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Ubuntu 25.10 Reached End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu 25.10 was released on October 9th, 2025, and, since it’s not an Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) release, it only received support for nine months, until July 2026. Ubuntu 25.10 was powered by the Linux 6.17 kernel series and featured the GNOME 49 desktop environment series with a Wayland-only session.

PipeWire 1.6.8 Improves JACK/MIDI Support for Ardour, SOFA Filter, and More

Coming three weeks after PipeWire 1.6.7, the PipeWire 1.6.8 release fixes a data race in JACK’s jack_port_get_buffer() function that could cause lost MIDI events in the Ardour DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) when called from concurrent threads, and adds normalize and latency options to the SOFA filter.

Wireshark 4.6.7 Released with Updated Protocol Support, Bug and Security Fixes

Coming a month and a half after Wireshark 4.6.6, the Wireshark 4.6.7 release updates support for the ALC, BACapp, C2P, Catapult DCT2000, COTP, CSN.1, DCERPC, DCERPC MAPI, DCERPC NSPI, DNS, DVB-S2-TABLE, eDonkey, EPL, FC ELS, FMP/NOTIFY, H.265, HiPerConTracer, IEEE 802.11, LLS, MEGACO, MIH, MPEG DSM-CC, MS-WSP, RELOAD, SGP.32, SSH, STANAG 4607, UMTS FP, WOWW, and Z39.50 protocols.

GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.4, the GStreamer 1.28.5 release is here to add support for H.266/VVC decoding to the gopbuffer element, fix subtitle green flickering with VA decoders on AMD GPUs, improve HEVC with alpha decoding in the H.265 decoder, and add ts-clocksync to the threadshare element.

Linux Mint’s Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Will Fully Support Wayland

The Linux Mint devs have been working hard on making Cinnamon’s Wayland session as stable as possible, and it looks like Cinnamon 6.8 will finally remove the “experimental” status of the Wayland session and fully support Wayland. Here are some of the features they’ve implemented so far:

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LILYGO showcases new IoT devices with ESP32-C5 and Nordic nRF52840 MCUs

LILYGO has listed two compact development boards for wireless IoT applications: the T-Display C5, a small ESP32-C5-based board with a color LCD and dual-band Wi-Fi 6, and the T-Echo Card, a rugged LoRa-enabled device with GNSS, Bluetooth, NFC, solar charging, and an IP66-rated enclosure.

WINSYSTEMS SBC-477 PowerTier Series delivers Raptor Lake performance in a rugged SBC design

WINSYSTEMS’ SBC-477 PowerTier Series is a family of compact rugged single board computers for industrial and MIL/COTS applications, combining 13th Gen Intel Core Raptor Lake processors with DDR5 memory, dual Ethernet, Mini PCIe expansion, TPM 2.0 security, and extended-temperature operation.

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Safety Over Bans: Internet Society Challenges App Store Age Verification

Imagine having to provide a government ID before downloading an app to clock in at work, submit homework, check the weather, or access your bank account. Under a new Texas law, that could become a reality for millions of people.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Spooky Future for the World Wide Web
    Halloween perspective
  2. Former Red Hat/Open Source (.com) Folk: Let's Just Reset, Set the Goals for Large Corporations' Benefit
    freedom is the goal
  3. The Web Has Become More Spammy (Bot Traffic) Than E-mail
    The Web we once knew is dying; to cope with loads caused by bots consider going static
  4. Wikileaks and Assange Family: Donald Trump Still Praises Man Who Wanted to Assassinate Julian Assange
    That hardly looks like a political endorsement for Donald Trump

