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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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  1. Richard Stallman 'Unveils' His January 20 Talk in Montpellier, France
    It's free (gratis)
  2. Links 19/01/2025: Gaza Ceasefire and PR Stunt by Fentanylware (TikTok), Faking It by "Going Dark" to Incite American Addicts (Users)
    Links for the day
  3. They Won't Buy Vista 11 PCs or "Hey Hi" Copilot+++++++ PCs of Microsoft (With TPM)
    Windows at 8%
  4. No Time Left for President Biden to Pardon Julian Assange
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  5. Total Lock-down Ambitions - Part IV - The Latest Examples and the Perils (in Summary)
    For further reading take a look at Musial's nice outline
  6. Video: University in Peru Honours Richard Stallman
    Tomorrow, January 20, Richard Stallman speaks in France

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  7. [Meme] Hardware RAID and Hardware Raid
    We're expecting attacks on the press in Trump's second term (no need to impress anyone for another election cycle) to be far worse than the first
  8. What's Running on the Laptops
    12 months have passed
  9. [Meme] 404, Not Found
    Kuhn: I'd like to interject for a moment, we made an alliance with the Microsoft-dominated LF to outsource projects to Microsoft GitHub and rich people gave us money to do this
  10. Links 19/01/2025: TikTok (Fentanylware) Now Banned in the US, Convicted Felon Talks to Fentanylware CEO and Pooh-Tin About Undoing the Ban Despite the Supreme Court Unanimously Upholding It
    Links for the day
  11. FTC Realises Microsoft Buying Fake 'Clients' to Fake "Revenue" (Microsoft 'Buying' Services and Products From Itself!)
    Ponzi scheme
  12. Total Lock-down Ambitions - Part III - The Web Browser as DRM Pusher
    A lot of "streaming" stuff is DRM
  13. IBM Termination Story and Information From Microsoft About Mass Layoffs
    In 2 weeks of 2025 Microsoft already had 2 waves of layoffs
  14. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  15. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 18, 2025
    IRC logs for Saturday, January 18, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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    766 /n/2025/01/13/The_Word_About_the_Upcoming_Talk_by_Richard_Stallman_Scheduled_.shtml
    758 /n/2025/01/10/More_IBM_Layoffs_2025.shtml
    702 /n/2025/01/15/Computer_Users_Aren_t_Zoo_Animals.shtml
    685 /n/2025/01/19/Total_Lock_down_Ambitions_Part_IV_The_Latest_Examples_and_the_P.shtml
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