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Adaptability and Resilience: Q&A with New Board Chair Brian Haberman

On Saturday, 25 July, the Internet Society Board of Trustees selected Brian Haberman as its next chair.

Community Snapshot—July

Around the world, our community works locally, regionally, and globally to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy.

LinuxGizmos.com

Comu Fits a 144MHz CH32V203 RISC-V Board Inside a USB-A Port

Tindie recently listed Comu, a compact development board built around the WCH CH32V203 RISC-V microcontroller. Measuring 13 × 9.4mm, the board fits inside a USB-A port and combines programmable touch controls, LEDs, USB device support, and access to several GPIO signals.

NXP FRDM i.MX 95 Pro Pairs Six Cortex-A55 Cores with 8 eTOPS AI Acceleration

NXP has released the FRDM i.MX 95 Pro, a development board designed for evaluating the company’s i.MX 95 applications processor in edge AI, industrial networking, robotics, vision processing, and advanced HMI applications.

Raspberry Pi 4 3GB Variant Reaches More Distributors Following April Introduction

Raspberry Pi introduced a new 3GB version of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B in April, positioning it between the existing 2GB and 4GB configurations. Four months after the announcement, the model is appearing through additional distributors, including TME, PiShop.us, and Waveshare.

Banana Pi BPI-AI2N Goes on Sale with Yocto and Armbian Images

Banana Pi has announced public availability of its BPI-AI2N embedded vision platform, following the hardware introduction covered last year. The platform combines a system-on-module based on the Renesas RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU with a separate carrier board designed for smart cameras, industrial vision, robotics, and other edge AI applications.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.10.1

For example, if a malicious website that you visit is able to exploit CVE-2026-64560, they might take full control of your Tails and deanonymize you.

Arti 2.5.1 released

This release consists mostly of internal improvements and bug fixes, as well as our ongoing development towards using Arti as a relay and as a directory authority. For onion service hosts, onion services can now be configured to connect to unix socket addresses. Arti also now has experimental support for congestion control and Counter Galois Onion cryptography on onion service circuits, which we hope to make stable soon.

9to5Linux

GNOME 50.4 Desktop Environment Released with Various Improvements

Coming a month after GNOME 50.3, the GNOME 50.4 release improves menu animations in GNOME Shell, which also received fixes for a miscaled magnified cursor on HiDPI displays, a sound glitch when pushing redundant volume changes, and a glitch when switching to a minimized window on another workspace.

Mesa 26.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Mesa 26.2 include a new tool called Gamma for inspecting acceleration structures and ray-tracing dispatches, currently supported only on the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver, VK_EXT_mesh_shader support in the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs, and Vulkan 1.4 support for the KosmicKrisp Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon hardware.

GStreamer 1.28.6 Adds H.266 Muxing Support to the Rust MP4 Muxers

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.5, the GStreamer 1.28.6 release is here to add H.266 muxing support to the Rust (f)mp4 muxers, improve handling of input buffers without timestamps in Rust (f)mp4 muxers, and support for the nvv4l2h265enc encoder to the webrtcsink element.

Tails 7.10.1 Is Out as an Emergency Release to Fix Critical Vulnerabilities

Coming two weeks after Tails 7.10, the Tails 7.10.1 release is an emergency point release to fix critical vulnerabilities, including a Linux kernel flaw that could allow Tor Browser in Tails to gain administrator privileges. The kernel has been updated to Linux 6.12.100 LTS, and the Tails devs ensure users that this attack is very unlikely.

Mozilla Firefox 153.0.3 Improves the Smart Window and Fixes More Bugs

Coming only a week after Firefox 153.0.1, the Firefox 153.0.3 update is here with more fixes for annoying bugs, including an issue causing audio and video to fail to play or hang when seeking on websites that load media from a Blob URL, and frequent DevTools Inspector crashes on web pages where an extension content script adds event listeners.

NVIDIA Joins Dell and HP in Supporting the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)

This comes as great news after HP, Dell, and Lenovo announced earlier this year their support for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), which provides a portal for updating device firmware on Linux-based operating systems via the fwupd software.

KDE Plasma 6.7.4 Is Out to Improve Spectacle, Discover, and Emoji Selector

Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.7.3, the KDE Plasma 6.7.4 release is here to improve the Spectacle screenshot utility to detect QR codes in screenshots when you click the “Annotate” button from the notification bubble, and improve the Emoji Selector window to accommodate its sidebar without scrolling.

FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” Open-Source Multimedia Framework Officially Released

Dubbed “Lei” and coming about four months after FFmpeg 8.1, the FFmpeg 9.0 release is here to extend AMF Color Converter (vf_vpp_amf) HDR capabilities, add LCEVC track muxing support in the MP4 muxer, add a v360_vulkan filter, add an AMF Frame Rate Converter (vf_frc_amf) filter, along with AMF hardware memory mapping support.

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Probably Our Most Active and Energetic Week, Ever

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 09, 2025,
updated Nov 09, 2025

Fuel drums ready for airdrop

We recently found more motivation and energy. Invigorated by merciless attacks on us, we became only stronger and this past week we've added nearly 300 new pages to this site, as follows:

  1. 2025-11-03 03:30 Today in Techrights
  2. 2025-11-03 03:54 FreeBSD 15.0-BETA4 Now Available
  3. 2025-11-03 03:55 Linux 6.18-rc4
  4. 2025-11-03 04:03 Games: Steam Next Fest, DIY Pinball Machine, and More
  5. 2025-11-03 04:03 today's howtos
  6. 2025-11-03 04:05 Retro, Open Hardware, Modding, and Linux Devices
  7. 2025-11-03 04:06 today's leftovers
  8. 2025-11-03 04:33 Bicycle Repair, Shoe Repair, and Hacking
  9. 2025-11-03 05:46 A Week of Unwinding
  10. 2025-11-03 06:51 Stable kernels: Linux 6.17.7, Linux 6.12.57, and Linux 6.6.116
  11. 2025-11-03 06:53 Review: StartOS 0.4.0
  12. 2025-11-03 06:59 Best Free and Open Source Software
  13. 2025-11-03 07:10 These are the only 3 Linux distros I recommend to newcomers
  14. 2025-11-03 08:55 today's howtos
  15. 2025-11-03 08:56 today's leftovers
  16. 2025-11-03 08:57 Programming Leftovers
  17. 2025-11-03 08:58 Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
  18. 2025-11-03 14:25 Systemd-Free Devuan GNU/Linux 6.0 Distro Is Out Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”
  19. 2025-11-03 15:09 Kiro – minimal, flexible, and customizable Arch-based Linux distribution
  20. 2025-11-03 15:11 Free and Open Source Software
  21. 2025-11-03 15:24 I always install these 7 Flatpak apps on my Linux PCs
  22. 2025-11-03 15:25 Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu
  23. 2025-11-03 15:27 Shelf Stable Cosmic DE Will Arrive With a Pop! on December 11 [updated]
  24. 2025-11-03 15:34 Devuan 6 “Excalibur” Released with Debian 13 “Trixie” Base
  25. 2025-11-03 15:50 Android Leftovers
  26. 2025-11-03 23:34 Wetherspoons Cuts the Sugar
  27. 2025-11-03 23:48 Applications: A Look at Bazaar and Kando
  28. 2025-11-03 23:50 GNU/Linux and Open Hardware Leftovers
  29. 2025-11-04 00:42 6 exciting and niche OS projects that are quietly growing as users leave Windows
  30. 2025-11-04 00:50 Self-Hosting on a Raspberry Pi, Proxmox, Homelabs, and Home Servers
  31. 2025-11-04 00:51 Steam Deck Kicked Off a PC Gaming Revolution and Steam Deck's USB-C Port Has a Wild Number of Uses
  32. 2025-11-04 01:41 Rianne's Fish Have Survived Our Absence
  33. 2025-11-04 02:10 10 Reasons to Choose GNU/Linux, Not Apple, After End of (Vista) 10
  34. 2025-11-04 02:47 Today in Techrights
  35. 2025-11-04 04:24 Recent Valnet Articles in XDA and HowTo Geek
  36. 2025-11-04 06:54 Meeting Us in Person This Week
  37. 2025-11-04 07:58 Join Us in Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
  38. 2025-11-04 08:06 Speaking Truth to Power
  39. 2025-11-04 09:20 Wine 10.18 is Out [updated]
  40. 2025-11-04 09:47 Games: Pillars of Eternity, Thrive, BallisticNG, and More
  41. 2025-11-04 10:27 There Would be No Linux Without GNU
  42. 2025-11-04 11:06 SUSE delivers Raspberry Pi 5 U-Boot support
  43. 2025-11-04 11:08 Leap Fuels Hands-On Learning, Exploration
