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Mozilla selling Mozilla: Five reasons to choose Firefox | The Mozilla Blog buff.ly/3lyqE6M

Five reasons to choose Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

The internet used to feel like a community, not a commodity. Browsers were tools for exploration, and you could wander the web without feeling tracked ever

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The Brax Wink is a 4-inch phone that runs BraxOS and has a keyboard that clips onto the back: You Can Reserve This De-Googled Phone for $30 buff.ly/orh6Wpu

You Can Reserve This De-Googled Phone for $30

The Brax Wink is a 4-inch phone that runs BraxOS and has a keyboard that clips onto the back.

itsfoss.com
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As recently as a decade ago, headlines like this had a "wow!" factor in open source. Now it's just business as usual: LibreOffice Hits 9.4 Million Downloads in Just Eight Weeks buff.ly/Wzwkzbj

LibreOffice Hits 9.4 Million Downloads in Just Eight Weeks

LibreOffice records 9.4 million downloads in eight weeks, with 2026 download figures already exceeding the entire 2025 total.

linuxiac.com
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This one had absolutely everybody, including FOSS Force, scrambling yesterday: PHP Updates Released For Two Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities - Phoronix phoronix.com/news/PHP-New-Cr…

PHP Updates Released For Two Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities

PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 were just released to fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow for unauthenticated remote code execution

phoronix.com
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"If spreadsheets are your thing, but Microsoft Office isn't, you might want to give the open-source clone, GridCraft, a try": GridCraft is the open-source Excel clone for Linux I've been waiting for - ZDNET buff.ly/refVySn

GridCraft is the open-source Excel clone for Linux I've been waiting for - ZDNET

If spreadsheets are your thing, but Microsoft Office isn't, you might want to give the open-source clone, GridCraft, a try.

zdnet.com
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Somebody like CachyOS: I installed this Linux distro for gaming and stayed for something else buff.ly/KFAwgZd

I installed this Linux distro for gaming and stayed for something else

Extra performance and the familiarity of Arch? Sign me up.

makeuseof.com
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I didn't read the article because the headline hasn't been true for more than 15 years. These days most new users find it easier than Windows: Linux Will Never Succeed on the Desktop Until It Stops Expecting Users to Be Experts - LinuxLinks buff.ly/RA2zJwJ

Linux Will Never Succeed on the Desktop Until It Stops Expecting Users to Be Experts - LinuxLinks

Linux can be easy to use, yet newcomers are still expected to master terminal commands. Is the desktop held back by its own community?

linuxlinks.com
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Read what you missed: Quick recap of the LibreOffice Conference 2026 - TDF Community Blog buff.ly/S5URc2T

Quick recap of the LibreOffice Conference 2026 - TDF Community Blog

A recap of the LibreOffice Conference 2026, which took place in September in Pordenone, northern Italy. Thanks to the local team for organising the event! Please confirm that you want to play a...

blog.documentfoundation.org
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For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing sensitive data: 333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email buff.ly/k6Srrw8

333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email

For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing sensitive data.

arstechnica.com
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Larry Cafiero says, "While press reception may be lukewarm, Ubuntu’s latest version packs a punch": Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stonking Stingray’ buff.ly/pvbqTFv

Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stonking Stingray’

While press reception may be lukewarm, Ubuntu’s latest version packs a punch By Larry Cafiero Like April, October is a busy month in the Linux universe, for no other reason than two of the to…

distrooftheweek.com
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Also added HAProxy security improvements, and networking fixes: DietPi 10.8 Adds New WireGuard Management Tool buff.ly/nBHSv7y

DietPi 10.8 Adds New WireGuard Management Tool

DietPi 10.8 introduces a WireGuard management tool, named software IDs, HAProxy security improvements, and networking fixes.

linuxiac.com
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Myrlyn is a package manager GUI that began as YQPkg during a SUSE Hack Week: Myrlyn 1.1 Released For SUSE/openSUSE GUI Package Manager - Phoronix buff.ly/aWFblmk

Myrlyn 1.1 Released For SUSE/openSUSE GUI Package Manager

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DankMaterialShell is now Dux Shell, with a refreshed interface, a new file manager, expanded plugins, and more: DankMaterialShell Becomes Dux Shell with Major 2.0 Release buff.ly/gBmhTKf

DankMaterialShell Becomes Dux Shell with Major 2.0 Release

DankMaterialShell is now Dux Shell, with version 2.0 introducing a refreshed interface, a new file manager, expanded plugins, and more.

linuxiac.com
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The vulnerabilities have yet to be patched but in some cases there are patches undergoing testing or queued in "-next" branches. The CVSS scores are as high as 9.0: Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List buff.ly/0srQb2G

Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List

Seemingly as an accident, overnight several new Linux kernel vulnerability reports were posted to the public Linux kernel mailing list rather than the private security mailing list

phoronix.com
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An experimental filesystem designed to detect and repair corrupted data, has been submitted for review by Linux kernel developers: BeamFS Filesystem Proposed for Inclusion in the Linux Kernel buff.ly/tvfH0Xd

BeamFS Filesystem Proposed for Inclusion in the Linux Kernel

BeamFS, an experimental filesystem designed to detect and repair corrupted data, has been submitted for review by Linux kernel developers.

linuxiac.com
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Will wonders never cease: Wine on OpenBSD? Yes, and It Can Already Run The Witcher 3 buff.ly/dKzj3W7

Wine on OpenBSD? Yes, and It Can Already Run The Witcher 3

An experimental Wine port brings Windows app and gaming support to OpenBSD, with 64-bit applications and even The Witcher 3 running successfully.

linuxiac.com
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The check that sits between an agent saying "done" and us believing it: Our browser agent doesn't get to decide when it's done | We Love Open Source • All Things Open buff.ly/I8uU91e

Our browser agent doesn't get to decide when it's done | We Love Open Source • All Things Open

Browser agents can report success when nothing actually happened. Learn how Skyvern uses a second model check to verify the page before a task counts as done, and what to copy for your own agent loop.

allthingsopen.org
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And a brand new computer running Linux is even better!: I'd pick a 10-year-old desktop running Linux over a new $300 Windows laptop every time buff.ly/9Q1lsse

I'd pick a 10-year-old desktop running Linux over a new $300 Windows laptop every time

It's not even close, honestly.

xda-developers.com
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We think the person who posted this is a liar. There's no word here.
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@Jenny1708FLOct 21
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CentOS roots give way to homegrown containers, AI tools, and a workstation edition The Resister took for a spin: openEuler brings China's enterprise Linux ambitions to the desktop buff.ly/02j8lb0

openEuler brings China's enterprise Linux ambitions to the desktop

CentOS roots give way to homegrown containers, AI tools, and a workstation edition we took for a spin

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