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GNU/Linux and Standards Leftovers
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GNU/Linux
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Linux Made Simple ☛ 2025-11-02 [Older] Linux Weekly Roundup #348
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Applications
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HowTo Geek ☛ This is my favorite network security app on Linux
Do you trust every app you've installed on Linux? Are you using closed-source software and wish you could see what it's doing behind the scenes? Let me introduce you to Portmaster—the network monitor that gives you X-ray vision into your Linux PC.
What is Portmaster?
Portmaster is a free and open-source (FOSS) application firewall developed by Safing. It integrates directly into your system's network stack—using iptables and nfqueue to inspect packets and control network traffic. This means you can see every network connection your apps make and stop them when needed!
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Red Hat Official ☛ Red Hat Introduces Confirmed Sovereign Support for European Union [Ed: But this is an American company working for US spies and US oligarchs]
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, today announced Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support for the 27 member states of the European Union to address the critical strategic imperative for digital sovereignty in Europe. This new support offering is purpose-built to deliver dedicated EU-citizen-driven technical support from within the EU for Red Hat software subscriptions, providing a new level of verifiable local control over critical IT operations.
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InfoWorld ☛ Agentic AI is complex, not complicated [Ed: "At Red Hat, Scott McCarty is senior principal product manager for RHEL Server" and now he promotes slop plagiarism instead of GNU/Linux]
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Linux On Mobile ☛ 2025-11-03 [Older] Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (44/2025): Night Lights
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Bunnie Huang ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] Name that Ware, October 2025
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Bunnie Huang ☛ 2025-10-30 [Older] Winner, Name that Ware September 2025
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Standards/Consortia
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LWN ☛ Freedesktop.org now hosts the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
The future of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) has been under discussion for some time; now,
Neal Gompa has announced
that the FHS is "hosted and stewarded" by Freedesktop.org.
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