  44. 2025-11-04 11:17 Turris Omnia NG Introduced with OpenWRT-Derived OS, Wi-Fi 7, and 10 Gbps Networking
  45. 2025-11-04 11:21 ZimaOS – simplified, focused and Open NAS operating system
  46. 2025-11-04 11:23 Vitalinux – Ubuntu-based Linux distribution
  47. 2025-11-04 11:29 Free and Open Source Software
  48. 2025-11-04 11:32 This minimalist Linux distro is built for small business - and runs like a dream
  49. 2025-11-04 12:09 LibreELEC 12.2.1 Media Center Arrives with Kodi 21.3 Omega
  50. 2025-11-04 12:20 Android Leftovers
  51. 2025-11-04 13:13 Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
  52. 2025-11-04 13:37 An Alternative to Microsoft Office: SoftMaker FreeOffice 2024
  53. 2025-11-04 14:31 today's howtos
  54. 2025-11-04 15:10 Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on GNU/Linux [updated]
  55. 2025-11-04 15:17 Linux Magazine's Latest Issue (301)
  56. 2025-11-04 15:36 Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
  57. 2025-11-04 15:37 Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
  58. 2025-11-04 15:37 Programming Leftovers
  59. 2025-11-04 16:11 Audiocasts/Shows: Linux User Space, Late Night Linux, Destination Linux, and LINUX Unplugged
  60. 2025-11-04 16:28 NebiOS – Ubuntu-based Linux distribution
  61. 2025-11-04 16:30 Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
  62. 2025-11-04 16:43 Devuan 6 “Excalibur” Released with Debian 13 “Trixie” Base [updated]
  63. 2025-11-04 16:48 NVIDIA Releases Linux Driver 580.105 With HDMI and Game Crash Fixes
  64. 2025-11-04 16:54 Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
  65. 2025-11-04 16:56 Applications, Games, Hardware, and Distributions
  66. 2025-11-04 17:15 Linux 6.18-rc4 [updated]
  67. 2025-11-04 19:22 NVIDIA 580.105.08 Linux Graphics Driver Released with a New Environment Variable
  68. 2025-11-05 02:59 Today in Techrights
  69. 2025-11-05 04:22 Games: Steam Deck, HYPER DEMON PVP, and More
  70. 2025-11-05 04:50 Tux Machines Was Always Run by Women
  71. 2025-11-05 05:26 Techrights Turns 19 This Friday
  72. 2025-11-05 06:52 Taking Search Live, Slicing and Splitting Based on Multiple Criteria
  73. 2025-11-05 06:52 The most beautiful Linux distributions for 2025
  74. 2025-11-05 06:59 Farewell to these, but not adieu…
  75. 2025-11-05 07:01 KDE Plasma 6.5.2, Bugfix Release for November
  76. 2025-11-05 07:08 Free and Open Source Software
  77. 2025-11-05 07:11 KeePass 2.60 Released with Firefox CSV Import Support (Ubuntu PPA)
  78. 2025-11-05 07:17 Jenny’s Daily Drivers: ReactOS 0.4.15
  79. 2025-11-05 07:20 Nebula Is a New GTK Frontend for Managing Void Linux Packages
  80. 2025-11-05 07:23 Hear ye, hear ye! The GNU Press Shop is open now through New Years' Day
  81. 2025-11-05 07:39 Rust Pushers in Debian Are 'Killing' the 'Old' PCs (Bad for the Environment)
  82. 2025-11-05 07:42 Android Leftovers
  83. 2025-11-05 07:42 Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
  84. 2025-11-05 13:09 LXQt 2.3 Desktop Environment Released with New Features and Enhancements
  85. 2025-11-05 14:51 VTubing on Fedora KDE 42
  86. 2025-11-05 14:55 It's Time to Bring Back GNOME Office (Hope You Remember It)
  87. 2025-11-05 14:57 Calam Arch Installer – Arch-based Linux distribution
  88. 2025-11-05 15:01 Free and Open Source Software
  89. 2025-11-05 15:21 Portable Games: Valve's Steam Deck Sleep Mode and Factorio Running On Mobile [updated]
  90. 2025-11-05 15:23 Nginx Proxy Manager 2.13 Brings Long-Awaited React Interface
  91. 2025-11-05 16:31 Fwupd 2.0.17 Released with Support for Lexar and Maxio NVMe SSDs
  92. 2025-11-05 16:55 Incus 6.18 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released [updated]
