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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.0 Release Candidate

Today marks two weeks since the release of Linux kernel 6.19 and the opening of the merge window for Linux kernel 7.0, which means that it is time to test drive the Release Candidate (RC) versions during the next couple of months, the first one being available for download right now from Linus Torvalds’s Git tree.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 02, 2024

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  2. The Post Offices Have Turned Into Trash. They Swallow Packages and Only Spit Them Out If You Get Lucky.
    Nom nom nom
  3. Four Years of Videos (Self-Hosted, Not Social Control Multimedia)
    Seeing how the "hey hi" (AI) hype spreads to GulagTube and ruins GulagTube, we're glad we need not worry about Google (Gulag) policing our "content" via supposedly 'free' (not really) platforms, such as GulagTube, the social control (multi)media "market leader"

    New

  4. The Microsoft OSI: All the Latest Blog Posts Are Written by Microsoft Operative Salaried by Microsoft
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  5. Links 01/12/2024: Russian Police Raiding Gay Bars, Zelensky Wants NATO Membership
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  6. Gemini Links 01/12/2024: Recycling and Interest in Computers
    Links for the day
  7. Links 01/12/2024: 23andMe's DNA Bubble Imploded, Web Server Survey Shows Microsoft Nosediving
    Links for the day
  8. Vulture funds war-gaming Ireland loss of corporation tax revenue, Donald Trump
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  9. Gerry Hutch & Debian: suicide by Monk?
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  10. Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch: criminals vs geeks, multinationals vs Ireland
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  11. "Microsoft suffered the next largest loss, down by 634,406 sites (-3.24%)"
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  12. [Meme] Hiding From Bullies Not the Solution
    ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.’
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  14. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 30, 2024
    IRC logs for Saturday, November 30, 2024
  15. If You Support Free - is in Freedom/Libre - Software, Then Support the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
    2024 was the most productive year so far
  16. CNN's Front Page is About 250 Times Heavier Than Techrights' (Also Far Slower)
    Those who value performance and users' experience will give bloat the boot
  17. [Meme] What 'Social Justice Warrior' Has Come to Mean by 2024
    People who have long called themselves "SJW" aren't exactly any of those things
  18. We Already Know What Makes Techrights So Attractive to Online Abuse and Cybercrimes
    Techrights helps explain how to dismantle the 'cancel culture' against Free software (it also names the key perpetrators)
  19. Microsoft Controlling Apache by Proxy/ies
    This is a broader attack on what "Open Source" actually means
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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    1495 /n/2024/11/30/Proving_Yet_Again_That_Techrights_Was_Right_About_UEFI_Secure_B.shtml
    817 /n/2024/11/25/BetaNews_is_Run_and_Written_by_Bots_That_Make_Clickbait.shtml
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