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Antergos Linux was created by developers Alexandre Filgueira, Gustau Castells, and Dustin Falgout back in 2012 as an unofficial Cinnamon flavor of the popular and flexible Arch Linux distribution. It was initially called Cinnarch (Cinnamon on Arch), but the developers renamed it Antergos in 2013.

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Based on the latest Devuan 6 “Excalibur” series, which is based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, Peppermint OS Devuan ships with three init systems, including SysVinit, OpenRC, and runit, and features the lightweight Xfce 4.20 desktop environment by default.

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M5Stack LLM-8850 Kit delivers 24 TOPS AI acceleration in M.2 form factor

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 19, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Estimates That IBM to Lay Off Close to 10,000 Workers in 2026 (Not Counting People Pushed Out)
    There's still chatter about Confluent mass layoffs

    New

  2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 15 Out of 200: Background and Particulars of Truth Regarding Techrights and Tux Machines
    the basic facts (this has aged well, except the times/ages/numbers)
  3. A Slopfarms Survey for Today (linuxteck.com, linuxsecurity.com, linuxjournal.com)
    Not only did Google news link to a slopfarm; it linked to three run by the same team!
  4. Links 18/03/2026: "Venture Capitalist Warns That It’s All About to Come Crashing Down" Due to Slop Bubble, "Birdwatching for Fun and no Profit"
    Links for the day
  5. IBM Red Hat is Still Promoting Restricted Boot Which Restricts Users' Control Over Their Computers
    Red Hat under IBM is a total catastrophe
  6. Arvind Says... Something Something "Hey Hi" (the State of Today's Media)
    Look for news about IBM and most likely it'll boil down to some sound bites from an executive and nothing else
  7. New Post Has Just Explained How IBM Gets Robbed by the People Who Fail IBM
    Their plan for IBM is a personal plan
  8. Slop-Spewing GAFAM LLM That Knows Nothing and Understands Nothing, It's a Stochastic Parrot That Cannot Even Figure Out Tux Machines is a Community That Started in Tennessee 22 Years Ago
    RMS rightly calls those things "bullshit generators"
  9. Cusdeb Makes New Presentation About Where GNU Hurd (Still a Possible Linux Replacement) Stands in 2026
    coming from a generally RMS-friendly account
  10. Gemini Links 18/03/2026: Librarians, Phone Anxiety, Growing 'Small' Net, and Slop Versus Software Engineering
    Links for the day
  11. Smug Threat by Garrett to Put My Family and I in Prison Doesn't Prove We Did Anything Wrong, It Only Proves He's Truly Desperate to Stop Further Publications That Embarrass Him
    his reputation is poor in the United States
  12. systemd Increasingly Microsoft Project, Controlled by Microsoft and Slopware
    Cannot allow choice
  13. What IBM Meant to Red Hat: "Proprietary Bundling, Restricted Source Access"
    Anyone or anything that joins IBM likely shortens its lifespan
  14. IBM Thrashing Confluent Upon Arrival, Based on Rumours
    We deem it a bigger issue that investigative journalism perished, not that one must rely on hearsay online or mere "rumours"
  15. Slop Is Plagiarism, Not (Vibe) Coding, and It's Not Automated, It Doesn't Save Money
    Reject misnomers, explain what's actually happening
  16. UPC is Still Illegal and Unconstitutional (Kangaroo Court for Patents, Manned by Corporate Staff), Federal Court of Justice of Germany Receives Belated Complaint About It
    What is happening to Europe???
  17. EPO Demonstration Happening Right Now, Later This Week Things Will Only Escalate Further
    The SUEPO The Hague Committee wrote to staff this morning
  18. Links 18/03/2026: Commodore's Hedley Davis Dies, Apple Not Good Enough, Cheeto "Floats Treason Charges for Iran War Coverage"
    Links for the day
  19. A Step Close to Shutting Down the European Patent Office (EPO)
    Not going to work all month long
  20. EPO Staff Demonstration Today
    The demonstration will be live-streamed for those thousands of colleagues who don't live in Munich
  21. Gemini Links 18/03/2026: Brazilian SYN Attacks and BGP
    Links for the day
  22. LibreLocal Also Coming to Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, and Spain
    It helps raise awareness of Software Freedom
  23. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  24. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 17, 2026
    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 17, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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    802 /n/2026/03/12/Overview_of_False_Narratives_and_Lies_Used_to_Lower_Salaries_at.shtml
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    724 /n/2026/03/12/IBM_Cannot_Even_Do_Payroll_Now_a_Legitimate_Target_of_Iran.shtml
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