  93. 2025-11-05 18:04 5 obscure Linux distros you've probably never heard of - but should definitely try
  94. 2025-11-05 18:06 Explore how Linux offers privacy and control without sacrificing usability as AI becomes ubiquitous
  95. 2025-11-05 18:07 Chaotic-AUR is trying to fight Arch Linux malware
  96. 2025-11-05 18:08 Red Hat, CentOS, and Oracle Linux
  97. 2025-11-05 18:09 today's howtos
  98. 2025-11-05 18:10 Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, and Lots More
  99. 2025-11-05 18:11 GNOME: Felipe Borges on Google Summer of Labour and Sebastian Wick on "Flatpak Happenings"
  100. 2025-11-05 18:12 Education and Events: AsiaBSDCon, FOSDEM, and More
  101. 2025-11-05 18:13 Programming Leftovers
  102. 2025-11-05 18:14 Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) From Microsoft CISA
  103. 2025-11-05 18:15 Windows TCO and Blaming Linux for Microsoft's Hyper-V (Proprietary)
  104. 2025-11-05 18:15 Security Leftovers
  105. 2025-11-05 18:17 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Release Date and Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter
  106. 2025-11-05 18:18 Microsoft's Open Source Initiative (OSI) Promoting Slop, Openwashing by LF
  107. 2025-11-05 18:19 Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
  108. 2025-11-05 18:19 Web Browsers and Web Sites Leftovers
  109. 2025-11-05 18:20 GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
  110. 2025-11-06 02:48 Today in Techrights
  111. 2025-11-06 03:39 Debian splits ftpmaster team
  112. 2025-11-06 03:44 Latest From LWN, Microsoft Azure Falls Offline Again
  113. 2025-11-06 03:58 Back to a More Normal Life
  114. 2025-11-06 07:45 Games: The Crew Motorfest, Sonic Rumble, and More
  115. 2025-11-06 08:29 Red Hat growth slows, IBM lays off lots of workers
  116. 2025-11-06 09:15 Techrights Turns 19 in Half a Day
  117. 2025-11-06 09:33 Tux Machines Site Search Can Use Same Code as Techrights' Search
  118. 2025-11-06 10:31 Grinn GenioBoard Offers MediaTek Genio 700 SoM, Dual M.2 Expansion, and CRA-Ready Security
  119. 2025-11-06 10:33 Slimbook Titan report 7 - Nope, I'm not happy (again)
  120. 2025-11-06 10:36 Xray_OS – Arch-based Linux distribution
  121. 2025-11-06 10:36 Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… likes what he sees
  122. 2025-11-06 10:39 Free and Open Source Software
  123. 2025-11-06 10:42 NVIDIA 580.105.08 Linux Graphics Driver Released with a New Environment Variable [updated]
  124. 2025-11-06 10:47 My new favorite diagnostic tool is a free, open-source Clonezilla GUI that's easier to use
  125. 2025-11-06 10:49 I once locked myself out of my files with a simple mistyped commanI once locked myself out of my files with a simple mistyped command
  126. 2025-11-06 11:00 Who Monitors The Monitor?
  127. 2025-11-06 11:08 Changing these 5 KDE settings made my Linux desktop feel faster
  128. 2025-11-06 11:10 Android Leftovers
  129. 2025-11-06 12:27 Systemd-Free Devuan GNU/Linux 6.0 Distro Is Out Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” [updated]
  130. 2025-11-06 12:40 KDE Gear 25.08.3 Is Out with More Bug Fixes, KDE Gear 25.12 Coming December 11th
  131. 2025-11-06 14:15 SUSE Hugs Buzzwords and Hack Week Project in OpenSUSE [updated]
  132. 2025-11-06 14:32 antiX-25-full-beta1 available for public testing
  133. 2025-11-06 15:13 today's howtos
  134. 2025-11-06 15:36 Security Leftovers and Windows TCO Tales
  135. 2025-11-06 15:38 Latest From Red Hat and Why "Badly Crippled IBM Can’t Be Fixed"
  136. 2025-11-06 15:38 Openwashing of Slop/Plagiarism by OSI and Hypocrisy on "Cyber Resilience" After OSI Data Breach
  137. 2025-11-06 15:39 EasyContainers GUI fix and SeaMonkey 2.53.22 compiled in woofQ2 in EasyOS
