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New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 15.0a2

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Mostly Positive News About GNU/Linux These Days

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 01, 2025,
updated Sep 01, 2025

When this site started in 2004 a lot of news articles or news reports were dismissive and critical of GNU/Linux. They said it was too hard, only the geeks etc. Nowadays that kind of FUD is mostly outdated, so they try to sell out the narrative of GNU/Linux not being secure or being "as bad as" Windows etc. How lousily they have changed their tune...

Despite so many sites about GNU/Linux perishing (the Web as a whole has growing pains which predate LLM slop), we still find plenty of coverage about GNU/Linux. Even while on holiday we manage to average at around 30 new pages per day or about 1,000 per month.

What matters is not the quantity but the substance. The general tone has become a lot more positive. █

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