GNU/Linux Leftovers, Software Freedom Conservancy Messed Up Copyleft Case

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 25, 2025

• GNU/Linux

  • Graphics Stack

    • Arch Linux Drops Support for NVIDIA Pascal and Older GPUs

      Linux can be a solid option for anyone looking for an operating system that supports older hardware, but bleeding-edge distributions like Arch Linux often drop support for older hardware sooner than other distributions. This is exactly what happened recently, as the development team behind Arch Linux decided to upgrade the default NVIDIA GPU driver to version 590. This change means that Arch Linux will no longer support NVIDIA GPUs from the Pascal generation and older—this means GeForce GTX 1000 GPUs and older. Somewhat comically, this happened shortly after AMD's Linux kernel drivers extended support to AMD GPUs dating back to 2012.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • BSD

    • Arseny ☛ FreeBSD: Installation on a ThinkPad X200 Tablet in 2025

      I’ve been a ThinkPad fan for a long time; I really love their entire lineup.

      Recently, I came across the X200 model, which was manufactured starting in 2008 – I just saw a picture somewhere and really wanted it for my “collection.” Unexpectedly, it was even available for sale in Ukraine, so I bought this wonder-device.

  • Debian Family

    • Distro Watch ☛ Distribution Release: Gnoppix AI Linux 26

      Andreas Mueller has announced the release of Gnoppix AI Linux 26, an updated build of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution with integrated privacy and artificial intelligence features. This version replaces Firefox with LibreWolf as the default web browser and Thunderbird with Betterbird as the preferred email client: [...]

    • [Repeat] Jussi Pakkanen ☛ An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker

      Indeed it is not. However, using an email client as the only way of modifying bugs (which is how the Debian bug tracker works) is not only a bad idea, it is terrible idea. To me managing bugs is so awful that it is actively pushing me away from contributing to Debian. The bug statuses on Meson are not kept up to date because I prefer that to having to deal with the bug tracker. I suspect I am not alone in this. In any case it is a major hurdle for new developers and might even cause some people to drop out entirely [1].

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Licensing / Legal

    • Software Freedom Conservancy ☛ Judge in Vizio Case Rules on Issue Irrelevant to Rights Under Copyleft [Ed: So sfconservancy.org has, in effect, seen what it's like when Judges are misled into ruling not on core matters; sort of like their associates, or even OJ Simpson trying to deal with whether a cop was racist, not whether he murdered somebody. Because this seems to be just a game where the outcome is determined by how much money gets sunken onto lawyers by the sides. Or how many "new" frivolous cases can be opened to drain the legal budget of the other side.]]

      On 23 December 2025, Judge Leal granted a motion brought by Vizio that sought a ruling on a position that SFC has not actually taken.