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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 03, 2026

Updated This Past Day

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2. NHS Goes To War Against Open Source

   The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories

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3. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Sharing Leftovers

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4. Early Impressions of Chrome from a Firefox User and Mozilla Leftovers

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5. Software Freedom and GNU Projects' News

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6. today's leftovers

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7. This Week in GNOME and GNOME Foundation Update

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8. Kernel Space: Coreboot, Satire (Linux 27), and Linux Kernel 7.x

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9. Games: DOOM, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, Steam on GNU/Linux

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10. Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Other SBCs, and non-Apple, non-Google 'Smartphones'

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11. Distributions and Operating Systems: Distrowatch Rankings, Sparky, EasyOS, and HaikuOS

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12. Programming Leftovers

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13. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

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14. today's howtos

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15. Applications: "3 powerful Linux apps to try this weekend", diffoscope (Reproducible Builds), and Abstract

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16. Wine 11.8

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17. Many People Leaving Microsoft GitHub

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18. Games: Development, Steam Deck, Subnautica 2, and More

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19. Android Leftovers

    Samsung Galaxy Book laptops may take the Android route

20. Titan Neo with some fixes and upstream updates is available

    Six weeks after our Titan release, we refreshed our ISO, Titan Neo, with some fixes and minor improvements

21. FSF Blogs: It's May, and we've been keeping busy

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22. Free and Open Source Software

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23. ludora – Fedora based gaming spin

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24. May Edition / Issue of PCLinuxOS Magazine

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25. Kucing7 Linux – Slackware-based Linux distribution

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26. Kirigami forms and configurations

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27. This Week in Plasma: Background Apps and Zoom Up-Scaling

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28. Kubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon review - Surprisingly nice

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29. Java SDK updates for Slackware all across the board

    Today I pushed fresh Slackware packages (for 15.0 and -current

30. Today in Techrights

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