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Ubuntu 25.10 Official Flavors Are Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Ubuntu 25.10’s official flavors include Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu MATE, and Ubuntu Kylin.

KDE Gear 25.08.2 Rolls Out with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps

Coming a month after KDE Gear 25.08.1, the KDE Gear 25.08.2 release adds support for sending thumbnails when uploading videos to NeoChat, support for uppercase keysyms for the portal input to KDE Connect, and support for x-scheme-handler/feed in mimetype to Akregator.

PipeWire 1.4.9 Improves ALSA Recovery and Adapts to Newer libcamera Changes

PipeWire 1.4.9 is a small bugfix release that addresses a regression in node unprepared, which would leave nodes running, improves ALSA recovery when “3 periods” is not supported, and removes RestrictNamespaces from the systemd files to allow libcamera to load sandboxed IPA modules.

LibreOffice 25.8.2 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 70 Bug Fixes

Coming five weeks after LibreOffice 25.8.1, the LibreOffice 25.8.2 update is here to address various bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users in an attempt to improve the overall stability and reliability of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite.

Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

Dubbed Questing Quokka, Ubuntu 25.10 is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.17 kernel series for top-notch hardware support and ships with the latest GNOME 49 desktop environment, defaulting to a Wayland-only session for the Ubuntu Desktop flavor, meaning there’s no other session to choose from the login screen.

Wireshark 4.6 Open-Source Network Protocol Analyzer Released as a Major Update

Highlights of Wireshark 4.6 include a new “Plots” dialog that provides scatter plots with support for multiple plots, markers, and automatic scrolling, support for compressing live captures while writing, and support for writing absolute time fields in ISO 8601 format in UTC with -T json.

Ubuntu Buzz !

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Released with Download Links, Official Flavors and Torrents

Congratulations to Canonical and Ubuntu Community for the release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka yesterday Thursday, 9 October 2025! This is the third interim release between last LTS, 24.04 Noble Numbat (NN), and next LTS, designated 26.04 Resolute Raccoon (RR). We presented here a compilation of all download links including the Official Flavors, mirrors, and torrents. Let's celebrate together, and download and run our computer, laptop and server with Ubuntu.

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DL40N Fanless 1.3L Mini PC with Intel Twin Lake Processors

Built on Intel’s Twin Lake platform, the DL40N adopts an efficient-core (E-core) architecture fabricated on the Intel 7 process. These processors integrate up to eight threads with enhanced CPU and GPU frequencies.

Virtium Embedded Artists Expands SoM Lineup with Renesas RZ/G3E Platform

Virtium Embedded Artists has introduced the RZ/G3E SoM, a system-on-module based on the Renesas RZ/G3E processor for industrial and medical human-machine interface applications.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 09, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. "Many Applications Labelled as "Cybersecurity" and Given a Veneer of Legitimacy Are Really "Weaponised" and Abusive Code"
    New from Dr. Andy Farnell

    New

  2. Plagiarism by Bots: Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) Still Creates Fake Articles About "Linux"
    100% fake
  3. [Teaser] [Meme] New Ways to Impoverish Patent Examiners (Entrusted to Block Unjust Monopolies or Monopoly Applications)
    Coming tomorrow!
  4. Apple Tax funds: railways, defective concrete blocks in Ireland's North and West
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  5. Daniel Pocock, Nomination for Ireland, Dublin Bay South, General Election 2024
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  6. Links 08/11/2024: TikTok Bans and Clownflare Issues/Perils
    Links for the day
  7. Gemini Links 08/11/2024: RPS, O.D.I.N., and RSS in Yahoo News
    Links for the day
  8. Donald Trump as Censor in Chief Can Now Leverage Censorship Companies and Fake Protection Disguised as 'Security'
    Centralised CAs were trouble all along
  9. Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part VI
    By Dr. Andy Farnell
  10. A Death of a News Industry
    A theme we explored thrice today
  11. Deciphering Centralised CAs and Why Their Demise Should be a Goal
    Encryption in transmission is good; but who controls the key exchange and certification/authentication/validation?
  12. Links 08/11/2024: Strikes, Recessions, and Slowdowns
    Links for the day
  13. [Teaster] [Meme] New Ways of Wrecking (NWoW)
    The EPO
  14. Gateway for News and Blogs
    In the long run, this site and its sister site (less overlap between them now) should hopefully become a popular destination for people who look for information, not chaff
  15. Going Even Faster
    We hope the site will be faster soon
  16. Psychopaths Who Reaffirm Our Work's Value
    Psychopaths and sociopaths lack empathy, so they're willing to go very far and stoop as low as they deem necessary
  17. [Meme] How Low Can You Go at the European Patent Office?
    Not just in terms of patent quality
  18. More Cuts/End to Benefits for EPO Workers (Europe's Working Conditions Incompatible With the European Patent Convention)
    "The Office is now reviving it but plans to introduce new cuts on benefits"
  19. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  20. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 07, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, November 07, 2024
  21. Security Advisory: Debian falls for social engineering hacks
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  22. Gemini Links 08/11/2024: US Election, RetroChallenge 2024, and More
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-11-02 to 2024-11-08
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    1402 /n/2024/11/07/Microsoft_Connected_Publishers_Want_Us_to_Think_That_Linux_is_S.shtml
    1234 /n/2024/11/04/Shout_out_to_Christine_From_FOSSForce.shtml
    805 /n/2024/11/02/GNU_Linux_Usage_Surveys_Up_to_6_8_With_ChromeOS_Based_on_StatCo.shtml
    790 /n/2024/11/04/Saving_the_Planet_With_Honesty_Transparency_and_Sharing_Not_Onl.shtml
    761 /n/2024/11/06/Mass_Layoffs_at_Mozilla_Announced_During_US_Elections.shtml
    725 /n/2024/10/25/Links_25_10_2024_Erosion_of_Trust_Online_and_Disability_Rights.shtml
    684 /n/2024/11/04/Apple_s_MacOS_Shows_Us_the_Vision_of_Computing_That_GAFAM_Has_f.shtml
    673 /n/2024/11/02/Python_Software_Foundation_is_Cancel_Culture_Rehomed.shtml
    659 /n/2024/10/31/SCO_Darl_McBride_Dead_at_Age_64.shtml
    643 /n/2024/11/05/Halloween_All_Saints_Day_Swiss_citizenship.shtml
    631 /n/2024/11/06/Would_You_Trust_a_Liar.shtml
    545 /n/2024/11/05/Links_05_11_2024_Criminal_Referrals_Regarding_Patent_Trolls_and.shtml
    545 /n/2024/11/03/Streisand_Effect_at_IBM.shtml
    525 /n/2024/11/02/The_Luddite_Complex.shtml
    520 /n/2024/11/04/Active_as_in_One_URL_One_Emoji_and_4_Words_in_One_Week.shtml
    517 /n/2024/11/03/Free_Software_Licence_Compliance_is_About_Security_Too.shtml
    503 /n/2024/11/05/Oppose_the_Fascist.shtml
    503 /n/2024/11/03/Wall_Street_Has_Demoted_Intel_Seeing_There_May_be_No_Future_to_.shtml

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