  138. 2025-11-06 15:40 Games: Steam, GCompris, FEX, and More
  139. 2025-11-06 15:41 Web Browsers: XSLT, Curl, and Firefox's Ongoing Promotion of Slop/Chaff
  140. 2025-11-06 15:42 Programming Leftovers
  141. 2025-11-06 15:43 Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards
  142. 2025-11-06 15:44 GNU/Linux, BSD, and Devices
  143. 2025-11-06 15:50 Linux Mint Devs Introduce New System Administration & System Information Tools
  144. 2025-11-06 23:00 Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark [updated]
  145. 2025-11-06 23:05 Blaming "Linux" for Microsoft and Hyper-V Breaches
  146. 2025-11-06 23:09 Jack Wallen on password managers for Linux and command-line tools
  147. 2025-11-07 00:57 This Site and Techrights Now a Combined Age of 40+ Years
  148. 2025-11-07 01:06 GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers [updated]
  149. 2025-11-07 02:19 ODF 1.4 Standard Set for Debut and Bluetooth 6.2 Improves BT
  150. 2025-11-07 02:20 Programming: Smalltalk and Rust
  151. 2025-11-07 02:21 Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
  152. 2025-11-07 02:22 GNU/Linux Leftovers
  153. 2025-11-07 02:58 Today in Techrights
  154. 2025-11-07 04:03 IBM is Falling (That's a Problem for Red Hat)
  155. 2025-11-07 04:47 Speaking Out for Victims of Abuse
  156. 2025-11-07 05:36 Kyle Chayka is Right, "Social [Control] Media" is Toxic, Better Off Avoided
  157. 2025-11-07 06:33 PenPot and KDE Plasma Coordination
  158. 2025-11-07 06:35 Fixing Image Thumbnails Not Showing Up in GNOME Files on Fedora Linux
  159. 2025-11-07 06:40 Radxa Cubie A7Z Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction to the Series
  160. 2025-11-07 06:41 ONLYOFFICE DocSpace 3.5 released: upgraded editors, smarter sharing, and stronger control
  161. 2025-11-07 06:48 Ubuntu is easily the most bloated Linux distro, but it doesn't have to be
  162. 2025-11-07 06:50 Please stop being scared of the Linux terminal
  163. 2025-11-07 06:59 GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades
  164. 2025-11-07 07:00 SQLite 3.51 Brings New JSONB Functions and Better Performance
  165. 2025-11-07 07:08 AI Controversy Forces End of Mozilla’s Japanese SUMO Community
  166. 2025-11-07 07:14 Android Leftovers
  167. 2025-11-07 07:48 Games: SteamOS 3.7.17, CrossOver, Luanti, and More
  168. 2025-11-07 11:00 Calibre 8.14 Open-Source E-Book Manager Updates the Tolino Driver and Fixes Bugs
  169. 2025-11-07 11:33 A Parrot in Manchester
  170. 2025-11-07 11:56 Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
  171. 2025-11-07 11:58 today's leftovers
  172. 2025-11-07 13:12 Schleswig-Holstein's Migration of Productivity Software (Dumping Microsoft) Progresses
  173. 2025-11-07 13:54 today's howtos
  174. 2025-11-07 14:23 Fedora 41 approaching end of life, Fedora 43 preview, and Fedora Silverblue on MacBook Air
  175. 2025-11-07 14:24 Programming Leftovers
  176. 2025-11-07 14:24 Debugging WordPress and Risk of Plugins
  177. 2025-11-07 15:46 BSD and ZFS Leftovers
  178. 2025-11-07 15:48 Reinventing PostgreSQL, CERN PGDay 2026 Announcement and CfP
  179. 2025-11-07 15:51 Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
  180. 2025-11-07 15:51 Events: FSF40, EU Open Source Policy Summit, and Debconf25
  181. 2025-11-07 15:56 Games: “ABCCAD” in Godot, CrossOver, and More Panic From Microsoft Circles
  182. 2025-11-07 15:57 New Release of EasyOS, Simple Xcursor Creator and Selector is Back
  183. 2025-11-07 15:58 FreeBSD, Free Software, and Openwashing
  184. 2025-11-07 16:40 Introduction to Talos Linux
  185. 2025-11-07 16:40 Huawei Launches Homegrown PCs With Custom Processors and Linux-Based OS
  186. 2025-11-07 16:41 Jack Wallen on Working as Root and Replacing Windows With GNU/Linux
