A worthwhile reminder:
1. An absence of new releases (or even of development activity) in a software project does not in and of itself tell us anything (bad) about a project. (Common fallacy: People rushing to declare a project "dead" based on arbitrary personal expectations around commit frequency, PR turnover time and such, when they in fact don't know a thing about the project's internal processes, goals, etc.)
2. Abundant releases (or frantic development activity) in a software project does not in and of itself tell you anything (good) about a project. (Common fallacy: newer = better, more = better, bigger = better, recent = better, "better" (according to them) = better (for me))
I know this may sound a little obvious and trite, but looking at the kind of culture all around, I think it's a good idea to regularly let that sink in (I'm writing this for myself as much as for anyone reading this 😀).
Here's our 2025 GOTY picks gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/here…
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Here's our 2025 GOTY picks
The year is almost over and so it’s time to let you know what we enjoyed the most this year while gaming on Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
You don't need to manually check GitHub releases thanks to these tools:
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Stop Manually Checking GitHub Releases — These Tools Automatically Install & Update Apps on Linux
These handy utilities tools simplify installing and managing binaries from GitHub releases on Linux.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Stop paying for features you don’t use. Go open source for your help desk solution.
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Tired of Help Scout Pulling the Rug from Under You? Try This Free, Open Source Alternative
Discover how FreeScout lets you run your own help desk without vendor lock-in or surprise price hikes.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!?
Anyway, the 2025 results are in:
Bounty x5
Galaxy x5
Galaxy Caramel x5
Maltesers x5
Mars x9
Milky Way x9
Snickers x9
Twix x7
The tub itself has gone down another 50g since 2024 (100g since 2023!)
Hard to believe that I used to give this content to Zuckerberg for free, you're welcome Fediverse!
#Christmas #Chocolate #Shrinkflation
A new elementary OS release arrives just before 2025 ends. ✨
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Christmas Comes Early With elementary OS 8.1 Release
Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with Secure Session as default and many other improvements.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
PepsiCo
Despite decades of promises to end deforestation for palm oil PepsiCo (owner of crisp brands Frito-Lay, Cheetos and Doritos along with hundreds of other snack food brands) have continued sourcing p…Palm Oil Detectives
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Live-In PCAs No Longer Subject To Income Taxes
#OurModernTimes #PCA #HealthCare #TaxCodeChange #MA
Massachusetts Governor Healey announces certain residents will no longer be subject to state or federal income taxes
BOSTON – Today, Governor Maura Healey announced that thousands of Personal Care Attendants will no longer be subject to state or federal income taxes, which is projected to save them $5,000 or more per year.Fall River Reporter
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Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
Endangered Grey Crowned Cranes are a regal and graceful bird of Uganda, Tanzania, DRC, and Namibia. Help them to survive and join the boycott4wildlifePalm Oil Detectives
Da bleibt mir der Atem weg bei sooo viel Schönheit und Eleganz.
Warum müssen Menschen alles Schöne zerstören? 😥
Danke für dieses tolle Video.🙏😍🙏
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This guy gets shelter dogs adopted by taking them on adventures in his backpack!
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Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.youtube.com
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Manage your personal projects with this tool!
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Away from Cloud: This Local, Offline Tool is Perfect for Personal Project Management on Linux Desktop
We have all been there. You start the week with a massive to-do list, only to feel overwhelmed by Tuesday afternoon. While heavy-duty project management tools exist, sometimes you just need a digital version of "sticky notes on a wall".Neville Ondara (It's FOSS)
🏆 Guess our top webinar of 2025?
From digital sovereignty to open source collaboration and alternatives to Big Tech, it’s been a big year for our webinar team!
Watch all of our top webinars on demand 👇 go.nextcloud.com/r/yrH1
Nextcloud webinars
Webinars at Nextcloud enable you to think bigger, observe new features and capabilities through demos, and ask questionsNextcloud
Siren is an awesome looking Aliens inspired Doom II conversion gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/sire…
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Siren is an awesome looking Aliens inspired Doom II conversion
Taking a slower approach with inspiration taken from the likes of Aliens, the Doom II conversion named Siren looks really awesome for retro FPS fans.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Palm Oil Practices Resemble Colonial Exploitation
Indonesian palm oil workers expose industry practices that mirror colonial exploitation: land grabbing, bad conditions, ecocide. Systemic change is needed!Palm Oil Detectives
Brighten up your holidays with these games for Linux! 🎄🐧
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13 Awesome Games Linux Users Can Grab in Steam Winter Sale 🎮 (Ends 5 January)
End 2025 on a winning note by grabbing some fun games for your Linux gaming rig!Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Keep creatures fed in the deck-builder Hungry Horrors when it arrives January 19 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/keep…
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Keep creatures fed in the deck-builder Hungry Horrors when it arrives January 19 2026
Inspired by British and Irish folklore, Hungry Horrors is a deck-builder with an unusual purpose - to have you feed the monsters to keep them away.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient
When the Harvard Salient’s board of directors suspended the conservative student magazine in late October, they accused its student members of publishing “reprehensible” material and claimed they had received “deeply disturbing and credible complaints about the broader culture of the organization.”
