSD 14 and Gophernicus

Some BSD adventures

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Programming Leftovers

Python, Perl, and more

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Microsoft Windows TCO (Breaches and Espionage, Sabotage)

Best of Windows TCO

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Red Hat Leftovers, Mostly Corporate Puff Pieces

Not much left except their fluff this year

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today's leftovers

3 more links

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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: Job Prospects, RETVec, dnsdbq, Teleport Adopts AGPLv3

4 FOSS links

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Open Hardware: Arduino and More

half about Arduino

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Raspberry Pi Projects and Stories

4 for today

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ASRock Challenger ITX Intel Arc A380 Graphics Card

Intel Arc on Linux, Ubuntu

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Applications: Free, Proprietary, and Openwashed

Misc. news about software

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Games: Control, Roots of Pacha, Steam Deck, and More

mostly stories by Liam Dawe

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Cinnamon 6 and the beta of KDE 6 both arrive at once

The overlap is just a coincidence, and the two projects have differing approaches to versioning. Cinnamon is much younger: the project began in 2011, based on GNOME 3.2.1. KDE, on the other hand, is 14 years older: the first beta was in 1997, making it one of the oldest open source desktops

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GNU/Linux Apparently Growing Closer to 4% Worldwide Right Now (Not Counting ChromeOS, Which is Also a GNU/Linux Operating System)

Just a little before rounding up makes it 4%

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Android Leftovers

Here’s how your Android phone alerts you of an earthquake

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Weston Composite Server 13.0 Released with OpenGL Rendering

A six-month development effort combined in the latest Weston 13 release. Here's what's new.

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/e/OS 1.17 Released with Enhanced Privacy and Functionality

The /e/OS 1.17 just relased, bringing a wave of enhancements, from improved privacy measures to a redesigned user interface.

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$14.90 RADXA ROCK S0 runs on Rockchip RK3308BS

Radxa states that the ROCK S0 offers compatibility with popular Linux distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu

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This week in KDE: changing the wallpaper from within System Settings

Plasma 6 beta 1 has been released! And so far the feedback has been very positive

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today's howtos

mostly from Dave McKay

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Arch Linux’s December 2023 ISO Release Brings Linux 6.6 LTS, Updated Installer

Arch Linux 2023.12.01 is out today as Arch Linux’s ISO snapshot for December 2023 powered by a new kernel and featuring a much-improved installation experience.

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CentOS's November 2023 Newsletter and Fedora Magazine on ‘rpm-ostree search’

Some Red Hat stuff

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Maui Release Briefing # 4 - MauiKit

Today, we bring you a report on the brand-new release of the Maui Project

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Proprietary Dangers, Openwashing, and Microsoft

half a dozen links for now

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Security Patches and Windows TCO

half a dozen stories, via "Dissent"

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libvirt-glib release 5.0.0

I am pleased to announce that a new release of the libvirt-glib package, version 5.0.0

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Reducing Mutter dependencies

Mutter, if you don't know what it is, is a Wayland display server and an X11 window manager and compositor library

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Databases: Pgpool-II Releases, PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2024, and More

3 links for today

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Debian Family: FLOSS Activities, New Debian Developers, and Junichi Uekawa Does Tea

Some Debian bits

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Programming Leftovers

R, Python, Qt, and more

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today's leftovers

4 more stories

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Security Leftovers

Windows TCO, CISA, and more

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Mozilla: Firefox in Mozilla’s .deb Package, Tecken, and Servo

Browser work and builds

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Canonical/Ubuntu: VMs, Retro, Hype, and More

Mostly corporate stuff from Canonical

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Open Hardware/Modding: NUCDeck, Embedded Development, RISC-V, and More

4 stories

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Proprietary Software: Microsoft's Tax Crimes and the Risk of SaaS

two stories for now

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today's howtos

many howtos

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Godot 4.2 arrives in style!

Godot 4.2 brings more rendering features and better platform support

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Android Leftovers

Exciting new Samsung Galaxy feature rolls out ahead of Android 14! Know how it works

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Security, Chatbots (Spybots), and Windows TCO

assorted and sorted security links

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today's leftovers

5 links, 3 about coding

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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

FOSS news

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Linux Devices and Open Hardware/Modding

Some hardware news

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Raspberry Pi Stories, Projects, Hacks (Including Raspberry Pi 5)

5 Raspberry Pi links

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GNU Taler v0.9.3 released

We have addressed over 200 individual issues, our bug tracker has the full list. Notable changes include: [...]

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Games: Proton Experimental, Steam Deck, and More

7 new articles from Liam Dawe

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6 Best Free and Open Source Human Resource Management Software

Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart

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Fed up with Linux/Debian, moving all the things to FreeBSD!

I decided to upgrade all of my servers

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Troubles at X and Overwhelming Fear of Microsoft Layoffs at Activision Blizzard

Proprietary giants waning