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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 09, 2025

IBM's Total Debt is About to Hit Almost 80 Billion Dollars, the Company Can Only Raise $14.8 Billion Within 3 Months
IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 08, 2025
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Fed Up With "AI"? You're Not Alone... [original]

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calling things "AI" and "AIs" can mislead the reader

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Latest Pay-to-Say at Linux Foundation

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Linux Foundation picks

GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

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mostly GNU/Linux news

Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast and LINUX Unplugged

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2 new episodes

Mozilla/Web Remblings and powa-archivist 5.1.1 Released

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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software leftovers

Open Hardware/Modding: Caligra c100 Developer Terminal, Minimalist Home Computer, and More

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devices for Linux and more

KDE's End of Year Fundraiser 2025 and This Week in KDE Apps; Plasma Camera & Plasma Settings

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KDE leftovers

Firefox 146 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

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Linux users running Wayland now benefit from native fractional scaling support

5 free, open-source card games for bored Linux users

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Are you sitting bored at your Linux machine and looking for a quick gaming session

More Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

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mostly from linuxlinks.com

Ubuntu might be considered the face of Linux

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Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents:

Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source

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Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion

Windows updates keep breaking, and Microsoft's "agentic OS" isn't helping

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Microsoft's latest patches risk turning the full Windows 11 shell into a non-functional disaster for enterprise customers

today's leftovers

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with GNU/Linux focus

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

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FOSS related picks

GNU/Linux Devices and Open Hardware

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hardware picks for today

Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): Kiwi TCMS 15.2, Coolify, and Bloat

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WWW frameworks

Distributions and Operating Systems: Old Mac, MX Linux, Tiny Core Linux 16.2, NixOS

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4 stories for today

Simon Josefsson on Reproducible Guix Container Images and Iustin Pop Survives Incident

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Debian picks

Web Browsers/Web Servers: Incidents, Vulnerabilities, and RSS

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Some WWW stories

Open Standards, Microblogging Protocols Update, and More

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Standards-centric leftovers

Programming Leftovers

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Development centric news/videos

Android Leftovers

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Nothing reportedly halts Nothing OS 4.0 rollout for 'urgent fix'

today's howtos

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Instructionals/Technical leftovers (10 in total)

Oracle Linux 10.1 Released With Security and Toolchain Updates

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Oracle Linux 10.1 is now GA, delivering new kernels, post-quantum crypto defaults

Fastfetch 2.56 Arrives With Improved Config Loading and NUMA Detection

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Fastfetch 2.56, the system information tool

Which Desktop Environment Do Arch Linux Users Prefer

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Which desktop environment and window manager is actually the most preferred choice among Arch Linux users

Stop using Ubuntu—here's why you need to switch to an immutable distro instead

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Linux systems tend to age much more gracefully than Windows systems

A Simple Way to Fake Blurred Windows on GNOME

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It’s an oft-lusted look for many Linux users

Free and Open Source Software

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This is free and open source software

Review: FreeBSD 15.0

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While I was a little disappointed FreeBSD 15.0 did not receive the ability to enable a desktop environment right from the system installer

KDE Daemon System Notification Helper annoyances

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This is, because, Linux is not a product but an amalgamation of disparate parts

Stable kernels: Linux 6.17.11, Linux 6.12.61, Linux 6.6.119, Linux 6.1.159, Linux 5.15.197, and Linux 5.10.247

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I'm announcing the release of the 6.17.11 kernel

Today in Techrights

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