The Far Right In America Is STILL Anti-Semitic and Bloodthirsty Hitler Youth
#Harvard #HarvardCrimson #Nazis #TheSalient #TrumpsSecretSupporters #
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that later became central to the board’s decision to suspe…www.thecrimson.com
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ARC Raiders | PC Steam Game | Fanatical
ARC Raiders is an upcoming multiplayer, extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious...Fanatical
It's still enshittification and fundamentally undermining art though. The new 'market' to sell your physiological characteristics to companies for them to use isn't a good thing either.
Them asking and paying beforehand is the mere minimum, it only appears better than it is because the whole AI industry set the bar at "reckless (illegal) extortion" beforehand.
That's where my question came from.
Meet Chimbu, the blue-eyed, bear-eared tree kangaroo
Tree kangaroos are so unusual that when Europeans first encountered them in Australia in 1872, back on the continent they were sceptical if they were real! Who would believe a #kangaroo could climb…Palm Oil Detectives
Package Forge makes Linux apps portable across different distros.
Linux Apps Without Distro Lock-In? Explore This Lesser Known Snap and Flatpak Alternative
Meet PkgForge: A Distro-Independent Portable Apps 'Foundry' for Linux UsersRoland Taylor (It's FOSS)
Already nixpkgs is there with 1.2 million packages and it works on NixOS, other distros and even Mac.
It's a cross platform, natively performance app unlike containerised flatpak or snap. Everyone should try nixpkgs. It even solves a lot of problems.
No need to learn nix or nixos for this, just u can use it as like any other package manager and much more.
#nix #nixpkgs #packagemanagement
Linux Mint 22.3 gets a Beta release with lots of new features gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/linu…
Linux Mint 22.3 gets a Beta release with lots of new features
Linux Mint 22.3 is set to be the next long-term supported release and a Beta is now here you can test, with a surprising amount of new features.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Luxman Moonlit Market brings 'Balatro-inspired power-up management' to strategic tile-placement roguelikes gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/luxm…
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Luxman Moonlit Market brings 'Balatro-inspired power-up management' to strategic tile-placement roguelikes
Luxman Moonlit Market is a strategic tile-placement roguelike with Balatro-inspired power-up management according to the developer, and it looks quite fun!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Free and open source Settlers-like, Widelands v1.3 is out with market trading and new maps gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/free…
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Free and open source Settlers-like, Widelands v1.3 is out with market trading and new maps
Widelands continues to grow as a great free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, with a brand new holiday release out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
A global juggling act: feeding the world, saving species
Our planet is on the precipice of a sixth mass extinction event. But unlike the five previous mass extinctions, this one is man-made: a global biodiversity crisis in which species are disappearing …Palm Oil Detectives
GE-Proton 10-27 brings fixes for Star Citizen, The First Descendant and more tweaks gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/ge-p…
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GE-Proton 10-27 brings fixes for Star Citizen, The First Descendant and more tweaks
The popular community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton version 10-27 is out now with the usual assortment of game fixes and other improvements.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Become the piece you capture in the chess-inspired Mate'Morphosis on January 9 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/beco…
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Become the piece you capture in the chess-inspired Mate'Morphosis on January 9 2026
Twisting the classic chess into a strategy game where you become the piece you capture, as you try to outsmart the board on January 9, 2026.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Horror incremental dungeon crawler Horripilant gets a new demo and release date gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/horr…
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Horror incremental dungeon crawler Horripilant gets a new demo and release date
The creepy incremental dungeon crawler has just released an updated trailer, demo and an official release date for February 13th 2026.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Evolution sim Thrive hits the 1.0 release completing the microbe stage gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/evol…
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Evolution sim Thrive hits the 1.0 release completing the microbe stage
Thrive is an open source evolution sim that plans to add many different stages of life with the microbe stage now considered actually ready.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check set for release on January 12 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/quar…
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check set for release on January 12 2026
Devolver Digital announced that Quarantine Zone: The Last Check from Brigada Games is now set for release on January 12, 2026.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.13 has been released gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/hero…
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.13 has been released
Just in time for the holidays, we are happy to announce a new version of the fheroes2 engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 2 on modern systems.fheroes2 (GamingOnLinux)
Get deep insights into your Linux system with jdSystemMonitor.
jdSystemMonitor: More Than Your Regular System Monitor on Linux
Bringing system resources and internal details together in one place, jdSystemMonitor is a solid and lightweight option for desktop Linux users.Roland Taylor (It's FOSS)
Species Extinction: just how bad is it and why should we care?
This is arguably society’s biggest challenge, and arguably its biggest failure: the continuing loss of species from Earth. The massive impact we are having on the planet has firmly entrenched us in…Palm Oil Detectives
Tiger Data has open-sourced its BM25 search extension for PostgreSQL.
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Watch Out Elasticsearch! Tiger Data's PostgreSQL BM25 Search Extension Goes Open Source
Previously proprietary PostgreSQL extension is now freely available on GitHub.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
A slew of PeerTube upgrades bring some long-requested refinements.
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Decentralized YouTube Alternative PeerTube Adds Creator Mode
The open source YouTube alternative offers some welcome updates for content creators.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Docker Hardened Images are now for everyone.
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Docker Makes Enterprise-Grade Hardened Images Free for All Developers
Previously enterprise-only hardened images go open source under Apache License 2.0.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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