  187. 2025-11-07 16:42 Rocky Linux Riding the Slop Hype and NVIDIA's Gold Rush
  188. 2025-11-07 18:02 TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 15 Gen10 Linux Laptop Announced with AMD Ryzen AI 300
  189. 2025-11-08 02:52 Today in Techrights
  190. 2025-11-08 03:07 Why We've Managed to Reach 40+ Years (as Web Sites)
  191. 2025-11-08 03:23 We've Gotten Our Normal Life Back
  192. 2025-11-08 07:17 today's howtos
  193. 2025-11-08 07:18 GNU/Linux gamers "cross over the 3% mark" and "Windows games on Linux just got better"
  194. 2025-11-08 07:20 Programming Leftovers
  195. 2025-11-08 07:21 GNU/Linux and Standards Leftovers
  196. 2025-11-08 09:32 Games: Steam, OpenMW, Lexispell, and More
  197. 2025-11-08 09:55 Our Look at Fedora 43 — With Screenshots, Elton John, and More!
  198. 2025-11-08 09:58 Introducing IncusOS!
  199. 2025-11-08 10:06 This Week in GNOME: #224 Reduced Motion
  200. 2025-11-08 10:09 Kdenlive 25.08.3 released
  201. 2025-11-08 10:10 This Week in Plasma: Virtual desktops only on the primary screen
  202. 2025-11-08 10:20 Best Free and Open Source Software
  203. 2025-11-08 10:21 LXQt 2.3 Desktop Environment Released with New Features and Enhancements [updated]
  204. 2025-11-08 10:24 Announcing the winners of the FSF40 Photo Contest
  205. 2025-11-08 10:32 The best Linux distro for Windows 10 escapees is getting a little bit better
  206. 2025-11-08 10:33 I stopped fearing the Linux terminal after learning these 5 commands
  207. 2025-11-08 10:42 This is the Linux distro I moved my non-tech family members to
  208. 2025-11-08 10:43 Arch Linux is getting easier to install
  209. 2025-11-08 10:51 Kubuntu Website Inaccessible Due to SSL Configuration Mistake
  210. 2025-11-08 10:56 today's howtos
  211. 2025-11-08 11:01 Android Leftovers
  212. 2025-11-08 11:50 Going Outdoors More Frequently, GNU/Linux Has 'Critical Mass' Already
  213. 2025-11-08 12:51 In 2023 We Took Out 'The Trash'
  214. 2025-11-08 15:19 MKVToolNix 96.0 Released with New CLI Parameter and Improved AV1/IVF Support
  215. 2025-11-08 15:43 Linux Mint Devs Introduce New System Administration & System Information Tools [updated]
  216. 2025-11-08 17:26 Security and Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD)
  217. 2025-11-08 17:27 today's howtos
  218. 2025-11-08 17:28 Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
  219. 2025-11-08 17:28 GNU/Linux Applications: Carburetor, Discover, and More
  220. 2025-11-08 17:29 Barry Kauler on EasyOS and Easy Excalibur
  221. 2025-11-08 17:30 UNIX v4 and Unix V7 Coming Back, Sort of
  222. 2025-11-08 17:31 Programming Leftovers
  223. 2025-11-08 17:32 GNOME: GNOME on OpenBSD 7.8, Google Summer of Code 2025, and GNOME Foundation Update by IBM (the Boss)
  224. 2025-11-08 17:33 OpenSUSE Roundup and Tumbleweed Review
  225. 2025-11-08 17:34 Mozilla Unveils Firefox Support for Organizations, Sabotages the Firefox Logo, Chrome Has Serious Holes
  226. 2025-11-08 17:35 Static Site Generators (SSG) News and Promotions Thereof
  227. 2025-11-08 17:37 Audiocasts and Videos: Corelight, Linux.org, and Hackaday
  228. 2025-11-08 17:38 Hyprland 0.52 Adds Input Rotation, Forceidle, and Rendering Tweaks
  229. 2025-11-08 17:39 System76 CEO Carl Richell Reveals COSMIC Desktop Launch Date [updated]
  230. 2025-11-08 17:41 Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Events, and Standards
  231. 2025-11-08 17:41 Hardware/Gadgets: Plasma Mobile, AmberELEC, and Raspberry Pi
  232. 2025-11-09 00:58 TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 15 Gen10 Linux Laptop Announced with AMD Ryzen AI 300 [updated]
  233. 2025-11-09 03:21 Today in Techrights
  234. 2025-11-09 04:57 Sick Culture Online