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  5. Why There Aren't More Sites Talking About the Attacks on the FSF (or Trying to Defend the FSF)
    The way so-called 'cancel mobs' work, they sort of make "lists"
  6. [Meme] 'Smartphones on Wheels'
    "Your 'smart' car is low on batteries"
  7. Gemini Links 28/10/2024: Watching Jellyfin Videos with VLC and Moving to Datacentres
    Links for the day
  8. YouTube Waning and Drowning
    Perhaps it's unfair to 'single out' YouTube; it seems to be going downwards along with everything else, probably even TikTok (which faces more restrictions and bans)
  9. [Meme] Safety First (Security Updates While You Move Fast)
    In vivo, in situ
  10. A Kind of Sadness in Society and the Erosion of Kindness
    Such behaviours aren't unprecedented
  11. Perhaps a Lot of Customers Don't Want These 'Modern' Cars
    Maybe make cars that the customers actually want rather than try to foist upon them so-called "smartphones on wheels"
  12. Links 28/10/2024: Openwashing and China Testing the Water Against Indonesia
    Links for the day
  13. [Meme] Drew DeVault's Suggestion to the FSF (in a Nutshell)
    Software Freedom is under attack (aimed at its very core)
  14. Links 28/10/2024: Facebook's Openwashing in India and Microsoft's "AI Copilot" Becoming a Confusing Failure With Brand Shuttle
    Links for the day
  15. Links 28/10/2024: Plagiarism of Code and Fancy Neighborhood
    Links for the day
  16. [Meme] Voting Based on Preferences of Xi and Elon Musk
    Social control media is a problem
  17. [Meme] You're Not Even a Computer Scientist (Certainly No Security Expert)
    some charlatan and liar woke up after a week's hibernation
  18. Microsoft's Copilot and Copilot+ PCs Have Flopped, Manchester United Not Advertising That Junk
    The fake results are coming
  19. Online Hate Group: Wipe Out the Entire Board of the FSF and Appoint Other People to Lead
    The "addicted lolicon" has plans
  20. Pardoning Julian Assange for Merely Documenting Facts
    People deserve awards, not punishment, for documenting facts
  21. Microsoft Attack Dogs Don't Scare Us
    History shows these tactics always backfire and just intensify the effect of the message
  22. Time to Remove gmnisrv, Its Developer is Busy Attacking People Instead of Patching Security Flaws
    Agate generally works well for us and never had any security breaches
  23. Mumble (and Murmur), an End-to-end Encrypted (E2EE) Communication Tool for Voice (Group Chats Included), Likely Withstood Over a Decade Without Security Flaws
    That does not mean none exist
  24. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  25. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 27, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, October 27, 2024
  26. [Meme] When Two Choices May Not Make a Profound Difference in Tech Policy
    Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer
  27. GNU/Linux Started as Platform About Liberation, Freedom, Autonomy; Linux Foundation Tries to Redefine It as "Open Software" and Pretend It Started in the 90s
    Linux Foundation is the new Outercurve (Microsoft)
  28. Richard Stallman's Latest Talks Now in Spanish
    If they cannot deplatform or cancel Stallman, then they're likely to aim at those who resist the "cancel culture"
  29. Links 28/10/2024: Mostly Political Catchup, Salesforce CEO Calls Microsoft Copilot a "Flop"
    Links for the day
  30. Gemini Links 28/10/2024: OpenBSD and CVS
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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    1394 /n/2024/10/24/How_Microsoft_Attacks_Critics_and_Competition.shtml
    1303 /n/2024/10/27/Guest_Contribution_Open_Software_is_Not_Open_Source.shtml
    974 /n/2024/10/28/GNU_Linux_Started_as_Platform_About_Liberation_Freedom_Autonomy.shtml
    680 /n/2024/10/22/Linus_Torvalds_Articles_That_Turn_Out_to_be_Slop.shtml
    680 /n/2024/10/24/Links_24_10_2024_Apple_Fines_and_Vision_Pro_Shows_Signs_of_Dyin.shtml
    619 /n/2024/10/25/Links_25_10_2024_Erosion_of_Trust_Online_and_Disability_Rights.shtml
    589 /n/2024/10/21/Richard_Stallman_is_Going_to_Peru_to_Deliver_Many_Talks.shtml
    576 /n/2024/06/23/Microsoft_Inside_Debian_is_Sabotaging_Debian_and_Its_Many_Hundr.shtml
    572 /n/2024/10/26/Drew_Earned_Himself_a_Meme_for_His_Latest_Attack_on_the_Founder.shtml
    560 /n/2024/10/26/Links_26_10_2024_Surrealism_at_100_ChatGPT_Plagiarism_Highlight.shtml
    555 /n/2024/10/25/Mono_Was_Always_Just_a_Front_of_Microsoft.shtml
    547 /n/2024/10/25/China_Has_Bypassed_Sanctions_by_Making_Its_Own_Operating_System.shtml
    540 /n/2024/10/24/To_Linux_Foundation_Bill_Gates_is_a_Saint_and_Every_Russian_Dev.shtml
    538 /n/2024/10/25/No_Microsoft_You_Cannot_Silence_Techrights.shtml
    533 /n/2024/10/25/What_It_Means_When_All_Russians_Get_Banned_From_All_Free_Softwa.shtml
    520 /n/2024/10/25/NSA_is_NOT_Obama_NSA_is_Harry_S_Truman.shtml
    518 /n/2024/10/26/Public_First_Ltd_as_a_Snake_Inside_the_British_Government_Shoeh.shtml
    517 /n/2024/10/27/Links_26_10_2024_Open_Source_on_Its_Own_is_no_Alternative_to_Bi.shtml

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