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Ubuntu Desktop 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Daily Builds Now Available for Download

The Stonking Stingray development cycle has been nothing but strange until now. First, the daily builds for Ubuntu Desktop, which first appeared around mid-May, were only available for the 64-bit ARM (AArch64) architecture. Then, Canonical decided to release the first Snapshot without providing Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit images.

Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” Will Reach End of Life on July 9th, 2026

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Shelly 2.3.3 Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Flatpak/AppImage Support

Shelly is a modern reimagination and alternative to Arch Linux’s default package manager, supporting third-party app stores like AUR and Flathub, as well as AppImages. Shelly comes with both a graphical UI and a CLI version. CachyOS recently adopted Shelly as the default GUI package manager.

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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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Systemd-Free Peppermint OS Devuan Is Now Based on Devuan 6 Excalibur

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KDE Frameworks 6.27 Is Out to Improve KRunner, Breeze Icons, and More

The KDE Frameworks 6.27 release is here to improve the display of disk sizes shown in various places across the Plasma desktop to fully respect your preference regarding storage units, and switching between light and dark Global Themes to prevent various Plasma UI elements from changing their colors halfway.

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

The LLM-8850 Kit is an M.2-based AI accelerator designed for edge AI, embedded inference, video analytics, and multimodal large-model workloads. It combines the LLM-8850 Card, a compact M.2 M-Key 2242 module based on the Axera AX8850 SoC, with a PiHat adapter board for the Raspberry Pi 5.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 28, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Links 27/03/2026: Studying Whale Births, Apple is Cancelling Products, Cambodia Arrests Journalists Over Photographs
    Links for the day
  2. Perpetual Strikes to Begin at European Patent Office (EPO), Large Majority Votes for Strikes Any Day of the Week
    Approved industrial actions [...] Notice how none of the media or even so-called 'IP' blogs write about it

    New

  3. "Headcount" as Distraction From Mass Layoffs and Salary Reductions
    Things aren't looking well when one considers revenue is acquired, not earned
  4. "Linux" Slop Turning Rarer, New York Times Nowadays Contaminated With LLM Slop
    Another day has passed without much slop about "linux"
  5. Gemini Links 27/03/2026: GTD, Gopher Catchup, Gemini Crawlers, and "Slop Everywhere"
    Links for the day
  6. Mozilla Was Ruined Like Sirius Open Source Was Ruined - From the Top Down
    Mozilla will never return to its Free software roots
  7. Nokia Could Never Recover From Microsoft
    It's very important to remember what really happened
  8. Why Techrights and Many Other Sites Stopped Doing April Fools’ Day Articles
    Well before slop (made by LLMs) it was "bad optics" to have satire or humour in a site, irrespective of the day of the year
  9. President Not-Cocaine Campinos Notified of Historic EPO Strikes (Thousands of Workers Not Coming Back to the Office)
    Please do pay attention to how the media treats these strikes in Europe's second-largest institution
  10. Slides From the Presentation Discussing EPO Strikes Until End of June or Until End of 2026 (Maybe Next Year Too)
    More to come soon (later today)
  11. IBM Cuts Are Everywhere (Global), the Aim is to Lower the Pay
    Because the revenues keep falling (IBM buys other companies' revenues using borrowed money)
  12. Mozilla is Not a Privacy Company, Mozilla is Run by GAFAM Executives and Managers Who Came From American Surveillance Companies
    Would you trust a VPN they claim to be "free"?
  13. SLAPP Censorship - Part 25 Out of 200: That Time Matthew J. Garrett Got Temporarily Banned/Suspended From Twitter
    That he gets banned from large social control media platform is hardly surprising given his combative communications
  14. Ubuntu Started as Free With ShipIt, Now It Becomes Payware That Exploits Debian Volunteers (Slaves)
    "Ubuntu" the distro now replaces the GNU components inherited from Debian with a bunch of Microsoft GitHub (proprietary) things that reject reciprocal licences
  15. Last Night The Register MS Published a Fake Article. It Mentioned "AI" 27 Times.
    Paid-for nonsense! [...] What's left of once-respectable news sites actively harms society
  16. Links 27/03/2026: Google Executive (GAFAM, US, Surveillance) "Named the New BBC Head", Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA
    Links for the day
  17. Gemini Links 27/03/2026: "Being Busy" and "Posting Again"
    Links for the day
  18. GNOME Has No "Real" Executive Director, Only an IBM (Perma)'Interim' One With No Openings in Sight
    GNOME is having financial problems
  19. Microsoft Experiencing "Leadership Exodus"
    Microsoft's current position is no better than Meta's (Facebook)
  20. GNU/Linux Distros Should Reject "Age Verification" and Uphold Software Freedom for Users
    It's not about protecting children
  21. Slop Plunge
    we can already "smell the blood" of the so-called 'AI industry'
  22. IBM Media Puff Pieces While Layoffs Go On and On
    Has the PR industry absorbed the press?
  23. Media Says Microsoft Hiring Freezes, But There Are Already Microsoft Layoffs
    They want the public to talk about Microsoft as if it's just not hiring when it is actually firing
  24. Richard Stallman lynchings: Sruthi Chandran splitting Debian
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  25. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  26. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 26, 2026
    IRC logs for Thursday, March 26, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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