  235. 2025-11-09 05:41 Productive Week Behind and Another Productive Week Ahead
  236. 2025-11-09 12:16 Proton Experimental and Hardware Leftovers
  237. 2025-11-09 12:42 Building Chromium for Slackware
  238. 2025-11-09 12:45 Luberri – Linux Mint-based distro for Basque speakers
  239. 2025-11-09 12:51 Free and Open Source Software
  240. 2025-11-09 12:55 KDE Plasma 6.6 and KDE Plasma Automatic Time Zone
  241. 2025-11-09 13:05 Introducing IncusOS! [updated]
  242. 2025-11-09 13:07 I'm finally jumping on the CachyOS bandwagon this weekend
  243. 2025-11-09 13:09 After 5 years, I’m finally leaving Ubuntu for this Linux distro
  244. 2025-11-09 13:18 5 reasons I’ve never used Arch Linux as a daily driver and never will
  245. 2025-11-09 13:50 LibraZiK – Debian-based Linux distribution for music production
  246. 2025-11-09 13:52 QuickBib – fetch BibTeX for DOIs and arXiv identifiers
  247. 2025-11-09 14:05 My handheld gaming console is also my portable Linux workstation
  248. 2025-11-09 14:07 I fell in love with Ubuntu 25.10—but only after making these 7 tweaks
  249. 2025-11-09 14:24 FreeBSD 15.0-BETA5 Now Available
  250. 2025-11-09 14:38 A Debian-Based Distro and Hardware Upgrades Come to the PINE64 RISC-V Tablet
  251. 2025-11-09 14:40 Crystal Linux: An Avant-garde Mix of Arch Linux and GNOME
  252. 2025-11-09 14:46 The original Raspberry Pi's end-of-life countdown has just started
  253. 2025-11-09 14:50 This Week in Plasma: Virtual desktops only on the primary screen [updated]
  254. 2025-11-09 14:57 Android Leftovers
  255. 2025-11-09 15:00 WINE or Emulation: Bottles 52.1 Released and Retro PC Gaming the Easy Way with DOSBox Pure Unleashed
  256. 2025-11-09 15:06 I made a portable Linux drive that boots on nearly any computer
  257. 2025-11-09 15:07 $120 GNU/Linux Gaming PC and "Is indie game dev even viable as a business in 2025?"
  258. 2025-11-09 15:08 Rocky Linux Riding the Slop Hype and NVIDIA's Gold Rush [updated]
  259. 2025-11-09 15:10 today's howtos
  260. 2025-11-09 15:12 Hardware: BeagleBoard, Raspberry Pi, and More
  261. 2025-11-09 15:13 Security Leftovers
  262. 2025-11-09 15:14 Google Summer of Labour in NetBSD, Swift Programming Language Now Available for FreeBSD
  263. 2025-11-09 15:16 Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Real Ownership, and Sharing
  264. 2025-11-09 15:18 GNU/Linux Leftovers
  265. 2025-11-09 15:52 Lupa Knows of 3,208 Active/Online Gemini Capsules, Tux Machines Currently on Top
  266. 2025-11-09 17:09 10 Days Ago We Were Down in London
  267. 2025-11-09 17:23 Next Milestone: Adding Search, Making Archives Easier to Navigate
  268. 2025-11-09 17:59 4 Arch Linux myths that need to stop spreading
  269. 2025-11-09 18:11 Open Hardware/Modding: Homelab projects, OPNsense on Proxmox, and Raspberry Pi projects to try this weekend
  270. 2025-11-09 18:17 Ventoy as "perfect travel-ready productivity toolkit" and SageMath as Mathematica replacement
  271. 2025-11-09 18:29 NebiOS X “Cappadocia” 10.0 — Final/RTM Release Notes
  272. 2025-11-09 18:31 Ikey Doherty Missing from AerynOS for Six Months [updated]
  273. 2025-11-09 18:32 New Releases: AerynOS 2025.10 and Unraid 7.2 Released [updated]
  274. 2025-11-09 18:34 Besgnulinux JWM 3-1 version is ready for use
  275. 2025-11-09 18:37 Sculpt OS release 25.10
  276. 2025-11-09 18:39 TrueNAS 25.10 Open-Source NAS Released with NVMe-oF, ZFS Enhancements [updated]
  277. 2025-11-09 18:41 OpenIndiana Snapshot 2025.10 Available
  278. 2025-11-09 18:45 Bazzite Fall Update: Fedora 43, Xbox Allies, Legion Go 2, Nvidia GTX
  279. 2025-11-09 18:57 Recent GNU/Linux Videos (via Invidious)
This coming week should be equally busy and active. Once we get back home.

