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The authors observe that the \(\Gamma\)-homology of a group ring \(kG\) for \(k\) a commutative, unital ring and \(G\) an abelian group is \[ H\Gamma_*(kG/k;k)\cong Hk_* HG. \] Since étale extensions do not change \(\Gamma\)-homology, the same is true if \(kG\) is replaced by a \(k\)-algebra \(A\) when \(kG\) is étale over \(A\), which gives in particular \[ H\Gamma_*(k[x]/k;k)\cong Hk_*H{\mathbb Z}. \] Using this, the authors describe \(H\Gamma_*(A/k;k)\) for any smooth, augmented \(k\)-algebra \(A\), \[ H\Gamma_*(A/k;k)=\Omega^1_{A/k}\otimes_A Hk_*H{\mathbb Z}. \] A different calculation gives the \(\Gamma\)-homology with coefficients of truncated polynomial algebras \(H\Gamma_*(k[t]/t^{p^\ell}/k;M)\), and the result does not depend on the \(A=k[t]/t^{p^\ell}\)-action on the coefficients \(M\). A similar independence from the action holds for \(A=k[t]\) and \(A=k[t, t^{-1}]\). In cases where the algebra \(A\) ceases to be flat over \(k\), the direct definition used in the previous flat cases does not give the right spectrum and an indirect definition from \textit{A. Robinson} and \textit{S. Whitehouse}, [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 132, No.~2, 197--234 (2002; Zbl 0997.18004)] is needed. The authors show that the \(\Gamma\)-cohomology of the ring of cooperations \(E_*E\) relative to \(E\) vanishes for \(E=E_n\), the Lubin-Tate spectrum for the Honda formal group law for height \(n\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 1052.55001].