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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 22nd, 2026

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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.0 Release Candidate

Today marks two weeks since the release of Linux kernel 6.19 and the opening of the merge window for Linux kernel 7.0, which means that it is time to test drive the Release Candidate (RC) versions during the next couple of months, the first one being available for download right now from Linus Torvalds’s Git tree.

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Atom E3950 Powers WINSYSTEMS SBC-ZETA-3950 Rugged Mini SBC

The SBC-ZETA-3950 uses the quad-core Intel Atom E3950 processor running at 1.6 GHz (2.0 GHz burst), with 2MB L2 cache and a 12W base power envelope.

AAEON UP Squared Series Gains Mainline Linux Support for 40-Pin GPIO in Linux 6.18

The UP Board family combines Intel processors with a 40-pin expansion header routed through an onboard FPGA. The FPGA handles signal level shifting, pin multiplexing, switching, and direction control, allowing pins to operate as I2C, UART, PWM, or GPIO.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 15, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Bing Has Run Out of Time and Microsoft Might Dismantle It (Save a Financial Miracle)
    How much more of investors' money is Microsoft willing to throw in the trash?
  2. Microsoft is Dying in Africa
    Based on the Central African Republic, which "is around the same size as France"
  3. Microsoft Needs to be Banned From Contracts, Including Government Contracts, Not Just for Security Failings But for Criminal Negligence, Corruption, and Fatal Cover-ups
    How many deaths will it take for Microsoft to face real, effective scrutiny rather than kid gloves treatment?

    New

  4. Links 14/06/2024: Microsoft Layoffs in the News Again, East-West Conflict/Tensions Update
    Links for the day
  5. Links 14/06/2024: Comments on the Death of Email and Lagrange Commentary
    Links for the day
  6. Dutch Government Appoints Microsofters to Combat "OSS Fetishism"
    What corruption looks like
  7. Microsoft's Collapse in Africa and Shutdown of Entire 'Development Centre'
    Unlike what Microsoft claimed in face-saving statements
  8. [Meme] Not Your Typical IRC Troll and Harasser
    I say, let's punch nazis...
  9. GNU/Linux's Journey in Qatar: From 0.1% to Over 3%
    Windows is no longer an important contender there
  10. Secret Contracts and Corpses
    The media pretends it's just some generic "IT" issue, but it is not
  11. Statement on Antisemitism in Our IRC Network and in Social Control Media
    In an ideal world nobody would have to be banned from IRC
  12. Gemini Links 14/06/2024: Ads vs. Content, Why Aliases Are Har
    Links for the day
  13. Vista 11 Has Fallen in Switzerland, a Country That is More Microsoft Friendly Than Most of Europe
    GNU/Linux rose to its highest level there in almost half a decade
  14. [Meme] Microsoft in Africa
    Are you telling me Windows is now down to 1% 'market share' in some countries?
  15. Management of the European Patent Office Misleads Staff on Views of the Office's Staff Committee
    The EPO as a workplace very rapidly deteriorates
  16. [Meme] Newer is Worse
    "They say those are New Ways of Working (NWoW); New does not mean better, it is worse"
  17. Links 14/06/2024: Violence, Famines, and Montana Has More Cows Than People
    Links for the day
  18. Microsoft Telecom Layoffs, Facebook Layoffs in Africa: A Month After Microsoft's Mass Layoffs in Lagos (Nigeria) Facebook/Meta Does the Same and Microsoft is Now Retreating and Quitting an Entire Sector! (Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch)
    Disasters in the making for GAFAM. Money down the drain.
  19. Papua New Guinea: GNU/Linux Growing, Windows Down Below 15%
    it seems indisputable there's headway and momentum
  20. "Planets" Cannot Replace Social Control Media, They're Very Much Akin to It (Censorship Hubs, Gatekeepers)
    Don't be subjected to gaslighting; make your own OPML file
  21. Topics That Truly Irritate and Consistently Infuriate the Microsofters (Whenever We Cover These)
    Censoring uncomfortable information is a difficult activity that has its limits, even in Reddit
  22. Honduras: Vista 11 Down, GNU/Linux Up
    Valve sees GNU/Linux as bigger than Apple's MacOS
  23. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  24. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 13, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, June 13, 2024
  25. LibrePlanet 2024 and the Lost Video/Audio of Talks
    After the event was over someone informed us that due to technical issues they had lost (or failed to acquire) recordings of the talks
  26. Choosing Between Options to Outsource to Evades the Best Solution (Self-Hosting)
    Most users don't need this sort of complexity
  27. IBM Layoffs at Kyndryl
    This can soon spill over to Red Hat
  28. Turkmenistan: GNU/Linux Leaps Past 5% This Month?
    This is how statCounter sees it
  29. Watch This Space
    what matters most is not the volume or quantity of publications but their underlying depth and quality

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

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

    Span from 2024-06-08 to 2024-06-14
    1707 /n/2024/06/08/Preserving_Information_About_Debian_s_SSH_Blunder_Amid_Revelati.shtml
    1628 /n/2024/06/10/Gemini_Protocol_Turns_5_Exactly_10_Days_From_Now_Let_s_Encrypt_.shtml
    1596 /n/2024/06/08/GNU_Linux_Now_20_in_Norway_s_Desktops_Laptops_Over_10_Across_Al.shtml
    1375 /n/2024/06/10/NotABug_org_as_Another_Cautionary_Tale_About_Outsourcing_One_e_.shtml
    1214 /n/2024/06/09/Bullying_by_the_Debian_Project_is_a_Disservice_to_Its_Reputatio.shtml
    1152 /n/2024/06/08/Edward_Brockelsby_how_expelled_hacker_took_over_Debian_s_SSH2_p.shtml
    918 /n/2024/06/10/Mozilla_Firefox_Web_Browser_Fell_below_2_in_Brasil_This_Month.shtml

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