Other Recent Tux Machines' Posts

Over 10% Market Share in Desktops and Laptops [original]
In desktops and in laptops GNU/Linux has become a big player
KDE Plasma 6.7.4 Is Out to Improve Spectacle, Discover, and Emoji Selector
KDE Plasma 6.7.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment series with more improvements and bug fixes.
Brett Wilson LLP Facilitated Abuse of Process for Balabhadra (Alex) Graveley and Matthew J. Garrett, So I am Suing Them in the High Court [original]
Half a decade ago Balabhadra (Alex) Graveley from Microsoft and GNOME was arrested for strangulation in Texas
NVIDIA Joins Dell and HP in Supporting the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)
Linux Vendor Firmware Service creator Richard Hughes announced that NVIDIA has also agreed to become a premier sponsor for the LVFS.
Linux 7.2-rc6
the biggest rc6 we've had in years
Enzo Maresca's First With With Manchester City [original]
We eagerly look forward to Maresca's potentially first brass (Community Shield)
 
Relaxing Weeks Ahead [original]
We expect many news sites will "wind down" for the summer
Android Leftovers
Your Android keyboard remembers more than you realize — here's where it all goes
This gorgeous KDE icon pack gives your desktop a chalk-like look
One of the biggest things I love about Linux is that it's very customizable
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The Empire Strikes Back [original]
Stay tuned...
Mesa 26.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Mesa 26.2 open-source graphics stack is now available for download with new features and improvements across all supported drivers. Here’s what’s new!
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Digital Sovereignty, Sharing Leftovers
FOSS and more
GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
GNU/Linux mostly
Productivity Software/LibreOffice Leftovers
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Development picks
Licensing / Legal: Slop Plagiarism Contaminates Projects, Sticking With "AGPLv3-or-later"
3 stories
Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, RISC-V, and More
Hardware leftovers
today's howtos
not many today
Podcasts: OpenSSF (Linux Foundation) and Linux Matters
2 new episodes
BSD and Linux Kernel: Now Even Greg Kroah Hartman Admits Slop is a Major Nuisance
kernel devs
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt: Microsoft Pundit Calls "Linux" Users "AI" Because the Data Looks Bad for Windows
as usual
Security Leftovers
Security related stories
A simple install kept this 10-year-old Asus laptop off the shopping list
Linux Mint is PERFECT for older laptops
Canonical's Go-to Excuse (Security) to Make Ubuntu More Proprietary (Snap)
the latest Ubuntu plot twist
Escape the Algorithm: 10 RSS Feed Readers You Can Self Host in Your Homelab
Create your own feed. Read from the websites you follow. Cut the noise. Ditch the big tech algorithms. Self-host your own feed reader. Here are the best choices.
redhat.com: Slop Plagiarism, Faking Data Protection, and More
redhat.com's latest
pgBackRest 2.59.0, pgAdmin 4 v9.17, and E-Maj 5.0.0 Released
Two postgres related releases
GStreamer 1.28.6 Adds H.266 Muxing Support to the Rust MP4 Muxers
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Games: Lighthouse, Theropods, and More
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Programming Leftovers
Development picks
Tails 7.10.1 Is Out as an Emergency Release to Fix Critical Vulnerabilities
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Zimbabwe: GNU/Linux Surging to 7% [original]
If one adds ChromeOS, then that's 8%
Town Trotting [original]
We don't plan to travel abroad this year
Android Leftovers
Google Assistant shutting down on Android and Wear OS in September
I failed to install the "most difficult" Linux distro but here's why I'm sticking with it
I love using Linux and experimenting with different Linux distributions
Ubuntu is still the distro everyone recommends first, and it all boils down to 4 reasons
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The Mission Center system monitor for Linux adds some new features that will appeal to a broader user base
Windows 11 vs Linux RAM usage in web browsing and gaming reveals big difference
Linus Tech Tips ran a simple side-by-side comparison of RAM usage on Windows 11 and Linux
The only 5 Linux distros I recommend for laptops—after 10 years of using Linux
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NVIDIA 610.57.04 Linux Graphics Driver Improves Support for Many Games
NVIDIA 610.57.04 graphics driver is now available for download with many bug fixes that improve support for multiple video games, as well as the overall performance and stability.
FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” Open-Source Multimedia Framework Officially Released
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Free and Open Source Software
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Enchantment OS – consumer-friendly Linux distribution
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The Future of GNOME Boxes
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Rhythmbox 3.5 Media Player Improves Lyrics Search and Podcast Support
Rhythmbox 3.5 open-source media player is now available for download with improvements to lyrics search, podcast support, and the new playback backend. Here’s what’s new!
Developing with Fedora, first flock, and not the last!
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Red Hat on Slop, WordPress, and Kernel (Linux)
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Security and Windows TCO
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Canonical/Ubuntu: Dropping Curl by Accident, Promoting Proprietary Snaps (Backend Monopolised), Multiple Vulnerabilities
Ubuntu leftovers
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GNU/Linux Exceeding 5% in Mali, a New All-Time High [original]
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New Record High for GNU/Linux in Slovakia (Slovak Republic) [original]
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Beak Time, Big Time [original]
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Debian 'Family'
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Stable kernels: Linux 7.1.6, Linux 6.18.42, Linux 6.12.101, and Linux 6.6.148
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