GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 24, 2025

• GNU/Linux

  • Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

    • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

      • Hackaday ☛ Jenny’s Daily Drivers: KDE Linux

        Over this series test-driving operating systems, we’ve tried to bring you the unusual, the esoteric, or the less mainstream among the world of the desktop OS. It would become very boring very quickly of we simply loaded up a succession of Linux distros, so we’ve avoided simply testing the latest Debian, or Fedora.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu 25.10 Will Fix Update Manager’s Focus Stealing

      Ubuntu 25.10 may include a fix for the Update Manager focus stealing by reverting to notifications and app indicators instead of auto-launching windows.

    • Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 910

      Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 910 for the week of September 14 – 20, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • Purism ☛ Shortwave App Now Available

      Shortwave is an internet radio player that provides access to a station database with over 50,000 stations.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • FSF

    • spring is here

      It's been a long winter for me, but spring is here again!

  • Programming/Development

    • Bartosz Milewski ☛ Identity Types

      Previously: Models of (Dependent) Type Theory. There is a deep connection between mathematics and programming. Computer programs deal with such mathematical objects as numbers, vectors, monoids, functors, algebras, and many more. We can implement such structures in most programming languages.

    • WebAssembly 3.0 Delivers Major Performance and Language Support Upgrades

      WebAssembly 3.0: Garbage collection, 64-bit memory, multiple memories and tail calls to make high-level language compilation easier.

    • Perl / Raku

      • Rakulang ☛ Rakudo Weekly 2025.38 Cyclone Liz

        Liz’s Corner Elizabeth Mattijsen continued to whip up a storm with her series on SBOM for Raku. This week was the turn of both CycloneDX Support and PURL Support. [ed. surely that is spelled wrong!]